the Island of Long used to be covered with duck farms, stables, nurseries and farms - now the riding stables where I took lessons , riding through the woods is a mega church and the woods are a vasr parking lot , the duck farm which was right down the block from where I now live is a mcmansion development, there was another horse ranch, bordered by a nursery and across the street wasa potato farm all gone and in their places are more mcmansions
the little local airport is now a condominium complex and the aerospace facility where my dad and later I, worked, where we built radar systems for the first space shuttle, is now a Tanger outlet mall
the Grumman facility where they built the first lunar module - now a shopping mall
the airfield from which Charles Lindbergh left on his historic flight to Paris - now a shopping mall
they took Paradise and put up a parking lot.......
oh and all the wonderful drive in movies are gone - shopping malls & home depots everyone......
