"Where do you live?" "Oh we're in North Arlington"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I lived in North Arlington as a child in the 60s, it was quite upper class then, the houses across the street from mine backed onto the Washington GCC golf course. But then my parents got divorced and my mother moved us to Glen Carlyn, just south of the N vs S divider Rte 50 so it was a lesson in how the other half lives for us.

I much preferred Glen Carlyn to CC Hills. I preferred Kenmore to Williamsburg. I'm glad I went to Wakefield instead of Yorktown. We loved Glen Carlyn park and having a library and a community center and a 7-11 a few blocks away, you don't get that in CC Hills. In many ways it was just all better.

I have no memories of Ballston ever being trashy as some have said, we went there to shop at Hechts and to play Putt Putt golf and down to Clarendon to shop for shoes or go to Sears.

You may enjoy reading this, PP. Evidently, Ballston was Parkington. It sounds like it was up and coming in the 50s and 60s but then declined in 70s.

https://boundarystones.weta.org/2017/08/08/ballston-common-birth-death-rebirth-dc-areas-first-major-shopping-mall

That's correct - the metro really thwarted South Arlington growth.

[Anonymous]

I wish they’d run a metro line down Columbia pike. That would’ve been great

[Anonymous]

22207!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I lived in North Arlington as a child in the 60s, it was quite upper class then, the houses across the street from mine backed onto the Washington GCC golf course. But then my parents got divorced and my mother moved us to Glen Carlyn, just south of the N vs S divider Rte 50 so it was a lesson in how the other half lives for us.

I much preferred Glen Carlyn to CC Hills. I preferred Kenmore to Williamsburg. I'm glad I went to Wakefield instead of Yorktown. We loved Glen Carlyn park and having a library and a community center and a 7-11 a few blocks away, you don't get that in CC Hills. In many ways it was just all better.

I have no memories of Ballston ever being trashy as some have said, we went there to shop at Hechts and to play Putt Putt golf and down to Clarendon to shop for shoes or go to Sears.

You may enjoy reading this, PP. Evidently, Ballston was Parkington. It sounds like it was up and coming in the 50s and 60s but then declined in 70s.

https://boundarystones.weta.org/2017/08/08/ballston-common-birth-death-rebirth-dc-areas-first-major-shopping-mall

Thanks, that pretty much sums it all up! In the 80s and 90s we often took our kids to Ballston Common Mall to shop, eat, play video games, and go to the movies, it was a very popular place. In the 70s and 80s Seven Corners Shopping Center was also pretty popular and not far from my home in Glen Carlyn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. I'm in the DC area and I am not aware that North Arlington is more or less nice than other locations in Arlington.

Ha – that tells me you don’t know Arlington though

DP. Exactly. I live in close-in MD and “North Arlington” means nothing to me, either, except something vague about the missing middle. So I’m answer to OP’s question, people who use that phrase may think they’re conveying something, but for the most part they’re not.

I only learned about the "snobbery" of North Arlingtonians from DCUM
To me it's just Virginia