My home parish when I grew up was St Anthony's. I always have special affection for him! Great Saint!!!
When I was a teen, we lived in Oceanside LI and our parish was St. Anthony's Shrine. As I recall, the church was designed to look like a cave and busloads of tourists would flock there on weekends. We were registered parishioners and on the envelope system. My mother used to hiss under her breath each week when we had to pass the donation boxes in order to enter the church. Recommended donations back then ... (we're talking antiquity) ... were .25 for adults and .10 for children. My mother would wave the contribution envelope at the usher and he would point to the sign on the outside of the donation box. Her resentment grew to the point where we switched parishes and began attending mass at St. Raymond's in East Rockaway.
Funny how little it takes to resurrect these memories of a bygone era. From what I understand, the Shrine is long gone. Too bad! It was a beautiful place of worship.