You Know You're From Mokena When...

Do you remember:

When the bank was in a trailer in the parking lot where the bank is now?

When was still Carpenter Street School?

When everyone's number was 708-479-????

Those are just a sampling of the Mokena memories people have been sharing on the Facebook group "You Know You're From Mokena When..."

Share your own "You Know You're From Mokena" moments.

We turned to our own Facebook fans to get you started. Here are a few of the responses we got when we posed the question to fans of the Mokena Patch Facebook page and followers of @MokenaPatch on Twitter.

Here's what they said.

You know you're from Mokena when you...

Forget and refer to as Park N Shop (and) remember the cows stopping traffic to cross the street! Submitted by Jane Sherry McGinn

Remember when South Wolf Road was gravel. Submitted by Melissa Faith Evans-Madorma

(Remember when) LaPorte Road was gravel and you would drive past Yunker farm and see the cows. Submitted by Lisa Bullington Snyder

You bought your Christmas gifts on the second floor of Mokena Sales.

You rode the tilt a whirl on the Fourth of July in the train station parking lot.

You had to treat your "orange" hair, tub and clothes due to well water. A trio submitted by Jody Becker Olson

So how about it? What's your "You know you're from Mokena when?"

Tell us in the comments below or take the discussion back to the Mokena Patch Facebook page.