Your memories of white flint

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Anonymous wrote:I went a lot in the early 2000s and it wasn't what it had been in its heyday but it was still pretty good--Borders was there, the Cheesecake Factory, Bloomingdales. It was vibrant enough...

Cheesecake Factory is not old white flint. Old white flint was I Magnum, the cobble stone street scape tucked away on the ground floor and the foriginal food court with mushroom decor, fish and chips, individual hand tossed pizza and Chinese chicken salads.

Yes, this was old White Flint.

Pappagallo, Cedar Post, Mini Georgetown on the top floor, Over the Rainbow, the bar/restaurant in the middle on the top floor. My father would drop me and my friends off and go up there to read his paper and have lunch. It was the beginning of the end when they brought Payless Shoe Store in.

[Anonymous]

When White Flint opened, it was HOT stuff. Wow, we couldn't wait to go there. It was a full day trip from Mount Vernon, going all the way to Rockville! My grandmother was coming to town and she timed her trip around the opening of White Flint. My sisters and I went with there our mom and grandmother.

Mom and our grandmother discovered the either Saks or Neimans, and we spent a lot of time there while they shopped for Saint John's outfits. They each bought several and the sales lady in the couture section thought that she had died and landed in Heaven.

Then we had lunch at a little place that wasn't in the food court. They used Perrier bottles for bud vases. My mom and grandma thought that was just the cutest thing. We all ordered Perrier with our lunches and I didn't like it because it was too bubbly. It was a day I will remember fondly.

My grandmother was going on to her second home in Wisconsin after she visited us, and she was planning a party. She wasn't sure if she could find Perrier there so we bought a full case from the restaurant. We went home, emptied all the bottles and packed them very carefully so that she could take them with her to Wisconsin. She carried the case on her lap on the airplane. When she landed, she handed the case to the driver picking her up, and he DROPPED it in the middle of O'Hare. My grandmother was quite sad that after all that effort she didn't have any Perrier bottles to use for bud vases, like we had seen at that little restaurant at the White Flint Mall.

In later years it got a little seedy and was sad. But in its heyday, it was super cool and the place to be!

[Anonymous]

Does anyone remember a clothing store they used to have in malls like lakeforest. There’d be a hole in the outside wall that was a circle and it was carpeted and kids would sometimes sit in it? May have even been GAP but way before it’s current logo

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone remember a clothing store they used to have in malls like lakeforest. There’d be a hole in the outside wall that was a circle and it was carpeted and kids would sometimes sit in it? May have even been GAP but way before it’s current logo

the children’s place

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It was beautiful when it first opened. We would go there for the food court. I wish I could find a picture of it. It was long and had so many options. Nothing like the neon, tiny food court that was there more recently. WF was there over 40 years but for me the time passed in a blink of an eye and it still feels weird that it's gone.

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What happened to WF? I hadn’t been to it since 2007

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When White Flint opened, it was HOT stuff. Wow, we couldn't wait to go there. It was a full day trip from Mount Vernon, going all the way to Rockville! My grandmother was coming to town and she timed her trip around the opening of White Flint. My sisters and I went with there our mom and grandmother.

Mom and our grandmother discovered the either Saks or Neimans, and we spent a lot of time there while they shopped for Saint John's outfits. They each bought several and the sales lady in the couture section thought that she had died and landed in Heaven.

Then we had lunch at a little place that wasn't in the food court. They used Perrier bottles for bud vases. My mom and grandma thought that was just the cutest thing. We all ordered Perrier with our lunches and I didn't like it because it was too bubbly. It was a day I will remember fondly.

My grandmother was going on to her second home in Wisconsin after she visited us, and she was planning a party. She wasn't sure if she could find Perrier there so we bought a full case from the restaurant. We went home, emptied all the bottles and packed them very carefully so that she could take them with her to Wisconsin. She carried the case on her lap on the airplane. When she landed, she handed the case to the driver picking her up, and he DROPPED it in the middle of O'Hare. My grandmother was quite sad that after all that effort she didn't have any Perrier bottles to use for bud vases, like we had seen at that little restaurant at the White Flint Mall.

In later years it got a little seedy and was sad. But in its heyday, it was super cool and the place to be!

It must have been I. Magnin because there was no Saks or Neiman’s in White Flint.

[Anonymous]

If anyone wants to be reminded of what malls were like in the 1980s, there was a twilight zone episode , a remake of the mannequin one , but made in the 1980s, again called The After Hours https://youtu.be/qlBdz_jIsqs

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Got fired from that Bloomies. I've outlived you sucker!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I ran into the hooker I was in love with there

I think I know which one

What was her name?

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I grew up in the 80's and White Flint was always where we went to get our 'official' Santa pics. The ones in our matching Christmas sweaters that we would send to relatives. I also remember the food court seemed so amazing compared to other malls.

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The elevator always seemed so fancy with the greenery around it and the fountain. I always parked by Lord & Taylor. The first time I ever got pulled over was while driving there to try on prom dresses (I had a taillight out)- on Rockville Pike.

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Anonymous wrote:What happened to WF? I hadn’t been to it since 2007

Owners let all the leases expire or found shady ways to terminate leases so they could demolish it an redevelop a mixed use retail center. But now they’re not doing anything with the land and it’s an overgrown field with a chain link fence around it.

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Anonymous wrote:I got my first blowjob in the movie theater on the 3rd floor. Good times indeed

That is not sex.

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My friend Debbie and I skipped school to be at White Flint on opening day in 1977. We were thrilled by the glass elevators, the 12 different "gourmet" places to dine in The Eatery, and the amazing shops. Wilson's Leather, James III (my father's long-time shopping addiction), the cobblestone walkways in little Georgetown. That amazing little shop on the third floor with beautiful Sandicast sculptures and other artsy stuff was a frequent Christmas shopping destination. We met Desi Arnaz signing copies of his book at B. Dalton Bookseller too! We saw Alien at the theater there and had dinner at Wendy's ("hot and juicy" hamburgers indeed - and those old-timey newspaper table tops were so fun). My dad could always find a parking spot right near the door. I don't know how he did it. White Flint was a place where I bonded with my parents, we visited often and it was always special.