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Originally Posted by 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!
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LI pre Levittown is a little early for me, but I remember when we moved from Levittown to Melville in '58 Rte 110 was a 2 lane road, dirt in many places. Of course the LIE hadn't come there yet.
I went to Half Hollow Hills H.S. and remember when it was in the middle of nowhere!
My father used to take us to Mt Misery Rd where we would hunt for "car eating dragons" that ate the cars and spit out the tires.
Davega's on Jericho tpk had those long ramps that customer's food baskets would roll down outside the store, I thought that was so cool.
Ask them if they remember the RR crossing in Hicksville where there was a man who was in a little booth and every time a train came he would come out and manually crank the gates down!
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08-01-2007, 09:41 PM
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