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[quote=Anonymous]I grew up in Bethesda

-My first job was at Swensen's in the mall on the corner of Woodmont and Old Gtown, where the carousel and the carny mirrors were.
-My second job was at Woodies in the juniors dept.
-Garfinkels in Spring Valley, very classy entrance with awning.
-Whitman looked like a ratty old school.  Now it looks like Nordstrom.

Westbard Shopping Center in the 1970's.  The architecture has not changed much if at all but the stores have:
I attended the Art Linkletter school of dance. 
Zippers, where one could buy Gloria Vanderbilt jeans.
Farrells, where they would bang the drums on your birthday.  They had jars of gigantic jawbreakers that you had to break with a hammer to access the inner layer of grey gum.  You could get a sundae that looked like a chocolate volcano.
-The Lad and Lassie shop and Giant are still there.

The only channels that featured children's programming were 5 and 20.  I remember Captain 20 as a pseudo Star Trek character before the phased him out in the 80's and he had to host horror movie night and dress as Dracula.  
I also remember they interrupted What's Happening to show footage of Reagan being shot.   FWIW, I hated that show, but it was either that or Mighty Mouse on 5.
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