Anonymous
Post 09/30/2010 20:23     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
one of my favorite stories from the area was when my mom was a girl. They had just moved to a bigger house in the area and my grandmother did not feel like making dinner so my grandfather suggested the "new hamburger joint" down the street.

it was McDonalds
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2010 20:17     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:I remember when Fairfax was the boonies. And when people called 395 "Shirley Highway."


...and when the thought of going out to Dulles Airport was a major road trip!

And hm. I still call it Shirley Highway! I also still call National Airport National Airport...without "Reagan" in front of it!
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2010 17:26     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
I remember when Fairfax was the boonies. And when people called 395 "Shirley Highway."
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2010 17:08     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Ranger Hal on WTTG TV.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2010 16:50     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:We bought cloves in Georgetown at Electromax. Don't know if it's still there.


Ha! I bought a fake ID there (to get into Tracks and Fifth Column of course) along with my first bowl.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2010 16:47     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Anyone remember coming home from 9:30 with that distinctive . . . smell . . . on your clothes?
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2010 15:26     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
Nobody boddas me eeda
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2010 15:25     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Call USA-1000....Then you too can say.... Nobody bothers me!
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2010 13:50     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
LOVED Surrender Dorothy!

Anyone remember when Landmark Mall was open air?
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2010 13:14     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
Just in case no one else has mentioned it yet...

I remember...

DC SPACE!
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2010 12:43     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:when 9th grade was junior high- not middle school or high school


Yes - i went to Western Jr High (now Westland) and it was 7, 8 and 9. And then it split between BCC and Whitman - before the feeder school system.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2010 12:23     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:Morton's Crazy Days- TV commercial


And watching WTTG channel reruns with those funky commercials all summer long. (Old navy knocked them off.)
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2010 12:19     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote: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


And when tysons was one level? And there was bird cage in the mall?
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2010 11:22     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
We bought cloves in Georgetown at Electromax. Don't know if it's still there.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2010 11:12     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:"Surrender Dorothy" spray painted by the beltway


YES, I loved this on the railroad bridge over the Beltway around Kensington - with the Mormon temple in the background.