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

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Britches of Georgetown (that I went to in Springfield Mall!). I thought I was hot stuff wearing those rugby shirts.
Georgetown Cotton--another Springfield Mall store. Very Bohemian clothing.
Memco
Bradlees
Finishing The Pig Trough at Farrell's and the huge drum they would play when they'd parade around you.

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Geargetown Leather. Had custom Jesus sandals made there. Yes, they were called that in the 70s.

[Anonymous]

^ I had those!! Wish I had kept them.

I remember the roller coaster at Glen Echo, has that been mentioned?

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Hahns Shoes
The tea room at the Lord & Taylor in Friendship Heights
I Magnin
When there was just one floor at Tysons
When there was no Fairfax county parkway
Chinese food in Chinatown
When there was no Ballston Mall -- just a standalone Hechts
Bread and Circus
The interim terminal at National
Before the renovation at Union Station
When the red line didn't suck
The old 9:30
Hechingers
Hechts
Woodies
Garfinkels
Shopping at Woodies downtown at Christmas
The giant crown books by White Flint
Olssons
Downtown Bethesda before it looked like Clarendon
Clarendon when it was a dump with a Sears

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Anonymous wrote:Gifford's Ice Cream and the little pitchers of hot fudge sauce

When the blue Marymount building in Ballston was the blue CIA building in the same spot but the area was not named Ballston until the metro was open

No Metro subway or bus system but Roy O Chalk's bus system

Clarendon's Sears Garden Center (now Whole Foods), Grand Union Grocery (now Gold's Gym) Kann's Department Store (now George Mason Law School), Parkington Shopping Center (now the unfortunate Ballston Mall)

Little Caledonia in Georgetown when all the daffy ladies worked there

Torts in ladies lingerie!

[Anonymous]

Bish Thompsons
Sir Walter Raleigh
McDonalds Raw Bar
Trav's Inn (already mentioned)
Field Parties in Potomac (when it was mostly farm land)
The Psych Deli
Painting the Dome like a Boob
Streaking
Lounging at the Merrimac Pool
BBC Football
Rugby - the sport, not the shirt

[Anonymous]

anyone remember Anchor Inn in Wheaton?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What an absolute hellhole the Chinatown area was - you wouldn't dare step in that area 20 years ago, even in broad daylight......

Damn - I do remember that!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to work a Trolley Car Pizza! I was a senior in High School at the time ...1980-1981

DH and I grew up here. When we give directions to each other the Trolly Car Pizza is often a point of reference. Down Ga Ave, a few blocks past Trolley Car. Friends who are listening have no idea what we're talking about. We also use Juvenile Sales as a reference point. And the other day I had to tell him to pick the kids up at Wheel A While. I tried giving him directions to Bounce U but he wasn't getting it. I told him Wheel A While and he needed no further instruction.

So funny!

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I went to a restaurant (Birch and Barley....highly recommend) on 14 St downtown with my wife, my daughter and her boyfriend and boyfriend's parents Saturday night. We walked around 14th St and stopped in at a bar afterwards. Wonderful vibe. Can you imagine taking your wife and daughter to 14th St when I was in high school (no wife or kids then of course) back in 1977? That place was a grimy red light district.

What a nice change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bish Thompsons
Sir Walter Raleigh
McDonalds Raw Bar
Trav's Inn (already mentioned)
Field Parties in Potomac (when it was mostly farm land)
The Psych Deli
Painting the Dome like a Boob
Streaking
Lounging at the Merrimac Pool
BBC Football
Rugby - the sport, not the shirt

My brother was one of the boob painters-! (the Whitman high school gym dome)
He and his friends had to clean it up

[Anonymous]

Does anybody watch Mark Halperin on Bloomberg's "With all Due Respect"? Whitman Grad - from B-town.

It is one of the few shows where I can listen to Dems talking with Dems about Dems and really learn something. (OK, so obviously I am not a Dem and of course they interview some Pubs.)

I love it that a Whitman grad was suspended from his talking head gig for saying that 'Obama was kind of a dick.' - referring to a specific news conference. He shows the good ole Whitman chutzpah!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Dancing at Studebakers on Rockville Pike.
Anyone else?

yes! ha!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Hahns Shoes
The tea room at the Lord & Taylor in Friendship Heights
I Magnin
When there was just one floor at Tysons
When there was no Fairfax county parkway
Chinese food in Chinatown
When there was no Ballston Mall -- just a standalone Hechts
Bread and Circus
The interim terminal at National
Before the renovation at Union Station
When the red line didn't suck
The old 9:30
Hechingers
Hechts
Woodies
Garfinkels
Shopping at Woodies downtown at Christmas
The giant crown books by White Flint
Olssons
Downtown Bethesda before it looked like Clarendon
Clarendon when it was a dump with a Sears

Anyone remember the aviary inside Tyson's mall?

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Chesapeake Bay Seafood House. Get all the seafood you can eat! (When!)