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I have determined that one way to tell if someone has lived here a while is if he calls places by their old names. Two that I can think of around my area are:
A strip mall on Larkfield Road in East Northport used to have a drug store called Tick-Tock as an anchor tenant. It's been a CVS for many years but some old timers still call it Tick-Tock.
The shopping center on NY Avenue in Huntington that contains a Home Depot and NYS Motor Vehicle Department is still referred to by many as "Big H", a store that has not been there in at least 10 years.
Finast...haha I remember that. What is funny is that in New Hyde Park, where Finast was on Hillside Ave, and then Edwards, and now a super stop and Shop, through all the renovations and tenant changes, the fire map inside the store still says "Edwards" on the graphic. I randomly noticed it on my way out one day.
Do roads count? I call Route 135 the Seaford Oyster Bay Expressway but I have never seen a sign calling it that. I just always called it that. I have some friends that just call it 135.
The Stony Brook School (coed prep school) is known by old timers as the boys school.
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