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[quote=Anonymous][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. 
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Are you talking about the old school Dart Drug on E-W HW?[/quote]

If I remember correctly the store was located right where the Round House Theatre is located today. The entrance doors still look the same. I remember seeing lots of shady looking teenagers around there trying to score either cigarettes or alcohol. Some of them must have successfully made underage purchases because I would see them behind BCC HS (this was years ago before the remodel) where the old basketball courts were standing around hanging out drinking and smoking. They were several years older then me so I would stay far away and not go anywhere near them.[/quote]

There was both a Dart and Crown Books (same family!) where the Round House is now. It's was for decades a hangout area for dissolute youth. I remember a now nonagenarian world-class scientist lamenting how he thought his slacker son had brain damage from his youthful experiments, but because his father is pompous, too, he also mentioned that his son and friends read books out of the Crown Book's dumpster there![/quote]

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