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

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Memco's
Waxie Maxie
Kemp Mill
Dixie Pig

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When Potomac was horse country

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Anonymous wrote:

...and when the thought of going out to Dulles Airport was a major road trip!

And hm. I still call it Shirley Highway! I also still call National Airport National Airport...without "Reagan" in front of it!

Yes, just like Arlington Hospital will always be Arlington not Virginia Hospital Center.

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Bob's Big Boys?

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My friend worked at Bob's Big Boys in HS.
It gives me this cheesy warm feeling to see so many locals posting. Sometimes we feel like the last actual people from here .

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:5th column, Tracks, Poseurs, Little Tavern at 3am, Commander Salamander, Bayou, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Perry's, Fishmarket. Later on in the late 80s early 90s..the Fox and the Hound in Adams Morgan had the cheapest drinks. Red Sea for Ethiopian.

Does anyone else remember when Abercrombie and Finch in Georgetown Park used to be ultra conservative..sort of a faux english safari meets LLBean style? My parents liked it and used to buy us preppy looking wool sweaters.

. I do! Wasn't banana republic all safari too?

YES - both of these things. My mom bought me a felt bowler hat at the A&C in GP when I was in middle school. (Never wore it, but I bet it is still in her house somewhere.)

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Wow, I can really tell I have lived here along time from some of these posts....

"The 18 yo drinking age in DC being raised to 21 and I was one of the lucky ones who was grandfathered. Had to have a profile picture on my drivers license." - I have had people NOT believe me when I tell them about this...I remember when the law changed.

"Any one remember the oil crisis? showing my age but i would wait in line half a day to fill the tank for my parents. you could only get it filled every other day (odds and evens). " - I remember crying and telling my mom I didn't want to go to the gas station!!!!!!!!!!!!

""Nobody bodders me!"
"Nobody bodders me either!" *big wink*" - that kid has to be in his 40's now!!!!

"And watching WTTG channel reruns with those funky commercials all summer long. (Old navy knocked them off.) " - I LOVED watching those shows in summer. This was channel 5 before it became FOX and decidely more cool.

All of these:
Memco's
Waxie Maxie
Kemp Mill
Dixie Pig
Herman's World of Sports

Plus:

Zayre and Montgomery Ward

I remember the People's Drug having a resturant in it as well as Montgomery Ward.

I remember when Kingstowne was big fields and nothing else. You drove a little down Van Dorn past Edison high school and the street ended.

The skateboard park thing behind Springfield Mall.

Watching news coverage of the plane going into the 14th Street Bridge

Commericals for a little amusement park in MD that had something to do with Storybook characters but my parents wouldn't take me

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Holly Farms Chicken
LandMark Mall was outdoors
Erols

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Anonymous wrote:When Potomac was horse country

And when Clarendon was nothing but used car lots.

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The storybook place was the ENCHANTED FOREST in Ellicott City, MD

ODD/EVEN DAYS, DRIVING TO BEACH, RUNNING OUT OF GAS, IT WASN'T MY DAY, BOUGHT GAS ANYHOW, DIDN'T GET CAUGHT.

DC101 BROADCASTED RIGHT OFF BELTWAY ON GA AVE., SKIP SCHOOL, DRIVE THERE, PICK UP ALBUM I WON ON AIR...

FRIENDLY'S

HARMONY HUT

CAPTAIN 20

COUNT GORE DUVAL

WONDERAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Hechinger's

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HOP IN THE BUGGY AND DRIVE HER TO IVERSON MALL..........GOOD LORD........

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ROOOOOT... Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band.

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Heh, Root Boy Slim - I love it.

DC101 and WWDC AM 1260 (Lew Katz, anyone?) broadcast from the stone house on Brookeville Road by Silver Stars Gymnastics. I hadn't remembered it until I went to a birthday party there recently!

[Anonymous]

Does anyone remember the restaurant Olga's in Lakeforest and Tyson's?