Our next door neighbor Eric Hubenor managed the store....they moved to Delaware approx 1964.

Gosh the memories of the pet place at Newberrys. Years later in 1982 I would work at Petland in that mall and become part of MIP history.

All you had to do was walk through the parking lot to see all kinds of interesting cars.Every parking lot and street was a car show. You canID every one of them, too; year, make and model. Try that today.

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Yep, remember the vacant field before Sears and my friends and I also got caught shoplifting in Gertz too.

@@arlenet4268 Too funny, we all must've made the security folks at Gertz really earn their pay! Remember Long's Chinese Restaurant in the mall? Was a special treat when the family went there.

@@karensmith1158 yes, we'd always go into Longs through the kitchen at back door. Then the Health Code stopped that practice. You were class of 1970? Do you remember Donna Treutler, Mary Price and others, whose name I forgot? I'm class of 1971.

@@arlenet4268 It was the back door for us too. Mary Price rings a bell. I was an art/journalism student, alot of my teachers were in that area of expertise, but on the safe side I was made to take secretarial courses as well. Still have my very old Hicksville High sweatshirt. Great kicking back memories.

My name then was Hutchins.

Yes, I would go there on occasion with my Great Aunt in Queens, I always thought they were just in the city.

OMG, now that was my store. But I use to shop at the one pass Queens center mall. I'll tell you that with those old out of date cash registers. You would have to wait on line forever to get checked out and Christmas time was the worst. But I still loved the atmosphere of shopping at Alexander's anyway. 😆😆

I remember going to Alexander's at Roosevelt mall late 70s early 80s with my mom I would down stairs look at toys and stuff

I remember Alexander's in the Bronx...lived a couple of blocks from it. Wasn't there one in on Queens Blvd 2 ? Late 1950's we were living on Ocean Ave in BKLYN...I was born in 1949....my mother took me to Martin's Dept store in downtown BKLYN for clothes. I was adult when I shopped Alexander's. Rode my bike everywhere as a child....no worries about predators. Does Amazon sell time machines yet....actually I prefer shopping Walmart.

I remember the one on Sunrise Highway

Man you are right, that Gertz ice cream in a tall glass parfait dish with chocolate sauce. We loved that place in the early 60s....memories.

She looks familiar to me. Did Aunt Eleanor's last name begin with H and she had a lot of kids?

I like their 61 Impala!

Cool! We grew up in Hicksville too. My dad worked for Gruman in Bethpage, I went to Willett Avenue elementary and my brother went to Hicksville high school. We lived on Libby Avenue and my Dad' s folks lived on Woodbury Rd.

I love that it's more Brooklyn than farm land. Easy walk to stores, if I take the express train from RVC, I'm in Penn Station in 30 minutes. 15 minutes to the beach. It's great.

Mike , you are 100 % correct , I learned that lesson decades ago ! It is so true It is quite disturbing when you try , so DON'T

@Mike C yes Nassau County has become the 6th borough.

Middle of Suffolk east is still beautiful. I moved from Levittown to Sayville. Love it out here

I remember those, too. And I still go grocery shopping, but the parking lot isn't very interesting.

Agreed! Or Nat King Cole. Whenever I hear Sinatra, NKC, or Sarah Vaughn, it always takes me back to the days of my parents playing that music on Sunday afternoons in my home in Rockville Center. Loved it!

@@bkeen7013 we were next door neighbors as I am from Lakeview. Hail, South Nassau!

I guess it depends - the year is 1962 and rock and roll was growing: I would expect music like "The Duke of Earl" or "Mashed Potato Time" etc. to be playing. Rosemary Clooney and Sinatra are more 40s to early mid-50s. Just my opinion. :)

@@EmailBibleStudies the early 60s was probably the last period for romanticism in music, very popular with the dominant WW2 crowd in the suburbs. You would have heard "Love And Marriage," "Come On Along To My House" and "Moon River" and the like blaring from many Long Island households, including mine. The music you sight was more of a fad with teenagers. The musical selections would be quite different after the Beatles and the Rolling Stones arrived in 1964-65.

@@MrEab2010 Or The Twist...

Paper grocery bags are back - at least here in NY. Every time I forget a reusable bag at supermarket & use the paper bag, I feel like I’m in a 1960s or 1970s movie.

"Dressed up". Actually, this wasn't dressed up. This is how most women were. They wouldn't leave the house not looking presentable. Their real "dressed up" was for church, parties and such.

How is being a cashier easier now than back then? What is so dumbed down in your opinion?

@@lancetennenbaum2509 Pushing the right buttons for the price. Reading price labels. Counting and making change in your head, not by a register telling you what it is. Scanning bar codes isn't easy? Try running one of those registers and see how you do, especially a manual one with a hand crank on the side for every entry.

Yes, I remember the lunch counter downstairs at Gertz. I recall that Kresge's and Newberry's had counters, too.

Born in58 and grew up in Bethpage That plaza was a bid part of my life

@@michaelmanning3528 do you know what's there today?

@@lesliehoncharik1289 no I moved 26 years ago I'm sure the mall still stands there

Uhm...Brooklyn and Queens are part of Long Island...

Sure do!

Grand Union!

yes.

I sure do , went to elementary school with daughter/grandaughter - (Pamela i think) .They lived on Cold Spring Rd. in Syosset . Was my favorite grocery store . But then again I was a young boy back then (early 1960's ) , but had an eye for pretty young ladies even then .( my first crush , they moved away ) Wonder what happened to her ? Where are you Pam ?

An old comment, but yes! In fact, “Bohack” was the first word I learned to write when I about 2 years old. I copied it with my finger in frost in the car window while Dad and I waited in the Bohack’s parking lot for Mom. This would have been about 1958, Rocky Point, Long Island. When we got home I wrote it from memory with a blue crayon on the wooden floor of my bedroom in the far corner beneath my crib. The building is still there and is home to a CVS drug store. The original slat wooden flooring is still there, beneath the CVS flooring, because it still “gives” and creaks in certain places when walked upon. Over against the west wall, it’s particularly noticeable, also, if damp outside, I’ve gotten a “whiff” of Bohack’s, the odor I recall as a child. The west wall is where the produce department used to be. In 1960, my mother entered a “Bohack’s Bounty” contest to plan a Thanksgiving meal using Bohack’s products. She won first prize, a Betty Crocker Complete Cookbook, new edition, and her picture in the local paper! I’ve inherited the cookbook along with the newsarticle, Suffolk Sun, January 16, 1961. You can see in the photo that she’s very pregnant, with my brother Pat, born February 25, 1961.

Have to include Pizza D'Amore for their Sicilian slices, only cost 15 cents a slice!!!

@@williamrosenberg7855 I remember Pizza D'Amore and Long's Chinese Restaurant was near by as well...

Pizza D'Amore was the best! And remember the Sears store? It was supposed to be the largest anywhere. Remember shopping for Xmas there in '63.

Food Fair was one I believe

@@Enzo_Abruzzi There was also a bakery next door to Longs? - that my dad use to go to Sunday morning after church,.

L.I. was indeed a great place to grow up !

Grew up in Seaford. Nothing like it.

I went to Island Trees High School. The good days

Mr. White Lighten up.

Mute City.

Probably copyrighted music

Totally out-of an Era being. depicted.

1961 and Bethpage , I was at that mall all the time

59 hicksville

We grew up in Hicksville too...we lived on Libby Avenue. Hard to believe what those little houses sell for today.

Same here. Main Parkway

We LOVED the China View restaurant in Plainview...we lived in Hicksville.

@@lesliehoncharik1289 Yes it was a nice place to visit and eat

Same here, Central Park Rd

We let it all slip away.

It really wasn"t so much an ice cream, more like a parfait, served in a small glass and eaten with a spoon. Really good vanilla with strawberry syrup poured over it.

@@williamrosenberg7855 I remember,they called it frozen custard.

Yes!!!

Yes! And we used to play in the elevators until Gertz security kick us out.

You tell me!!! LOL

the music was awful

Who cares!!!

that would be the soundtrack from Goodfellas.

what difference does it make? just mute!

Remember the airplane in the parking lot?

Korvettes record department was decent

@@johnc7414 Fly By Night Audio! I remember it well.

@@johnc7414 How could I forget such a trust-inducing store name as "Fly By Night"? 🙂 And for a store on wheels, no less! ✈ (I accompanied my older sib inside once. To my young and impressionable mind, it did not strike me as the place where one could shop with confidence. I could have been very wrong, though. Being a young teenager at the time, I was too young to be in the market for stereo equipment.)

Newberry's in Manhasset near the movie theater my father worked at that movie theater at the Miracle Mile also I remember Corvettes at Carle Place Long Island

It's called "Broadway Mall" now. It's where Routes 106 and 107 meet.

Where they belong.

It is amazing how those feelings can stick with us after 55+ years.

I'm 54, did you grow-up in a box?

@@sirreginaldpoot I'm the same age as you, and not only do I remember rotary dial phones, but I saw a few touch-tone phones, mostly on TV and some with only 10 buttons.

@@DTD110865 - we had a rotary wall phone inside a hollowed out crank-phone with the mounted receiver and the earpiece on the cord

circa 76

They were all over the place! I'm not sure if we even have public pay phones anymore.

...and now they do again. I was born in the 80s and remember my parents getting paper bags from King Kullen, so they weren't gone for that long.

Indeed! My Mom would never go shopping unless she wore a proper dress, shoes, matching pocket book and even gloves. Unlike some Walmart shoppers today -- UGLY!!!

Yes we didnt wear skin toght cloothing showing iff everything.

Yep. Then it was taken down and sat behind the plaza in the parking lot near Burns Ave school

Well my friend growing up in old bethpage I can tell you. We would drive home park and just leave the keys on the floor mat. We all did it

@@frankschiavone4557 I grew up on Staten Island, so maybe people here weren't as honest, LOL. I wouldn't leave keys in the car just because I'd be afraid I'd lock the door with the keys still inside.

YES!!! I remember that star! And the little amusement park where Ikea is now.

@@AC-ih7jc I think the back end there was EJ Korvetts if im not mistaken

@@rty1955 Yeah, you had E.J. Korvettes/S. Klein (I forget which one came first) capping off the north wing of the mall proper. The Twin North and South theaters were next to that, but were accessible only from outside the mall. About 100-200 feet east of the theaters, in the middle of the parking lot was the amusement park. Today, Ikea is "kinda" where the theaters were, but sticks a lot farther out into the parking lot than the theaters did.

@@AC-ih7jc yes.. U also remember Farmers market? It had free movies. For kids and a carousel in the place!

@@rty1955 Okay, the movies were a bit before my time (but then I was in high school before my folks took me to Nassau Farmer's Market for the first time), but it explains the oddly sloping floors years later in the grocery section. Man, I LOVED NFM! I remember the carousel, Cardinali Bakery`s booth (my first encounter with salami bread), the various jewelry booths, the second hand bookstore, the sewing notion booth, the guy who sold framed, vintage photos. My Saturday ritual was to stop there after I got out of work, make a quick tour, and get home in time to watch Star Trek.

I'm glad it ended fairly soon.

I was eight when this was filmed started to set my hair at age 12 it was torture because we had to sleep with the rollers in our hair… tossing, turning, but then you looked great!

Agh and you when you were young. And now your just old

I got that album in elementary school...I thought it was '63

trust me, we were there. I was one of them.

Why is that messed up?

I go to tijuana and only see mexicans and none of them ever say, oh thank God a white guy, we need2d some diversity here

@@1940limited because representation

Republicans? your ignorance is astounding!

Always a nitwit like you to try and drag politics into everything you see.

The flies-- really if I remember correctly at one point every different immigrant group was considered the ones destroying the US , 1850's it was the Irish and the German, then the Italians, Then the Chinese, then the People fleeing the holocaust, then the Vietnamese, and it goes on and on, So unless you are a Native American who was here first shut up and sit down. The US is a nation of immigrants, and even the President is a descendant of immigrants. None of his grandparents were born here and only one of his parents was born here.

@@laureenvelez2190 Well said!!

Because place was mid.

In Roosevelt, Hempstead, Freeport , Lakeview

Nope..You had to head up Hempstead Turnpike West to Hempstead to see them. Not here!