Article: Vanishing Memories of Long Island's Gilded Age

Most of the shelves and display cases are bare. The meat-chopping machine sits idle. The walk-in freezer is used not for food but for storage of empty boxes and kitchenware.

Except for cans of soda, paper towels and a few other small items, sisters Stephanie Florczak, 75, and Charlotte Woytysiak, 79, have nothing left to sell at the grocery store that their father, Ignacy Walczak, began operating in 1928. An average day's business brings in about $2. Still, they hang on.

"All those who used to come to us, the old-timers, they're all gone," said Florczak, whose father came here from Poland in 1910. "Nobody's here anymore. I don't know none of the people now. They're all strangers."

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