I grew up here and I remember .....

[Anonymous]

this is a trip down memory lane. Thank you OP!!

[Anonymous]

Riding in the "very back" of the station wagon and looking out the rear window. Before seat belt laws.
GEM's on Rockville Pike before it became Super Giant
The Village Shop at Montgomery Mall.
Jelleff's
Cotillion at the Bethesda Women's Club.
Maxi skirts and dresses. My sister had a purple maxi coat- that was way cooler.
Blue Moon Ice Cream at Giffords in Bethesda
Doughnuts at Sears at Tenley Circle (or the candy counter)
Soft ice cream at Woolworth's at Montgomery Mall. (They also had a lunch counter).
Hamburger Hamlet for lobster bisque and zucchini zircles and hot fudge cake
Steak and Cheese sub at the Bethesda Sub Shop. Their sub roll was the best!
Poor Richard's restaurant
Saturday afternoon high school football games and putting streamers on the car antenna, if you were lucky enough to have a car or could borrow one for the game.
Open space in Bethesda.
Walter Johnson high school had McCrossen's farm with cows next door. The farm was sold and IBM's the Rusty Bucket office building was built.

Does anyone remember the name of the Georgetown restaurant on Wisconsin at M Street in the late 70's? White brick with windows?
What was the Georgetown bar with a fire engine by the dance floor in the 70's?

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^^Wisconsin and M - was that the Rive Gauche? A very fancy restaurant, with people importantly entering, self conscious, dressed up for the occasion?
Georgetown bar with a fire engine? Would that have been Clydes?

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Gifford's Ice Cream shop in Silver Spring
Posin's Deli -- where I used to get half sour pickles and the most delicious smoked sable
Hogates, Flagship, and Phillips seafood restaurants
Bish Thompson's seafood restaurant
I can't remember the name of it but there was a seafood restaurant that specialized in crabs in Silver Spring, on Sligo Avenue(?) delicious soft shell crab sandwiches
The Polar Bear ice cream shop on Georgia Avenue
The ice cream store at the University of Maryland
House of Pong Chinese Carry Out
Eddie Leonard's sandwich shop
The Thai Room
Rive Gauche
Gusti's
American Cafe
Velatis Caramels -- which had a store downtown before they were sold at Woodies. I'm so glad they're back in Silver Spring
Reeve's for strawberry pie
The oatmeal cookies that were sold at break time at my elementary school

A branch of Rodman's on Georgia Avenue near Alaskan - imported candy and cosmetics
Ida's Department Store in Petworth -- they had everything! Including fabric and patterns for sewing.
Garfinkel's -- downtown and in Spring Valley; Woodies; Hechts,; Franklin Simon; Raleigh's; Landsburgh's; Jellef's; I. Magnin in White Flint Mall
Hahn's shoes
Up Against the Wall
Bell's --and Bell's Catalog
Tower Records
Shopping for jewelry from vendors at 8th and F Streets (NW)

the Kalorama roller skating rink
Summer camp at Fort Totten (before the Metro was built)
Driving over the ford in Rock Creek Park
Going swimming downtown at the Hotel Allen
Kiddie Land - amusement park for young kids that also had pony rides
Takoma movie theater
Takoma pool (which was outdoors)
Wonderama
Marshall Hall amusement park and boat ride from DC
Watching Polo games downtown near the mall
The Smithsonian FolkLife Festival
Concerts at Carter Barron
Dimensions Unlimited Freedom Festival concerts



Favorite thing that's still here:Crisfield's restaurant. Seafood Platters and Lobster Norfolk and the best fries ever

Thing I miss the most: The Kalorama Roller Rink

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Birthday parties at Farrells
Kirkbone parties in h.s.
Commander Salamander and Boogies Diner
Tower records
The arcade in Georgetown
Madness shop
Georgia Ave day(s)

[Anonymous]

Nationals for buying gold chains and earrings

[Anonymous]

Vitro
the Phantasmagoria
Whites Hardware
Aspen Hill dollar movie theater
U street looked like a bomb went off

[Anonymous]

Oh yeah and Waxie Maxie

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Other Whitman senior pranks. I think one year tires were stacked all the way up the flagpole. Another year the administrative offices were flooded, and either the same year or a different year a skeleton was sitting at a piano in the front hall. Also I think once there was a Volkswagon in the foyer. True or did I dream it???

I know the VW was true as well as the tires on the flag poles - I saw them. Graduated in 77 but I lived across the street from the school so it could have been earlier.

My senior year, they tried to paint/augment the dome to look like a boob. Giant paper machet __ipple in the middle and flesh tone paint. As I recall, they were caught part way and never finished.

Prior year, somebody tapped into the PA system and put together a "radio program" that was broadcast over the PA system - it was great. Took them several hours to find it and disable it. The audio was really distorted but the effort was fantastic!

My brother was one of the ones who helped paint the dome like that. He was suspended from school for I don’t know how long.

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FCPS HS graduate, 1988.

The last day of school was a real celebration! We underclassmen were required to clean out our lockers and this involved opening your locker and tossing all papers and notebooks into the hallway. To add to the fun, you’d gleefully rip your spiral notebooks apart. We’d wade through the piles of papers in between classes and it made a loud swishing sound that I’ll always associate with the beginning of summer.

Then, it was off to Burke Lake or a quarry or a neighborhood pool or someone’s house.

I may have posted about this in this thread, my FCPS 6th grade party involved meeting in our classroom then all walking across the street to the neighborhood pool for a swimming party. My teacher wore a string bikini and spent the time sunbathing next to our male principal.

[Anonymous]

Flea market on Wisconsin ave near Western
Woodies
Super Giant opened on Rockville Pike.

[Anonymous]

Rive Guache loved their “French fries” and steak.

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Garfinkel's purple carpet.

Raleigh’s - smelled like Halston perfume.

[Anonymous]

What about Gifford ice cream shop, Community Paint and Hardware and the Charcoal Grill. Life was good back then

[Anonymous]

The cellar door