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Reader Stories: Bayside Memories

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Are you from Bayside? Did you go to Bayside High? Shop at Bay Terrace? Did you ever swim across Little Neck Bay--or walk across it when it froze? Read the posts on this page to see what others say about growing up in Bayside. Then click on the link below to share your own memories.

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Growing Up in Bayside, New York

Hung out on the Avenue, at Digie's Pizza. Best I ever had, and of course, by the slice! Ally Pond park. Remember mom taking my brother and I for walks, and later going there to climb the trees. Best …More

Bayside Rocks - Growing up in Bayside, Queens

go to the beach, hang out, have a few drinks at the bar, play pool, go for long drives, We went to many different places to dance. Many times we would take turns hanging out in different houses, when…More

Bayside, Queens - The Old Neighborhood

We walked to the stores on Horace Harding Expwy. There was Lester's Candy Store and Most's Dept. Store. A little further away was Mercury Stores Bicycle Shop. There was Friendly Frost, Penn Fruit, th…More

Bayside - Growing Up in Bayside, Queens

My friends and I liked to jump around from place to place, We would all pile into my big silver oldsmobile and drive out to jones beach and just have a ball. Sometimes we would go to christopher stre…More

It Was a True Family Community

Spent most of the time playing basketball in the park, Little League, bike riding throughout the neighborhood, or at the school gym. In the summer, we would travel to the Douglaston Club (to swim and…More

Tall Oaks and Growing Up in Bayside

Kiddie City, Alley Pond Park, the various playgrounds. It was great I went to Manhattan a lot when I was in my teens. I attended Pace for my undergraduate school. When I look back I would have prefer…More

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