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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was growing up in the 70s and 80s, Bethesda was full of families with a dad who was a fed. Three maybe four bedrooms upstairs. If you were lucky, a little tv room addition off the side and your parents had their own bathroom. [/quote] yes I think about this so often! Grew up in Bethesda in the late 70s through 80s. Back then, there were many single income families with 3-4 kids. A fed salary could buy a 3-4 bedroom house, take 2 modest vacations a year, and send all the kids to college. Those were the days! Now you have to be rich to be able to do all those things, especially the college for 3-4 kids part.[/quote] Do you remember the Shakey's restaurant across the street from the Bethesda metrorail station?[/quote] NP. I certainly remember the Shakey's: it was the BOMB! Hot Shoppes wasn't quite so much my taste. Chesapeake Bay Seafood house seemed great, too. Yeah, as another 70s and 80s denizen of Bethesda, it's odd thinking how many single mothers could afford it. And a lot of those women were still doing 'women's work': nursing, nonprofits, etc. There still were big time lawyers and politicians and lots of people who went on to make MUCHO bucks. But it wasn't the current monoculture.[/quote] Do you remember the convenience store directly across the street? It was always full of young shady looking individuals who probably went on to inherit their parent's Bethesda houses. [/quote] Are you talking about the old school Dart Drug on E-W HW?[/quote] I am pretty sure it was a convenience store with a gas station in front but I could be mistaken. I was quite young at the time. [/quote]
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