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

[Anonymous]

Remember Memco on Rockville Pike where Micr Center is? Memco wae the only store there with a huge parking lot. You had to have a membership card.

Korvettes on Rockville Pike

Super Giant on the Pike when it sold clothes, toys and food along with most anything else you could need.

The Pepsi bottling plant on the corner of Twinbrook Pkwy and Rockville Pike.

The bridge over the train tracks on Twinbrook Pkwy used to have curvy steel over the road and looked like a real bridge.

Houlihans in Georgetown

Biograph

Rockville Mall

Congressional Roller Skating Rink with organ music

Putt Putt and its arcade on Rollins Ave.

I Magnun

The old Eatery in White Flint that had two entrances and raised seating areas.

Lake Forest Mall's ice rink

The smell of cow manure outside of the Mc Donalds on 355 in Rockville that had the train and a farm across the street with lots of cows.

The old Wheaton Park and Cabin John Park Playground eqipmesnt like Cinderellas pumpkin wth horses, the 4seater that went around and around with two statinary seats and two that went up and down.

[Anonymous]

Louie's Rock City
Fairfax Va.
Was built out of an old A&P Grocery store. Huge stage and hot waitresses.......and LOUD!!!
Got firebombed twice. Closed forever after the second firebomb.

[Anonymous]

I grew up in Silver Spring and Graduated from Blair 1979. I remember the Good Humor Man and Jack and Jill Ice Cream Trucks. Going to Birthday parties at the Enchanted Forest in Ellicott City. Wileys Ice Cream in Langley Park. I remember my first year at the University of Maryland there were beer parties in front of every dorm with huge beer trucks parked every couple feet. Dancing at the Big Apple in Lanham, The Paragon and Bastile in College Park, The Paragon II, Abbey Road, Pall Mall in D.C. and everyonce in a while we'd take a drive out to Reflections and Martiniques in Baltimore. I remember only one Chesapeake Bay Bridge and tolls on both sides and once in O.C. I remember the haunted house at the end of the pier which was the scariest around. I remember hip huggers and bodysuits, Farrah Fawcett Hair. And when I was real young, I remember Claire and Coco and the Romper Room. and I'm only 51!!!!

[Anonymous]

Georgetown bars on M: Winston's and Crazy Horse
A music venue near the SW waterfront called Wax Museum
9:30 when it was on F St, Fifth Column
15 Minute Club
Roxy near Dupont Circle

[Anonymous]

Higgers
Tasty Bites
Shakey's
Peking
Peoples
chevy chase shop
old broad branch mkt
Highs on brookeville
army distaff hall
american cafe
houlihans
tilas
round table
t-bones
glover parties
battery kimble parties
getting on the list at smith point (sp)
yacht club (the matchmaker)

so many more...

[Anonymous]

Shakey's Pizza
Dart Drug
High's Ice Cream (and stores)

[Anonymous]

Casual Corner, Arthur Treachers, Erterrs in Silver Spring next to the old Montgomery Blair, we used to buy malt duck and Boone's Farm Apple Wine from there before we turned 18.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Silver Spring and Graduated from Blair 1979. I remember the Good Humor Man and Jack and Jill Ice Cream Trucks. Going to Birthday parties at the Enchanted Forest in Ellicott City. Wileys Ice Cream in Langley Park. I remember my first year at the University of Maryland there were beer parties in front of every dorm with huge beer trucks parked every couple feet. Dancing at the Big Apple in Lanham, The Paragon and Bastile in College Park, The Paragon II, Abbey Road, Pall Mall in D.C. and everyonce in a while we'd take a drive out to Reflections and Martiniques in Baltimore. I remember only one Chesapeake Bay Bridge and tolls on both sides and once in O.C. I remember the haunted house at the end of the pier which was the scariest around. I remember hip huggers and bodysuits, Farrah Fawcett Hair. And when I was real young, I remember Claire and Coco and the Romper Room. and I'm only 51!!!!

I love this! I'm 40, but my older sister graduated in 79. I remember her getting all dressed up -- feathered hair and all -- to go to the Big Apple, also the Vous in College Park (Vous shoes). I recently took my kids out to Clark's Elioak Farm, where some of the Enchanted Forest stuff is, -- so not the same!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Box was my music channel. I remember Peoples Drug. Anyone remember the guy who hired a hitman to kill his wife and disabled child in Silver Spring, was it? I cannot remember which area exactly but it became a lifetime movie. I also remember a young girl (Jennifer or Jessica) disappearing when she went to get potato chips but I don't know is remember if that was local or not.

Don't remember the Jessica/Jennifer incident, but do remember the hired hitman. And yes, I think the family was in Silver Spring. - It became a lifetime movie? If anyone remembers the movie's name, would you post?

I definitely remember the Silver Spring hit man. Millie (mom) lived in my townhouse development in Chestnut Hills before she got the settlement that allowed her to move to the larger house in another part of Silver Spring, where she was killed. So sad. I think the father was arrested, tried, convicted and then the whole thing was overturned on appeal. He may be on the street as we breathe.

The settlement was for her disabled child and that is the money that the dad ended up getting (or was trying to get).

[Anonymous]

Hechts in Montgomery Mall. Used to buy the cheapest/nicest baby/preschool clothes there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel like a lot of posters on here are - gulp - pretty old (?). I mean, I am 40, and people on here are posting about doing something (as an adult) in the 70s or 80s? I was 7 in 1980. And again, I am 40, so no spring chicken. Some of you all have memories that make me think you are more like my parents' ages? 60s or so? Not saying that is wrong, I am just curious to see people of this age group on DCUM? Who knew. Oh well. Enjoying reading some of the memories! Thx!

I'm not one of the PPs, but I'm 52 with teenage kids now. That means I was in high school in the late 70s and graduated college in 1982. BTW, I don't consider myself geriatric

No, and I would not consider a 52 yo geriatric either. Sorry it came across that way. I guess age differences are more pronounced when you are younger, ya know? So that is why it is jumping out at me. Someone who was doing something like going to a job after college (at age 22) in 1982 would seem sort of "yikes" to me if I was 9 at that time. Right? So, that is probably why I am noticing it with some of the memories on here. But again, on the street today, wouldn't think that way.

You don't talk like that IRL do you? You still sound 9 years old.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Remember Memco on Rockville Pike where Micr Center is? Memco wae the only store there with a huge parking lot. You had to have a membership card.

Korvettes on Rockville Pike

Super Giant on the Pike when it sold clothes, toys and food along with most anything else you could need.

The Pepsi bottling plant on the corner of Twinbrook Pkwy and Rockville Pike.

The bridge over the train tracks on Twinbrook Pkwy used to have curvy steel over the road and looked like a real bridge.

Houlihans in Georgetown

Biograph

Rockville Mall

Congressional Roller Skating Rink with organ music

Putt Putt and its arcade on Rollins Ave.

I Magnun

The old Eatery in White Flint that had two entrances and raised seating areas.

Lake Forest Mall's ice rink

The smell of cow manure outside of the Mc Donalds on 355 in Rockville that had the train and a farm across the street with lots of cows.

The old Wheaton Park and Cabin John Park Playground eqipmesnt like Cinderellas pumpkin wth horses, the 4seater that went around and around with two statinary seats and two that went up and down.

You forgot W.Bell!!

[Anonymous]

Unsolved disappearance of the Lyon sisters. What a tragedy.

[Anonymous]

absolutely best thread ever

[Anonymous]

http://touch.washingtoncitypaper.com/wcp/#!/entry/hitsville-usa-as-a-motown-wonder-boy-lawrence-horn-lived,50e642a4d7fc7b5670d489dc/3

Fascinating article on Lawrence Horn, who hired the hitman to murder his disabled son.