Native Islanders

You know your from Staten Island if . . . .

       

• You refer to Manhattan as 'the city’
  
• You stole at least one of those thick glass mugs from A&Ws on Hylan Blvd
  
• You call the ferry 'the boat’
  
  
• Jersey mosquitoes played music in your ears
  
  
• You can name all four bridges
  
  
• You went to rock concerts at The Ritz
  
  
• You’ve gone sledding at LaTourette
  
  
• It takes you a half hour to get to your friend's house... and they live less than a mile away
  
  
• You have fond memories of the metal box outside your front door where the milkman put glass bottles of milk
  
  
• You know it's Prince's Bay, not Princess Bay
  
  
• You would never swim in the water here
  
  
• You take pride in being from the South Shore or North Shore
  
  
• You remember where EJ Korvettes was
  
  
• Majors department store was a big deal when it opened in Mariners Harbor
  
  
• You know its The Outerbridge Crossing not the Outer Bridge
  
  
• You have gotten into arguments with people who think Long Island is the fifth borough
  
  
• You remember the two different theaters on New Dorp Lane
  
  
• You recall Weisglass Milk and Weisglass Stadium
  
  
• You know the difference between Richmond Road, Richmond Avenue, and Richmond Terrace
  
  
• You can name at least 15 different movies theaters that were here
  
  
• You know that 'Mike' owns all the good diners
  
  
• You recall the trucks that sprayed the wetlands for mosquitoes
  
  
• You remember the sound of the SIRT gates going down when a train approached
  
  
• You remember the 'orange' home delivery bread trucks from Holtermann's bakery
  
  
• There are now 20 families living in town houses where there used to be one family living in a cape cod
  
  
• You remember trying not to slip and slide around on the wicker seats from the old SIRT 'olive colored' trains
  
  
• Your car cannot fit between the driveways of two houses
  
  
• You remember when Father Capadano Blvd was simply called Seaside Blvd
  
  
• You put pennies on the SIRT tracks so the trains would flatten them
  
  
• You've eaten at the Victory Diner at 3:30 am
  
  
• You have parked at The Point in Great Kills
  
  
• You have fond memories of Bacci's, Stechmann's, Cosmo's, Al Deppe's, Demyan's Hofbrau and Tavern On The Green
  
  
• New Dorp Lane was simply referred to as 'The Lane' and Richmond Avenue was simply 'The Avenue'
  
  
• You remember when there were only about four or five traffic lights along Hylan Blvd from Richmond Avenue all the way to the Conference House
  
  
• You know every back road to the Verrazano
  
  
• You remember a horrible mid-air collision where one of the burning airliners fell into Millers Field in New Dorp
  
  
• Goodhue and Tompkinsville pools brings back fond memories
  
  
• You remember Wetsons, Goodys and Jack in the Box and where they were
  
  
• You remember movies at The Lane, The Ritz, The Empire, The St. George and The Paramount
  
  
• You recall tossing coins at the Verrazano Bridge
  
  
• You know that a chocolate egg cream doesn't actually have any egg in it
  
  
• You remember the trains above ground before they were put underground
  
  
• It was a nickel to ride the bus with your bus pass
  
  
• You went to the concerts every Wednesday evening in the summer at Silver Lake
  
  
• You referred to the King's Arms as "the Arms" and called it the Queen's Legs at least once
  
  
• Pal Joey's "slice of pizza and a coke" was 25 cents
  
  
• You know where Travis is
  
  
• You made Al Deppe's chicken dance for a penny
  
  
• You know that we have an Armory and where it is
  
  
• You went to the July 4th Travis parade
  
  
• Waiting on long lines for Ralph's Ices was a summertime tradition
  
  
• Ice skating on a lake was a wintertime tradition
  
  
• You can name at least four hospitals that were on Staten Island

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