You see someone in a Patriots sweater and you think they're rooting for
the "home" team.

When you see my car with a $150 Dump Sticker in the windshield....worn with pride.

When you say you have to run to IGA for groceries.

When your property taxes are more than your mortgage payment

When you remember Bernie Kaufman's hardware store.

Remember going to "Pete and Flo's", in Island Park, to pay the electric and telephone bills.

Melvile mafia

The Sportman's restaurant....

Remember Jacksons Shell Station in Island Park..? I used to take my NEW '66 SS 396 Chevelle to Charlie for an oil change. I'm guessing that most people who frequent this forum weren't even born then.

Anyone remember "Turkey Hill" or Ben Thurston's Christmas Tree Farm, or Boyd's Wayside Garden, or Howard Johnson's/Portsmouth Post Office? on and on?????

There was a little post office across the street from where Pocasset Country Club used to be near the railroad tracks.

Going to the town dump in Island Park and riding in the back of our little trailer (with no seat belts!). Swimming lessons at Sandy Point with Ruth Earle. Visiting the Town Cleck, Arthur Sherman at Town Hall. Going to Washburn's hardware at Cozy Corner accross from First National. Going to the roller skating ring on East Main Rd.

HF Anthony School. Ya the roller rink they, call me mellow yellow!

Hanging on the sea wall eating Salvo's potato chips. While Rab's arrests Larry M again. Oh the Good Old Days. Let's go dump picking.

Joe you pointless windbag, take a stroll down memory over in Tiverton. Try not to pollute this town with your wretched ideas and muddled thinking. Climb back in your hole Sousa, you were trouble in high school and have not gotten any better since then. Happy thanksgiving to all the thinking people out there.

On Saturday night, taking your date to the Pocasset Country Club for dinner and dancing.

......actually PARKING your car on East Main Rd to stop at a store (Bernies, Chases) or a roadside farm stand or to go to church (St. Anthony's, United Methodist)....some people that lived in homes along East Main would even leave their cars parked overnight.

Portsmouth Roller Rink....What great memories....many first dates started there...:)

I remember 40+ quahogging skiffs off the beach in Island Park in some open water when the Sakonnet River was FROZEN all the way down to Fogland in the seventies..

You could be from Portsmouth if all the schools you went to (Wilson and Highland Grade Schools and the original Portsmouth High School) have been torn down.

Bill Hart

You know you are from Portsmouth when you pronounce it "Porchmuth" and "Souty".

When you tell people who live more than 50 miles away that you're from "Newport...Rhode Island."