Anonymous wrote:"Surrender Dorothy" spray painted by the beltway

Yess!

When the Bethesda metro opened and the escalator was so scarily tall!

What about going to the Tobacco shop in Georgetown and buying cloves cigarettes and then hanging out at Comander Salamanders? We were wanabe rebels from MoCo...

Just thought of another haunt, Bojangles.

5th column, Tracks, Poseurs, Little Tavern at 3am, Commander Salamander, Bayou, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Perry's, Fishmarket. Later on in the late 80s early 90s..the Fox and the Hound in Adams Morgan had the cheapest drinks. Red Sea for Ethiopian.

Does anyone else remember when Abercrombie and Finch in Georgetown Park used to be ultra conservative..sort of a faux english safari meets LLBean style? My parents liked it and used to buy us preppy looking wool sweaters.

Midnight Kung Fu movies in Bethesda movie theaters (and Silver Spring)
Jennifer Theater
Crown Books
Phineas Prime Rib
Blizzard of '79 -- week off school
Insect Surfers
Amanda McKerrow
Inner Circle

Anonymous wrote:I'm probably the oldest here!
I remember when the beltway first opened and we ooohed and aaahed at all the safety features--guardrails with the ends buried in the ground so no one could be decapitated by them.
Emergency call phones every mile.
I also remember driving through Rock Creek park and you could drive your car through little "fords" in the stream.I remember Candyland Playground, somewhere near Rock Creek Park.

I remember that too! Although, judging by your first memory, I'm a bit younger than you

The Candyland (or was it candy cane?) playground still exists - it's on Beach Dr right before it hits East West Hwy, but it has new equipment with no candy theme

The Orange Line extension past Ballston opening in 1986

Ballston Metro was open air, and no El Pollo Rico. It was way underdeveloped.

The opening of the Orange Line extension past Ballston in 1986 so I didn't have to take a bus to the metro to go to work.

Heck, back then, the Ballston metro was open air and way before El Pollo Rico.

Eek, I'm old!

The J Gilbert at the intersection of Old Dominion and 123 used to be a Joshua Tree

I loved High's convenience store, parties (even in high school after football games) at Farrell's, my first real date at Winston's at Tysons Corner way before it was remodeled and expanded, Magic Pan at the lower level of Tysons (their crepes were the best).

Anyone remember when Seven Corners had more variety and was a bit nicer than Tysons Corner???

Continental Federal bank where I opened my first savings account

Rumors and Giusti's

I'm probably the oldest here!
I remember when the beltway first opened and we ooohed and aaahed at all the safety features--guardrails with the ends buried in the ground so no one could be decapitated by them.
Emergency call phones every mile.
I also remember driving through Rock Creek park and you could drive your car through little "fords" in the stream.
I remember Candyland Playground, somewhere near Rock Creek Park.

Evans Farm Inn in McLean. I think the old mill house is still there and the pond. Women in colonial garb served icky spoonbread which was supposed to be the big hit. The food was mediocre but the ambiance was the best.

Yes --- the Peter Pan restaurant! Remember the hush puppies? And all that white iron furniture?

Anonymous wrote: I can remember my father tracing the dotted line on the map and saying, "See the green line? This goes through the poorest parts of the city...the people who need good public transportation the most...and it is the last part to be finished. That's wrong."

He sounds like a great guy. You're lucky!

Whitman grad here too.

Lots of great ones already mentioned....

Bish Thompsons

Sir Walter Raleigh Inn (the greatest salad bar ever!)

When Tuckerman Lane dead ended at Old Georgetown Road

When the sales people at Lord and Taylor provided manual receipts

Washington Shopping Plate credit card (covered Lord and Taylor, Garfinkels... some other stores)

When White Flint opened and there was an I-Magnin

Back Alley Cafe

Peter Pan restaurant-with the peacocks and fancy take home glasses

Dancing underage at The Pier-1/2 st, SE, before Tracks

boy am I old...