Hempstead Turnpike

perhaps the most undesirable road for someone like my mother. 

I discovered it quite by accident. North Shore people are not usually found around there. 

The only time my mother left the north shore for the south shore was to move into the Southampton house and her weekends in the Hamptons prior.

But I found it because it had two places that were impactful. It had one of the very first “superstores” which was then a bookstore that was the size of a grocery store but had a cafe and entertainment on weekends and evenings. I wound up a manager at just said place. It also had the icon art store Pearl Paint that was also the size of —more the warehouse of a grocery store or an airplane hanger. Where I also wound up a manager at.

Hempstead turnpike. By Hofstra university and Levittown where the houses are all Levitt houses ….Bethpage and Merrick