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[quote=Anonymous]Grew up in Lake Barcroft.

Used to have so many fun places.  A Hot Shoppes drive-in in Bailey’s Crossroads where they’d bring your order to your car.  The Giffords Ice Cream parlor of Columbia Pike.  The Frozen Dairy Bar on Route 50 that looked like it came right out of “American Graffiti.”  Seven Corners was an enclosed mall with two high-end department stores and an S&W cafeteria. There were also some nice places in Annandale, including a Three Chefs for breakfast and an Italian restaurant.  All gone now.

Stuart HS was a very high-achieving school.  Kids dressed nicely and respected the teachers. Bob Dole’s daughter went there as did the children of many Congressmen.  Quite a few kids went to Ivies and UVA.  Both Justice Thurgood Marshall and the Attorney General under President Johnson lived in the neighborhood. Our rivals were Annandale, which always had the best football team; Jefferson, which was a normal school for regular kids, not a magnet school that crazy parents fought about constantly; and Falls Church, which was considered more working-class.

Go back occasionally. Lake Barcroft and Sleepy Hollow are still nice but Seven Corners is crap now and the whole Baileys Crossroads/Culmore area is run-down and feels unsafe. There are areas I felt free to roam around at night with friends as a teenager that I’d avoid at any time of the day or night now. [/quote]

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