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

[Anonymous]

The greasman too on DC 101 and the HFestival

[Anonymous]

WPGC's tag line - where people get cash
Uncle Johny on Q107
HFS when it was on 102.3
When 94.7 came on the air
When 105.9 classic rock came on the air

[Anonymous]

Trash piling up in dc neighborhood streets during Marion Barry.

The gas station on Brookville in CC, MD

Roy Rogers isn't what it used to be.

[Anonymous]

Wow - I remember all this stuff.

Also going to the Fishmarket in Georgetown on weekends to dance to the Thriller video
going to Garrett's in Gtown on the other nights
in high school going to Third Edition to dance to Donna Summer (okay I am showing my age here)
That Bethesda was a total backwater and the only places to eat were the tastee diner and the hot shoppes

[Anonymous]

I remember hearing about the Lyons girls getting abducted from Wheaton Plaza. And we had Farrell's Ice Cream and Shakey's Pizza in Lanham (PG). Bob's Big Boy hot fudge cake...Hot Shoppes (at Landover Mall for us)
Garfinckel's was as fancy as it got. Woodies!...I'm ODing on nostaglia myself.

[Anonymous]

Love this thread ...

Cafe Med in Georgetown
Munchies on Wisconsin Ave.
Tung Bor for dim sum in Wheaton
The drugstore next to Horace Mann that I could walk to
I loved the red bar stools and the wagon booths at Roy Rogers and eating with my grandmother at the Hot Shoppes in the Barlow Building!

Great memories

[Anonymous]

I also love this thread..

here are a few more:

930 F Street!! and those dingy stairs down to the basement

Little Tavern

People's Drug and Dart Drug

The Biograph (and so many other great movie theaters)

Wheaton Plaza before they put a roof on and made it a mall. Orange Julius

When Silver Spring was a zombietown.

I remember cutting my knee on a piece of glass in the big parking lot at the rundown street corner of 18th & Columbia, NW

ahhh....good old days!

[Anonymous]

Velatis Caramels and Wellesley Fudge cupcakes at the candy counter in Woodies in Chevy Chase
Magic Pan in Friendship Heights
Herman's World of Sports
That the red line used to end at Dupont Circle

[Anonymous]

For a bunch of old farts - you guys have awesome memories!

- The 18 yo drinking age in DC being raised to 21 and I was one of the lucky ones who was grandfathered. Had to have a profile picture on my drivers license.
- Hahns shoe store
- The big - lifesize plastic McDonalds characters on top of the roof at the Mcdondalds in Wheaton. My class (Einstein HS, of course) would steal them and somehow drag them and put them on top of the school roof.
- The Zoo bar NEVER carded
- Chicagos nite club
-Lulu's club
- 25 cent pitchers at the Vous
- $5 all you can drink nites at various bars
- Mad Dog
-Lake forest mall was upscale

[Anonymous]

The drug bust at Whitman where the police dressed up as painters and hung out on the hill and then arrested all the kids.

[Anonymous]

All the bars from my college days...
Charing Cross in G'town, where you could drink at any age
Anastasia's (upstairs where it's now Banana Republic)
Champions
Sports Fans
Crazy Horse
Tracks
La Cage
The old 930 club
Fifth Column/The Vault
Lulu's
The Roy Rogers in G'town (now Restoration Hardware!)

When Chinatown, Columbia Heights, and the area around Metro Center were SCARY and full of run down buildings

[Anonymous]

LOL at Trax/Tracks--we used to sneak in there in HS and think we were the BOMB. .

I remember driving downtown with my family to see museums, Cherry BLossoms, etc and just pulling right in to one of the many open parking spaces.

[Anonymous]

Also, my dad moonlighted at Dart Drug (a drugstore which sold lumber) and used to drive us around on the little lumber tractors. So awesome.

[Anonymous]

Yes when the land past Potomac Village was actual farms, not (Name here) Farm Estates.
When the Potomac Community Center opened up and was an Elementary School in the "open classroom" format.
When Bethesda Coop was Bethesda Ave Coop and was on Bethesda Ave., not in Cabin John.
Hermans Sports stores.
When a girl was killed (with an ice pick) and found under the Cabin John Bridge (the real one, not the one over the Potomac River)
The Red Sea, my favorite Ethiopian restaurant.
When they gave out Jumbo stamps at the "Super Giant"
S&H green stamps
Putt putt golf near Congressional Plaza
When Hudson Trail Outfitters was named Hudson Bay Outfitters but had to change their name due to HBO (Home Box Office) becoming popular

[Anonymous]

These postings are great... what a trip down memory lane! And love that there are so many locals!

Lazarus shoes in Bethesda where they always put "cookies" in my shoes so I could not wear them right away but I did get a balloon.

The many iterations of Le Ferme (before it became that restaurant) including a dinner theater with a magic show.

Going to the Woolly Mammoth near 14th street when it was surrounded by auto repair garages and there was no Whole Foods in sight!

Shakey's Pizza in Bethesda for birthday parties.

When the corner of Wisconsin and East-West Highway was just a Hot Shoppe, Dart Drugs, Crown Books and an auto supply store.

When DC had NO restaurant scene.

Of course, as others have said, the Greeseman, DC101, Peoples Drugs, when the Redskins were good, RFK when the seats rocked, Biograph Theater in Georgetown....