Rhode Island is on TV!!!

**Freedom** · 04-10-2011, 07:53 PM

You know what "John from Alpert's" sounds like.

OH MY GOSH!! I DO, I remember him!!! Alpert's is gone now . . . .

Sold to Raymour and Flanigan.

**Grace** · 04-10-2011, 07:59 PM

Sandie - thanks for starting this thread. It is so much fun

Brings back so many memories

**phesina** · 04-10-2011, 08:10 PM

Originally Posted by Grace

Sandie - thanks for starting this thread. It is so much fun

Brings back so many memories

Yes, indeed! I wasn't that long in R.I., but I came to love it very much.

**mrspunkysmom** · 04-10-2011, 08:02 PM

I have cousins that live in Middletown. I did not know until today that it was on an island. I've obviously never been to see them. We talk a few times per year.

**pomtzu** · 04-10-2011, 08:10 PM

Okay Gretchen - I can spell the old Airport Rd name now:

Occupasstuxet Rd

No wonder it was changed. I cheated tho. I found it in an old book I "borrowed" from school - "Episodes in Warwick History" - published in 1937 by The Warwick Historical Committee. I found it among a bunch of really old things I was going thru, just a couple of weeks ago.

An interesting quote on the intro page: "The young live forward in hope and the old live backward in memory". Guess we're the old ones..........

**Grace** · 04-10-2011, 09:24 PM

I do remember that!! And the airport was originally on that road. I remember going over and parking in the parking lot (it was free back then) and watching the planes take off and land.

**pomtzu** · 04-11-2011, 08:06 AM

Originally Posted by Grace

I do remember that!! And the airport was originally on that road. I remember going over and parking in the parking lot (it was free back then) and watching the planes take off and land.

It wasn't even an airport for a plane of any decent size back then either. It wasn't an airport for any commercial planes originally.

And did you also go down to Narragansett Bay at night and watch the submarine races too??

I was eating ice cream last night before I went to bed, and thinking about this thread. Then something else popped into my head. Remember Hoodsies??? - and they came with that little flat wooden spoon to eat them with? My old maid aunt worked as an accountant for them when they were in Providence, and she always had a bunch in her freezer for when the nieces and nephews would visit. I Googled Hoodsie and noticed that they are still around. Never woulda' thunk....

Yup - I've got to thank you too Sandie, for starting this thread. Bet you never thought where it would go tho - did you??? It has brought back memories for me, that had long been forgotten.

Thanks - you're a great Rhodie - even if you are an import!!!!

**Freedom** · 04-11-2011, 08:47 AM

Originally Posted by pomtzu

Yup - I've got to thank you too Sandie, for starting this thread. Bet you never thought where it would go tho - did you??? It has brought back memories for me, that had long been forgotten.

Thanks - you're a great Rhodie - even if you are an import!!!!

Heheheheeheeeee

**Pinot's Mom** · 04-11-2011, 06:41 PM

This is fun!

I am FROM Rhode Island, as far as I'm concerned, although I was born in Bethesda Naval Hospital in MD. I was on Aquidneck Island from the age of 9 until 20 (although my junior and senior years of high school I lived in MD for the school year).

The "you know you're from RI" link - very funny! I identified with the duckpin, bread, coffee syrup, clam cakes, Almacs & Finast (OMG!!), Newport Creamery (did anyone else "hang out at the Wall"?), the pronunciation of places, I HAVE been to Block-many times, we were boaters and had regular rendesvous there, I know The Pier, clear clam chowdah, a CVANSTON accent, the package store, quahog stuffies, suppa, Cumbie's (OMG again!!), and the convicted felon - too funny!!