A Long Island forward...ah memories.

[BeNJeNWaFFLe]

I saw Return of the Jedi at the Meadowbrook Theater - is that still there?

No it's not!!! That was my favorite theater! Always empty and always showing the newest movies. It closed down a few years ago. Now it's a bank.

All this talk about All American is making me crave their fries!! I gotta get back there soon.

Muffycat: From a description you gave of your house in another thread...I KNEW it was your house. I pass by your house almost every day and I always said to myself that it is a very pretty one. Actually, one of the ones I sorta admire.

 

[Jaclynfett]

I saw Return of the Jedi there too! How funny! I do miss that theatre.

 

[java]

LOL Jolly Rodgers!!! YES we used to go there as the bribe of the 70's- be good at Aunt G's and you can go to Jolly Rodgers'
Remember that tiny tiny roller coaster, it was small even to a kid. My cousin fell off it!!!
Here's a blast from the past. I used to work at Up's and Down's in the Sunrise Mall! And I still remember the day that Brian Stetzer came into the mall with his girlfriend to shop. It was right after the first Stray Cats album came out. That was a cool day to be at work!
And did anyone every go to Malibu? DH and I had our first date there!!
One not on the list is that any self respecting long island girl could get through the entire week without paying for a single drink. We know how to stack the ladies nights!

 

[eclectics]

Anybody remember Rumbottoms?..... And of course there was the OBI!

 

[java]

OBI!!!! Every Sunday afternoon at the OBI in the summer! Remember our paper licenses- where a BR eyes could easily turn into BL eyes.
I was also a SPIT girl.

 

[kerrynic78]

Anyone remember the Long Island Game Farm? I remember many school field trips to that place.

My grandparents lived in East Quogue and we would always go to the game farm!

 

[luvmykids]

Love this thread! Grew up in Queeens and have lived on Long Island for the past 12 years! I feel as though I have always lived here.

CastleView: Zorns is still around and is one of my family's favorite. They make the BEST fried chicken. My husband drives all the way from Stony Brook to get Zorns for the family.

 

[LBAK]

Anybody remember Rumbottoms?..... And of course there was the OBI!

Oh boy do I remember them! So many good times. This thread has made me so nostalgic and I'm still here. I miss Nunley's the most but I do remember Jolly Roger and there was a small amusement park who's name escapes me near New Hyde Park that I used to love.

My DD works across the street from All American so we just put our order in with her a few minutes before she's ready to leave and she picks it up. I do remember Wetson's (wow I'm showing my age) too.

Great thread!

 

[ziggystardust]

I was also a SPIT girl.

my sister was a Spit girl- used to hear her talking about it all the time.

I used to work at Brands too- which most LI'ers know

Oh and Nunleys- i used to love going to Birthday parties there!

 

[castleview]

Is SPIT the old Uncle Sam's Disco? My uncle used to hang out there.

A big deal whenever we had visitors was taking them to Quencher to see the various beer cans. Wierd, I know.

Ok, here's something I totally miss - WAPP ("Lake Success. New York City, from the top of the World Trade Center") They played all the Bryan Adams and Bruce Springsteen that a teen girl could ever want to hear.

 

[java]

Is SPIT the old Uncle Sam's Disco? My uncle used to hang out there.


Ok, here's something I totally miss - WAPP ("Lake Success. New York City, from the top of the World Trade Center") They played all the Bryan Adams and Bruce Springsteen that a teen girl could ever want to hear.

... Nope Uncle Sam's was the DISCO(I used to go to an exercise class there) SPIT was what the club turned into on Thursday nites.-(at least I think it was thursday) and you entered through a door in the back- it was more Punk
And on Radio WLIR! Donna Donna

 

[Poohnatic]

my sister was a Spit girl- used to hear her talking about it all the time.

I used to work at Brands too- which most LI'ers know

Oh and Nunleys- i used to love going to Birthday parties there!

My first husband worked at Brands, too.

Let's see:
Malibu-$1 drink nights with my buds!
Spize-the first place where the guy believed me when I said my age (and I was depressed!)
Shout-over in Island Park, imo the best place for new wave
Spit-some guy walked up to me one night at a huge LIR party and planted a big wet one on me, said thanks and walked away. Darn, he was cute, too!
Rumbottoms-who can forget those commercials?
Salty Dog-the site of my 21st b'day drunkfest family tradition/saw my friend
Tommy playing with Mazarin

My 13th b'day was spent at Adventureland. Little did I know that Twisted Sister was playing there that night-this was when the first album was about to come out. Place was packed and when I told the guy in the ticket both it was my b'day, I got a Crazy Eddie (!) t-shirt!

Jolly Rodger was where the Waldbaum's shopping center is now and there was a cheezy bar there (Wimbeldon's). Across the street was the huge Pergament that was the first check point for the March of Dimes Walkathons that started at Eisenhower park.

Nunley's was our place of choice (I dubbed it Row Row as soon as I could talk). One of my friends would cut French class in HS and go play Skee Ball there.

How about the roller rinks? Good old Levittown and USA. Levittown is now a drug store, what a shame.

Rocky Horror Picture Show? Mini Cinema, Meadowbrook or Lynbrook?

Forgot some others:
Korvettes opened before the rest of sunrise mall. I needed a leotard for a play and they were the only place to get them-I remember peeking out the glass doors to look at the construction in progress.

Farrell's at Sunrise. A friend had her b'day party there and when they brought the big bowl of ice cream out, the guys overshot us and the ice cream landed on the plate glass window.

The Busy Bee. I lied about my age to get two more holes in my ears, we bought my sister and my nameplates there and I got "LI girls, best in the world" t shirts from there!

As a Girl Scout back then, there were only two places to get the uniforms: Barishes in Freeport and JC Penney.

Grants, Mays and Gertz department stores. I worked for Gimbels for three years until they closed their doors.

Suzanne

 

[Jaclynfett]

How about the old Wantagh kiddie park with the concrete maze! It's still an awesome large park and is hardly crowded when we go.

 

[eclectics]

Ah, I forgot the old Salty Dog!... And My Father's Place in Roslyn.

 

[Poohnatic]

Ah, I forgot the old Salty Dog!... And My Father's Place in Roslyn.

My sister and her first husband were Eppy's managers for several years. Peppi Marcello is my nephew's godfather.

Several siblings ended up working there over the years. My one brother's bedroom wall was covered with the various backstage passes. His usual hobby was to go over to Record World after seeing a new act and buy their album. It was as good as working at LIR (when it was rock) to hear the new acts. That's how I first heard the police!

Suzanne

 

[Mishetta]

I grew up going clamming and fishing on the sound. We would go out to Montauk Point and climb on the rocks while my father fished. You can't climb on the rocks anymore. The LIE didn't go out as far as it goes now, we used to take old Montauk highway, one lane in each direction.

Does anyone remember the flea market on 110? How about the drive in movie theater? We used to go see the Big Duck when it was still a poultry farm. How about the Commack arena?

Oh my goodness! I remember too going to Montauk Point, climbing on the rocks & fishing!! One day I caught 8 eels!! Those were such good times though...memories to last a lifetime! No climbing on the rocks anymore?? Why? Were people getting injured?

 

[Steamboat Marti]

What a great walk down memory lane! I'm from Northport and DH is from Levittown.

We moved upstate almost three years ago and I REALLY miss the pizza and bagels. We also don't have White Castle here - and DH really misses that (usually around 2 am).

Ahhhh to be a true Nuu Yawka!

 

[crazyme5kids]

Ah, I forgot the old Salty Dog!... And My Father's Place in Roslyn.

Loved My Father's Place! I wish there was a place like that now.

Mishetta, I'm not sure if people got hurt on the rocks at Montauk, but I wouldn't doubt it. Those waves crashed against them pretty hard, not to mention how slippery they were. There is a fence along it and signs warning people not to climb on them. It's amazing what my parents allowed us to do when we were kids !

 

[cybrkitn]

Isn't it kind of sad? All that land just sitting there. I know I heard maybe a year or so ago they were looking to put a golf course there. Then I heard a community. I haven't heard anything since though. They did put up an F-14 and another plane on display. (I can't for the life of me remember the other plane.)

Who knows what will go in the Calverton site. It flip flops so much. I can't remember the other plane either, but those aren't on the Calverton site. They have a Grumman Memorial Park, which is very small, on the same street as Calverton. Just a few doors down. Haven't been to it yet.

 

[cybrkitn]

I lived in Quogue. I never met anyone who could say that who wasn't from Long Island!

And there was a street in Quogue called Quaquanantuck...try saying that!

I'm not even gonna try that one (although I might be pronouncing it right when I say it)! And I thought my town was hard to pronounce (Patchogue) .