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Does anyone remember the Bottle Cap Carnival that was held every year behind school #1 ( the original high school)? I remember collecting bottle caps all summer. I guess we were recycling long before it became popular.
Starting from the South
Do you remember when they built TSS at Daily Blvd and Long Beach Road(Kohls). They had a pizzia store inside the lobby and across from it was a hot dog stand.
Heh, I got a nasty case of food poisoning from that pizza store when I was about 12 yrs old. But I used to love their pizza!
There was another food-stuffs counter on the other side. I'm thinking coffee/doughnuts type place but can't recall. When you enter the front door of TSS the pizza place was to the left and the other place was to the right.
There was also a great little bookshop in the Genovese shopping center (back when it was a supermarket, not TJ Maxx) that was incredible. A real mom and pop type shop. It was the greatest, especially to a little kid!
At least some things haven't (completely) changed....Cedarhurst Paper is still there! It's more organized now that it being managed by different members of the same family who bought in, but it's still a wonderland and Jean is still behind the counter a few days a week. I worked there during HS around 85...and some of the same ladies still work there. You can go home again!
I went to Camp Allen and rode on those go-carts. Went to Bar-H, where I learned to swim. Remember Woolworths at the Lincoln Shopping Center? At the counter there were balloons. You selected one and the person behind the counter burst it to find a tiny slip of paper. Sometimes, hot fudge sundaes were 99 cents- but if it was your lucky day... 1 cent sundae!!!!!
I'm not sure if anyone is still on this blog however, I grew up on LI (Ronkonkama) and I have an old sleeping bag w/ the name Morsans on it. It belonged to my father. He passed away about 4 years ago and I found the sleeping bag. I'm a fireman in AZ and I sleep in it while at the fire house. It still smells like my dad......mothballs.
Go back a little further before there was a Daly Blvd; Lawson Blvd ended somewhere around Montgomery Ave into a vacant lot.
Lincoln Shopping Center also had the shoe store next to Woolworths and the kosher bakery. And how about when Dee's nursery was nothing more than a small shop?
St. Anthony's Church had the "underground" chapel which brought busloads of people to visit; destroyed by fire in the early 60's.
In lincon shopping center there was also a Drug store.... dam I forgot the name.... and a fine mens clothing store with nicely done windows...
Also... The Huge carnival they had behind TSS... There was also a huge protest were everybody lined the streets of Long Beach Rd including myself with my mom, to close the oceanside dump!!! lol.... I forget what Ruby Tuesday's used to be way back in the days, I think it was Pizza Box... They had a sick arcade and I remember big furry mascots... I was so young.. probably like 3-5... NYSC was Oceanside Bowling alley... sucks they closed that down... There was also car racing in freeport way back...
Also... The Huge carnival they had behind TSS... There was also a huge protest were everybody lined the streets of Long Beach Rd including myself with my mom, to close the oceanside dump!!! lol.... I forget what Ruby Tuesday's used to be way back in the days, I think it was Pizza Box... They had a sick arcade and I remember big furry mascots... I was so young.. probably like 3-5... NYSC was Oceanside Bowling alley... sucks they closed that down... There was also car racing in freeport way back...
Ruby Tuesday's was "THE TEXAS RANGER".
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