You Know You're From Long Island When... (New York, Islip: gardens, market)

[BuffaloTransplant]

Originally Posted by scammed1

Where was Mitchell Field? Wasn't that a military airport, or something to that effect. I think it was near the Nassau Community College area.
I remember, just barely remembering when I was in Elem. we went on a field trip there. One of the student's fathers worked there and we got to go on a plane, just walking through and then visiting the rest of MF.
I think I am remembering correctly; if not it makes a cute story anyway.

Mitchell Field was basically where Roosevelt Field mall and NCC are. My Dad worked there pre-WWII

[LIcowgirl289]

Originally Posted by cjcamilla

My father is the baker at Higbie Bagels, and I helped out my dad for a bit

LOVE those bagels. My sister stopped going to Bayport Bagels and was heading over to Higbie the last time I talked to her. Growing up in West Islip and going to WI High School...I remember those well. Man, I need a bagel!!!! They think they have Pizza and bagels in Texas...um...not hardly!

[TheBluffs]

I have read a bunch of these pages and have not seen too much about EI and the terrace memories.

How about the Great River Diner on sunrise hwy near connetquot ave? Is it still there?

[Lilybeans]

You know, I'm from Long Island and I don't know any of those things. That is all Nassau County stuff. When you grow up on eastern Long Island, none of that stuff applies.

[OhBeeHave]

Originally Posted by Lilybeans

You know, I'm from Long Island and I don't know any of those things. That is all Nassau County stuff. When you grow up on eastern Long Island, none of that stuff applies.

So share some Eastern LI memories with us

[marcd07]

Newberry's was another "Dime" store...near Gertz..

Originally Posted by OvertaxedOnLI

Thanks for mentioning Grants! Even though in my previous posts I'd recalled Woolworths, Kresges, Kress', and McCrory's, I still had this nagging feeling there was one other "dime store" I'd forgotten the name of. Of course, it was W.T. Grant's.

If I recall right, the two "big" dimestore chains on LI were Woolworths and Grants. I think McCrory's was a close third.

When did Swezey's in Patchogue close down? They had a smaller store in West Babylon which was converted to a Bed Bath & Beyond about a year or so ago. I've only been in or through Patchogue about a dozen times but do remember the lace mill; it was the huge dark brick building on the north side of Montauk Highway when coming into Patchogue Village from the west, correct? Didn't it stand empty for many many years as a result of longstanding fights over what should be done with it after it closed?

You know, it's funny how the old names can stick with a place years later. I still think of the big hospital in East Meadow as "Meadowbrook Hospital" rather than Nassau County Medical Center, and I have to think twice to keep from referring to "Salisbury Park" rather than Eisenhower Park!

[Bert Reith]

Mustard on a burger? AGGGHHH. I moved to N.C. The south doesn't understand Mustard is for hotdogs. katchup is for burgers. THey want to put "mustard, katchup and some foriegn mayo on everything together. They still haven't learned the word "Hellmann's".

[OhBeeHave]

Originally Posted by Bert Reith

Mustard on a burger? AGGGHHH. I moved to N.C. The south doesn't understand Mustard is for hotdogs. katchup is for burgers. THey want to put "mustard, katchup and some foriegn mayo on everything together. They still haven't learned the word "Hellmann's".

They use mustard on burgers upstate in NY, malt vinegar on fries, too.

[Nancy from Bellmore]

Originally Posted by ClarkStreetKid

New guy here. Former LIer, NBSH class of '77

Don't know if it's been mentioned yet but does anybody remember the Saint James Infirmary?

Yes, I used to work there, tending bar, coat room and waitress. We all went to the Jack-in-the-box to eat before during or after work

[ClarkStreetKid]

Know JITB well. The tacos and breakfast sandwiches were always a late night favorite.