Lifelong resident says Smithtown has small-town aspects, but is not 'quaint and cute'

The store has been here 15 and a half years. It was actually where the Chamber [of Commerce] now is. It moved all of two doors down.

I didn’t open it. I took it over. The person who did open it worked for a dance studio in Smithtown and realized that there was a need for something like this locally because there wasn’t anything like this around here. I was working here for two years and when she decided to retire she sold it to me.

I grew up in Smithtown, so it’s what I know.

It has everything you need. It’s a busy town. It’s not like the towns on the South Shore that are quaint and cute, but it has a lot to offer. It does have a small town feel in the sense that everyone knows everyone in Smithtown. Like that sixth degrees of Kevin Bacon thing, you can go, “Yeah, I know them, too.”