You Know You're From Long Island When... (Brookhaven, Islip: vs., relocation)

[margaret heekin]

Originally Posted by amsm196

The Ground Round restaurant ? That was the only place i can remember where you could eat and throw food on the floor! They served whole peanuts before & with meals, shell and all, they would just say toss the shells on the floor.

Or Hambuger Choo Choo ( which i started a thread on before finding this thread)

Anybody remember Lindbergh park in Huntington also known as High Point? It was a ski hill, off of Jericho on Dix hills rd, now condos are there. Two children were killed in an accident in the 70's that is why i heard they closed the place. Also heard some crazy ghost stories, that i wont go into unless asked.

i REMEMBER hI pOINT, used to ski there. Friendly Frost, Carvel and the dix hills theater. Havent lived in dix hills since the late 70s but has changed a lot. Does anyone remember the cabbage fields behind Signal hill before HH west was built? Dix hills park? What happened @ HI Point? just thought land was sold to developers ( like everything else in Dix hills) A&S, Macys, Korvettes, Kresge.... the best .10 coffee. Beefsteak Charlies? Models? I'm not Jewish either but still miss bagels, lox cc onions and tomato. knew what a yarmulke was and sang all the chaunukah songs w my friends. still don't know if its spelled w a c or h sorry......I remember dix hills when it was just starting to get "fancy". Wasn't always like that. Used to go to Lewens out east to pick strawberries. Are there still places like that? or did they fall under the developers tractors too? Used to ice skate on " lake julia behind forest park elementary. Is lake julia still there? Does anybody remember Harveys or adventurers inn? i know they are long gone but went ther as a kid.I rememner when the Hamptons were sleepy fishing towns. Lake Success, mastic/ Shirley and Farmingville were too far to go to the movies. Real fun was checking out the animals that Farmingdale had foer its students of animal husbandry. Lots of people still had horses but i guess most of that is gone now.... no place left to ride....

[margaret heekin]

Originally Posted by margaret heekin

i REMEMBER hI pOINT, used to ski there. Friendly Frost, Carvel and the dix hills theater. Havent lived in dix hills since the late 70s but has changed a lot. Does anyone remember the cabbage fields behind Signal hill before HH west was built? Dix hills park? What happened @ HI Point? just thought land was sold to developers ( like everything else in Dix hills) A&S, Macys, Korvettes, Kresge.... the best .10 coffee. Beefsteak Charlies? Models? I'm not Jewish either but still miss bagels, lox cc onions and tomato. knew what a yarmulke was and sang all the chaunukah songs w my friends. still don't know if its spelled w a c or h sorry......I remember dix hills when it was just starting to get "fancy". Wasn't always like that. Used to go to Lewens out east to pick strawberries. Are there still places like that? or did they fall under the developers tractors too? Used to ice skate on " lake julia behind forest park elementary. Is lake julia still there? Does anybody remember Harveys or adventurers inn? i know they are long gone but went ther as a kid.I rememner when the Hamptons were sleepy fishing towns. Lake Success, mastic/ Shirley and Farmingville were too far to go to the movies. Real fun was checking out the animals that Farmingdale had foer its students of animal husbandry. Lots of people still had horses but i guess most of that is gone now.... no place left to ride....

I remember Ground round too.....Do You remember Selmers pet land?

[nancy thereader]

There still is a Groundround in Bayshore, I think.

[Andysocks]

Originally Posted by nancy thereader

I had not realized that diners were a Long Island phenomena. They were always a part of NYC city life (in the different format of "coffee shops" ) . Maybe it is because of all the Greek immigrants.

Diners have nothing to do with either Long Island or Greeks. Lots of Greek families bought already-existing diners and added things like gyros and souvlaki (sp?) to the menu.

Diners are more of a northeast phenomena, I read somewhere (who knows how reliable) that 50% of diners are in the state of NJ. White neighborhoods in the outer-boroughs tend to be loaded with diners too. Diners were a precursor to fast food, and when fast food came about, lots of the old-school diners all across the country shut down. In NYC, a few survived, because--hey, this is NYC. Most of the diners you see now, especially in the suburbs, are imitations of the old ones, and are much larger and are more like restaurants than the original diners, but in rural NJ you see a lot of the old-fashioned small diners where more people are eating at the counter than at the tables. And there probably aren't eggcreams or gyros on the menu, haha.

[Jhenstern]

Originally Posted by OvertaxedOnLI

McCrorys, YES! Thank you, Check!

What an incredible trip down Memory Lane this is turning into... gotta love it!

John's Bargain Stores, now how could I forget that? We practically lived in that place as kids and teens. If the closest "candy store" didn't have the replacement Spaldeen you needed (probably because yours ended up in one of the neighbor's gutters because you were playing tennis in the street with that instead of a "proper" tennis ball), John's Bargain Store was the place you went to.

Speaking of shopping memories, how about S&H Green Stamps, Plaid Stamps and Blue Stamps? And the books we pasted them into (my mother had shoeboxes full of them). Hills' Supermarkets, A&P, and the gas stations were the best sources for the stamps (gas stations... 19 cents a gallon, and wasn't that for high-test?).

Wetson's Hamburgers.. that was the other place I was trying to think of; didn't Big Steer take them over in the late 60s?

Ah yes, EJ Korvettes and Lerner Shops (which is still around, just called LernerNY now). That's one of the places where you could buy your love beads, Nehru jacket, bellbottoms, granny dresses, Huk-a-poo shirts and colored-lens eyeglasses.

momix, the two Ed's Tropical Aquariums I knew of were the one on Hempstead Tpke in Farmingdale, and the one inside Roosevelt Field (was it right outside Gertz - another store from the past! - or outside Penney's?). Guppies... the rabbits of the fish world! I once bought six pair of fancy-tailed guppies at Ed's, with dreams of breeding hundreds. Ended up with 3 guppies and two extremely large and fat angelfish.

I'll go way back...does anyone remember Billy Blake's? How about the old Commack Arena where the Long Island Ducks played and where I saw the band Styx in 1979, with Starz as the opening band. And do you remember when the gas stations gave out free glasses when you filled your tank?

[Jhenstern]

Originally Posted by cngass145

Been trying to remember that dinner name for years, how about cocos restaurant at the smithhaven mall

I have a vague memory of my mother and father taking me and my sister to Wesson's in Lake Grove in 1969 or 70. It was right next to the Dairy Barn. We were in our pajamas and we ordered take out and then my dad parked the car and we ate the burgers, fries and shakes, which I remember being better in those days. Chinese food was better too. Does anyone remember Dragon Isle in Centereach?

[scammed1]

I remember when Arby's gave out free glasses (and maybe McDonalds).
I still have my set of Norman Rockwell glasses my aunt collected for me from Arbys and a set of Peanuts glasses.
(...and if anyone who reads this also has a set of these glasses you can either validate it was Arbys and MickyD's or correct me. You know how that goes.)

[Cardiff Giant]

So many memories here; I made it through the whole thread so far. Just about everything that I wanted to mention has been brought up already.

I remember Billy Blakes in Sayville (the one on Sunrise) next to Sayville Ford. Going to the Bayshore Drive-In with and splitting an 8-pack of Bud with my girlfriend (now wife). Sneaking over to the other screen with the headlights off to catch a double feature. Listening to WLIR (RIP) for hours on end while hanging out by the power lines. Driving around trying to get lost (you can't get lost on LI!).

Anybody remember Zum Zum in the Smith Haven mall? How about Import Alley? My dad worked at a Chrysler dealer in Huntington called Twin Town on NY Ave. by the cemetary (it's a bar now). He would take me to work of Saturdays and we'd have lunch at the Hamburger Choo Choo.

Great stuff, keep it coming!

[Jake Ryan]

We used to always go to the "Duck Pond" in Baldwin, I think it was really called Silver Lake....

[Lancet71]

Originally Posted by nancy thereader

There still is a Groundround in Bayshore, I think.

Bayshore one I think is gone now,the only remaining one is in Port Jeff. Station on Nesconset Hwy.