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metirish Aug 06 2006 08:55 PM

i'm bored and with the Mets so far in front I was wondering where you all are form, post your fave pic of your local town or city... I am form Tipperary and used toI live a few miles form the Rock of Cashel....

ScarletKnight41 Aug 06 2006 09:03 PM

I was born in Manhattan and lived in Queens for my first couple of years, but most of my childhood was spent on Long Island. This is my elementary school -

cooby Aug 06 2006 09:10 PM

Born in Lock Haven, raised in Flemington, PA. Here's a view of the Susquehanna River in Lock Haven; this picture looks like it was taken from the football stadium at LH University, which has a beautiful view.

Edgy DC Aug 06 2006 09:23 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 06 2006 09:28 PM

This thread really ended with the first post, didn't it? I tried and failed to grow up on Long Island. But I was born in Easy-to-Reach Rockaway Beach, and spent my first four years there and always remained tied to it. It has no castles like Tipperary, but it had Rockaway Playland, and a roller coaster that starred in two major motion pictures. Plus, it's got a theme song by the Ramones that's at least as good as "It's a Long Way to Tipperary." If you watched out on the Jamaica Bay side (that's the ocean side above) in the early seventies, you could watch the World Trade Center going up.

Johnny Dickshot Aug 06 2006 09:28 PM Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Aug 06 2006 09:29 PM

Two guys doing as I did: Running away from my hometown Nothing to see here, move along... though that is a charming early 60s-style storefornt: Don't see many of those anymore...

metirish Aug 06 2006 09:28 PM

Edgy that's really cool, I never had that in Tipperary, I didn't see a beach till I was 6 I think....

Willets Point Aug 06 2006 09:33 PM

I loved the Rock of Cashel. Have a gazillion of my own photos. I was born in Freehold, NJ (The Boss wrote a song about it) and lived in nearby Marlboro until I was two. I've no recollection of either place or any landmarks that would look good in a picture. So I'll go with my childhood home of beautiful Stamford, CT. This building was - and probably still is - Stamford's tallest building. My dad worked in there when I was little.

Edgy DC Aug 06 2006 09:36 PM Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Aug 07 2006 05:23 AM

At one point, before my time, we probably also had more Irish in Rockway than in Tipperary. By the time I moved back in the early nineties, the Irish flag was still flying, but the only Irish still there were the ones too drunk or stupid to upwardly mobilize themselves. It got to the point where the doctors at the local hospital were willing to trade three days for one with their colleagues --- they'd take three days of emergency room duty if their colleague would take St. Patrick's Day Night. The place was famous for, among other things, home-based bars people operated out of their basements, to serve the teeming weekend crowds. They were outlawed but many remained operating under a grandfather clause. The last one standing --- Connolly's on Beach 95th --- was operated by some friends of mine. It was a diamond among dives.

metirish Aug 06 2006 09:42 PM

That's a petty sad reflection on Irish people Edgy, but all very true,when i used to live in Woodside I saw that all the time, hell I was one of them when I first came here...anyway more pics on the Rock..

Edgy DC Aug 06 2006 09:44 PM

Well, those weren't Irish people. They were losers who happened to be Irish-American.

cooby Aug 06 2006 09:59 PM

Metirish, this is going to sound stupid, but does anybody live there now? Pretty beach, Edgy

metirish Aug 06 2006 10:03 PM

yes Cooby, Cashel is one of the best towns in Ireland,after Thurles it might be the biggest town in Tipperary.

cooby Aug 06 2006 10:04 PM

No, I meant that castle :) Or is that a whole town?

metirish Aug 06 2006 10:07 PM

Ahh..no the Castle is a museum now..here is a link to it's history..it's worth reading... http://www.comhaltas.com/bru/Cashel.htm

Rockin' Doc Aug 06 2006 10:18 PM

Was actually born in Southampton since that's where the hospital was, but our family lived 2-3 blocks from the sand of Westhampton Beach. Moved to Adana, Turkey when I was four. Spent a few weeks every other summer visiting grandparents on Long Island.

Nymr83 Aug 07 2006 12:06 AM

someone post a picture of the staten island dump for me, ok?

Benjamin Grimm Aug 07 2006 04:08 AM

Smithtown, New York

seawolf17 Aug 07 2006 04:42 AM

You lived in Turkey?!? Wow. Neat. Beautiful downtown Commack, NY -- this is the corner of Jericho Turnpike & Commack Road; I grew up a short bike ride from here.

ScarletKnight41 Aug 07 2006 05:43 AM

OMG - I feel like I grew up IN that intersection seawolf! And Yancy - nice choice with the Bull <g> This is a total blast from the past for me.

Rockin' Doc Aug 07 2006 05:53 AM

seawolf - "You lived in Turkey?!? Wow. Neat." For two years between the ages of 4 and 6. Grew up as an "Air Force brat" so we moved from base to base until I was almost 13. That's how my sister and I were born in the Hamptons, my dad was assigned at the old Suffolk County AFB. Neat seeing pictures from everyone's birth place.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 07 2006 06:59 AM

ScarletKnight41 wrote: OMG - I feel like I grew up IN that intersection seawolf! You're lucky to be alive!

RealityChuck Aug 07 2006 07:19 AM Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Aug 08 2006 11:52 AM

I grew up in the oldest English settlement in New York State: Southold Now, I live in Schenectady.

Farmer Ted Aug 07 2006 07:38 AM

My hometown is the home of the Little League Baseball and the LL World Series. Be sure to follow all the action this year. If you happen to visit, stop into Franco's Lounge for a terrific Italian meal. http://www.littleleague.org/

ScarletKnight41 Aug 07 2006 08:00 AM

Yancy Street Gang wrote: ="ScarletKnight41"]OMG - I feel like I grew up IN that intersection seawolf! You're lucky to be alive! Having made the U-Turn there to get to the Dairy Barn several times in my life, I concur with that sentiment ;)

Iubitul Aug 07 2006 08:23 AM

The green in downtown Milford. I was born, raised, and currently live in Milford, CT. Milford, Exits 34-41 on I-95 (I sound like I'm from Jersey ;-) ), is 11 miles from Bridgeport, and 10 miles from New Haven along the CT coast. The coastline at sunrise Milford Harbor

Benjamin Grimm Aug 07 2006 08:27 AM

When I was a kid, all I knew about Milford (and actually, this is still true) is that they play (played?) jai-alai there.

seawolf17 Aug 07 2006 08:37 AM

ScarletKnight41 wrote: ="Yancy Street Gang"] ScarletKnight41 wrote: OMG - I feel like I grew up IN that intersection seawolf! You're lucky to be alive! Having made the U-Turn there to get to the Dairy Barn several times in my life, I concur with that sentiment ;) The Dairy Barn! I loved that Dairy Barn! (And yeah, that U-Turn totally sucked.)

Iubitul Aug 07 2006 08:38 AM

Yancy Street Gang wrote: When I was a kid, all I knew about Milford (and actually, this is still true) is that they play (played?) jai-alai there. The fronton has closed down (Bobby V had a restaurant right across the street from it). It's beng torn down, and a Lowes is being built there. The [url=http://www.milfordoysterfestival.org/]32nd Annual Oyster Festival[/url] will be held on August 19th - The Spin Doctors will be performing on the main stage.

Edgy DC Aug 07 2006 09:09 AM

Ms. Edgy looks at Dairy Barns like they're the strangest thing she's ever seen.

soupcan Aug 07 2006 09:20 AM

I was a Native New Yorker, spending my first six years of life at 277 Avenue C, which was a building in Stuyvesant Town From age 7 - 12 I lived at 924 West End Avenue which is on the Upper West Side of Manhattan (couldn't find a picture of the building but this painting depicts Broadway from someone looking out the window of an apartment in the building I lived in. Coincidentally, the white building on the left is where my sister currently resides). Then the 'rents got divorced and my mom, sister, brother and I moved here to The Henry Phipps Houses on 27th and Second Avenue. Mom still hangs her hat there. Lived there until I went off to college and when I moved back to NYC I had a studio apartment in the East Village right on Tompkins Square Park This fine establishment was/is(?) on the corner of my block. Some of you may recognize it as either '7B', 'Vazacs' or 'The Horseshoe Bar'. I think my rent in 1988 was $352.00 a month. I would guess that if the building is not a co-op/condo by now that the market rate rent would be somewhere in the neighborhood of $2,500.00. After a few years of Bohemian living I 'Moved On Up' to the Upper East Side. 81st between 1st and 2nd. Unfortunately that neighborhood had no charcter so no there's no reason for anyone to have ever taken a picture of it so you'll have to use your imagination. I met the future Mrs. soupcan while living there and eventually moved into her apartment back on the Upper West Side on 83rd and Broadway. The Hi-Life is located on 83rd and Amsterdam and in addition to being located just one block from where I lived it is where I met and then later proposed to my future wife. We lived in sin on 83rd street for a few years, got married and had our first child there. In June of '97 I finally disassociated myself from Manhattan and moved to the 'burbs where I now reside. Thanks for joining me in my little romp down memory lane. Hope you enjoyed this little tour as much as I did.

cooby Aug 07 2006 09:30 AM

I see your sister waving! She is so nice

soupcan Aug 07 2006 09:43 AM

Liar. She's out of town this week.

cooby Aug 07 2006 09:46 AM

soupcan, you can tell by the cars that that picture was taken last week

seawolf17 Aug 07 2006 09:48 AM

cooby wrote: soupcan, you can tell by the cars that that picture was taken last week During the Great New York City Blizzard of July 2006.

Vic Sage Aug 07 2006 10:14 AM

While Vic Sage fights crime in Hub City, his alter ego was born and raised in Sea Gate... a little, middle-class gated community on the tip of Coney Island, in Brooklyn. My mom grew up in Coney Island, too, so I'm second generation. College: Suny Stony Brook (Long Island, NY) After college: Carroll Gardens (Brooklyn) After marriage: Park Slope (Brooklyn); Manhattan (Kips Bay area) After kids: Yonkers; New Rochelle (Westchester) On a side note of geographical relevance, I haven't worked outside the borders of a 10-block radius of Times Square since 1979 (including summer jobs during college)

SteveJRogers Aug 07 2006 10:31 AM

Born in Woodlawn, New York a stones throw away from the final resting place of a Yankee Doodle Dandy, the Vagabound Man himself, George M. Cohan Also, ehem, Over There is Gas House Gang member Frankie Frisch And I grew up close to one of the best Irish bars/restaurants in the State [url]http://www.rorydolans.com/[/url] About 1985, when I was 8, my family moved to Scarsdale where I've lived ever since Yeah, real bad image, maybe I'll get around to shooting some better photos of the village center and put it in my photobucket.com account And of course I'm giving much love to Fairfield University, Class of 1999 representing!

Elster88 Aug 07 2006 10:37 AM

ScarletKnight41 Aug 07 2006 11:31 AM

Edgy DC wrote: Ms. Edgy looks at Dairy Barns like they're the strangest thing she's ever seen. I LOVE Dairy Barn. I have no idea why they haven't caught on other places. The concept of being able to pick up milk, bread, eggs, etc. without having to disturb the sleeping toddler in the carseat would have been a godsend for me when the kids were younger. I actually walked up to a Dairy Barn once. My friend and I were going to see Superman at the Shore Theater in Huntington, and we didn't want to pay for movie theater popcorn, so we walked across the street to the Dairy Barn before the movie to buy a snack. The attendant on duty looked at us like we had three heads <g>

Benjamin Grimm Aug 07 2006 11:39 AM

There was a Dairy Barn on Route 111 in Hauppauge that's now long gone, but the one on Main Street in Smithtown, across from the library, is still there. I have a digital photo of it somewhere. Last year, on the way to visit my grandmother I took a detour to photograph the bull and also snapped a photo of the Dairy Barn.

KC Aug 07 2006 03:05 PM

I was born on 52nd St between 9th and 10th Ave in Manhattan. Lived all of six wonderful months in Brooklyn and then "grew up" in Peekskill (now the crack/ heroin capital of northern Westchester) and I ain't telling youse where I am now so there.

Johnny Dickshot Aug 07 2006 03:41 PM

I rocked the Dairy Barn on foot all the time when we boiught fruit punch and ice tea to mix with vodka and who knows what else. When they finally allowed beer sales, the silly laws made you get out your car to get it anyway. My childhood Dairy Barn is still there. That store did kick ass.

Willets Point Aug 07 2006 07:09 PM

I never heard of Dairy Barn prior to this thread, but it sounds similar to North Carolina's Brew Thru chain.

Gwreck Aug 08 2006 06:33 AM

Dickshot, you weren't the only one to run away from that particular hometown. Small world.

seawolf17 Aug 08 2006 06:39 AM

Wait a minute. So within the fifteen or so posters in this thread, we have a Commack, a Dix Hills, a Smithtown, and two Greenlawns?!?! Frigging weird.

Willets Point Aug 08 2006 06:41 AM

That girl looks nothing like Butch Huskey.

Johnny Dickshot Aug 08 2006 06:50 AM

Holy crap. Oh, and 3 Greenlawns if you count Frayed Knot. Harborfields 84

OlerudOwned Aug 08 2006 10:12 AM

On behalf of Nymr and myself:

Gwreck Aug 09 2006 04:59 PM

Johnny Dickshot wrote: Holy crap. Oh, and 3 Greenlawns if you count Frayed Knot. Harborfields 84 Wow indeed. Same school, many years later though.

TheOldMole Aug 09 2006 05:12 PM

Johnny Dickshot Aug 09 2006 09:37 PM

]Same school, many years later though. Whew. I was kinda hoping we didn;t know each other. Me & LoDuca might have dated some of the chixxx in your class tho. Go T'nayduz!

Gwreck Aug 09 2006 10:23 PM

="Johnny Dickshot"]Whew. I was kinda hoping we didn;t know each other. Me & LoDuca might have dated some of the chixxx in your class tho. Go T'nayduz! Now that's funny. Wouldn't be surprised if we had a few of the same teachers though. I understand there was a bunch of remodeling recently but the blue tile remains. The Dairy Barn was there the last time I drove up Broadway too.

ScarletKnight41 Aug 10 2006 06:19 AM

This is my high school. Don't you love the correctional institute architecture? This is from [url=www.dairybarn.com]Dairy Farm's Website[/url]. Long Island's drive through convenience store. I still don't understand why it never expanded past Long Island, or why copycat chains don't exist -

Johnny Dickshot Aug 10 2006 07:17 AM

I wouldn't doubt that photo is the Broadway Dairy Barn in G-lawn. The fence and trees look familiar. I found a $20 bill just beyond the foreground of that photo once when I was like 11. My favorite HS teacher was Mr. Benjamin who taught 10th grade bio, but I think he's dead now, though I still remember his lessons ("The mighty mitochondria! The powahouse of the cell!!") I was also into Mr. Thalen (history) and Mr. Atkins (English) and ran XC for Wally Fults. Lived just southeast of Broadway and Pulaski, behind that church opposite the Key Food. I was last there 3 years ago when on a nostalgia whim, went to the Firemen's Fair. I haven't lived there for 20 years.

Methead Aug 10 2006 07:31 AM

I attended all three of these schools between 1978 and 1991 in Marcellus, NY. That's the middle school at the bottom, the elementary school in the middle, and the high school at the top of the hill. Growing up, I played one sport or another, from pick-up football games to JV soccer to varsity baseball, on every patch of grass in the picture. The varsity field is on top of the hill beyond the high school. I always tell people I'm from Syracuse... it's a lot easier than explaining where Marcellus is. Only reason I go back nowadays is to visit my parents.

sharpie Aug 10 2006 07:44 AM

Soupcan and I have some similarities. Born in a building in Stuyvesant Town (see Soupcan's pic) At 2 moved to Port Washington on Long Island At 14 moved to Foster City, California At 19 moved to San Francisco (various locations) At 28 moved back to Manhattan (Avenue A/2nd St., 2nd Ave/7th), Columbus/105th (scary), Avenue A/13th (at the same time Soupcan lived there). At 32 moved to Brooklyn (2 locations in Fort Greene, now in Park Slope).

RealityChuck Aug 10 2006 08:03 AM

Gee, if we're showing our schools: The house where I grew up is in the center left, just to the right of the bridge. Fun fact: The town of Southold [url=http://eastendlighthouses.org/lighthouses.htm]has more lighthouses [/url]than any town in the US (8, with 7 still operational).

Frayed Knot Aug 10 2006 08:32 AM

]or why copycat chains don't exist Copycat-type stores do exist. Don't know if those are lone ventures or part of something larger.

Johnny Dickshot Aug 10 2006 08:52 AM

The real answer is that c-stores make more $$ when they get you out of your car and into the store where you can wander around impulsively tossing packages of beef jerkey on the counter and smelling the coffee and buying the porno mags, etc etc etc. I was in a new-style Wawa last weekend and it blew me away -- space to park 50 cars, all kinds of fresh foods, absolutely packed.

ScarletKnight41 Aug 10 2006 10:00 AM

This is where I grew up - [url=http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=dix+hills,+new+york&ie=UTF8&ll=40.808547,-73.307433&spn=0.01478,0.043259&om=1]Google Maps Image[/url]

Gwreck Aug 10 2006 10:17 AM

Eh, the names don't ring a bell. My favorites who had been there a while were Mr. Klein and Mrs. Aebisher (history) and Ms. Glavin (Bio). We lived off Broadway north of the library, sort of halfway between the Library and the Junior High. Fondest memories of the town were probably playing for Tri-Village Little League for so many years.

Johnny Dickshot Aug 10 2006 10:22 AM

I remember Klein and Aebisher. She was like a feminist iirc. Played in TVLL for only a couple of years. Wasn't good.

martin Aug 11 2006 03:18 AM

i was born in a beautiful place called orangeburg south carolina: but i spent most of my youth in another wonderful southern city, baton rouge LA.

A Boy Named Seo Aug 11 2006 08:40 AM

Santa Fe, New Mexico. That looks real close to where I went to church as a kid. My bro and I got booted from the choir one day for shuffling a rubik's cube back and forth between us. It's a lot more crowded than when I lived there, but it's just as beautiful.