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[quote=Anonymous]I went to HS in Bethesda (Whitman) in the 70's and then made the move to Reston in 81.   You are right on about the postings being Monkey County centric - most of us must be from that side of the river.    I commuted to a job in Reston in the mid to late 70s for four years from B-town (through Tysons or on Rt 193)  and here are a few observances from that period.........

Lake Anne and the local shops were brand new and you could rent paddle boats and drink beer in the open.
Worked in the same building as Warner Cable (the Scope building) on Whiele and Sunset Hills.
Reston was the first "cabled" community in the US.
A camera operator was producing porno's in one of the Warner Cable studios after hours - one of the ladies got drunk or drugged and raised a ruckus and the police came and the operation was shut down.
Restion International Center was the only large building all the way to Tysons.
Egalitarian planners filled Reston with walking trails and then wondered why the 500K homes (now 1.5M) next to the projects kept getting burgled.
Herndon was a sleepy little town.
I joined the Herndon Moose lodge but quit six months later when I was told my friend (who was African American) could not come in with me.  This was 1981 - not 1951.[/quote]

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