I grew up here and I remember .....
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Anonymous
| Us white kids with afro picks (combs) jammed into the back pocket of our straight leg levis - having just recently transitioned from exclusively flare bottom. Anyone else remember that? |
Anonymous
| In Friendship Heights, going to Fanny Farmer in the formerly Giant shopping plaza where Luis Vuitton now stands, and getting chocolate cigarettes. Good times. |
Anonymous
| The worlds best banana split at Giffords Ice Cream on Wisconsin Avenue in B-town. |
Anonymous
| Bruce Variety! In a 10 year old boy's mind, if they did not carry it, it must not be that important. If it cost more than $1.00, it must be rare and precious. If you could not carry it home on your bike, who cares? |
Anonymous
| Bubble gum cigarettes that had a paper wrapper and just enough flour on the gum so you could blow a puff or two. Probably subsidized by Phillip Morris. |
Anonymous
| A few of these posts are not very area specific, you could have gotten those in Fargo too. |
Anonymous
That may be true but I never left the Bethesda/Upper NW (and by NW I mean only Wisconsin Ave from Friendship Heights to Georgetown, plus the Uptown Theater) area so who cares what was going on in Fargo. |
Anonymous
| The Key theater. |
Anonymous
| The KB Baronet theatre on Wisconsin Ave. The Wiz played there forever. |
Anonymous
| When Glen Echo was an abandoned amusement park. Spooky! |
Anonymous
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When the homes at the sharp bend on Wilson just off River Rd were abandoned. We called them "ghost houses." Spooky Spooky.
(Now they are rebuilt and probably $800K cottages - Spooky Spooky Spooky ) |
Anonymous
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When the new "sex education" curriculum was released in 5th grade. Huge deal! Parents had to sign a permission slip to have you attend - they had boys and girls only and a mixed class.
NOTE TO SEX EDUCATORS - If you really want a 5th grade boy to learn the subject, make sure he first has a crush on his teacher. Miss Gibson. Yowza Yowza!! |
Anonymous
| Bethesda House of Billiards - I bet the pool tables had cancer from all the cigarettes smoked in that place. |
Anonymous
| Ten cent beer night at the Cap Center - profoundly rotten boxers scraped off the streets but a cheap buzz. First time in my life I ever had to drive my dad home. |
Anonymous
| Who was your favorite barber in B-town? Mine was Buzz Sproul - hands down the best!!! |