| Tastee Diner after a night out with great friends. Oh, please tell me TD's is still there!! |
| When my skateboard was really made from a piece of hand-sawed board from my dad's workship and the wheels taken off my sisters' skates (clip-on with the leather straps to hold them to your shoes of course). Front wheels came off once going down the hill on Newmarket. Face + sidewalk = ouch |
| Captain 20 and the gerbil races! I also seem to remember Captain 20 landing behind my school in a helecopter once...........or is this a dream-turned-rememberance. Can anybody else remember such an event? |
Wow! I remember playing on that! Thank you for the memory!! My dad was away in a foreign prison then and I can remember my mom letting me run up and down the big ramp into the ark as she cried. |
| The Air Rights Building? Is it still there? It was built over the train tracks going underneath Wisconsin Avenue so they only had to purchase the "air rights" when they built it. Are the train tracks still there? |
For some reason this brings tears to my eyes. |
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Anyone remember Congressional Elementary School before it was demolished to make way for an assisted living facility?
Talk about a demographics switch! |
| When the police did not have radar to tell how fast you were going. How did they ever get convictions just following people and matching their speed? |
| A girl named Cathy who used to let the boys look up her skirt and beyond on the playground. I wonder if she remembers this as clearly as I do? I wonder what she is doing now? |
And maybe this link will make you smile........http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7i5KdtfJM8 |
| When the Big Mac first came out. They seemed so huge! Have they shrunk since or have we Americans just gotten used to outrageously larger burgers? |
| Standing in line at the school nurse's office to receive my sugar cube polio vaccination. |
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When Candy Cane City playground really had candy cane decorated playground equipment.
When Wheaton Plaza was an outdoor mall and Montgomery Mall had weird water fountains inside. When Bethesda Avenue was some sort of cement factory. When going to Lowell's toy store on Wisconsin (right about where Modell's is now) was the highlight of my year. When climbing the Whitman dome was a right of passage. |
More old DC commercials: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrYJbdMgqbA |
fyi....he's still hot. |