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LI & NY Places that are no more 
Mitch Karas
/ July 7, 2009Sol and Jeans on Fresh Meadows Lane. It had the counter with stools and great egg creams
Joyce
/ June 21, 2010I remember Sol and Jeans, Whenb you didn’t have money you could run a tab. How about the Drug Store on the corner of Fresh Meadow Lane and 69th Ave?
DocC
/ July 29, 2009How about Sears on Hillside Avenue?
Richard
/ December 30, 2009Sears on Hillside ave in Queens Village was Fairchild Funeral Home.
joyce zahn
/ January 16, 2010How about Woolworth’s on 188th st in fresh meadows?
joyce zahn
/ January 16, 2010How about Cracker Barrel Supermarket on 69th ave and 164st?
Billy
/ September 30, 2010Wow! In the 50’s and 60’s my Aunt & Uncle & cousins lied in one of the the Elechester buildings on 164th St diagonal to Cracker Barrel. They did a lot of shopping there.
Michelle
/ March 29, 2010Remember Castles Pharmacy on Jamaica Ave.? and Winters Ice cream parlour?
STEVEN MACK
/ June 10, 2010OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN, NEW HAMPSHIRE
Patricia Marshall
/ July 25, 2010Hey… what about the Valencia movie theater on Jamaica Avenue? I spent many a saturday afternoon there with my friends, catching a double-feature!
Teeth Whitening
/ November 18, 2010there are sporting goods that are very cheap but the quality is not very good **.
Barry
/ July 7, 2011Does anyone recall GREAT EASTERN? I believe this department store was on Northern Boulevard near Roslyn, NY and down the road from CW Post campus. Although I have no specific memories of the store, I do recall that my family used to go there on occasion.
Katherine
/ February 5, 2013There was a Great Eastern Mills in Elmont I think on Hempstead Ave.
Joe
/ June 28, 2017Before great eastern it was called Floyd’s. Before that Floyd bennett.there was one in Jericho next to rothmans.
Mark S.
/ November 20, 2020The Great Eastern on Hempstead turnpike, just west of Belmont Racetrack was built by Great Eastern Mills as it’s third store (the first two were in New Jersey). It closed in 1975. The building is now occupied by The Home Depot. When the Great Eastern was there, all of the small buildings in front were parking lot, and the 3,000 car parking lot would fill up at Xmas time. There were other stores on Long Island, including one in Farmingdale. I don’t remember exactly where, Floyds was a different chain.
Ron
/ August 24, 2011Seeing Audio Breakthroughs and Crazy Eddies reminded me of Hi Fi Fo Fum, Tech Hi Fi, Battlin Barry’s, Newmark and Lewis, Harvey’s… and I can’t remember the name but there was a discount audio store on the corner of Jericho Tpke and Rt 110.
Todd Berkun
/ August 24, 2011Battlin Barry’s, gotta see if we can find an ad for him. There was also a place called DOA wasn’t there?
Bill
/ August 25, 2011I remember the audio store however I don’t know the name either. On the southwest corner was an Oldsmobile dealer. believe it was Pace Olds.
Rocco
/ February 19, 2012How about madison hardware NYC
Mark Gottlieb
/ March 2, 2012Tried to click on a lot of the links here, but goes to a facebook page I can’t access.
Dug Sitowski
/ November 7, 2012After visiting the Lionel showroom on 26th st. north of Madison Square Park where I met and shook hands with “the old man” Lionel Cowan, my dad took me to visit “uncle Carl” as I knew him at Madison Hardware on 23rd st. in Manhatten. This was from 1950 to 1959 when I was 7 to 16 years old. My dad was a huge collector of pre & early post war Lionel items and willed to me a mint boxed 1939 700E hudson & pin-stripe cars which I still have. Ah, the memories!
Dovid Fraiman
/ December 27, 2013http://cs.trains.com/ctt/f/95/p/110143/2163609.aspx
Dovid Fraiman
/ January 17, 2014how about this http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/02/nyregion/02about.html
Eric Taub
/ July 17, 2012none of the picture links that I clicked on, worked.
Todd Berkun
/ July 24, 2012I think it is predicated on being logged in at facebook. Many go back to my facebook photos where they were originally posted.
Susan Bulavinetz
/ August 8, 2012Don’t forget Fields dept. store on 82nd St and 37th Ave in Jackson Heights.
Bill
/ February 6, 2013Katherine: Don’t remember a Great Eastern where you are talking about or on the north shore even,however there was a Great Eastern on Hempstead Tpke in Elmont about 1/2 mile east of Belmont Racetrack.There is a Pop Boys auto store there now.
Barry
/ March 8, 2013When I was very young I thought that GRAND UNION was a store for communists!!! Perhaps I got it mixed up with “Soviet Union”!!!!
Julie Nicoll Premosch
/ July 12, 2013I remember a movie cinema on jamaica ave and 220 st. In queens village. I remember the beatles did a concert there in the 1960s. Is this just a hallucination from my past, could someone confirm this for me.
Dovid Fraiman
/ December 27, 2013here is a picture of the theater i believe
Dovid Fraiman
/ December 27, 2013sorry forgot to put the link http://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/detail/RECORDSPHOTOUNITQUE~1~1~2008258~339404:dof_4_10789_0250
Artie
/ October 2, 2017I think it was called the queens community theater. There was two. One at 220th st and one at around 215th st
Bill
/ October 17, 2017There was a movie theater on Jamaica Ave and 220th St. Don’t remember the name and do not know if the Beatles performed there. It was some kind of a Bible Chuch after that. Today I don’t know. And I kind of remember a movie at 215th St. It was next to the Community Gardens, a bar that had bands especially on weekends.
Cathy
/ May 16, 2018What was the name of large independent maybe family owned Baby Furniture and supplies in Hempstead 1940s-60-70s
Bill
/ July 13, 2013You are correct Julie. I go past that area on occasion. I don’t remember the name but it closed about 15 years ago. After standing abandoned for a number of years they partially knocked it down, rebuilt some of it and today it is some sort of church. About three years prior to closing the movie house like many in New York that are on the verge of closing showed XXX films. Glad I could be of assistance.
Nancy
/ December 8, 2013Anybody got a picture of a Diary Barn? Are there any left?
Dovid Fraiman
/ December 27, 2013Bill
/ December 13, 2013No pictures but they are still here on the island. Click the link: http://www.dairybarn.com/
brenda watts
/ December 26, 2013Do you have any information on the Better Funeral Home located in Washington, DC around 1940?
Bill
/ December 27, 2013brenda watts; Wasn’t that the place where your funeral was held?
Patricia
/ December 29, 2013Nancy, yes – there are still Dairy Barns on Long Island. In West Babylon on Little East Neck Rd, and in Deer Park on Deer Park Avenue to name just two!
Todd Berkun
/ December 29, 2013Patricia,
The one on Deer Park Ave is now called The Barn and is owned by a different company than Dairy Barn. I don’t know for sure what the Little East Neck Road one is, but Dairy Barns website says its not a Dairy Barn.
JoAnn Leib
/ January 3, 2014I remember a good bakery on the strip with May’s, across from St. Bernard’s Church, but the name of the bakery is totally gone from my memory. Any ideas?
Dovid Fraiman
/ January 4, 2014could it be dortoni bakery perhaps http://www.dortonibakery.com/
John
/ July 15, 2014Peter Pan Bakery
Bill
/ January 3, 2014Where pray tell is St. Bernard’s Church?
Dovid Fraiman
/ January 4, 2014st bernard’s is here i believe 3100 Hempstead Bethpage Turnpike, Levittown, NY 11756
deloresc
/ February 21, 2014does anyone remember the name of the ladies clothing store in the original Herricks Shopping Center in New Hyde Park, NY?(1955ish)
Bill
/ February 28, 2014I don’t remember a ladies clothing store there. I do remember the A&P on the corner , now a RiteAid and there was a Jahns ice cream parlour there that we used to go to and order a kitchen sink. .
deloresc
/ February 28, 2014The A and P was not on the corner. There was a drug store on the corner, then the A and P, then the card store, next a delli, then Danish Maid ( a bakery), an open air fruit market(Smiley’s) which became Trunz meats, then National Shoes, then Woolworth, then Beau Geste Cleaners, Then Bo Peep (kiddie store) a ladies store, Jahn’s and then Grand Union.
I might be off on the exact order of things… These were the original stores when the shopping center opened in around 1954or 1955ish
DeloresC
/ February 20, 2020The ladies store was Rollines. The sales lady was FAY
Bill
/ February 28, 2014Sorry. I must be wrong about the A&P being on the corner on Herricks Rd. I must be getting old. I worked in the A&P in 1959.
Lou
/ May 11, 2014My first part time job was the A&P in Bayside on Fraces Lewis BLVD.
deloresc
/ February 28, 2014did you go to herricks bill?
Bill
/ March 1, 2014No. I went to Mineola.
deloresc
/ March 1, 2014Thanks Bill
Sam Cave
/ March 7, 2014Trying to find a photo of the Reavel Knoxx store that use to be on Jamaica Ave off of than New York Blvd, in Queens
Glenn
/ August 10, 2016I used to work at Reval Knox store but it was on Jamaica Ave and 163rd St.
San Man
/ March 27, 2014How many remember Ed Debenidetto Buick on Northern Blvd. in Bayside by the Clearview Expwy.?
Bill
/ April 4, 2014I remember it. If you remember Ed Debenidetto Buick you surely must remember Breitfeller’s Pontiac in Bayside just east of the Cross Island Parkway.My girlfriend bought a 1962 Tempest there.
Pete
/ April 4, 2014What about the old “Hills” supermarkets on Long Island headquartered in Farmingdale !
TOM Curtin
/ February 15, 2016It was named for the owner. HILLARD COHEN….
Fred
/ July 4, 2019Hills Supermarket chain was owned by E.J. Korvettes.
Marjie
/ November 8, 2019Where was the Hill’s Supermarket in Farmingdale located? What is there now?
linybuggy
/ August 22, 2021There was one in Island Park too
Bill
/ April 4, 2014There was one a mile from me. It’s a Riteaide now.
Marsha
/ April 10, 2014Food Fair, in Queens Village on Hillside Avenue, among other places:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Fair
also White Tower at corner of Springfield Boulevard and Hillside Avenue (we didn’t know from White Castle!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Tower_Hamburgers
Bill
/ April 11, 2014Marsha: I remember it well although I never went in. There is a McDonald’s on that spot now. Never went in there either.
Barbara Vaagas
/ May 12, 2014What about great neck bowling alley or Woolworth Saturday afternoon bowl at great neck bowl and have fried chicken platter at Woolworth and Howard Johnson’s in little neck ? Um
Barbara Vaagas
/ May 12, 2014Show Howard Johnson’s in little neck
John
/ July 15, 2014Lums /Pars on Hempstead Turnpike on Levittown in the mid 1960’s.
John
/ July 15, 2014Howard Johnson’s on Hempstead turnpike in Levittown
John
/ July 15, 2014Burger and Shake on Hempstead Turnpike in Levittown before it became a Ford Dealership
John
/ July 15, 2014Henshaws on the corner of Jerusalem Ave and Hempstead turnpike in the 1960’s
dee
/ September 20, 2014Is the pic of the dairy barn in east rockaway ny?
ruth
/ January 18, 2015are you from east rockaway, i am
dee
/ April 25, 2017Hi Ruth, I live on the border of east rock away and oceanside. Dee
James C. Chakalakis
/ October 5, 2014I am trying to find any information on a candy store in washington d.c. that was owned by my grandfather in the 1920s. His name was James K Chakalakis. He died in 1935. Any help or information on this subject would be greatly appreciated. Thank You
S Schlau
/ October 23, 2014Does anyone remember “Britches” Clothing Store on Bell Blvd. in Bayside, NY? It was off of 73rd Avenue…
ruth
/ January 18, 2015remember lion chevrolet in baldwin i bought a car there. please reply if you worked there or bought a car there. anyone remember john the salesman who worked there he was so nice, or remember park inn ford in valley stream and joe the salesman. please reply if you do.
ruth
/ January 18, 2015glass oven bakery. lens in the malls, valley stream mall and roosevelt field. lens sold hot dogs boiled in beer, i believe. and they also sold some kind of sauce in jars to take home.
yvonne gelbord
/ February 19, 2015Does anyone remember the bowling alley on Union Turnpike off of 188th Street and Eddie’s Ice Cream Parlor? Yvonne
Michelle
/ April 17, 2015I do remember that bowling alley….It’s been a Grocery store for a while now….Wow, I forgot all about that..
JT C
/ February 16, 2017Utopia Lanes (basement) SE corner….
SueB
/ February 26, 2015Does anyone remember the name of a restaurant in Northern Blvd I think in Manhasset with a garden with a sundial clock?
Bill
/ February 27, 2015It was Patricia Murphy’s Candlelight Restaurant. It was on the corner of Northern and Port Washington Blvd. I worked there. Today it is a Benihana.
David Bartscher
/ April 10, 2015how about Robert Hall? I worked for Eldee Appliances in NHP for about 7-8 years. The store was a converted movie theatre.
David Bartscher
/ April 10, 2015how about Robert Hall? I worked for Eldee Appliances in NHP for about 7-8 years. The store was a converted movie theatre. Also do you remember Lafayette Electronics?
JT C
/ February 16, 2017The Park Theater….
Bill
/ April 17, 2015I lived around the corner from Eldee in NHP. It was on Jericho at the corner of Lakeville Rd. I lived off Jericho on NHP Rd. for a couple of years. Bought a few things from them. The price was right. Plusmy union had a discount card there. They had another store in Deer Park. Bought my father-in-law a TV there My parents bought me an Easter suit at the Robert Hall in Hempstead because it was cheap when I was about 12. That’s when it was safe to go to Hempstead.l also remember Lafayette In Lynbrook on Sunrise near the corner of Atlantic Ave. They also had a store in Syosset. All good stores and good times back then.
Kearney Sean
/ February 22, 2016Hempstead is still safe to shop in. No one is getting robbed on Main Street or Fulton
Felix cappuccio
/ June 18, 2015Does anyone remember Harveys burger and shake place it was across the street from the driving range up the block by the cross island Pkwy there used to be a amusement park called kitty city just a old queens guy remembering Felix cappuccio.
Diane cerretani
/ August 8, 2020I remember kitty city used to go there when I was a little girl.
How about freedom land. Saw Tony Bennett there I stood right up front waited and waited, I was just a yuh young kid.
Remember all this woman mad they wanted to be where I was standing could eve remember what he was wearing iridescent suit. Pointy black shoes and a black skinny tie.
Finally my father had to come and get me Tony just looked and me and smiled.
Delores
/ September 7, 2020Yes remember kitty city and freedom land Great memories
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Bill
/ July 9, 2015Do not remember Harvey’s but I do remember the driving range and also the amusement park. If I’m correct there was also a batting cage there. Possibly the the batting cage was before the driving range.
Michelle
/ July 11, 2015I do remember the driving range, and Kiddy City. My grandparents used to take us there when we were real little. Don’t remember Harvey’s though. Good memories! I believe the driving range used to be Freedom land. Not really sure though.
delores childs
/ July 11, 2015Freedom land was in the Bronx.
Truth No Bull
/ July 13, 2015Hempstead, NY around 1960’s Men’s Clothing store, ethnic, madras dress jackets, tyrolean hats with feather holder pin, unusual items, served free cokes…I am guessing it might have been David Miller’s Town & Country. Anyone know if that’s the store?
Stan W
/ October 28, 2015I think there was a White Castle on the corner of Union Tpke & kissena Blvd.
Stan W
/ October 28, 2015Where are all the Brooklyn Dodger fans ??
Who can forget Ebbets Field on Bedford Ave & Sullivan Place ?????
Stan W
/ October 28, 2015Where are all the students from Eastern District High School ??
Come on, write something
Bill
/ October 30, 2015They are now Met fans as they should be.
Monte
/ January 11, 2016On Union Turnpike there was: a pony ride on the SE corner of Utopia Parkway. On 188 Street there was The Book Mark, Charney’s Deli, Hartman’s department store on 192nd street and Union turnpike, Tiny’s Bar, Rose Florists, Candy stores on the corners of union and: Utopia, 188 st (NE corner), 192 Street and 193rd Street. The Utopia Theatre and Surrey’s Delicatessen.
Monte
/ January 14, 2016Clothing store on Union Turnpike and about 181 Street by the name of Mr. Marvin. There was a lumber yard in the 1950s on 187Street and Union Turnpike just west of the Utopia Theatre.
Monte
/ January 14, 2016Periwinkles seafood restaurant and 4&20 Pies on Hillside Ave.
Michelle
/ September 19, 2016I remember them well. Periwinkles is now a huge fruit and vegetable stand. A giant tent.
becky
/ February 4, 2017After 4&20 it became Sweet Williams, then a Chinese restaurant, and then a soda distributor. We were there from 1977-2002.
Monte
/ January 14, 2016Dapper Dan’s Subs on Union Turnpike and Little Neck Parkway
Monte
/ January 22, 2016There was also a Sam Ash Music Store, a diving shop and an A&W root beer drive in in Hempstead.
Stan is correct. There was a White Castle on the corner of Union Turnpike and Kissena Blvd.
There was outdoor car service with window trays and waitresses.
Michelle
/ January 31, 2016White Castle on the corner of Union Tpke and Parsons. I was a nurse in the hospital across the street. Hillcrest Hospital, then St. Joseph, Now a Rehab.
JT C
/ February 16, 2017White Castle was: Union & PARSONS BOULEVARD SE corner.
Kurt
/ February 9, 2016does anybody remember Nassau Meat Market and Main Street Hardware in Mineola??
Jack
/ February 15, 2016I WAS A BROOKLYN DODGER FAN BACK IN THE 50S. USE TO GET IN FREE IF YOU HAD 10 empty Elsie wrap
pers.
Bill
/ February 15, 2016I was a Dodger fan in the ’50’s also and remember the Elsie promotion. Never took part living on Long Island I was only to one game at Ebbets Field.
Bill
/ February 15, 2016I don’t not remember Nassau Meat Market but there is huge Western Beef on the corner of Willis and 2nd St. It’s been there for years. Maybe at one point it was called Nassau Meat. I remember Main Street Hardware. Great place. Tiny but had a big assortment.
Ed.
/ March 22, 2016DOES ANYONE REMEMBER NORDS’ DEPT. STORE IN OZONE PARK, QUEENS…ON THE CORNER OF CROSSBAY BLVD. & 107TH. AVE……..IT HAD EVERYTHING THE NEIGHBORHOOD WANTED….THEN IT FADED AWAY AFTER ABOUT 10 YRS.
Ed
/ September 12, 2016Ed. has been living in Coconut Creek Florida from April 1994 with his wife until she passed away in August of 2000. He now lives alone in a beautiful comdo by himself. Ed is 81yrs. young and remembers all of his friends and those who worked in his fathers store, Bless them all.
Edward Nord
/ March 22, 2016I remember Ozone Park as a favorite place to grow up in. Lived there for 30 enjoyed it..now gone are he days…only sad but not forgotton memories.
RJ
/ April 8, 2016I was trying to find info about “Middle Earth”, it was a head shop on Main St near 72nd Ave. Next to Regency Lanes Bowling.
Andrea
/ May 4, 2016Hi. I am trying to locate any info on Feathers Clothing Syore which was located on Horace Harding Expressway by Springfield Blvd. Also, any info on Adam Trent which was a men’s clothing store on Main Street in Flushing. This would date back to the late 60’s to 70’s. Specifically tying to locate Maark Silverstein who owned Feathers and worked in Adam Trent. I would appreciate any imput. Thanks.
James Blohm
/ May 11, 2016Does anybody remember the name of the Hicksville Nursery that was located off Lee Street near 9th Ave in a residential area of Hicksville in the 60’s? I believe it was eventually turned into a public park, but I simply can’t recall the name of the place. It was family owned.
Joey Hayes
/ January 31, 2023Boos Brothers
Mike
/ July 10, 2016Nothing comes up when you click on it. Why do u even have this site. It absolutely no help AT ALL!
Bill
/ July 25, 2016Mike: Plenty of folks have comments on this site. That is why it is there.
Bill
/ August 23, 2016Does anyone know if there was an ice skating rink at Roosevelt Field in the very early stages of the Mall? If so where was it located? Thanks.
JT C
/ February 16, 2017The ice rink was at the nw corner of the mall…just south of the movie theater…..
Ed
/ September 12, 2016Does anyone remember NORDS’ DEPT. STORE ON CROSSBAY BLVD AND 107 ave?
Michelle
/ September 19, 2016Wasn’t that the store that was sort of like a Woolworth? If so, I do remember it.
Casey Phillips
/ October 22, 2016Hills was a market in Plainview and its not on your list. Neither is Penn Fruit another market which was also in Plainview.
William :)
/ November 8, 2019Hills Supermarket Chain was owned by Korvettes.
Bill
/ October 25, 2016Can we consider they are on the list now Casey?
djg
/ January 12, 2017Linden Manor on Merrick Blvd, Benson’s Burgers on corner of Linden and Merrick Blvds, Hall’s Candy Store, Kessman’s Superette,
rosemary
/ March 6, 2017Does anyone remember a Robert Hall store in Commack or Huntington or Smithtown? I recall going to the store in the mid-1980’s, but I can’t remember the location.
Karen
/ June 6, 2019Southeast corner of Jericho Tpke at Pigeon Hill Rd. Huntington Station.
Fred
/ July 4, 2019Robert Hall was located in the shopping plaza on Route 111 where it turns at the Commack HS. Robert Hall was the entire plaza then. It was broken up into several stores. One of the stores is an Italian eatery now. (I don’t know the name.) It is across from the back of Shoprite.
(There was a discount clothing store in the Shoprite plaza called Robbins that later became a Mid-Island Department Stores. Across from the old Pizza Hut.)
Byron Samuel
/ March 19, 2017What was the name of the bar on sunrise hwy in baldwin,ny from the 1960s that played johnny mathis musi
Dave
/ May 29, 2017There was a used record store in Hicksville located in an old hamburger joint (a Weston’s?) on Old Country Road where Levittown Pkwy ended.
Anyone remember the name?
Bill
/ June 7, 2017Gosh, I used to go past it every day for a year when I worked in Hisksville but for the life of me can’t remember the name. Sorry Dave.
Barry Diller
/ October 11, 2017I believe the record store was called Titus Oaks. I remember them for their roach problem. When they closed the creepy clerk moved on to work at Mr Cheapos in Mineola. The previous burger place was indeed a Wetsons.
M. Qtips
/ March 21, 2023Wow. Titus Oaks. One of my favorite record stores ever.
Ian
/ November 21, 2020I believe that was “Titus Oaks” that in the early ‘90s became “Music Arcade”, a fantastic store that carried a ton of non-US release and live bootlegs. They moved down the road to Westbury in 1994, but AFAIK closed shop around 2001/02.
http://irtmag.blogspot.com/2009/04/record-store-day-feature-no-1.html?m=1
Rob
/ March 2, 2021Titus Oaks
Deborah Rocco
/ August 2, 2021Sam Goody?????
Danielle Pierce
/ June 27, 2017Looking for Jolly Joint on main street in flushing QUEENS
David Zdziarek
/ November 29, 2017One grocery chain based on Long Island, “Big Apple” was not mentioned nor figured into the above list of dearly departed retail chains.
Tommy King
/ December 13, 2022There was a Big Apple in Lynbrook. It became a Shop Rite in the early 70s
Jan
/ December 3, 2017We’re trying to figure out the name of a carpet chain
Mindy Gimello
/ March 21, 2018Courtesy drugs, Franklin square
Valerie McDonald
/ April 9, 2018Can anyone tell me the name of a dress/gown store that was I. Valley Stream, N.Y.? It was owned by two sisters n was a big store front near the rail road I think. My mother used to take me there when I was young. I think one of the sisters name was Kathleen? There was always one sister in the back by the gowns. They were the nices ladies. I’m sure the store is not there anymore. I’m thinking this was the 70’s, 80’s early 90’s. Thank you for any help anyone can give me.
Evelyn Seabrook
/ February 25, 2021Could it have been Brenner’s Bridals?
Marjorie
/ May 16, 2018Does anyone remember the name of the fine dining restaurant on Northern Blvd., Manhasset, NY in the Americana Shopping Center which had long bar to the left when you walked in and just a few tables right up along the front windows so you could look out
while you had Sunday brunch or lunch during the week? (All of we patrons wanted those front tables with the view!) The restaurant was narrow, but deep and the restrooms were in the rear to the left of the seating. I used to dine there often in the late 1990s, very early 2000s. I think it might be the Cipollini’s Restaurant now. Wanted to know as I had a flash memory today of my beloved Mom who passed away almost ten years ago. I recall taking her to this restaurant a couple of times when she came out from the City and how much she loved the restaurant’s ambiance and food. We had such nice mother-daughter times there, wonderful memories. Would like to place the name of the restaurant with my memories.
Thank you and remember to tell your mother how much you love her; give her a big hug and kiss. I wish I could…
Mike
/ March 16, 2019Millie’s?
Marjorie
/ April 9, 2019Yes! It was Millie’s Place. What a gem, wonderful memories. So sorry it closed. Do you know why or was it the usual, “the landlord upped the lease/rent”?
Bill
/ April 9, 2019I remember Millie’s Place. Never went in though. In those days it was too rich for my blood. Wish it was still there.On second thought it would probably still, more than likely, be too rich for my blood.
Mark
/ July 1, 2018Anyone remember a quiet Chinese restaurant on Plandome Rd in Manhasset across from
Gino’s Pizza??
Bill
/ August 28, 2018Can not recall the name of that quiet Chinese restaurant on Plandome rd but it was along a few of the storefronts (including Manhasset Video during the age of the VHS tape/Blockbuster era) next to Young’s Liquors which is today still there. All of these stores opened to the shared parking lot through the back of the stores. The local hardware & general store Raindew expanded and took over the space.
Cippolini’s in the Americana is in the location that once housed a Jahn’s ice cream shop. This from back in the day when the Americana also had a Waldbaum’s supermarket down at the Searingtown Rd end of the shopping center, where Brooks Brothers is located today. Now everything in the Americana is much more upscale – it is largely Madison Avenue translated and accessible to NYC’s suburbs of the North Shore Nassau County.
Charles Masone
/ October 11, 2018Do you have any interior/exterior photos of Long Island Brewing formerly in Jericho around 1994-2000?
Bill V
/ November 5, 2018Never heard of Long Island Brewing. I guess I’m not or wasn’t a big beer drinker.
I was wondering if anyone would have pictures of the pier or the two floats that were at Bar Beach in Port Washington/Roslyn in the 1950’s and 1960’s. I have exhausted all the historic sites on the internet looking for what Bar Beach looked like in the “good old days” to no avail. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Jeff
/ November 19, 2018Does anyone remember a bakery shop in Queens Center Mall? My wife remembers a place that sold the best chocolate chip cookies in the 1990’s in (near) Macy’s. I’ve been trying to track it down for a while now.
Dean
/ March 20, 2020David’s Cookies?
Andrew A. Fernandez Jr.
/ January 23, 2019how about billy blakes? wal mart has middle island,babylon was rickles and pathmark.
Bill
/ January 24, 2019OMG! I remember them all. Not in Babylon or Middle Island though.
Justine
/ May 2, 2019Does anyone remember the name of a frozen yogurt place in Bayside I think on Bell Blvd? This would’ve been the mid 1980s. It had a kitschy name like Yogurt etcetera or something like that.
Laurie
/ May 11, 2019What was the name of the bakery in Green Acres Mall? They had pink and black boxes
W. Decker
/ July 4, 2019What about Decker’s Pianos and Organs?
In the 1970’s and 80’s they had 16 stores on Long Island.
(Decker also patented and built the first electronic piano in St.James, LI, NY.)
Fred
/ July 4, 2019Billy Blake’s Department Stores anyone? (1961 -1973)
dRo
/ July 27, 2019There was also a Consumers Distributing In Baldwin at Park Ave & Merrick Rd near Carvel.
Barbara Leidner
/ December 15, 2019Looking for the name of craft store that was in Port Jefferson in maybe late 80’s early 90’s. Driving my family crazy for name of place also was a small version in Riverhead.
PLEASE HELP!!
Barbara
Dean
/ March 20, 2020As a child in the 80’s my parents used to take me this beautiful Greek diner with Greek statues and a little waterfall it was located at 224-13 Union Turnpike Oakland Gardens Queens…It’s now Lavoo Lounge…I Believe my childhood diner was called Springfield Diner I can’t really remember the name but I miss it a lot…Does anybody else remember or ever been there???
Jim Clarke
/ April 5, 2020In the 1960’s there were two Sporting Goods stores on Rockaway Ave. in Valley Stream. Does anyone remember the names of either store ? I’m guessing one was Sportel’s. Rockaway Ave. was VS’s downtown area- there were bakeries, florists, banks, movie theater, pizzas, drug stores, offices, barber shops, hair salons, liquor stores, Woolworth’s, luncheonettes, candy stores, etc.
Joe Roz
/ May 12, 2020Does anyone know the name of the large home center store which came into the space where Woolco was in Jericho? It was like a home depot, but had a different name.. I remember it there in the late 1980s. This is now the space for Marshall’s. Thanks to anyone who remembers…
Steve Weisman
/ May 10, 2022Channel Hardware
Mark A Redlefsen
/ July 29, 2020I have not seen any photos of Ryan’s Bar on Hillside Avenue in Hollis between Francis Lewis Blvd and 205th Street that closed sometime in this century. And none from Herby’s Bar on the Queens Village side on 211th Street and Hillside. Would be interesting to see photos on either.
thom
/ August 1, 2020Does anyone know what the two cross streets were for R&G Hempstead clothing store?
michael Washington
/ August 30, 2020I’m looking for photos of Stans record shop on Elton and Third aves the Bronx.
Deborah Rocco
/ August 2, 2021Anyone remember the Westbury Drive In. They would put on a firework show before the movie. How about the really good ice cream at Gertz in Hicksville. Levittown Roller RInk and Jahns Ice cream next to it
Andrea
/ September 28, 2021Hi. I am trying to locate any info on Feathers Clothing Syore which was located on Horace Harding Expressway by Springfield Blvd. Also, any info on Adam Trent which was a men’s clothing store on Main Street in Flushing. This would date back to the late 60’s to 70’s. Specifically tying to locate Mark Silverstein who owned Feathers and worked in Adam Trent. I would appreciate any imput. Thanks.
FPC
/ February 12, 2022Does anybody know the name of the bridal shop on Broadway,in Massapequa,back in the late 70’s-80’s
Patricia garafano
/ July 25, 2022What was the name of the stationery store that had everything that is closed now