@@deanmontalbine4941 you probably miss NY in general .. going from NY to NC is a big change.. they barely have public transport, their cities suck, the weather is garbage, no seasons, everything’s miles away etc the list can go on. Move somewhere more practical I bet you won’t miss LI
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Growing up in the late 70’s / thru the 80’s was amazing ! Rode our bikes everywhere!! Your bmx bike was like your car ! Stayed out all day and came home when the sun went down! Every day was an adventure ! (Shirley)
I was born in 1999 and I rode BMX bikes everywhere as a kid. Riding bikes everywhere isnt possible like it was 10 years ago. Its too populated and theres far too much traffic at all times of the day including at 3-4 am
@@letshaveacuppa_official we were literally 3/4 minutes away. I lived at 206 Broadway. What years did you go to school ? I would’ve graduated in 91 if we didn’t move. (Not my real name or pic,.. lol)
I grew up in Rockville Centre in the 1950's. Went to Southside HS. After HS, went to NYU and lived in the City. Now I've retired to Southampton. What a great life! "Go out and play but be home by dinner!" No hovering parents or play dates. Self reliance and adventure.
I wasn’t supposed to be born in Long Island, but my mom was taking care of my grandmother because she wasn’t well at the time and my mom went into labor.. I was born in Mercy hospital. Long story shot I lived there for 12 years and I moved to brooklyn… it was nice when I was younger now… crime went up and people are rude and all about me attitude. Thank you for this video
I left Long Island in 1984....couldn't afford it any more. Grew up in Smithtown...Came back in 2006 for my 30th HS reunion and cried.....didn't recognize Smithtown at all...So Sad.
same thing with Centereach where Im from. I moved in 97. I went to visit two yrs ago and about fell over. They took all the wooded area we used to play in as kids and put houses!!! totally unrecognizable!!
I grew up in Centereach. I was first graduation class from the high school, 1972. Miss those years. All wooded areas I hunted with my bb gun and shotgun are now houses. Walmart used to be all woods. I remember when yhey built the 7/11 on Mark Tree Road in 1962.
It truly was the good old days. Family, friends, bicycling everywhere, the beach everyday, NYC a train ride away. The best time to grow up on the Island. Many great memories. The best place to live...and still is😊❤
Not anymore. Been here my entire life, and will be leaving within two years. Oppressive taxes, over regulation, increasing traffic, etc. It was great when my parents moved here in the 1950's, but with the exception of one cousin, my entire family has left. Can't wait to join them.
Growing up in Amityville in the '60's and 70's we had freedom, as not to be believed now. We rode our bicycles EVERYWHERE! Though I live in Cali now, have been back a few times for extended stays. The wooded areas we explored and hung out in GONE. The endless potato fields going up Rt.110 GONE. The huge green lawns around homes, God who can afford the taxes? However, it's part of me, it's in my blood. It will forever remain the Long Island of my Dreams.
@@rty1955 Is that how you measure success? a town can have one place that employees 25,000 and another town can have 10,000 businesses that employ 250 employees each. Theres no shortage of jobs here. Zebra, New york life, BNB bank, Allstate, etc.
It's funny how sometimes you had it so good and didn't really know it. I'm from West Islip and a kid in the 70's, and what we called "the stores" off Keith Ln. is now mostly all medical places, or so I've heard. But that strip back then there was 5 and 10 (Whacky Packy stickers, squirt guns, balsa wood planes powered by a rubber band) a Carvel, Mikes Pizza, a Chinese place, a bakery, a music shop, a gap, bowling alley, t shirt place, King Kullen, $1 theater, a Service Merchandise, drug store with arcade games. I'm sure I'm missing some, back then a kid could go up there with friends and a couple bucks and do all kinds of things. It was all there, all you could want and more. But there's nothing really interesting or fun about a bunch of medical businesses. Such changes are inevitable, but it shows how good we had it. And now the memories take on a Norman Rockwellian sort of hue. Those were good times to be a kid on Long Island.
@@ricinro That's right, Amoto's Music, I saw a thread on a site called Long Island Kids of the Seventies, or something like that, and it mentioned Amoto's, I'd forgotten the name. I can still remember being obsessed with these light blue CB700 drums, I remember them all stacked up and putting my nose against the window like Ralphie in A Christmas Story. Been a drummer now for 50 years, and I still remember that initial flush with wonder. If I could go back in time, I might just get a slice of Pizza from Mikes Pizza, my favorite pizza ever, good memories, no doubt. Cheers.
wonderful time early sixties were good as well. By the 70s it was all downhill . glad I left . Overpriced overcrowded giant parking lot . No where to go 180 miles E to W about 17 miles wide .
@@C172Pilotdude Left for good in 1989 Lived there from 1954 to 1989 . Centereach, Patchogue, Mattituck . Moved to Salem VA . .Went back in JAN '20 Didnt recognize the place. It was once so beautiful. . Other than family , glad I left . Raised a son here . Was blessed , great schools , great Christian folks . Clean air , mountains , decent cost of living . No lines to stand on .Almost like LI in the 50s early 60s . Farms ,cows ,horses . Fresh air . Long Island just got too populated for me and way too expensive and too secular .
Driving down middle country road 25. Pass up McDonald's, Walmart, taco bell, 7/11, wendies, chase bank, bank of America, Starbucks. Repeat that for the entire length of longisland.
Born and raised in Queens by the city line. Had a great time growing up there. Went past the house I grew up in and, now it's not the same. We played stuck ball with no cars on the street, now ever spot in front of the house are taken...
What an awesome video!! Thank you so much for uploading this. I lived there for 25 years and now I’m half a world away. This means more to me than you can ever know
It’s very common for New York area people to move away to far distances and never return for any visits due to family obligations and extreme long distance or at least long enough distance
Growing up on Long Island in the 1960s was awesome. Not so now. It's filled now with aggressive, angry, "me first" people. A sad commentary indeed on what was once a great place to live. Were it nor for pressing family obligations we would leave, kind of a heartbreaking reality actually.
You mean, Long Island is filled with a bunch of entitled low IQ morons? I think it's really a symptom of a bigger problem. Residents don't feel as if living standards are improving. They're paying so many taxes, and additional costs on products and services that they think are unjust. The situation is asinine and a loop of nonsense.
born and raised. was good now upstate where people actually wave to you ,cant do anything always costs ,no free parks ,,495 parking lot, just tooo many people ,have seen potatoes fields turn into condos ,so up goes the taxes ,and up goes the pollution from more cars
We just moved from Shoreham, to rural southwest Virginia. We love it, because there's no traffic, and people you don't know, wave, hold the door, and thank you for holding the door. It's awful in NY, especially long island! If you can actually get to Montauk, it's beautiful there!
Left Oceanside LI in 1967 to join the Navy. It was a great place to grow up with incredible schools. I thought I was just an average kid until I realized what a great education I got just from K1-12. The house we lived in cost only 23K in 1961 and now they sell upwards of 750K. Living now in eastern CT which is really a lot like LI was way back in the 50's and 60's.
Connecticut is a nice state. In my generalized opinion, it’s still basically the same geographic area of Long Island even though the drive may be a bit long and inconvenient
Yeah, this comment section is full of the older generation lamenting their golden past when they've been the ones ruining it for future generations through incompetent political leadership, i.e. not building quality higher-density housing. Young people can't afford to live here anymore.
Born, raised Massapequa Park 1961 to 1984. Still like where I live now much better. Less congested, less hostile people, better landscapes. But would consider visiting just to see what it’s like now.
@@HerculePoirot222 That's pretty sad. It appears the downward trend (depressed job market, road congestion, etc.) I observed when I left in 1984 has continued. Although the trend of building condos & apartments is pretty much the norm everywhere now. The greater majority simply cannot afford single family homes anymore. And real estate developers get a bigger bang for their buck now building multi-family units. So the USA has pretty much followed Europe. But L.I. is an extreme example. There's simply no more room to build anything else. With all those post WWII cookie cutter Levittown houses, (makes me cringe thinking of those) It should be interesting to see where L.I. is 20, 30 years from now. If the cost of living and doing business continues to rise, there will be a substantial population decrease. As families and businesses find "greener" pastures. But that's a normal & predictable economic scenario. There's always the wild card. It was the post WWII baby boom that staked out much of what L.I. is today. Hopefully something positive will happen to lift L.I. back up to where is was 60 years ago.
@@HerculePoirot222 Amazing. Even more so when I consider my parents, 1st time home buyers in 1954. They paid $12,500 for their house. It's now listed for over $1. million. As long as there's people willing to pay those prices and taxes, it will continue. Best thing for retirees to do is sell their home at those inflated prices, and move to another country where the cost of living is substantially less. But still adequate healthcare, etc.
I grew up on Long Island in the 70s and 80s. These days, I live in Myrtle Beach 6 miles from the ocean and pay less than 800 bucks a year in property taxes. I miss the Long Island of yesteryear which no longer exists. All of my family have left; my brother is in Denver, cousins in Florida, etc. Politics and unions have ruined the Island.
Funny how the narrator said, “men” a lot - men make things happen, men make things grow, - and the first time you hear a female voice it was about SHOPPING
I guess you can compare things when they were that way vs what we have nowadays..all these new ways of thought haven't exactly turned this place into a utopia...quite the opposite.
Like most things in life, things change. LI had its time. It's still a beautiful place, but overcrowding, exorbitant and ridiculous taxes have pushed so many away. People have realized a much better quality of life elsewhere. Very, very few ever return. That speaks volumes. LI has changed and not for the better. Oh well, life goes on.
Yes born and raised Patchogue Medford, eagle estates. The place I loved and miss is no longer. Greedy companies and the wealthy have destroyed a once beautiful place. Places I dont recognize, condos everywhere , nee homes built on once beautiful farmland and dairies that were wiped off the map. We used to get milk delivered from corams dairy to eagle estates. Memories will never fad, unfortunately the past way of life has. Too costly now crime rate insane. RIP the life and place I called home.
My sister and family live in SC and they send their two teenage daughters up to my house in Rockville Centre for a few weeks during the summer. They comment that they love being able to walk to stores and hang out with local kids without anyone having to drive them around, like is necessary in SC. They hate going back to SC.
@@captainu.s.america3239 if you're from Long Island...you say "on"....it's like someone form Oregon saying they want to go to "Bronx, NY" instead of "The Bronx" . A person form here would know that as second nature.
My grandfather and Grandmother bought property inSound Beach in 1930’s from the Daily Mirror and built a bungalow and turned it into a year around House in the 40’s . My husband and I still live in this same house. We are both in our 80’s now and expect to stay here.
I grew up on Long Island and moved to Phoenix a couple of years ago. It's a shame to see where the Island is heading. Unfortunately a lot of people my age are leaving because of the high cost of living and strict laws. I still miss it sometimes though...
May i ask what strict laws? I moved from long island in 2000 have not been back. Im very curious about differences today i appreciate if you take time for response i also grew up there. I didnt leave till i was about 40 yrold
Newsday should find this old film (probably 16mm) and have it remastered. This looks like a poor VHS transfer. If it's not remastered it will disintegrate (assuming it hasn't already). 16mm film has a higher resolution than high definition video.
how i would have loved to grow up to a less crowded and friendlier long island. It seems like queens is spreading to the east of the island. Overpopulation, nightmare street planning, horrible traffic and crumbling infrastructure. Big change needs to be implemented. With all the taxation you'd think they would make it a priority to reinvigorate the communities.
Long Island is so expensive there are taxes for your taxes! I kid you not we pay taxes on our homes. Taxes for the village. Taxes for the town. Taxes for the city. Taxes for the state. Taxes for the taxes
Look at the roads on the parkway(2:54). Three lanes of roads and what year was this filmed 50 by the look of the cars. Now 2020 we still have three lanes on most parkways. Ladies and Gentlemen Welcome to NYS. And you ask why people leave it’s NYS
As of 1985, the US Supreme Court interpreting a maritime law case, legally designated Long Island New York as actually "Long Peninsula" New York. According to the Court, since the peninsula formally known as Long Island, is not actually an island because only a river (the East River) separates Long Peninsula from the mainland. According to the Court, a Sea or Ocean is required to separate and island from a mainland. Interesting!
My younger sister went to University of New Mexico and had a roommate from Long Island and another from New Jersey. Our home was 100 miles from Albuquerque and 2000 ft. higher in elevation. Her roommates were incredulous the first time it snowed in Albuquerque. One of their reasons for attending a school in the Southwest was for the milder winter climate.
REPRESENT! I live in Lindy now, grew up in Dix Hills. Lived in Lindy twice between '01-'08 and '14-present. It's going through nice little revitalization, lotta good restaurants, bars, and businesses opening up. House up 200k since I bought it in '14! Black Forest bakery still here, pretzel bun egg sandwiches are amazing!
Same thing with Westchester County. It's become the Bronx North. Ugh. These people from the city vote for policies that are bad AND can't be sustained, THEN, move away from what they created by vote, AND THEN decide to do the same thing to wherever they move. They refuse to see their role in it, or maybe that the place to which they move, DOES NOT need "fixing". But that would take self awareness and critical thinking...sigh.
Grew up in Westbury, Post Avenue is thriving now, but they are building too many building all around, especially near the train station. It will look too busy.
I remember going there for a field trip! My group saw a White-tailed Deer and two little crabs! We also kind of got burned from touching some red sand. Best field trip ever!
@@rmb9726 i did as well , goldfish carp,sunnies,occasional eel. We used to set turtle traps in the wooded area , but never got one. Corn and dough balls....my youth..
@@IFIXCASTLES dont forget they have huge bass, my brother catched a 6 pound bass 40yrs ago, i went there back in aug caught 3 pounder. All catch and release
Can’t afford anything anymore on Long Island or all of NY (idk about upstate) and to top it off Long Island is nothing like it used to be. More traffic than anywhere in NY.
Grew up there.. i miss a time in my life on long island. but it's too expensive and there's no business.. it's over populated, dirty, and expensive.. i wish i could go back to a time on long island, but after leaving there, my future isn't long island.
Long island was great in 50s and 60s. We had Grumman, Fairchild, Sperry, etc all employees 100s of thousands of people. Iong Island began its decline when those companies closed or moved away. Engineers and skilled factory workers moved away or got job in the City, and hate the LIRR or LIE for thier daily commute. Towns like Hempstead, Elmont, etc. That were once beautiful are now a crime ridden eyesore. Jones beach which was once pristine, clean, and fun, has been ruined by low lifes with thier disrespect for property and others. Its a shame that Long Island is for the ruch and poor. Gone are the middle income and won't ever come back. The ones that are stuck there are not happy at all. Everyone knew thier neighbors and looked out for each other, not true anymore. Its very sad indeed. I come back every so often and see places that I once had fun, all destroued. This is not progress, this is demolition of a once great place to live and work
I grew up in Great Neck. What a wonderful place to be in the 60's. Actually our house was on the city line with Little Neck around the corner. Now I live in Bayside which is still close by. I love it but who knows where the city is heading with the crime. My parents moved out to Mount Sinai and it's turning into an extremely crowded area too. Actually I like it here better. It's sad to see them destroying Long Island.
I've heard it said that when you leave Long Island, you miss it. Yet, when you live there, you hate it.
Lol. I low key dont wanna leave. I like it but I hate the BULLSHIT LAWS we have here and being expensive that's about it.
James Hayes pure facts.
That’s what everyone says about their home town
its true lmao i moved to nc now im moving back i miss it
@@deanmontalbine4941 you probably miss NY in general .. going from NY to NC is a big change.. they barely have public transport, their cities suck, the weather is garbage, no seasons, everything’s miles away etc the list can go on. Move somewhere more practical I bet you won’t miss LI
“You can afford your own home, with a yard” I wish that was the case now.
as a native Long Islander, this brings back many memories of my youth in the 1960s ans 70s.
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A lot of people have similar feelings with suburbs of New York/Jersey and Chicago as I’ve noticed in American cultures.
Now the highest property taxes in the nation.
democrats
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@yeeyeeasshaircut5095 DEMOCRATS = Tax and Spend//// REPUBLICANS = Borrow and Spend
They're killing us!
Miss how it used to be, depressing what it's become.
Growing up Long Island was like The Wonder Years, 1980's, Nesconset, a dream!
agree 100 percent..
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Sounds racist
I'm sure it was. And all of the entitlement, racism, and xenophobia that comes from that area says it all.
@@SIl_Ae Sounds like heaven
Growing up in the late 70’s / thru the 80’s was amazing ! Rode our bikes everywhere!! Your bmx bike was like your car ! Stayed out all day and came home when the sun went down! Every day was an adventure ! (Shirley)
Same here, lived in Bay Shore and went to Brentwood schools. Cant imagine going to them now.
I was born in 1999 and I rode BMX bikes everywhere as a kid. Riding bikes everywhere isnt possible like it was 10 years ago. Its too populated and theres far too much traffic at all times of the day including at 3-4 am
CI, grew up in many towns. Shirley was my second home. Stacy Ct, off River Road
@@letshaveacuppa_official we were literally 3/4 minutes away. I lived at 206 Broadway. What years did you go to school ? I would’ve graduated in 91 if we didn’t move. (Not my real name or pic,.. lol)
I grew up on long Island and still live here, I'm 22 so this is way before my time. Seeing the past of where I live is interesting
I grew up in Rockville Centre in the 1950's. Went to Southside HS. After HS, went to NYU and lived in the City. Now I've retired to Southampton. What a great life!
"Go out and play but be home by dinner!" No hovering parents or play dates. Self reliance and adventure.
That sounds impressive. What was your occupation if I may ask?
I wasn’t supposed to be born in Long Island, but my mom was taking care of my grandmother because she wasn’t well at the time and my mom went into labor.. I was born in Mercy hospital. Long story shot I lived there for 12 years and I moved to brooklyn… it was nice when I was younger now… crime went up and people are rude and all about me attitude. Thank you for this video
I left Long Island in 1984....couldn't afford it any more. Grew up in Smithtown...Came back in 2006 for my 30th HS reunion and cried.....didn't recognize Smithtown at all...So Sad.
same thing with Centereach where Im from. I moved in 97. I went to visit two yrs ago and about fell over. They took all the wooded area we used to play in as kids and put houses!!! totally unrecognizable!!
@@sagnbaby Centereach ? Lived there till 89 Glad I moved best thing ever done . Better places to raise children now than LI
I also left in 1984. Glad I left.
Change occurs everywhere. Life isn't bad here. Its what you make of it. Quit your knocking and bitching!
I grew up in Centereach. I was first graduation class from the high school, 1972. Miss those years. All wooded areas I hunted with my bb gun and shotgun are now houses. Walmart used to be all woods. I remember when yhey built the 7/11 on Mark Tree Road in 1962.
It truly was the good old days. Family, friends, bicycling everywhere, the beach everyday, NYC a train ride away. The best time to grow up on the Island. Many great memories. The best place to live...and still is😊❤
Not anymore. Been here my entire life, and will be leaving within two years. Oppressive taxes, over regulation, increasing traffic, etc. It was great when my parents moved here in the 1950's, but with the exception of one cousin, my entire family has left. Can't wait to join them.
Growing up in Amityville in the '60's and 70's we had freedom, as not to be believed now. We rode our bicycles EVERYWHERE! Though I live in Cali now, have been back a few times for extended stays. The wooded areas we explored and hung out in GONE. The endless potato fields going up Rt.110 GONE. The huge green lawns around homes, God who can afford the taxes? However, it's part of me, it's in my blood. It will forever remain the Long Island of my Dreams.
Change is inevitable, Change for the better would be better
if you feel that way go back JA Dawn.
One day I hope to Mr. G. Family's got a lovely spot on the Bay.
I certainly hope to Mr. G. Family's got a lovely spot on the Bay...
Amityville? Did you know the Defeo family?
Born and raised on long Island for 49 years loved it but it was time to go taxes are killing people from staying there it's so sad
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Thats what happens when there is no jobs left on LI. Grumman employed over 85,000 people. Now the largest employer is a hospital system ugh!
@@rty1955 No jobs left? thats a blatant lie there are tons of jobs, its literally just the taxes that are killing people and their businesses.
@@jgclonegunner tons? Name me places that have more than 25,000 employees?
@@rty1955 Is that how you measure success? a town can have one place that employees 25,000 and another town can have 10,000 businesses that employ 250 employees each. Theres no shortage of jobs here. Zebra, New york life, BNB bank, Allstate, etc.
It's funny how sometimes you had it so good and didn't really know it. I'm from West Islip and a kid in the 70's, and what we called "the stores" off Keith Ln. is now mostly all medical places, or so I've heard. But that strip back then there was 5 and 10 (Whacky Packy stickers, squirt guns, balsa wood planes powered by a rubber band) a Carvel, Mikes Pizza, a Chinese place, a bakery, a music shop, a gap, bowling alley, t shirt place, King Kullen, $1 theater, a Service Merchandise, drug store with arcade games. I'm sure I'm missing some, back then a kid could go up there with friends and a couple bucks and do all kinds of things. It was all there, all you could want and more. But there's nothing really interesting or fun about a bunch of medical businesses. Such changes are inevitable, but it shows how good we had it. And now the memories take on a Norman Rockwellian sort of hue. Those were good times to be a kid on Long Island.
Amato's music... took lessons there with "Joe" in the early '70s
@@ricinro That's right, Amoto's Music, I saw a thread on a site called Long Island Kids of the Seventies, or something like that, and it mentioned Amoto's, I'd forgotten the name. I can still remember being obsessed with these light blue CB700 drums, I remember them all stacked up and putting my nose against the window like Ralphie in A Christmas Story. Been a drummer now for 50 years, and I still remember that initial flush with wonder. If I could go back in time, I might just get a slice of Pizza from Mikes Pizza, my favorite pizza ever, good memories, no doubt. Cheers.
Jahns Ice Cream Parlor
@@robmiller9589 Jahn's Ice Cream Parlor, was that in West Islip? I'm curious where it was, or is.
@@robertkees6048 Sunrise Highway WIslip ...became Hammerheads during the Twisted Sister days!!
I still live there 70 years later and it's great
I would love to go back in time and live on long island in the 50s
wonderful time early sixties were good as well. By the 70s it was all downhill . glad I left . Overpriced overcrowded giant parking lot . No where to go 180 miles E to W about 17 miles wide .
@@oldtimedrumcorps When did you leave? Where did go?
@@C172Pilotdude Left for good in 1989 Lived there from 1954 to 1989 . Centereach, Patchogue, Mattituck . Moved to Salem VA . .Went back in JAN '20 Didnt recognize the place. It was once so beautiful. . Other than family , glad I left . Raised a son here . Was blessed , great schools , great Christian folks . Clean air , mountains , decent cost of living . No lines to stand on .Almost like LI in the 50s early 60s . Farms ,cows ,horses . Fresh air . Long Island just got too populated for me and way too expensive and too secular .
Me to
Not if you were a person of color
Driving down middle country road 25. Pass up McDonald's, Walmart, taco bell, 7/11, wendies, chase bank, bank of America, Starbucks. Repeat that for the entire length of longisland.
One giant Strip Mall
At least you’re alive on earth. In the far future, people will on space colonies and will long for access to trees, lawns and supermarkets
Then the people who live there retire to Florida and demand the same to be built on former wilderness land.
Grew up in Levittown. in the 1950s. Lawn Guyland, baby !!!
Born and raised in Queens by the city line. Had a great time growing up there. Went past the house I grew up in and, now it's not the same. We played stuck ball with no cars on the street, now ever spot in front of the house are taken...
What an awesome video!! Thank you so much for uploading this. I lived there for 25 years and now I’m half a world away. This means more to me than you can ever know
where did you move to
Where do you live now?
It’s very common for New York area people to move away to far distances and never return for any visits due to family obligations and extreme long distance or at least long enough distance
Growing up on Long Island in the 1960s was awesome. Not so now. It's filled now with aggressive, angry, "me first" people. A sad commentary indeed on what was once a great place to live. Were it nor for pressing family obligations we would leave, kind of a heartbreaking reality actually.
What a loser.
You mean, Long Island is filled with a bunch of entitled low IQ morons? I think it's really a symptom of a bigger problem. Residents don't feel as if living standards are improving. They're paying so many taxes, and additional costs on products and services that they think are unjust. The situation is asinine and a loop of nonsense.
I grew up on Long Island and couldn't wait to leave. And I don't miss it one bit.
Omg 443 of this video my exact home moved in 1962 at age 5. In old bethpage. My god this brings back memories. Look carefully at the people
Very cool!
Grew up in Seaford in late 70’s , absolutely beautiful, perfect little town
I live not too far away from Seaford and it's still quite a nice place to live. I go to an Indian church there.
born and raised. was good now upstate where people actually wave to you ,cant do anything always costs ,no free parks ,,495 parking lot, just tooo many people ,have seen potatoes fields turn into condos ,so up goes the taxes ,and up goes the pollution from more cars
We just moved from Shoreham, to rural southwest Virginia. We love it, because there's no traffic, and people you don't know, wave, hold the door, and thank you for holding the door. It's awful in NY, especially long island! If you can actually get to Montauk, it's beautiful there!
Hampton Bays....lived there through all of my school years. Great place back then.
Those were Definitely the days☺️
Crazy how almost all of these houses are still standing
Left Oceanside LI in 1967 to join the Navy. It was a great place to grow up with incredible schools. I thought I was just an average kid until I realized what a great education I got just from K1-12. The house we lived in cost only 23K in 1961 and now they sell upwards of 750K. Living now in eastern CT which is really a lot like LI was way back in the 50's and 60's.
I Left Long Beach to join the Navy in 1965 at 17 years old.
@@dickylobster are you still on LI? I was stationed in Groton and stayed in the area.
@@28pawsful moved from Long Beach to Point Lookout still on the beach 🏖️🙂
Connecticut is a nice state. In my generalized opinion, it’s still basically the same geographic area of Long Island even though the drive may be a bit long and inconvenient
It’s changed a lot. It will likely never be the way it once was again.
The riff raft moved to LI.
I had a great childhood growing up on Long Island thank God my parents moved put of the Bronx
When you could swim in rivers on Li. But all
These same people in the video destroyed the land,
Yeah, this comment section is full of the older generation lamenting their golden past when they've been the ones ruining it for future generations through incompetent political leadership, i.e. not building quality higher-density housing. Young people can't afford to live here anymore.
I’m from Long Island. It’s interesting seeing LI in the old days. It was fun in the 80s and 90s
From observation of American culture many people reminisce about growing up in the New York or Chicago area
Long Island sure is different from what we have today. This is what my Dad should be watching.
I'm developing a first-of-its-kind three-part documentary on the entire history of the Island-this was a great find!
Good luck I'd like to see it
Born, raised Massapequa Park 1961 to 1984. Still like where I live now much better. Less congested, less hostile people, better landscapes. But would consider visiting just to see what it’s like now.
@@HerculePoirot222 That's pretty sad. It appears the downward trend (depressed job market, road congestion, etc.) I observed when I left in 1984 has continued. Although the trend of building condos & apartments is pretty much the norm everywhere now. The greater majority simply cannot afford single family homes anymore. And real estate developers get a bigger bang for their buck now building multi-family units. So the USA has pretty much followed Europe. But L.I. is an extreme example. There's simply no more room to build anything else. With all those post WWII cookie cutter Levittown houses, (makes me cringe thinking of those) It should be interesting to see where L.I. is 20, 30 years from now. If the cost of living and doing business continues to rise, there will be a substantial population decrease. As families and businesses find "greener" pastures. But that's a normal & predictable economic scenario. There's always the wild card. It was the post WWII baby boom that staked out much of what L.I. is today. Hopefully something positive will happen to lift L.I. back up to where is was 60 years ago.
@@HerculePoirot222 Amazing. Even more so when I consider my parents, 1st time home buyers in 1954. They paid $12,500 for their house. It's now listed for over $1. million. As long as there's people willing to pay those prices and taxes, it will continue. Best thing for retirees to do is sell their home at those inflated prices, and move to another country where the cost of living is substantially less. But still adequate healthcare, etc.
It's now like Brooklyn and Queens. Not in a good way.
I loved it in both Roslyn and Sands point in the mid to late 50's
The newspaper’s job is not to campaign for issues. It’s to report news. That’s the problem with media.
I grew up on Long Island in the 70s and 80s. These days, I live in Myrtle Beach 6 miles from the ocean and pay less than 800 bucks a year in property taxes. I miss the Long Island of yesteryear which no longer exists. All of my family have left; my brother is in Denver, cousins in Florida, etc. Politics and unions have ruined the Island.
Bingo! You got that right. The people on LI voted to destroy it, and they have.
Funny how the narrator said, “men” a lot - men make things happen, men make things grow, - and the first time you hear a female voice it was about SHOPPING
Brad the Pitts glad you noticed that too. the programming is so blatant in this program here. wild
Men went to work and women stayed home and raised kids...it was a formula that worked for a long time. Now kids raise themselves.
@@wassupmypeeps69 Very often nowadays, the kids are in charge of the parents!
I guess you can compare things when they were that way vs what we have nowadays..all these new ways of thought haven't exactly turned this place into a utopia...quite the opposite.
funny how many dont know how good something really was ' cause they never had it to compare to.
Like most things in life, things change. LI had its time. It's still a beautiful place, but overcrowding, exorbitant and ridiculous taxes have pushed so many away. People have realized a much better quality of life elsewhere. Very, very few ever return. That speaks volumes. LI has changed and not for the better. Oh well, life goes on.
i remember all the stores and rooselvelt field looking that was.feel safe and happy hear
Huntington Station 60’s & 70’s, Texas now 👍🏼❤️🤠
Huntington Station 05 and going, moving out for college soon
Yes born and raised Patchogue Medford, eagle estates. The place I loved and miss is no longer. Greedy companies and the wealthy have destroyed a once beautiful place. Places I dont recognize, condos everywhere , nee homes built on once beautiful farmland and dairies that were wiped off the map. We used to get milk delivered from corams dairy to eagle estates. Memories will never fad, unfortunately the past way of life has. Too costly now crime rate insane. RIP the life and place I called home.
My sister and family live in SC and they send their two teenage daughters up to my house in Rockville Centre for a few weeks during the summer. They comment that they love being able to walk to stores and hang out with local kids without anyone having to drive them around, like is necessary in SC. They hate going back to SC.
I'm happy I live in Long Island
on long island
Nobody from Long Island says IN Long Island. It's ON Long Island! Sebastian is a fake!
Lucky
@@captainu.s.america3239 if you're from Long Island...you say "on"....it's like someone form Oregon saying they want to go to "Bronx, NY" instead of "The Bronx" . A person form here would know that as second nature.
Hey Fellow Islander: we live ON the island
I wonder which indigenous tribes lived on Long Island hundreds of years ago
longislandgenealogy.com/indians.html
Suffolk County
Ancient history regarding a once wonderful place to live and grow . New York City with out the skyscrapers and Museams and theaters .
U mean pure ghetto?
My great great Grandfather was the first person to own land in sound beach near port jefferson on long island
My grandfather and Grandmother bought property inSound Beach in 1930’s from the Daily Mirror and built a bungalow and turned it into a year around
House in the 40’s . My husband and I still live in this same house. We are both in our 80’s now and expect to stay here.
@@ellenfleury9015 wow they might have known each other
I grew up on Long Island and moved to Phoenix a couple of years ago. It's a shame to see where the Island is heading. Unfortunately a lot of people my age are leaving because of the high cost of living and strict laws. I still miss it sometimes though...
May i ask what strict laws? I moved from long island in 2000 have not been back. Im very curious about differences today i appreciate if you take time for response i also grew up there. I didnt leave till i was about 40 yrold
@@chrismartin2123 There's not much difference other than the higher taxes, mortgage rates.
I miss Long Island I was raised and grew up there
I lived in Deer park 52 years.... I lived behind the highschool dead end rd...
Newsday should find this old film (probably 16mm) and have it remastered. This looks like a poor VHS transfer. If it's not remastered it will disintegrate (assuming it hasn't already). 16mm film has a higher resolution than high definition video.
how i would have loved to grow up to a less crowded and friendlier long island. It seems like queens is spreading to the east of the island. Overpopulation, nightmare street planning, horrible traffic and crumbling infrastructure. Big change needs to be implemented. With all the taxation you'd think they would make it a priority to reinvigorate the communities.
Born in Bayshore, lived in Ronkonkoma, and Oakdale. My parents went to Connetquot HS in the 60s
Long Island is so expensive there are taxes for your taxes! I kid you not we pay taxes on our homes. Taxes for the village. Taxes for the town. Taxes for the city. Taxes for the state. Taxes for the taxes
Look at the roads on the parkway(2:54). Three lanes of roads and what year was this filmed 50 by the look of the cars. Now 2020 we still have three lanes on most parkways. Ladies and Gentlemen Welcome to NYS. And you ask why people leave it’s NYS
democrats
Back in 60 70's you can live on one salery, now you cant even live with two salerys and be comforble
They kept it artificially low
Grew up in North Amityville in the '80's
As of 1985, the US Supreme Court interpreting a maritime law case, legally designated Long Island New York as actually "Long Peninsula" New York. According to the Court, since the peninsula formally known as Long Island, is not actually an island because only a river (the East River) separates Long Peninsula from the mainland. According to the Court, a Sea or Ocean is required to separate and island from a mainland. Interesting!
Another thing about Long Island it was the first in the united states to have a nazi training camp.
I don't remember Democrats having a training camp on Long Island...🤔
This is correct. Fascist deserve a beating
Now it's cancer central,plumes underground, brown water....
I grew up in Northport...Great town in the 70s thru 90s....now...not so much
AMITYVILLE
My younger sister went to University of New Mexico and had a roommate from Long Island and another from New Jersey. Our home was 100 miles from Albuquerque and 2000 ft. higher in elevation. Her roommates were incredulous the first time it snowed in Albuquerque. One of their reasons for attending a school in the Southwest was for the milder winter climate.
nah bro it snows here a lot, just got a foot last week
I think it’s more common for Illinois and Wisconsin people to move to the southwest and New Yorkers to move to Florida- as a broad generalization
I was born in Bayshore, lived in Ronkonkoma, and Oakdale. My parents went to HS at Connetquot.
Little Vincent's Pizza -- Ronkonkoma
Grew up in Lindenhurst myself
REPRESENT! I live in Lindy now, grew up in Dix Hills. Lived in Lindy twice between '01-'08 and '14-present. It's going through nice little revitalization, lotta good restaurants, bars, and businesses opening up. House up 200k since I bought it in '14! Black Forest bakery still here, pretzel bun egg sandwiches are amazing!
Me too miss long island live in fl one day maybe I go back
Growing up in Copiague, a little bayside hamlet, in the 60’s and 70’s was idyllic.
Part 2.....why everybody is leaving long island
Born and raised on LI. Time to get out. The Citiots have made it the 6th and 7th Boros.
Same thing with Westchester County. It's become the Bronx North. Ugh. These people from the city vote for policies that are bad AND can't be sustained, THEN, move away from what they created by vote, AND THEN decide to do the same thing to wherever they move. They refuse to see their role in it, or maybe that the place to which they move, DOES NOT need "fixing". But that would take self awareness and critical thinking...sigh.
Grew up in Westbury, Post Avenue is thriving now, but they are building too many building all around, especially near the train station. It will look too busy.
I love living on fire island
I remember going there for a field trip! My group saw a White-tailed Deer and two little crabs! We also kind of got burned from touching some red sand. Best field trip ever!
Did Newsday ever cover how the Black service veterans were blocked by Levittown builders ?
I wondered that as well
I'm sure they pretended to be aloof about it knowing it was a common practice. Shameful stuff...
Ah Newsday the daily paper that costs 7.50 a day
Places I fished at are all fenced off now FU.
Fished at grant park, hewitt
@@rmb9726 i did as well , goldfish carp,sunnies,occasional eel. We used to set turtle traps in the wooded area , but never got one. Corn and dough balls....my youth..
@@IFIXCASTLES dont forget they have huge bass, my brother catched a 6 pound bass 40yrs ago, i went there back in aug caught 3 pounder. All catch and release
I live here
i was born there. i live in Phoenix , AZ currently
I was born there! I live in Florida now.
@@coachlombardi9657 KY since June but PA by mid 2021 if I get my way.
@@CoreDreamStudios I have no idea what this means?
If i could time travel and live in the 1950s id do it .. of course with my family and my dog
I live right by the Island Trees area!
A good film from Newsday when the paper was pro-America.
I grew up here on LI and it was a great place to do so. I still live here in Levittown.
The only blue life that matters is my *TAINT!!!!!*
Can’t afford anything anymore on Long Island or all of NY (idk about upstate) and to top it off Long Island is nothing like it used to be. More traffic than anywhere in NY.
I grew up in Levittown and was bored beyond belief. I now live in Italy which is a cultural haven. No more Dairy Queen world for me.
Lived on Long Island most of my life and never saw a Dairy Queen. A Carvel on almost every corner though.
Gelato.
Mineola 1960 till 1986 .Miss the Pizza
Vita pizzeria? Mineola Blvd and Jericho tpke
Ray Barrick Rocko was a hard ass .Always had a cigarette in his mouth .Great pizza tho
Bethpage,bayshore,planedge
Can we get a year, at least?
and now , a lot of reasons why people are leaving what i call wrong island.
Hecksher state park pool has been closed for years and they only have to fields open. Lack of visitors
Grew up there.. i miss a time in my life on long island. but it's too expensive and there's no business.. it's over populated, dirty, and expensive.. i wish i could go back to a time on long island, but after leaving there, my future isn't long island.
everyone else is egg noodles and ketchup
Those Levitt homes are made out of tricky-tack and look all the same.
This is long before illegal immigration and other such issues which have really screwed the island up.
Long island was great in 50s and 60s. We had Grumman, Fairchild, Sperry, etc all employees 100s of thousands of people. Iong Island began its decline when those companies closed or moved away. Engineers and skilled factory workers moved away or got job in the City, and hate the LIRR or LIE for thier daily commute. Towns like Hempstead, Elmont, etc. That were once beautiful are now a crime ridden eyesore. Jones beach which was once pristine, clean, and fun, has been ruined by low lifes with thier disrespect for property and others. Its a shame that Long Island is for the ruch and poor. Gone are the middle income and won't ever come back. The ones that are stuck there are not happy at all. Everyone knew thier neighbors and looked out for each other, not true anymore. Its very sad indeed. I come back every so often and see places that I once had fun, all destroued. This is not progress, this is demolition of a once great place to live and work
My dad worked for gruman from 1936 to 1969. We lived in hicksville. Those were the days.
@@lesliehoncharik1289 absolutly! I lived 2 blocks from end if runway in Bethpage. Used to see. LOTS of E2C and F14. I could wave to pilots
My grandparents worked at Gruman
@@beautifullytee9444 I bet they worked on some cool stuff. And they must have great stories. They were called "Grummanites"
Well we still have sunken meadow st park
That's a lie. That's why I still live home. Cause you can't afford your own home.
Deer park
Unfortunately, that was "then". Life was better then.
Levittown was the straw that caused what we know as Coram
Care to explain?
I'm from coram
explain....
The only thing I could see wrong with Coram is that it's so far out there and kind of low brow.
Long island is for the rich and the famous
Tell that to the people living in Roosevelt of Farmingville
Damn. I didn’t know I was rich and famous,, lemme know if you want my autograph 😝😝
Everything on long Island is for that tourist i see nothing for locals and Middle class folks anymore
@@raptorkid2009 no there a lot of stuff
Smithtown #Westsidepride
Smithtown Theater , Pennys . it was great ..... once .
I grew up in Great Neck. What a wonderful place to be in the 60's. Actually our house was on the city line with Little Neck around the corner. Now I live in Bayside which is still close by. I love it but who knows where the city is heading with the crime. My parents moved out to Mount Sinai and it's turning into an extremely crowded area too. Actually I like it here better. It's sad to see them destroying Long Island.
Now LI is a dormitory for people working in the city. Left this place 20 years ago. Only regret is that I did not leave sooner.