LI DISers ... Store from Sunrise Mall 1980's ...

[rlk]

Hello, from a former Long Islander. I was wondering if anyone knows of a dog boarder/ vet boarding for my sister's dog. She is very upset because her dog was just diagnosed with diabetes and she has to go away for four days next week. Her vet will board, but she is looking for a place that will not keep her dog in a cage all day. My sister lives in Nassau County. Thanks.

 

[Mouse House Mama]

Sundance? They sold more than leather

 

[Kplan]

This is driving me and DH crazy ... does anybody remember the name of the "smoke shop" that used to be in the back of Home Decor?

Just happened across this...hopefully you're still on these boards. It was indeed called JOLLY JOINT. My dad owned HOME DECOR -- I was occasionally behind the counter on Saturdays playing w/Matchbox cars.

Jolly Joint was owned by a different company, and they rented space in the stores from my dad. (And I think they had some of their own locations too.)

I was very little, so I don't recall everything, but I do remember Jolly Joint -- I even have the item they gave away with every purchase: A mirror in a plastic pouch (w/their logo on it) that I didn't know for YEARS (b/c I was around 7 when I got it) was a cocaine mirror! They had bongs and roach clips for sale. They also sold Muppet figures at one point, b/c potheads loved The Muppets.

Not surprisingly, being around all that, I never in my life had any interest in drugs. But I still love The Muppets. =]

I don't recall the wicker furniture someone else mentioned, but I recall wicker baskets, T-shirts & iron-ons, lots of various home items of course, the pinball machine in back, which changed every so often (my dad didn't own those -- he got some of the money from them, but the company that owned them basically maintained them and, when they started not to draw a lot of money, would switch them out for another machine at their leisure); when "Chinese yo-yos" became a fad, I sat in front and played with one for hours to help sell them. There was also jewelry on one side of the store, some of those lava lamps, and some of whatever you call the lava lamps that had the gooey stuff but no lights in them (what WERE those called?!), plenty of posters were for sale too, black light posters included, and these really ugly faux wood carving things that had photos, like, glued to them with images of Corvettes driving at night or panthers prowling on rocks or some such.

I also recall, outside the store, Orange Julius in one direction, Friendly's in the other!

 

[Louspintoo]

Just happened across this...hopefully you're still on these boards. It was indeed called JOLLY JOINT. My dad owned HOME DECOR -- I was occasionally behind the counter on Saturdays playing w/Matchbox cars.

Jolly Joint was owned by a different company, and they rented space in the stores from my dad. (And I think they had some of their own locations too.)

I was very little, so I don't recall everything, but I do remember Jolly Joint -- I even have the item they gave away with every purchase: A mirror in a plastic pouch (w/their logo on it) that I didn't know for YEARS (b/c I was around 7 when I got it) was a cocaine mirror! They had bongs and roach clips for sale. They also sold Muppet figures at one point, b/c potheads loved The Muppets.

Not surprisingly, being around all that, I never in my life had any interest in drugs. But I still love The Muppets. =]

I don't recall the wicker furniture someone else mentioned, but I recall wicker baskets, T-shirts & iron-ons, lots of various home items of course, the pinball machine in back, which changed every so often (my dad didn't own those -- he got some of the money from them, but the company that owned them basically maintained them and, when they started not to draw a lot of money, would switch them out for another machine at their leisure); when "Chinese yo-yos" became a fad, I sat in front and played with one for hours to help sell them. There was also jewelry on one side of the store, some of those lava lamps, and some of whatever you call the lava lamps that had the gooey stuff but no lights in them (what WERE those called?!), plenty of posters were for sale too, black light posters included, and these really ugly faux wood carving things that had photos, like, glued to them with images of Corvettes driving at night or panthers prowling on rocks or some such.

I also recall, outside the store, Orange Julius in one direction, Friendly's in the other!

Thanks so much for this. I loved both Home Decor & Jolly Joint! I remember the gigantic lightswitch you could put on your wall and the poster of the Unknown Comic naked....he had a paper bag over his head and also one over his d*ck !!

I bought a poster from there of a toilet with a bicycle type mechanism in front of it that had a roll of toilet paper attached to it. It appeared as though you would poop in the toilet and then pedal the contraption and the toilet paper would run under your butt and wipe you. There was a sign on the wall near the toilet which read "Reverse roll when Empty". I thought it was just the funniest thing. Lol

But as cool as Home Decor was, Jolly Joint was even cooler. Those white walls lit by the black lights made the whole place glow purple. And they were always burning Cherry incense. OMG! The roach clips, the buttons, the fake 8 track tape that popped open to reveal a snorting kit !! Even a little Hoover vacum cleaner for "vacuming" up the lines. Oh my.

Anyway, Friends of Bridge rehab in Valley Stream (still there) finally pressured someone to get rid of Jolly Joint.

Thanks for letting me take this memory walk through two of my favorite places ever: Home Decor and Jolly Joint ❤