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1. You complain that the local radio channels do not give you traffic updates every 10 seconds.
2. You are confused as there are too many alternative roads to get to downtown.
3. Not paying tolls makes you feel rich.
Sounds like All American to me. It had the big barrel of root beer in the middle of the store. Does anyone remember Rumbottoms in N.Massapequa? It was disco city. I miss LI.
hey bloodymary i remember rumbottums reall well ,my dad gerry owned it with paul joe and mike at one time they were reall good friends, joe and my dada still speak but paul died and no ones heard from mike in years , in 84 they changed it to infinity then in 86 my dad resigned from the corparation cuse they couldnt agree on any thing then it closed a few months latter, but man did I have fun for since72 we owned that bar, but all good things must come to and end.
Try to order a cheese pie and told we sell pizzas, not pies!
Want garlic knots and get a funny look like I'm speaking a foreign language.
Remember getting bit my flies on Callahan's Beach, walking the boardwalk at Sunken Meadow, or going out on the boat with my family from the Dock in the 60's.
well, I stumbled upon this sight this morning and I've read to page 80!! Grew up in Kings Park/Fort Salonga area. Fun to read of all the bars and clubs and bands that have played....I tended bar at The Salty Dog for almost five years [1980-1985] so I probably served alot of you folks on this site. Also tended at the Park Bench['86-'88] in StonyBrook and wound up my career back in Huntington at New York Ave, ["89-'91] and then Meehans ['92-'93] Lots of great fun and nothing but memories now. I was wondering if anybody knew of, or remembers the 1/4 mile dragstrip that out-of-towners refered to as "country life".....back in the early 70's, rt. 25a in Fort Salonga would be a complete ghost town after 9pm. On the SE corner of 25a and Bread & Cheese Hollow Rd. was a field with a little general store [ in 1973 the general store was bulldozed and born was the A&P shopping center]... there was start/finish line painted on 25a and cars used to line up side by side down Bread and Cheese rd. waiting to turn onto 25a and make their run. We were just kids on our dirtbikes back then but those guys racing their cars were pretty serious. Could not imagine anything like that going on today. I think it was kept more of a guarded secret in amongst race fans because I don't recall 100's of people always showing up at these weekend races.....we called it the general store.....outsiders called it "country life"
Ok, been through the entire post and have a few that I did not see listed,
Racket and Rink- Ice rink that the Islanders trained at...in Farmingdale
Uneeda Rest- dive bar by Deer Park train station
Battling Barrys- Car stereo dealer on 110
Titus Oaks- record store on 110
...and a few bars in Huntington, (Canterbury Ales, Rose and Thistle) and Northport (Feed and Grain)
I remember Link's Log Cabin, The Royal Viking Schmorgesboard (sp), Levittown Roller Rink and Jan's Ice cream. Wetson's Hamburgers on Old Country Rd and Levittown Pkwy. Across the street from TSS on Hempsteak Tnpk. Home of the 5 dollor jeans, The Sterio store that was in a plane in the parking lot of Mid Island Plaza, Farmers Market near Gruman Airfield, I could go on and on, Great memories.
I remember the birds in the mall. What a change that mall has made. I remember Korvettes in Commack. How about the salty dog in Halesite, getting a haircut at great expectations, superx drug stores, service merchadise consumers distributing, remember DOA on the corner of route 110 and Jericho? Does anyone remeber the Pioneer diner in Hauppauge? How about Wessons Hamburgers?
It was Wetson's Hamburgers on Old Country Road, at the end of Levittown Parkway.
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