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Awesome thread! Ran into it unexpectedly. Grew up in East Islip and later moved to Medford. Anyone remember Levels on Route 112. Cruising Port Jeff, Bay Shore Farmers Market off of Sunrise HWY. Captain Bills the point at MT Sanai rd, great memories.
Next door to the Broaster House in East Meadow was the Italian restaurant called Borelli's. Both places were excellent, 55 years ago. Borelli's moved to Miami I believe.
As of March Borelli's was still in business on Hempstead Turnpike.
Awesome thread! Ran into it unexpectedly. Grew up in East Islip and later moved to Medford. Anyone remember Levels on Route 112. Cruising Port Jeff, Bay Shore Farmers Market off of Sunrise HWY. Captain Bills the point at MT Sanai rd, great memories.
Levels -- was that a little south of 495 on the east side of 112?
I remember the Commack Arena. I never saw the Duck play (I'm too young for that) but remember my grandmother taking me to the flea market. There also used to be an RKO movie theater there where I stood in line w/ my father and younger brother when I was 6 years old to see STAR WARS when it first came out. Changed my life.
The other 2 movie (Empire & ROTJ) I saw at the theater on Montauk Highway in West Babylon
Saw the ducks play, and saw Styx and Aerosmith live there. Was disappointed when it was a flea market but now I'm nostalgic for even that....
The Bay Shore Roller Rink.......(still sitting there empty after god knows how many years).....whenever I hear "Say you Say Me" by Lionel Richie I think of holding some strange boys sweaty hand and skating around in circles....lol......Life was great back then..lol
What about the Islip Speedway........we used to go to the races when I was little with my family......they did away with it because the entire area was built up around it.....so the residents had racing cars in their backyard....
also way back when Chevy's was Hammerheads there was a little mom and pop ice cream shop.....we used to walk there since I grew up on the other side of sunrise hwy in west islip....
also there was a disco club in East Islip in the shopping center where
applebees is now right on sunrise hwy....it was called Escapes.....I saw
"Expose" there.....Come go with me...yadayyyaaa come go with me....Your taking me.....to the point of no return.....oh oh ohhhh
Ok.....now I've put myself in a time warp.......
Bay shore roller rink... Every Friday night... All the girls went religiously to perfect their moves and to flirt with Gene..the long haired flirt/player who rented ur skates😀 Rock ruled at school...disco ruled at the rink.
Every kid on the block out playing in the street. Mr. Softee and the Good Humor Man would come around and we'd all tell them to keep going - we wanted to wait for Bungalo Bar (Tony was the guy driving the truck in my neighborhood and he knew every kids name). Eating Marino's Italian ices with the little wooden spoon- the best part was at the bottom.
The Circus at Commack Arena.
Going to church at the Bay Shore Drive in becasue the new church wasn't built yet. We had listen to mass on the speaker that hung on the car window. Check the speaker before you park!
The orange wax harmonicas that turned into gum at halloween.
We called dodge ball "Bombardment" and played it every day at recess and sometimes in gym class with those red rubber recreation balls that were also great for kick ball.
We used to go to Charlie's Deli for all our candy needs (or Katrina if you lived on the west side of Brentwood Road). Then 7-11 opened up and they had a bigger selection. But we would never go there because the guy charged 2 cents tax on a 5 cent Big Buddy gum slab.
Parfaits and Flying Saucers at Carvel; those big chocolate chip cookies at the Cinderella Bakery.
Bohacks, Hills, A&P and Big Apple were the supermarkets.
"I call you out". Fights after school in back of the Prince of Peace Church (how ironic).
Every class went on field trips to the Rabbit Farm and the Carriage House.
And of course, that great fresh ink smell of a paper copy right off of the mimiograph machine.
Does anyone remember a mr. Softee truck or ANY ice cream truck that u could go inside. The rear passenger side had 2 or 3 metal steps and there was a tiny counter...
I remember when it only took 12 minutes to get to Sunrise Highway from Long Beach.
Now it takes like a half hour or more.
And that's not even in the summer.
You know you're from Long Island when paying $15 to go the beach is totally normal
or show ID that you are from TOBY or TONH to get access to certain beaches or parks.
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Commack arena rocked!
