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  1. haha babs!! yeah – massapequa is messed up! when i lived there it was mostly tiny cape houses – but around 2000 it seemed everyone started building huge extensions that look awful.

    old harbor green in massapequa park has some gorgeous old houses though.

  2. I used to sew my own clothes in high school. I went for the hippy girl loose tops with huge long Medieval sleeves, and bell bottom pants with huge bells. I was a fashion mess. I also used to play folk guitar and sing Bob Dylan and Carole King songs. My guitar was my best friend, and I used to take it everywhere. My parents prayed for me a lot, although not as much as they prayed for my brother. He was a popular jock with lots of girlfriends.

  3. “those farmhouses don’t look so quaint when surrounded by 3,000 sqft homes on quarter acre lots.”

    And this is justification for desecration (sorry, I felt the alliterative urge)? “Those brownstones don’t look so good surrounded by Fedders sh*tboxes.” Eek!”

    Apples and oranges, Barbara. Bottom line for me with the suburban subdivision is this: farmers worked the land until they couldn’t afford to farm anymore. What were they to do? In the cases where land conservancies come in and can pay what the land is worth – that’s my preferred scenario – but what can you do? Solution isn’t to increase the zoning – that’s BS. Kinda like landmarking stuff that isn’t worthy.

  4. Northport Harbor has some gorgeous houses too, as does Port Washington. My cousins lived in Massapequa Park, on a street of identical scary split-level houses. Every time we’d visit my mother would explain to us the virtues of the north over the south shore (and get pissed at me when I’d comment that Commack (or Cow Muck as I’d pronounce it to annoy her) wasn’t exactly north shore). How does a 9 year old get so snotty?

  5. Gem, I know someone who has that same job at JFK! Chinese-American (ABC) dad of a kid in my daughter’s class throughout elementary school. When they had the kid, he stayed home for many years doing Mr. Mom because the mom made more money in her career. Went for a civil service job when the kid was old enough, and has had the job for at least 5 years. I think he works straight midnights but his days off change. Really nice guy, his kid is still in chorus with my daughter so we see them from time to time.

  6. I used to walk to high school that year. There was a school bus (maybe a mile walk from where I was living) but I would walk a few miles through the woods instead. On the way home I would spend time building a stone hut on the banks of Roaring Brook. Never finished that thing. There’s probably a round enclosure made out of flat stones there to this day.

  7. I was pretty nerdy in the 9/10th grade, but then I started hanging out with the ‘stoner hippie punk kids. It was the “beginning of the end” of my interest in school until much later. I was pretty goofy looking, I didn’t understand women’s clothes, so I wore boys clothes, pretty much. I was about 30 before I figured it out and wore skirts/dresses. But I still don’t like them much.

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