Turning back the clock

In another era, Long Islanders fell asleep hearing the frantic commercials for Crazy Eddie (“His prices are insane!”) and the dry humor from Coronet’s Furniture (“No talking orangutans”) on their TV sets; they spent their summers in share houses on Fire Island and enjoying ice cream sundaes at Jahn’s; they celebrated birthdays at United Skates; and they flocked to clubs to see musicians, from reggae icon Jimmy Cliff to Long Island-native rock-and-roll pianist Billy Joel.

For many, those memories are still vivid decades later. And for Newsday, the daily New York newspaper serving the largest island in the contiguous United States, recounting these stories of nostalgia for their readers has turned into an unexpected find — like discovering a gold bracelet with a metal detector on Jones Beach.

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