You Know You're From Long Island When... (Huntington, Amityville: nursing home, steak)

[TomMoser]

Originally Posted by Cassie7

One of the greatest perks of having grown up on LI was the opportunity to see amazing bands live in concert like Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Tull, ZZ Top, Peter Frampton, ELP, the Stones (just to name a few). I never realized how lucky I was until I moved out of state and people were jaw dropped to hear the amount of great concerts I was privileged to attend..

We used to go the the Schaefer Concerts at Wolman Rink in central park every day after work in the summer. (This was when young people from Long Island could still afford the LIRR commute to find jobs in the city.) Tickets were $2.00. If the scalpers were charging more then $5 it was too much and we would sit on "the rocks" to watch the show.

[Lancet71]

One Roy Rogers left---------------in Shirley on William Floyd Parkway.

[Lancet71]

And the club Sundance that you used to go to in the late 80's

[astroknot]

Wow. I've read almost every thread the past 4 days during my lunch hour and it was like going back to my childhood. I grew up in Bay Shore (Oak Park Elementary, South Jr Hight, Brentwood Ross HS '76) and remember so many of the places everybody has been talking about on Long Island. I live in Maryland 10 yrs now and as much as I like it, I miss the pizza, bakeries, butchers, etc that I got used to on Long Island. I still have family there and visit often but it's certainly not the same. I would not come back to live there because it would destroy the great memories I have of growing up in a neighborhood where everybody knew everybody and I had the same neighbors on my street throughout my childhood.

Since everybody seems to focus on stores and places of interest, I just thought I'd contribute. Benjiman's Beach at the Bay Shore Marina, Charlie Hot Dog on Spur Drive & Islip Ave, The Farmers Market off of Sunrise Hwy and Brentwood Rd, Entenmanns Bakery before it got to big for itself, the junk years on Saxon Ave to get parts for our street rods, Woods Apparel where we all had to buy our gym shorts and t-shirt, Brentwood HS Wrestling - I hear we won the Counties this year.

I remember calling the WBAB Hotline on Friday night to see what bands were playing at the bars. In addition to the big name bands that eventually made albums (Good Rats, Twisted Sister, BOC, Zebra, Fog Hat), my favorite bar band was White Fire. They played The Boys are Back In Town and Jailbreak as good as Thin Lizzy did. Rum Bottoms, Mad Hatter, Cheers, Speaks, OBI North, Soloman Grundy's - all good hangouts......... "and if the boys want to fight you better let them."

I remember playing baseball at any vacant lot we could find every day of the summer. I rode my Schwinn Stingray bike with my baseball mitt hung over the butterfly handlebars and my bat jammed under the banana seat. Most days the street was our playground and we played every sport there was until we got called in to eat or because it was dark an hour ago. We had good clothes for school and dungarees for play. Our sports drink was water from a garden hose. We chose sides using the odds/evens 1-2-3 shoot method. Life was good and I'll never forget all the great things Long Island had to offer. Thanks to all for reminding me.

[GigiBowman]

Very interesting thread! I remember Broken Arrow I was numero uno groupie lol ---well, me along with my other 20 friends-- we went to every single show they ever had. It was our social life. Dated Hank. Lived with his sister. I have that BAB album that someone spoke of somewhere in this house, sealed. I'll auction it off if I find it lol.

Tom Moser. I know you! You are a Real Estate agent in town lol. I've called on your listings...I think I even rented a place of yours! So funny! I have no idea how I found this place....

[GigiBowman]

ok, I just read this entire Thread....and I think I know all of you! lol

[M DOYLE]

Originally Posted by amsm196

Thank You for that info, glad someone remembered Rabs. Thinking back now i do remember " Martial Arts" having to do with Rabs, my friend worked there for a short time and the owner taught him some self defense punches & kicks.
Sad to hear the owner passed.

Thanks

MY NAME IS SENSI DOYLE I TRAINED AT RABS IN LYNBROOK WHEN I WAS 16 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME THE YOUNGEST STUNDENT IN THE HARD CORE DOJO. I TRAINED W KYOSHI BARATHY FOR 15 YEARS THE LAST 5 YEARS I WAS HIS PERSONAL AND PRIVATE PROJECT. I TRANED WITH BARATHY IN HIS MOTHERS HOUSE IN DIX HILLS LONG ISLAND 10 HOURS A DAY 7 DAYS A WEEK , NO B.S. HE HAD A SMALL BUT VERY AWSOME DOJO AND PULLY CABLE SYSTEM SET UP TO ADVACE YOU ABILITY TO CREATE TREMNDOUS AMOUNT OF CHI FLOW THRU YOUR STRIKES AND BLOCKS. I WAS WITH HIM RIGHT UP UNTIL HIS TIME OF DEATH WHERE HE FOUGHT LIKE HE ALWAYS DID FOR HIS LIFE IN CARDIATIC CENTER IN PENNSLYVANNI N.Y, PLEASE EXCUSE MY SPELLING.HE GOT A HEART TRANSPLANT AFTER FIGHTING FOR SIX MONTHS INTHAT HOSPITAL HE GOT THE HEART, WAS WALKINK AROUND THE HOSPITAL HALLWAYS THE NEXT DAY WITH HIS IV. THAT NIGHT HIS NEW HEART GOT AN INFECTION AND THE MAN WHO I LOVED MORE THAN A FATHER PAST AWAY. TOWARDS THE END OF HIS TRAINING AND TEACHING BARATHY MODIFIED THE SYSEM AND HE ONLY HAD ME AROUND TO TEACH IT TOO. I BELIVE I AM THE ONLY PERSON THAT POSSES THIS KNOWLEDGE. KYYOSI BARATHY GAVE ME MY BLACK BELT ON HIS DEATH BED AFTER ONE OF HIS 5 TH DEGREE BLACKBELTS HAVE BEEN TELLING HIM I WAS READY FOR THE PAST 12 MONTHS BARATHY HELD BACK AND HELD BACK, CAUSE I WAS HIS PERSONAL FIGHTING PROJECT HE WOULD ALWAYS TELL ME. HE WANTED TO MAKE ME A PERFICT FIGHTING MACHINE WHICH HE DID.MY NAME IS MICHEL R DOYLE IF YOU HAVE ANY MORE QUESTIONS ABOUNT ANYTHING I WOULD BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO TALK ABOUT THIS AMAZING MAN. MY CELL 516 220-9951 .THATS MASSAPEQUA LONG ISLAND. SOON TO RELOCATE IN FLORIDA.

[TomMoser]

Originally Posted by GigiBowman

Very interesting thread! I remember Broken Arrow I was numero uno groupie lol ---well, me along with my other 20 friends-- we went to every single show they ever had. It was our social life. Dated Hank. Lived with his sister. I have that BAB album that someone spoke of somewhere in this house, sealed. I'll auction it off if I find it lol.

Tom Moser. I know you! You are a Real Estate agent in town lol. I've called on your listings...I think I even rented a place of yours! So funny! I have no idea how I found this place....

Hi Gigi!

For those of you who don't know, Gigi is a Realtor who has a specialty of finding pet friendly rentals. She is very good at what she does. If you need a pet friendly rental I highly recommend that you contact her.

[Has Been]

From somewhere around 1979 through 1984 I played in Otter Creek. It was a band that played Southern Rock and Party music and had been a good country band before that.

See if any of these places we used to play ring a bell ...
Soloman Grundy's Clipper
Soloman Grundy's frigate
Good Times Commack
Good Times Massapequa
Hammerheads (Party with The Creek Tuesdays - $2 Buds and 2000 people)
Cheers
Tueys
Mad Hatter Stoneybrook and East Quogue
Speaks
Rum Bottoms
Reinhardts
Silver Dollar Saloon
Pastime Pub
Sundance
Gemini
Golden Rock Cafe
Glenn Island Casino
Mothers
My Father's Place
Detroit

There's tons more ...

[misty88]

I just read through this whole thread and thoroughly enjoyed it.

My husband and I grew up in Port Jeff in the 60's and 70's, moved to Sound Beach and Rocky Point after we were married. Left LI in 1988 for Florida.

We are coming for a short visit on April 12th and cannot wait to have real pizza, an egg sandwich on a real roll and anything from a real bakery.

It was great to read about all the LI bands and bars. My husband was a muscian who played at all the usual haunts during the late 70's and '80's. Hammerhead, Mad Hatter, Spies, Cheers etc. Sorry to hear that so many of them are now gone.

It was a great place to grow up and miss LI very much. Who knows what this little trip might inspire?

I found this list after googling for someplace on LI and once here I couldn't leave.

Thank you for such a wonderful trip down memory lane.