You Know You're From Long Island When... (Hempstead, Huntington: home, scorpion)

[OvertaxedOnLI]

...but does anyone else remember Slot Car Racing?

I had the coolest little GTO with about five coats of blue metalflake paint, and white pinstripes (done with a toothpick). Spun it out on every third curve, guaranteed...

[OvertaxedOnLI]

Originally Posted by Check123

Anyone remember Chess King? Or...
Who rode an Iverson bicycle?

"I do, I do!"

The kids next door had Iversons; I had a blue Rollfast.

Ok, who else remembers what a "pea-shooter" was? (Hint: It grew in the lawn)

[NYTom]

Ok I have to add a few and will add more as I think of them

The bawdy bard out east.
Neptunes
Tueys
Trio Lounge
Famous Fashions
King George
The Colony
One of the stores at Tri-County location (Barons)
Mario and Madelinas
Taking row boats out at Blydenburg Park (Welds)
Skating at Millers Pond
OBI North and South
Smithtown General Hospital (where I was born)
Hauppauge Movie Theater
Channel Home Center, Rickels and Pergaments (I still have stuff from there)
Smithtown and Commack Drive in movie Theatre
Trying not to get caught throwing junior mints off the balcony by the old lady who used to run the Smithtown movie theatre (she was very nice)
Howard Johnsons
Duggins Donuts
Thom McAnn
Child World
The Town Hall Deli

[Check123]

I used to work at Pergaments and Channel Home Centers.

I used to frequent Malibu's and Chevy's. And there was a place I went to in my early twenties, in Dix Hills... Club Voodoo. (Scorpion Bar, the Pot Bus, etc, etc.) Anyone remember Corniche by the lake (Ronkonkoma)?

Anyone used to listen to WLIR (WDRE) ?

What's the name of that bar/club in Huntington? (You know the one, LOL) Probably long gone.

[OvertaxedOnLI]

NYTom, I'm sitting here cracking up... Ummm, I think you meant The Boardy Barn? (then again, bawdy isn't that far off either, LOL!)

Howard Johnson's Ice Cream... wow... Just the other day, believe it or not, I was craving my alltime favorite flavor of theirs: Brandy Alexander. Second favorite was Lime Sherbet.

I think the last Howard Johnson's Restaurant on LI was the one outside MacArthur Airport; must have closed in the late 1980s?

Didn't everyone buy from Pergaments and Channel before someone invented Home Depot and Lowes? I know my parents' house was entirely done in Pergaments Paints (and Sanitas wallpaper, and black-and-pink tiles in the bathroom).

[NYTom]

I worked at Channel too.

Code 31 to Lumber...

[Check123]

Tom,

Which Channel, what town?

"Someone to the electrical counter to make keys" .... I hated making f***ing keys. And whose bright idea was it to combine the electrical department and making keys?

Overtaxed,

I thought the Howard Johnson's near MacArthur was there later than the 80s. In fact, I think it's still there. LOL

[Callie_D]

Originally Posted by Check123

I used to work at Pergaments and Channel Home Centers.

I used to frequent Malibu's and Chevy's. And there was a place I went to in my early twenties, in Dix Hills... Club Voodoo. (Scorpion Bar, the Pot Bus, etc, etc.) Anyone remember Corniche by the lake (Ronkonkoma)?

Anyone used to listen to WLIR (WDRE) ?

What's the name of that bar/club in Huntington? (You know the one, LOL) Probably long gone.

I also spent many a night partying at Malibu, and I always listened to WLIR. Good times back in the day!!

[Pidgett]

My wife's parents lived on LI back in the 40's and 50's. They remember when three quarters of Nassau County were potato and cucumber farms! Mrs. Pidgett, the better half, asks:

Is there anybody here old enough to remember:

Farms in Nassau County?
Farms in Queens?
The Hempstead Plains (Formerly the largest prairie in the East. Yes, I said prairie )?
LI without the LIE?
Levittown before the Levitt Brothers created it?
First suburban shopping centers on the Island?
Shoe-King-Sam?
Friendly Frost?
Chow Chow Cup?
Matinecock Dairy Farm in Plainview?
Davega's Dept Store?
Old Country Road having only TWO lanes?
The massive radio towers out in Suffolk County?
When Bethpage was called "Central Park?" (Yup, it was.)
Hempstead Speedway?
Dairy Barn?
Mount Misery Road in Huntington when it was the ONLY way to get from Melville to H'ton?
Lollipop Farm?
Dix Hills before it was developed?

My wife and her folks would LOVE to know!!! Me, I'm from Maine, so it's all greek to me!

Thanks y'all!

[nynraleigh]

this is too funny...

What about Gertz? Hills? Hamptons Dept. Store? or how about Mid-Island Department store? My parents always went to Rickles or Channel Home...too funny....and all we heard about was how great Korvettes was...and TSS, I remember going to TSS as a kid...the "record" department was awesome...we used to get 45's of the popular music they were playing on AB (American Bandstand) had to watch that every saturday am. hahahaha....too funny...and we would walk through their "pet department" I remember that....

I remember the Bagel Nosh in Massapequa, my grandparents would take us there sometimes on a Saturday Morning! I don't recall the one in Stony Brook...this one was along the "old" sunrise highway with the traffic lights...

Anyone remember the Bayshore Roller Rink??? I grew up in West Islip, so we would always go skating there...even our school had "roller skating parties" hahahaha too funny...

The Bayshore "Drive In" too..just east of the South Shore Mall, I think they renamed that mall..its been a while...Massapequa had a drive in too...not sure if it's still there....