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

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Anonymous wrote:Winning the 1974 Marriot Superbowl with the BCC boys club intermediate team. Televised locally. Still have the jacket. Seems to have shrunk. Well done, Coach Hardt - may you RIP.

Was part of the team that got in trouble for weight loss pills back then on Coach Glisky and Millers teams. Did the program in.

Diuretics and laxatives were handed out on one of my teams before weigh-in. Also played for Miller a different year. Dickheadious Maximus.

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Anonymous wrote:Did everyone on this thread grow up in Bethesda? Do you live there now?

I am amazed at the number of current Whitman parents who went there themselves.

Nope. Cleveland Park. Which was decidedly uncool and staunchly middle class. All the cool kids lived in Spring Valley or Foxhall.

I remember Pappagallo's in G-town and in White Flint. The Lemon Twist is amazingly still around! Bermuda bags (monogrammed of course) were de riguer, as were gros grain ribbons in our ponytails. Also Topsiders, NOT docksiders.

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Learning to swim at the Merrimac pool on the "other" end of Pyle Road.

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The 1976 Suntan Klan

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Free concerts at American University

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Anonymous wrote:........being a safety patrol from Whittier Woods elementary. Remember the orange belts you would wear? Do they still have safety patrols?

Biggest day on the job........diligently fighting crime and upholding justice on the corner of Maiden Lane and Holiday Terrace. Two guys had a car accident elsewhere. They got in an argument and one fled the scene. The other jumped on the hood. They came down Maiden lane at 70 mph with the car swirving to knock the guy off the hood. It worked. Yuck. I would have been able to prevent the whole thing if I had watched more Gomer Pyle....."Citizen's Arrest!! Citizen's Arrest!!"

Yes, yes! My son is a safety patrol and has a fluorescent green one!

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1976, my very first concert - LIttle River Band

Summer of 1981 - Springsteen, the Stones.

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My Mom sewing all the bridesmaids' dresses for my older brother's wedding....

My Mom sewing my older 3 sisters culotte skirts in the 60's......

Mom, you are awesome! (but I am kind of glad that once I was old enough to care about clothing, you could afford to buy me stuff from Britches)

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Taking my prom date to Ponderosa on Rockville Pike for dinner. (we were headed for the Prime Rib just down the street but they shut down the week before) So embarrassing carrying a tray with the big plastic number on it in my tux.

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The old Toys R Us on Rockville Pike where the Party City is now.

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The Christmas windows at Woodies downtown and the 'secret shop' where kids could shop for gifts for their family on their own.

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Anonymous wrote:A popular style of jacket called a "Peter's" jacket. I had a knock off from E.J. Korvette's on Rockville Pike. (which was rumored to stand for Eight Jewish Korean Veterans)

I forgot about my Peter's Jacket. I had one and we always used to shop at E. J Korvettes for back to school supplies. I used to love that. And then on to J.C. Penneys in Congressional Plaza for new underwear. And then lunch at Roy Rogers or Hot Shoppes Jr in Congressional.

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All the guys in HS wearing white puka shell necklaces. What was with that?

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Trolley tracks and cobblestone streets in Georgetown. The trolleys were gone when I was around.

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Pitchers at Trav's Inn on McArthur after touch football games and in summer evenings.