Missing from Long Island (Islip, Smithtown: amusement park, house, movies)

[Samrai309]

Originally Posted by Crookhaven

Dude

sonic=checkers.

and they both blow.

We could use a Cracker Barrel though.

crooks

Cracker Barrel would be a gold mine. That place is great.

[Samrai309]

Originally Posted by Mjeacoma

Crazy Eddies
The Wiz
Comp USA in Carle Place
Computer City (I think that was the name)
Laserland (Laserdisc rentals!)
Old Video Stores
Chi Chi's Mexican Restaurant
Foto-Mats
Coffee houses that aren't Starbucks
White Castle on Hempstead Tpk
Westbury Drive-in
Industry Rock Club
so many more - I can't think........

There are a still local coffee places around but few and far between. I think the gothic themed Witches Brew is still around in W. Hempstead. There used to be another coffee place in Garden City on Nassau Blvd. The white castle in east meadow on hempstead tpke was a good location. I used to hit it on the way home from my friend's house. Now my choices are either the hood in hempstead or springfield blvd in queens village.

[Samrai309]

Originally Posted by XLIGuy

Does anyone remember the uniquely-shaped wooden parkway lights and wooden guard-rails on the Southern and Northern State Pkwys? I wish I had a picture of them. Actually, if I remember right..they were on all of the parkways..Bethpage, Wantagh, Meadowbrook, Sunken Meadow, Sagtikos. Sounds silly to miss something as nondescript as wooden light poles but they made the parkways more distinct than they look today. I guess it is called "progress".

My older brother was so intrigued by their design that he actually drew one for an art assignment in school. I think he got an "A" for it!

I think the Meadowbrook still has them on their southernmost section starting south of the Merrick Rd exit.

[Samrai309]

I am not sure if its still around and active but Elmont on Meachum Avenue had Sapienza bakery and you would smell them baking bread and rolls at like 2am if you were driving the area. It smelled great. If you got lucky, you might be able to buy some bread right off the truck as they were getting ready to go start delivering if you caught a guy coming out to his truck.

[I_Love_LI_but]

Originally Posted by Samrai309

I am not sure if its still around and active but Elmont on Meachum Avenue had Sapienza bakery and you would smell them baking bread and rolls at like 2am if you were driving the area. It smelled great. If you got lucky, you might be able to buy some bread right off the truck as they were getting ready to go start delivering if you caught a guy coming out to his truck.

Still there ... still YUM!

A bakery that was around for a long time that closed I miss was in Lynbrook on Atlantic Avenue, right near Sunrise Highway. It was called Schaefer's. I don't know why they just suddenly closed. They seemed to be doing a good business and were around for ages.

[jtees4]

Oh yeah...I sure do remember them. They seemed to be all over the place, but only on the island. I remember as a kid going to many of the beaches, and they had them on the way to most of them.

Originally Posted by XLIGuy

Does anyone remember the uniquely-shaped wooden parkway lights and wooden guard-rails on the Southern and Northern State Pkwys? I wish I had a picture of them. Actually, if I remember right..they were on all of the parkways..Bethpage, Wantagh, Meadowbrook, Sunken Meadow, Sagtikos. Sounds silly to miss something as nondescript as wooden light poles but they made the parkways more distinct than they look today. I guess it is called "progress".

My older brother was so intrigued by their design that he actually drew one for an art assignment in school. I think he got an "A" for it!

[jfkIII]

Originally Posted by S.I.B.

good thing about the Wiz was that just about every CD was 11.99. Nobody else had them that cheap.

Sigh...for me it was 33&1/3 vinyl albums...most which I still have today...and the best deals were at Korvette's (West Islip.)

[jfkIII]

Originally Posted by S.I.B.

I used to go to the one in South Shore Mall in Bay Shore all the time. They were much better than Sports Authority.

Anybody remember when the South Shore Mall was actually an outdoor mall?

[jfkIII]

Originally Posted by Samrai309

Cracker Barrel would be a gold mine. That place is great.

My stepdaughter is in management for Cracker Barrel. Their business strategy would not fit on LI. They only position themselves right off exits on main highways, looking to get the travelling public (i.e., Route 95.) They make each and every one exactly the same, so travellers know what to expect. LI is too much of an "enclosed" market for them.

[nancy thereader]

Anybody remember when the South Shore Mall was actually an outdoor mall

no, but I remember when Roosevelt Field was an outdoor mall. The mid-sixties. I would say.