Mid Island Plaza, Long Island, NY (1962)
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- A silent promotional film about a new shopping center in Long Island, New York in the late 1950s. To purchase a clean DVD of this film for personal home use or educational use contact us at questions@archivefarms.com. To license footage from this film for commercial use visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com
This was a trip down memory lane for me. Moved to Hicksville in 62 and I would walk from my home to the mall without even complaining. I remember all of those stores and the layout of that open type mall. Just loved how all the women look like Mrs. Cleaver.
Never forget the Buster Brown shore there my mom would always take me to.
That parking lot today would be a car show. Nobody knew they were driving tomorrow’s classics.
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.
Those were the days my friend we thought they’d never end. So sad they are though.
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On weekends, while a student at Plainview High, Worked in the pet department at the J.J. Newberry! It is amazing, that now, many of the ‘Mighty’ Retailers of the day are now but a memory, with Sears and Thom McAnn among the many!
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.
Does anyone remember Alexander’s? My Grandmother used to take me there when I visited her in East Atlantic Beach. It was Paradise for a poor kid.
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 I'll tell you that with those old out of date cash registers.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
I remember when open farm fields became Sears! My first job was at the Jericho diner as a waitress. Graduated from Hicksville High in 1970. Walked to Gertz as a teen and was picked up there for shoplifting. Had hell to pay when I got home. Great memories!
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.
Thank you, watching this is awesome. This was my world, having grown up in Levittown, NY. We had so many items at home purchased at Gertz.
We lived in Hicksville. Shopped here all the time. My mom and I loved Gertz Dept store. I was 6 when this video was made. I loved seeing it again. Thanks for posting this video. The mall is still there, now its Broadway Commons. Very very different from what it was. This brought back wonderful memories.
That is my Aunt Eleanor and my Grandmother at the 4 minute mark and on this videos title photo. Loved growing up in Hicksville and going to the Mid Island Plaza with my best friends. Thanks for posting !
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.
Fifty years from now teenagers will say "Wait, you mean you could find it, feel the fabric, see how it fit and own it all in one day? Why did we get rid of that?"
I've watched Long Island change from country into a place that feels more like Brooklyn. But, as they say, you can't go home again. Alas.
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
Anyone remember Bohacks?
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.
Grocery shopping. Now I just sit on my arse , order online and they deliver. I am old enough to remember when they did put dresses in boxes like that to take home.
I remember those, too. And I still go grocery shopping, but the parking lot isn't very interesting.
I remember the pizza from the little shop down at the end by Food Fair. That was our Friday night treat while we watched the Flintstones on TV. lol Also the glass of soft ice cream with a spoon of chocolate sauce in Gertz. yummy
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.
Paper grocery bags and women dressed up This is a real trip down memory lane.
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.
I slightly remember it being an open Air Mall and I do remember when they enclosed it oh yeah memories
Born in '56 grew up in Hicksville. I remember my Mom taking me shopping at Gertz...they had a place for snacks (basement?) where you could get a big sundae for 10 cents. Those were the dsys!
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
The woman at 2:55 is going to find the store manager and ask why the music stopped.
Mr. White Lighten up.
Everyone polite and well dressed. Nice. You had to know a little something to run the cash registers, too. Today everyone's dumbed down and still can't get it right.
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.
Moved out to the Island when there were still potato farms along Hempstead Parkway where Island Trees now resides. Fishing along the South Shore before Wantagh Park. Mill Pond and Twin Lakes was a daily bike ride fishing rod resting on my bike handles. Great place to grow up.
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
Notice how many small to midsize businesses listed on the storefronts are no longer around. And I would bet that the majority of products carried in those stores were made in America, especially things like shoes and clothes, which now inevitably are not.
Omg I think I just saw my Grandma in a baby stroller !
This is a chunk of my childhood. I LOVED Newberry's and Kresge's My mother bought her shoes at Chandler's French Room Casuals. Gertz was for special occasions. Later on there were two supermarkets across from each other.
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,.
I grew up in Levittown and remember the Mid Island Plaza. I also remember when Wantagh train station tracks were on the ground, and when Nassau Coliseum and the Nassau Mall were built 😊
Why not music to match the era?
You tell me!!! LOL
the music was awful
Who cares!!!
that would be the soundtrack from Goodfellas.
what difference does it make? just mute!
as a native Long Islander from this era this is like a trip in the Time Tunnel. However, the music should be from Frank Sinatra or Rosemary Clooney.
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...
WOW A TRIP BACK IN TIME,THANKS FOR THE POST
WOW! I used to be a cashier at a Food Fair in Baldwin, NY before it became a Pantry Pride in the early 1970s.
look pay phone's 2021 who's here
Anyone have a problem with the music...
Mute City.
Probably copyrighted music
Totally out-of an Era being. depicted.
So many of those stores/franchises that were thriving back then and the following 10-15-20 yrs no longer exist... 😞😞😞😞
Anyone remember the ice cream and hot pretzels in Gertz, near the elevators. Best reason to behave!!!
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.
WOW I was born in 1958 and grew up in Hicksville , thanks
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.
I remember thom mcans in the 70s
I remember this mall years ago when newberrys and a drug store and Korvettes were around if ride my bike over there. Lol
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
Looks like some by gone good ole days, used to be this way everywhere.
We let it all slip away.
Grew up a few towns over, same era.
Those were the days..its the truth..I grew up in Plainview
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
I use to live in Jericho and me and my friends walked there or rode our bikes there all the time...through part of hicksville then sears on to mid island plaza.
Excellent! Thanks!!!
Wow, I mostly grow up in Brooklyn and Queens and always thought that Long Islanders were such corny people living such corny lives. Even when I moved to Long Island, I still felt the same way. My neighborhood kids had thier lemonade stands in the summer and the family's all riding thier bike together. 😄
But now I've lived here long enough to appreciate the beauty of it all. Especially I these times of lockdowns and such. I guess that now makes me corny too. 😂👍
Uhm...Brooklyn and Queens are part of Long Island...
I wonder who even knows how to operate a rotary dial phone today? Even people who grew up with them have forgotten. I still have a couple in the house so I never forget. They work great, too. I can call someone's cell phone on them.
Remember when the site was a Potato field.
I was born in 1977 in Deer Park and I never heard of this shopping center.
It's called "Broadway Mall" now. It's where Routes 106 and 107 meet.
Loved the Hicksville Mall. Loved when they enclosed it! I remember going to Gertz with my girlfriend Carol who later became my wife. Her mother took us to Gertz for her Maxi Coat. We were from the Plainedge H.S. part of Bethpage.
the techno music really adds to the mood of this 60s footage.
Reminds me of a mix of Paramus NJ shopping from the same era. Mid Island looks like a cross between Garden State Plaza and The Bergen Mall in the early 1960's.
Very nuce, nostalgia. Those were the days my freind.
Many good memories...but the music was soooo wrong.
The Ground Round .......and MY PI pizza
1966 a haircut there was $1.65 with a $ .25 tip. Then off to Pizza d’Amore for a slice and a coke for the price of
$ .85. Lastly, time for a movie for $ .65.
I remember Debby Iona and I were going to get married and move to Hicksville. P.S That was in kindergarten or first grade.just about when this was built. Alas she forgot all about me😲
It is amazing how those feelings can stick with us after 55+ years.
Omg. Hat & shoe shops. I remember the shop names from late 50's, early 60's. Notice so much less plastic in food market packaging?
shouldve kept the film silent crappy music muted..
Before Long Island got over populated
Wow a pay phone 😆!
Where they belong.
Look at the prices..WOW
the fresh produce was non-GMO, more organically grown, and tasted as it should!
Wow I used to go shopping for school clothes there Levittown days moved to San Diego after High School
5:34 I'm turning 50 this month and this is the first time I'm seeing a ROTARY DIAL pay phone! Never knew they existed, but it makes sense!
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.
Yes. Groceries came in paper bags.
...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.
i shop for instacart on LI today. Not much has changed except the carts are bigger today. That kid took up most of the cart
The big spiky ball hanging in the middle of the place late 60s early 70s
Yep. Then it was taken down and sat behind the plaza in the parking lot near Burns Ave school
Great video but the music is another story. 😝
First, I had the music went out of the screen and back in, and no music
Anyone remember that big multicolored star that hung above the plaza? When they closed in the mall, i remembe that star left in the western parking lot near, whays now target) I would have always thought they would have hung it by the entrance on 107
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.
Great video and memories, but the music is ridiculous
I'm glad it ended fairly soon.
The women shopping look so elegant.
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.
I was maybe10 to12 years old then
I wanted my dad to drive down the ramp to see what it looked like in the delivery tunnels.
The lady with the white Chevy at 4:24 didn't even lock the trunk of her car? Didn't grow up on Long Island, but familiar with some of the stores, like Food Fair & Trunz. Trunz had a small store for years in the town I grew up in (Great Kills), and my mom used to shop there. Food Fair later became Pantry Pride. Or was it the other way around? Was looking for Korvettes, but it looks like they had Kresge's instead.
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.
You needed bright lights to do the interior shots.
cool
Not many Karen’s back then
@5:37 she’s pretending to dial the phone, but I like her hairstyle
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!
Wait, if this is 1962 why did i see The Beatles " Meet The Beatles" album in the store? that came out 1964?
I got that album in elementary school...I thought it was '63
Everything was black and white back then 😮
Is this where ikea is today?
A well behaved child in shopping cart, not like today’s most spoiled brats!
Agh and you when you were young. And now your just old
Wow I ain't never seen any footage of Mid Island Plaza (now Broadway Mall) when it was brand new! Thanks for the nostalgic time trip. However the music is kinda unfitting for the late 1950s/early '60s. It sounds more like something you would hear from the 1980s maybe even '90s; but I don't really care about that!
Awesome footage, aweful music
Looking for my Aunt or my Grandmother
Could do without the annoying music.
Film from the 1960's and bad music from the 1990's.
This is in New York? That can't be, I did not see any graffiti.
Couldn’t watch the whole thing because of this god awful music WTF
This is messed up. I am white but I don't see any other races.
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
I have been to this Shopping Center in the 80's ...Food Fair and Tom McCann are the only stores I recognized. It's all Walmart or Target now.
And those Republicans dressed really tight to go shopping .... so beautiful, but they are all gone now and the "flies" have taken over America, bringing their own culture in and that stinks.
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!!
I have one question: where are the black people?
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!
My dad was the first Black manager in the men's depart meant for Gertz. What memories. I remember the mall well.
I was there when I was 7 in 1962
Before plastic invaded our lives
Those were the days... now that mall looks like a 3rd World Country... what a damn shame.