Missing from Long Island (Huntington, Smithtown: living, shopping center, places to eat)

[Escape_From_NY]

Zahn's airport, where we used to walk to from N.Babylon, pool our allowances and take $5 "demo" rides in Pipers and Cessnas, all without any questions asked nor our parent's knowledge.
Arbys on Deer Park Ave? Is it still there?
The Bay Shore Roller Rink, where I learned to skate and was happy to be sidelined for a "time-out" for the infraction of "speeding" - confirming that, yes indeed, I HAVE finally learned to roller-skate!;-))
And Belmont Lake State Park, from which I think I set the record for distance navigated with a 3 1/2' long, cheap plastic pool boat.

[Peter B]

Originally Posted by TomMoser

I don't think it exists. But then, again, I've never been able to find a decent pizza in PA.

I haven't found decent pizza since I left LI ANYWHERE in the country

[Lancet71]

Originally Posted by Rachael84

I still enjoyed it when it changed to Bulldog (the roller hockey rinks). I played roller hockey there for a few years before I changed to ice hockey. Bulldog is another childhood memory for me

I played deck there for a few.

[I_Love_LI_but]

I miss Stern's! Great sales and good merchandise! I also miss Caldor.

[Samrai309]

I miss Chicken Galore. An independent chicken place on Jericho Tpke in New Hyde Park. Covert Avenue to the end and drive straight across into their lot. There is a Dunkin Donuts there now for about 15 years. The chicken was great though.

[I_Love_LI_but]

Originally Posted by sickofnyc99

I just found out Meson Ole is shut down. Seized by the state.

I used to go to one. I think it was Patchogue (??) when I still had family out in Suffolk and it was near my mom's in Bellport Village. The food was okay, not great, but really where do we have excellent Mexican or Tex-Mex food on Long Island? (Any recommendations I will be glad to try out!) I used to also go to Don Juan's in Westbury a lot but that was more for the "stage shows" on the weekends (I never will forget the "giant scissor dance" for lack of a better explanation), the roving mariachi band, and the screaming tequila girls than the food. Meson Ole was better than Don Juan's foodwise. Boozewise (margarita) they were about the same.

[XLIGuy]

I miss "Keg", the beer and soda distributor on Rt. 110 in Amityville across from the Jr. High School. We used to sneak out of the schoolyard at lunch and buy cans of C&C cola for 25 cents.

There used to be a Chicken Delight in North Lindenhurst. Fantastic fried chicken. Also, Carlo's Pizza Oven in the Inter-County Shopping Center in East Massapequa. What great pizza. This was back in the 70s, what a long time ago!

In high school, we used to hang outside Windmill Deli on Main Street in East Hampton. Also, Hampton Sound and Long Island Sound were two record shops in East Hampton, back when the downtown catered to the locals more than the uppity summer people. Just a few places I miss alot!

[Crookhaven]

I miss Famous Ed's Bay Pub and the Maloney Man.

crooks

[ClarkStreetKid]

Originally Posted by Escape_From_NY

Wow! Both your screen name and the places you mentioned brought back a flood of memories from happier times. Clark Street? Babylon? Then you surely know where Marcy Street is - the street I grew up on during the 60s and early 70s.
I know both Zitos and the cannon on Little East Neck Rd well. We used to scavenge at the town dump, too;-) My bro used to work at TSS. I used to hang out on either Little East Neck or Deer Park Ave, and occassionally
Belmont Lake park.

Of course I know Marcy Street, my moms best friend lived there for years. I also grew up in NB during the 60's and 70's (NB class of '77). Sounds like we may even know some of the same people and maybe each other. It was a good place to grow up.

Let's see if any of these teacher's names are familiar to you. Spelling may be off.

Belmont Elementary
Mrs. Ragerio, Mr. Sweeny, Mrs Bass, Mrs Hickey.

Robert Moses
Mr. Lefler, Miss Michalson

NB
Mr. Tomlinson, Mr. Lally, Mr Scott, Coach Kelly.

[Johninwestbury]

I got a long list of these. Arby's, common in the 80s, and came back to Broadway Mall recently but the one in Broadway closed, along with a whole bunch of other places (Astoria Federal, Gap, Tina's Luggage, also gone). Why couldn't they come to Roosevelt Field instead?
There used to be a few locations of a sandwich shop called Diangelo&Chips, they had large sub style sandwiches that were cooked and hot, loved the beef one. Subway only has cold food and "toasted" bread, not my thing.
Krispy Kreme, way better than Dunkin Donuts. Fresh, sugary donuts with NO LARD, Dunkin tastes like cardboard with skimpy icing. Also Krispy Kreme was much cleaner and the workers spoke english, unlike DD.
The Deli at Sunrise, before the Sunrise Mall put in a food court they had this great little deli there.
Sizzler...OK I think there's one left on LI, in Smithtown, but there used to be many more, in Wantagh, Hicksville, Lynbrook and several other locations. Long John Silvers in Patchogue, McMichaels for fish.
Cherrywood Pizza in Wantagh, when I was a kid living around there my family would always get pizza from there, it unfortunately has become an Umberto's (owned by Sbarro...yuck).
In the old Roosevelt Field there was this place called Mut and Jeff which used to have great cookies. I miss Roy Rogers as well, though there's still one in Shirley, I believe.
That was food places. Then there were all the CD stores, especially the used CD stores. The best place was EMPIRE DISCS on Stewart Ave and was real upset when they just closed up out of the blue. Their space remains empty.
Only place left is Mr.Cheapo, very limited selection and expensive.
I miss the smaller electronics shops as well such as Electronic City, used to be one in Mid-Island Plaza (now Broadway Mall) and in New Hyde Park.
A fair amount of frozen yogurt chains have closed up too, such as TCBY (there's still one in Plainview). There just seems to be less reasonable places to eat these days, the new places are usually expensive upscale places. That's how it's changed I guess. It just annoys me to no end that many of these chains, such as Arby's, Roy Rogers, Sizzler, Krispy Creme seem to have plenty of locations outside of Long Island, but not here. Also places like Sonic and Dairy Queen never have existed here.