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

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We bought cloves in Georgetown at Electromax. Don't know if it's still there.

Ha! I bought a fake ID there (to get into Tracks and Fifth Column of course) along with my first bowl.

Oh, RIP Electromax. I think it's Lululemon or something chic now. Home of my first fake i.d. too!

[Anonymous]

What about Phantasmagoria (or better known as Phantaz? Started out as the coolest indie record store and then changed locals and in the evening was a club. I saw some pretty cool ska bands there.

[Anonymous]

Penguin Feather.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Merry Go Round!

Wasn't this the place that sold parachute pants?

I believe you may be thinking of Mandy's.

[Anonymous]

Going to the toy shoppe at Sears on Wisconsin Avenue and then watching the television tower at the (then) wtop-tv lit up with christmas lights.

[Anonymous]

Record Lords in Bethesda -- and the back room Headshop.

[Anonymous]

Whitman grad here and yes the drug bust did happen, I think it was 1979-80

[Anonymous]

One Step Down - anyone remember that place?

[Anonymous]

WHFS

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Cavalier Pizza, GD Graffiti's, Hungry Hermans, Britches of Georgetown....... I was a doorman at the Wax Museum...I saw (and Met)..Boy George and culture club, Crosby stills nash, Tina Turner, Men at Work, Missing Persons, Kix, Eddie Grant, Leon Redbone, John Prine, Steppenwolf, Jeery Lee lewis, BB king, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eurythmics, Elvis Costello, Johnny Winter,The band, Berlin, Iggy Pop, Ko Ko Taylor, Albert King. .....It was only open 2 years.

[Anonymous]

When Red Lion row at GW was really little houses and stores, not just a facade on the face of a building.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
One Step Down - anyone remember that place?

Yes, me and my buddy were asked "Are you family?", so we went in saying "We are family" and tried to pick up some girls before we realized where we were. Blast from the past!!

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Did any of you wear "Chinese Shoes?" You'd buy them at a little shop near the eatery at Montgomer Mall.

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Saturday morning kid movies at the Avalon.
Candy sold by the pound at G.C.Murphy.
Drinking at Mr. Smith's in Georgetown - they NEVER carded anyone.

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WGTB-FM, and their neverending war with the Georgetown U. administration.
Buying used records at Bread & Roses in Dupont Circle.