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Old 10-21-2007, 05:47 PM
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Remember it? I played the Commack Arena.

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Old 10-21-2007, 06:11 PM
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Was the Commack Arena the place where the Nets first played before the Nassau Col. was built? Anyone remember?

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Old 10-22-2007, 07:33 AM
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They played there for a few years, then moved to the Island Garden in West Hempstead before they moved to the Coliseum.

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Old 10-24-2007, 11:37 PM
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Default Ed's Aquarium

I do remember Ed's Aquarium - in fact, I worked there for a short period of time. I was in my late teens, early '20s and and worked part time for a few months. I loved that store.

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Not only Jack In The Box, but the Big Steer too! Kleins... OMG, how could I forget Kleins, not to mention Alexanders (the "big" store in Roosefield Field once upon a time).

Anyone ever buy fish from Ed's Tropical Aquarium? (no, not for eating, unless you also had a piranha)

My mom had a part-time job in the dress department at the Mays in Levittown for years! Before that, she worked at Kress's in Hempstead (note: This was back in the 1950s, when Hempstead did not have the same demographics that it does today).

Speaking of the "five and ten"s... remember Kresge's, Kress, Woolworth's and -- oh no, I completely blanked out on the name of the other 5&10 ! Help me out on this, fellow Boomers...??

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Old 10-24-2007, 11:45 PM
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Default Matinecock Dairy Farm, Jolly Roger

Any people from Long Island who remember the Matinecock Dairy Farm in Plainview - it was a small store and had a drive through.

Also - the Jolly Roger Amusement Park in Levittown - my grandparents used to take me there. I remember the bumper cars and the organ

I now live in North Carolina, but have good memories of Long Island.

Wendy

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Old 10-25-2007, 08:42 AM
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Any people from Long Island who remember the Matinecock Dairy Farm in Plainview - it was a small store and had a drive through.

Also - the Jolly Roger Amusement Park in Levittown - my grandparents used to take me there. I remember the bumper cars and the organ

I now live in North Carolina, but have good memories of Long Island.

Wendy
As a lifelong Long Islander, I've had a GREAT time reading through this entire thread!!!

Yes, I do remember the Matinecock Dairy Farm. Wasn't that the precursor of the later "Dairy Barn Stores"? At least the drive-through milk store concept was.

I grew up not far from "Jolly Roger's" and loved it both as a child (nagging my parents to take me there to ride the carousel and play skee-ball -- I was VERY GOOD at skee-ball ) and as a young teen.

Whatever did happen to the carousel that was at Jolly Roger's? Anyone know? Don't tell me it just got tossed into some dumpster...

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Old 10-25-2007, 09:33 AM
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I do remember Ed's Aquarium - in fact, I worked there for a short period of time. I was in my late teens, early '20s and and worked part time for a few months. I loved that store.

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Wendy,
Where was Ed's located and when did it close? My friend's dad would take us up there and it was always fun watching the big fish getting fed. Why do I remember Ed's having Lava Lamps?

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Wendy,
Where was Ed's located and when did it close? My friend's dad would take us up there and it was always fun watching the big fish getting fed. Why do I remember Ed's having Lava Lamps?
I remember Ed's Aquarium on Sunrise Highway in Valley Stream.

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I remember Ed's Aquarium on Sunrise Highway in Valley Stream.
Oh yeah, I remember that too! We used to stop there sometimes when we went to Cooky's Steakhouse. Did a place like Cohen's Optical go in the old building?

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Old 10-25-2007, 07:16 PM
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Eppi is still around and wearing his green sneakers, George from US Blues is also !!!!

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Just out of HS I was a waitress at "My Father's Place" about 100 yrs ago. My favorite memories: flushing the drug tips down the toilet (I was a goodie goodie even then!), taking James Taylor an order of fries, 2am runs to China Town w/ Eppie squeezed into the backseat betw Belushi & Gilda Radner way before I ever knew who they were, Giving George Carlin a ride & quizzing him (& what do you do?)the day after he appeared on Johnny Carson and best of all playing the foil in the audience to Andy Kaufman (wasn't he from Great Neck?) It was alot of fun being 18.

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