Used to surf Long Beach and Gilgo in my younger days. Went to the Hamptons once after our prom......no surf that day, but my date was very, um, er..... nice about it.......
I haven't lived in LongIsland since I was a kid...but I guess that hard g sound has forever stayed, as people NEVER fail to bring it to my attention how I say that....then they ask if that's where I was born (I did manage to get rid of the "lawn" sound, however : )
Grew up in New Hyde Park and stayed there for college- Saint Johns in Jamaica.
No surf, but then the Hamptons were a favorite place to go watch submarines race back in those days!
Ah, yes, a loaf of bread, a jug of wine and a rubber novelty item.