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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP and started kindergarten in 1974 in West Springfield. I wrote about the shacks and farm stand at the corner of Rolling and KM roads.

Vivid early memories were driving to Ft. Belvoir for medical care and to visit my dad at work there. His office was in one of the cluster of WWII era shacks seemingly in the middle of a field. The ID card issuing building was in that cluster as late as 1980 when I got my first ID card. We didn’t join the neighborhood pool but a few days a week our mom would drive us out to the Ft Belvoir OC pool. Also notable about Ft Belvoir, goats were fenced in under a water tower and I remember my dad taking me to see the goats and explaining that they ate the grass so no need for a lawn mower.

Back to school shopping meant ballet slippers and saddle shoes from Kinney, a red cardboard pencil box from Giant, my metal lunchbox  from People’s or Drug Fair. Itty Bitties were tiny erasers sold only at our school store (run by 5th and 6th graders & had a Dutch door w/ shelf) and my second grade teacher banned these from her classroom.

Watched fireworks display in the Kmart shopping center in downtown Springfield in a heavily wooded area perpendicular to KM road - undeveloped with only Kmart there circa 1976.

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Did you go to Laurel Ridge?![/quote]

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