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

Anonymous wrote: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 .

No kidding. There are so many transplants here. People give me weird looks when they ask where I'm from and I say Fairfax.

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10/04/2010 22:07

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when there was a kiddy train I would ride at Lake Fairfax

and Lake Fairfax had a regular pool, not a Swimmin' Hole water park

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10/04/2010 22:18

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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 .

No kidding. There are so many transplants here. People give me weird looks when they ask where I'm from and I say Fairfax.

It's because you're from Fairfax.

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10/04/2010 22:24

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the Wax Museum

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10/05/2010 08:52

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The Cellar Door, Sunshine House T-shirts

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10/05/2010 10:30

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Anonymous wrote:

Some of the things mentioned here are such a teeny, tiny slice of a pattern of socializing--yet many of us were repeating the same loops passing each at different steps or phases of life, having many of the same experiences and having similar reactions positive or negative. Yet DC suffers such an intense identity crisis. It has no unique cuisine, music, sport team, no distinct unifying theme. There is a general disdain for all things distinctly DC outside of DC. Yet, the memories here are being recalled with such fondness.

I wonder why there is no palpable pride about being from DC--rather just a derision of all local processes that are uniquely local?

Cuisine = half-smoke or Ethiopian. I've read we have the largest population of Ethiopians outside of Ehtiopia.
Music = go-go; and while i have no experience with it, i've always had the impression that the dc independent music scene is pretty good
I don't know what a "unique" sports team is, but I think as a city we're more unified around our teams than say, Miami.

In short, I don't know what you're talking about - everyone I know from here is very proud of being from DC.

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10/05/2010 10:44

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