MADDOG wrote:EdM wrote:Yes,can confirm Bohacks, which may have become Safeway (not sure), bakery, Third Base, hardware store across Rockaway where Roosevelt dead ends, Friend of mine (Bergdahl) worked there in the fifties, he just passsed on last year [2010].. Wifes' father owned hardware store/tydol station in triangle Cochran Place & DuBoise in fifties.. Nuns from St Marys used to con him out of Benj Moores paint.. VSCHS'55
If you are referring to the Hardware store in Gibson by the traffic circle, that was owned until it closed by Harry-Harrys hardware was right next door to Gibson Deli-Ziggys place. The corner has been an Italian restaurant, Goldys for as long as I can remember.
Most of the stores on Rockaway ave where the other hardweare store mentioned have been knocked down from Sunrise hwy-south.
Still miss the burgers at Wetsons, where McDonalds is today, the hotdogs too when it was Nathans.
MADDOG
Wetsons?!? I'd be happy if Roy Rogers was still there. When Roys closed most of their franchises, they sold out to mostly McDonalds (like there weren't enough freaking McDonalds on Long Island), giving us for a while the odd phenomenon of two McDonald's within easy sight range of each other (the other McDonalds, a McDonald's express, is where the Chicken BBQ is now). Rockaway Avenue's more or less a joke now, 4 or 5 nail salons, some beauty palors, 99c stores, don't recall if any Gold buying places have popped up on Rockaway yet, but there are at least 2 nearby - oh, and more than a few empty storefronts - whee! At least Morris Discount still lives, more useful stuff than the 99c stores, and more hard to find items than Target/WalMart*.
I wonder if they cooked up that Retail/Residental complex plan (mentioned in passing by MADDOG) just to get rid of the "Adult" oriented store (which never bothered me). Heck, I'm not sure if anyone even lives at
Hawthorne Court, overlooking the beautiful West Hempstead branch - still not quite sure about why Inflight Newspapers closed, but then again neither was the Newsday nor the Herald certain either.
Hey, they're selling the car-wash on Rockaway & Sunrise -
Read the Realtor Ad, but don't tell the employees, its a surprise! (Seriously - from the ad
Do not approach - employees do not know about the possible sale.. Maybe some railroad.netter can buy it and remodel it to resemble the original Rum Junction station.
However, progress is being made in Valley Stream! After about a year and a half, the West Valley Stream Blvd bridge spanning the east-most stream flowing south thru the Village Green (it's name was probably mentioned in some previous post in this thread) has been reopened - after a year and a half of construction I expected something to rival the Robert Moses Causeway, but instead its a glorified culvert...
Finally, Home Depot has claimed another one - Central Hardware is going out of business, if they haven't closed already it will be soon.