May Department Stores, Mary Livingstone[?] was working as a lingerie salesgirl here when she met her future husband Jack Benny. Later, the department store was used as a setting in his radio and television shows.
Sears & Roebuck[?], later Sears[?], its first mail order catalogs caused prices to drop all over the country, leading to their being called "the great price maker"
... in Suffolk County, New York. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 14,078.
Geography
East Islip is located at 40°43'55" North, 73°11'6" ...