Hello From Long Island

[Briar Porch]

Welcome from N CA. Used to weekend on the South Fork. Where be you?

I'm in Wheatley Heights, kind of around the middle of the Island.

 

[Briar Porch]

Welcome from central N.C. My wife lived in Ridge, L.I. near Riverhead and Brookhaven and wrote for Newsday for many years before moving down here and marrying me. She also worked for Newsday in Manhattan and kept her apt. in Greenwich Vlg. for many years.

In my mad youth I briefly raced stock cars at Riverhead Raceway.

 

[thebigragu]

what part of Long Island I was born their

 

[mso489]

Briar Porch, when I had a newspaper internship in Neosho Missouri, I spent Saturday nights covering the dirt track races outside town. Boy, that was the nitty-gritty world of auto racing. One Saturday, they had motocross cycle races, mostly young kids, and one kid died...really awful. The racetrack clown was all but sobbing. Other races were full body cars, hot rods, and demolition derby. It was real, as they say. I'm still not quite resolved on a sixteen-year-old dying on a motor bike, but that's what happened.

 

[Briar Porch]

what part of Long Island I was born their

I'm from Massapequa, I live in Wheatley Heights now.

 

[Briar Porch]

Briar Porch, when I had a newspaper internship in Neosho Missouri, I spent Saturday nights covering the dirt track races outside town. Boy, that was the nitty-gritty world of auto racing. One Saturday, they had motocross cycle races, mostly young kids, and one kid died...really awful. The racetrack clown was all but sobbing. Other races were full body cars, hot rods, and demolition derby. It was real, as they say. I'm still not quite resolved on a sixteen-year-old dying on a motor bike, but that's what happened.

That's just awful. When Dale Earhart died I stopped watching racing for about ten years, I was that effected by it.

 

[anotherbob]

Hey not that far from some of us. In PA and that's so in the middle of nowhere that a few hours drive is close by.

 

[aro222]

Welcome from Canada
Enjoy brother
Cheers

 

[thebigragu]

I'm from Massapequa, I live in Wheatley Heights now.

I lived in west Islip, Huntington then moved up to a lock which is between Ithaca and cortland