Hidden Campground Turned Into Town | Merrick Long Island Ny

[@lauracannon8554]

I really enjoyed this! My family had one of the first houses on Verbena Ave.-the new flower homes as all the streets had flower names in 1947. We were two blocks off Merrick Avenue. I had just been born when we moved in November 1947. My sister went to Campbell Elementary a K-8 school and then Mepham. I went to North elementary school that has been renamed Fayette Elementary-Mr. Fayette was my principal. I lived there until 1957 and definitely consider Merrick my hometown. Thanks for making this!

[@glennlevy1896]

Thanks for this...My father grew up in Merrick. He and my two uncles and their parents. They lived on Millwood Lane. This was in the 50's and the 60's and my grandparents remained in Merrick until early 2002...my father went to Mepham High School, my uncles went to Calhoun. I graduated from Calhoun in 1986 and my sister graduated from Calhoun in 1988. With my father, We lived on Fox Blvd, Babylon Turnpike and Lindenmere Drive. I love to see the history of towns and just see the towns again.....thanks again for the memories....

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Thank you for watching

[@frankjanosko9083]

Awesome video! I grew up in Merrick on Decker Ave. which is one block north of Tiny Town/the Campgrounds in the 70s and 80s. In the video, you passed my church (Sacred Heart) and my elementary school (Camp Ave.) During the tour of South Merrick, you were near my high school (Calhoun!) sweetheart's house. Thank you so much for this!

[@MOONEYDashCam]

I happy you enjoyed it

[@josephconsoli4128]

Merrick is a great town on all points. A very good location and so diverse with homes. A friend of mine lived there in an English Tudor and it was so quiet and family friendly when you walked around. The Gables is awesome. The owner of FOX movies built it for "bi-coastal" actors like the legendary Erroll Flynn. It was reminiscent of Hollywood CA. The HBO miniseries "Mildred Pierce" was filmed there, but with Hollywood magic, they turned it into a California setting. I heard it was done really well. One of the most unique places to live in Long Island.

[@kingerikthegreatest.ofall.7860]

My grandparents lived in Merrick ( Henry st). They moved from Flatbush back in the 60s. On the other side of their backyard fence is the Meroke preserve. I used to go there a lot.

[@glennlevy1896]

my grandparents lived on Millwood Lane, not far from Henry St......my father grew up in that house in the 50's and 60's...

[@happyme3376]

Very distinct areas! This was a cool tour, Mooney, and thank you! Hi, Truck!

[@headtrips1]

MY HOOD. Grew up on smith street next to smith street deli. My family moved there in 1997. I was raised there until I left for Los Angeles in 2018. I go back to my parents house every year in Merrick. SHOUTOUT ROMAS, paddy power, bourbon and brews, galleria, La Piazza, smith street deli, My Hero, and the other great Merrick businesses.

[@lotsabirds]

It's my understanding that the original tiny town houses were the small ones with the really sharp roof peaks. I used to live in Westbury. Worked at Eisenhower (Salisbury) Park and I passed through Merrick often! Amazing how it still looks the same as it did 50 years ago!

[@stans7770]

Prior to Sandy, the streets in the Gables and around Cammans Pond were under tree canopies. One of the Gables founders was Charles Fox who founded a movie company. Fox Blvd in the Gables was named for him.

[@glennlevy1896]

I lived at 2436 Fox Blvd, diagonally across from Meroke Lanes...this was from 1985-90..

[@Vgltd]

You have your Fox's mixed up. Charles Fox developed the LIRR and moved to merrick from Baldwin. Charles Fox (Lannick) House built 1866. Built by Charles Fox, president of the LIRR. Corner Merrick Rd. and Merrick Ave. Later known as the Lannick House and torn down in the 1980s for a shopping strip. The Movie Fox you meant is Fox Film Corporation that produced motion pictures, formed by William Fox in 1915. Became 20th Century-Fox in 1935. Charles Fox wasn't around by the time the Gables was developed. They named the street after him because he was a prominent resident.

[@claudinemooney5444]

Good one. I really liked this one

[@carolynkatri9]

Thank you for posting this video!

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Thank you for watching

[@stevengallanter665]

I lived on Henry St. and Lincoln Blvd, 61-67 before our family moved to Port Washington, N.Y.

[@amyarizona]

Thanks. I was raised in Merrick- 1950-1976. My piano teacher had a Merrick Gables house, it was nice to see them in your video. As a teen we used to go parking on dates in what we called The Campground, what you are calling Tiny Town. BTW there is a beautifully preserved Methodist campground like this on Nantucket where the houses are original but maybe fancied up a bit.

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Very interesting I’ll check it out

[@nancytennant2762]

Thank you - enjoyed the video -

[@nymike06]

Very nice area of Long Island.

[@kingerikthegreatest.ofall.7860]

The Spanish type of house you mentioned is exactly the type of house my grandparents lived in. We used to go to jones beach all the time too.

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Those houses are so unique

[@callygottliebking6615]

These houses are much larger than when I used to drive around here - when I lived in Merrick 1965-1973

[@nhra7110]

very nice!

[@johnfriend9538]

Good video dude!

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Thanks man!

[@jordankrauss1460]

Love the content

[@kfirdavid9489]

😎cool!!!!!!

[@MOONEYDashCam]

👍👍

[@CorrineSunQueen]

No one ever skated on Camman's Pond. There was too much water movement from the inlets, so it didn't freeze hard. We skated at Duck Pond, which was later converted to a fireman's field training center. The ice skating rink was moved to Town Park, where they froze the basketball courts in the winter.

[@sanfranciscoprofessor2577]

Can't say about later, but as late as 1965 everybody skated there. It was dangerous, just as you said. People fell through once in a while.

[@ralphgrimaldi5795]

yes you are correct, it would not totally freeze because it was connected (inlet) to one of the salt water canals.

[@brittrips]

Love your channel. You inspired me to make my own similar channel :)

[@mmalon2908]

That truck a Diesel? It sounds like it?

[@johnstalberg9983]

A girlfriend lived in North Merrick-near Mepham High School. Mepham's most famous alumnus is Leonard Schneider- better known as Lenny Bruce.

[@suemcdaniels7228]

I lived just a few blocks from here years ago. I think it's a shame that it changed so much. I lived in North Merrick from 1956-1972.

[@Whatnotaddiction]

There was a cool mini church in tiny town. Also you passed Lindsey Lohan’s parents house when u first started the video

[@syntychiahintsin-tee-shaks2256]

North Merrick vs South Merrick...two different worlds!

[@carolklein9899]

I lived in Merrick for 22 years, on Columbia Place, The Old Lindenmere section. This was great but would have loved it in color....I knew about the history of The Gables, but not Tiny Town or the Circle part!

[@MOONEYDashCam]

The video is in color

[@justinvasko3577]

Just subscribed. Neutral Drop sent me here. Any plans on going to some industrial areas?

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Check out my video on hunts point in the Bronx that’s pretty much all industrial

[@kingerikthegreatest.ofall.7860]

My dad went to Hempstead high.

[@KevRalph]

What's up dashcam man. . Not at Nassau coliseum?

[@MOONEYDashCam]

I was there! I made a very short appearance on the live

[@KevRalph]

@@MOONEYDashCam fun family.. Enjoy!!

[@MOONEYDashCam]

kevralph thanks man

[@Vgltd]

A few mistakes made by the narrator, but no big deal. Sunrise Hwy does not become Montauk Hwy, Merrick Rd does. And Merrick doesn't have that many schools.The Merrick/Bellmore school district does.

[@brandonmoucatel9630]

Most of merrick is nice, north Merrick was never great, but south Merrick and central Merrick is beautiful

[@headtrips1]

😂😂😂 spoken like a true merokian

[@brandonmoucatel9630]

@@headtrips1 thanks buddy

[@AvenueD417]

Have you driven through the former American Nazi party town in Yaphank. It was called Camp Siegfried. Now it’s a neighborhood that belongs to a German American settlement that does not allow outsiders and in order to buy a house there, you have to be pure German. Yeah.....I did not think a place like that still existed

[@MOONEYDashCam]

I will be looking into that for sure

[@lisawiener4990]

This video depicts North Merrick as a poor neighbourhood compared to South Merrick. I grew up in North Merrick in a home large enough to be in South Merrick. No difference between North and South Merrick other than people who think living south of Merrick Rd. are superior.

[@MOONEYDashCam]

@@lisawiener4990 when I talk about south merrick I’m thinking of on or close to the water and you’re right some north merrick houses are just as big but on average sound merrick is a little bigger I would say

[@lawrencegarfinkel2645]

Its all wrong. Area known as the Campgrounds were never photographed.

[@Preciousgod]

You drive to fast to get a decent look at what your showing us. When their is no traffic could you please drive slower.