posted on June 20, 2001 05:46:23 PM
We already have Long Island drama, so how's about alittle Long Island levity?..Somethings to think about when you stuck in the Hampton's traffic on the LIE on Friday night!
You're truly from Lawn Giland (Long Island) if you can relate to
any of the following:
1. You've always liked Billy Joel and you own several of his
"records,"
2. You know someone who went to Chaminade or LaSalle.
3. Seeing a concert at Jones Beach Theater - the best place in
the world to see a show.
4. Is it just me, or is every girl from Rockville Center a
#*!@?
5. Billy Joel said it best, "Either you date a rich girl from
the North Shore, or a cool girl from the South Shore."
6. What's the big deal about the Hamptons?
7. If you're not from Long Island or NYC, you're not really from
NEW YAWK.
8. You don't go to Manhattan; you go to "the City"
9. The Belt Parkway sucks!
10. You never, ever want to "change at Jamaica..."
11. You never realize you have an accent until you leave.
12. You are 15 minutes from the beach
13. Yes, there is a town in LI known as HICKSVILLE!!!
14. Somehow, you know the OBI is cool, but you've never actually
been there.
15. At some point in your life, you've either gone clamming, or
caught a bluefish.
16. You know where at least one strip club is.
17. You have been to the United Skates of America...Remember the
Skateasaurus???
18. Knights of Columbus...AKA: The secret club of Drunks!!!
19. You curse...A lot.
20. You can name at least three players on the Islanders Stanley
Cup teams.
21. You remember the exact day you stopped going to Jones Beach
and started going to Robert Moses or Tobay.
22. Public beach? What's that?
23. Huntington is a puzzlement but a fun village to hang out in
24. "I'm going to the park."
25. You've had a seagull crap on your car.
26. Either your parents or your grandparents lived in the city.
27. You, or someone you know, went to 4H Camp in Riverhead.
28. You or someone you know has owned an animal that came from
North Shore Animal League.
29. You've cruised on the "Turnpike" or "DPA"
30. You have been to "The Firemen's Races" in Hicksville
31. You've played golf at Eisenhower Park...legally or
otherwise.
32. If you're from Nassau County, you've been to Safety Town.
33. Quick! Who's the Suffolk County Executive? Don't know do
you?!
34. You don't have to go far to see your family.
35. Grumman
36. You know someone in the Mob or who has Mob "connections"
37. You've gotten drunk at the "green" or on the bleachers of
some high school.
38. You know the difference between WLIR and WDRE, even though
they played the same music.
39. You were an Islander/Met/Jet fan or a Ranger/Yankee/Giant
fan. There was no crossover.
40. You can correctly pronounce places like Hauppauge, Commack,
Patchogue, Islip, Islandia, Massapequa and Montauk,
41. You remember Roosevelt Field before it was renovated.
42. You remember all the times Walt Whitman Mall burned down.
43. You have been to: The Satan House in Massapequa (Red
Sidewalk), Mount Misery Road in Huntington, The Midget Mansion
in Bayville.
44. You got cool drinking glasses from Burger King (Star Wars,
The Great Muppet Caper)
45. Mr. Softee...much better than The Circus Man!
46. You have seen the Amityville Horror house or at least know
where it is.
47. The Commack Motor Inn really has the "Jungle Room" & "The
Oriental Express Room"
48. The Old Bethpage Restoration Village
49. You know that the town of Baldwin is not named after The
Baldwins...they're from Massapequa ... DUH!
50. The best Pizza, Bagels, and Chinese food ever!!!
51. You hate when people (not from NY) try to do "the
accent"...Ouch!
posted on June 20, 2001 06:44:37 PM
how about Nathan's in Oceanside, Belmont Park, the Montauk Lighthouse, Zorn's, and for the oldies- Nunley's, the Farmer's Markets and the drive-ins!
[ edited by stusi on Jun 20, 2001 06:45 PM ]
posted on June 20, 2001 08:35:53 PM
Safety Town is a place in Eisenhower Park where teachers take their kids to teach them about safety. Far Rockaway is in Queens and to many it is not thought of as Long Island although it is, as well as Brooklyn.
posted on June 21, 2001 06:11:03 AM
I guess Eisenhower Park is after my time there. I left in the mid-70's. Never heard of OBI either, so I guess that's a really young person's club or whatever.
Far Rockaway was close enough to Nassau County be considered Long Island during the time we went. It was only a fifteen minute drive. Further up, it was considered Queens. (It kind of split somewhere along the line)
Brooklyn is not Long Island at all. Guess that was meant as a joke right?
No one mentioned the Hamptons. What a great place to rent a house for the summer.
Nassau Community College in the old barracks.
Popular Merchandise, one of the oldest catalog companys and largest employers in Lynbrook in the 1950's. (Did you mean to say this instead of Brooklyn?)
Newsday, Long Island News Press competing with each other. Newspaper delivery boys throwing the paper just beyond your reach on the walk.
Mailmen walking their route! Actually coming up to the house to put mail in your box, even talking to the homeowner!
posted on June 21, 2001 09:38:03 AM
jamesoblivion,
Brooklyn and Queens are part of Long Island, geography wise, but, they are part of NY City, government wise.
Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Bronx and Staten Island make up the 5 boroughs.
OBI has been around since at least the early 70's. Originally there were 3 OBI's (Oak Beach Inn) OBI East (Hamptons), OBI West ( I believe was either Oceanside or Long Beach) and OBI South(Captree area) Only one remaining is OBI South if it hasn't closed in the last 2 or 3 years.
Eisenhower Park has been in existance since the 1940's as Salisbury Park and was re-named around 1970 as Eisenhower Park. It's located in Hempstead.
posted on June 21, 2001 11:48:55 AM
Thursday night's in Roslyn...
Raffles, My Father's Place, US Blues...
I was at US Blues one night when a guy with funky high tops got up on the stage and started toolin around on the Piano. None other than the Piano Man himself, Billy Joel!
Seeing Jackie (922-WINE) Martling at Governor's (now an ex-Stern man)
Imus in the morning ("Getting back the best DJ that was ever fired"
Concerts at Shea Stadium (or hangin in the lot if it was sold out!)
Ron Dugay
(remember those Ooh-La-La Sasson commercials?)
posted on June 21, 2001 02:04:35 PM
Well, no wonder I didn't know what OBI is/was!! We never hung out in bars (or clubs as some people called them).
Salisbury Park, hmmmmmm .. never set foot in Hempstead. That was the place we were told to stay away from. Too many gangs LOL! No wonder they made it a safety park!
I was well past the teen years when I left LI and basically I was too busy commuting to the "city" to work and play.
Hi jamesoblivion! I've never heard of Brooklyn being part of LI, it just looks like that on maps. Matter of fact, people used to think East New York was part of NYC, but it's part of Brooklyn. However, there are some not to be reckoned with and far be it for me to argue with experts on the matter. I was born in the Bronx many years ago (too many) and moved to LI when I was three. I lived there til I was 27 and escaped. I hear it's just about destroyed now.
edited to say: I guess the folks who owned the OBI got tired of the Long Island crowd too (way too snoopy for them-LOL) and moved to the Florida Keys.. see?
http://www.oakbeachinn.com/
[ edited by mtnmama on Jun 21, 2001 02:06 PM ]
posted on June 21, 2001 03:39:49 PM
The only reason a Long Island girl went into Brooklyn was for "The Crazy Country Club".
"Warm Beer, Lousy Food"
Remember those tee shirts?
Jones Beach...
West End 15...too many memories!
Remember those hotties selling Frozen Snickers Bars from a cooler?
posted on June 21, 2001 03:44:00 PM
Actually, Bob got tired of the busy bodies trying to tell him how to run his business.
And I'm sure the parents considering spending around 10k a year to educate their children at Hofstra University will be glad to hear the place is over run with gangs!
Those gang bangers must have some bucks, considering the average price of a house in Hempstead is around 200K
posted on June 21, 2001 04:52:17 PM
toollady- only a VERY small area of Hempstead has $200K houses. BTW- i once had a practical joke played on me by my college roommate. i sang in some rock bands and he told me that there was a band(the Hassels) at Whiskey Red's in Garden City that needed a lead singer. i went, only to be told by their lead singer, Billy Joel, that the position was filled.
Whiskey Red's
This thread is really bringing back some great memories!
My sister does real estate and she had told me about the housing prices in Hempstead. She may have been talking about Hempstead proper and not included West Hempstead and North Hempstead. Said that was the average price now a days.
But then again, the housing market is insane on the Island anyway!
posted on June 21, 2001 07:42:47 PM
stusi, absolutely correct about a small portion of Hempstead. My sister went to Hofstra University when it was still "young." When I left Hempstead wasn't the same. If you remember Green Acres, it's changed for the worse. Sure you can still buy a $200,000 home there, but as you said only in a very small area. Let's not forget there are gangs all over, a lot of rich kids belong to gangs.
I went to college on Sutton Place in Manhattan, very expensive homes and apartments, very expensive private college. Would I live there? No, I was glad to get out of the neighborhood at dark.
A "gang banger" has a totally different meaning than a gang member. I'm sure if anyone really lived in N.Y. they would know what gang banger meant.
Of course, I don't know anything, being a native New Yorker. Stusi, is Nathans still there?
posted on June 21, 2001 08:57:44 PM
Tsk Tsk! You kids! Here's an oldtimer from Mepham High who always went to the LEFT side of the West BathHouse at Jones Beach. The right side was reserved for Freeport High!
And NOBODY goes east after Memorial Day until AFTER Labor Day! Too many crazy Manhattanites!
Ah! Long Island in the summer! Wait! I have to take off another deer tick! And they just ate all my hostas! And Fire Island across the Bay on our boat, trying not to cross over the ferry's wake!!
posted on June 22, 2001 06:17:36 AM
mtnmama- having left L.I. myself for sunny Florida a few years ago, i can only assume that Nathan's is still in Oceanside. does anyone remember the Lemon Ice King of Corona?
Never heard of the Lemon Ice King, but I remember Bungalow Bar and Good Humor Ice Cream trucks twice a day in the summer. Also, Wetson's burgers, White Castle (10 for a buck)and real candy stores.
I lived in sunny (south) Florida for a number of years. I hear it's almost too hot there now.
posted on June 22, 2001 06:11:00 PM
Ok, talking bout Hempstead, anyone remember Terrace Avenue???....BTW, Eisenhower/Salisbury Park is in East Meadow, border by Hempstead Tpke, Merrick Ave and Old Country Rd.
zoomin, US Blues was MY exclusive hangout for about a year. Unfortunately, Billy Joel wasn't there at that time!!!
Mtnmama:
Bungalow Bar
Tastes like tar
Spit it out
It goes so far!!
Anyone remember Putt Putt Golf, Adverntureland, the Long Island Arena & the ORIGINAL Long Island Ducks (the Hockey team!)??????
posted on June 22, 2001 07:27:48 PM
Rancher, Thanks! Now I recall Salisbury Park. East Meadow, not Hempstead. LOL! I remember the name Terrace Ave, but as I said, never went into Hempstead to "play."
I guess we weren't really choosy as kids when that Bungalow Bar man came around. As we got a little older though, Good Humor had better looking drivers, so ...
I used to hang out Brian Hyland (Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini.) I swear after he made some money, he never again took a bath or combed his hair! He said his parents took all of his money away and he had none from any of his songs. The last time I saw him was in 1970. I sure hope he did okay for himself after that. He sure had a lot of great songs.
posted on June 22, 2001 07:47:43 PM
rancher24--The year I left Long Island, I ran a car dealership adjacent to Terrace Avenue. We had a bullet shot into the showroom, the owner was hit in the head with a rock, a suicide off the roof of a Terrace Ave. building, and a double homicide in a house directly in back of the dealership. BTW- how about Judy Ann ice cream, the Village Green, Modell's and Island Trees schools?
posted on June 23, 2001 06:27:45 AM... I ran a car dealership adjacent to Terrace Avenue. We had a bullet shot into the showroom, the owner was hit in the head with a rock, a suicide off the roof of a Terrace Ave. building, and a double homicide in a house directly in back of the dealership.
Oh but Stusi, how can you say such terrible things about Hempstead? The bullet into the showroom wouldn't be gang related would it? Or how about the double homicide? Sounds an awful lot like drive-by shootings to me. And all in a University town that costs almost 10K a year. (Which is becoming the standard for tuition today) and 200K homes. How can rich people do this?
The universities around Atlanta are certainly not in what we would consider prime/safe areas, yet they cost just as much or more to attend. And there are 200K homes there too. I'm still wondering what tuition and money has to do with gangs... Still wondering why no one explained what a "gang banger" is. LOL!
posted on June 30, 2001 09:44:00 AM
Lotsa shopping there! I used to love going to Korvettes with my Dad.
Spent my cash at A&S and Miracle Mile, too.
Remember La Crepe?
The Benihana's behind Bonwit Teller had the best lunch special!
(must be time for lunch I keep posting about food!)
And in the evening, about Happy Hour time,
Cocktails at Mushroom's and Salads at Millies Place ring a bell for anyone?
