Anonymous
Post 03/04/2011 15:13     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:The train in the kids room at the McDonalds on the pike
How you could watch them make your pizza at Shakeys
Chesapeake Bay Seafood House
Cal Ripken when he was hot, before he got bald



fyi....he's still hot.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2011 14:41     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:A popular style of jacket called a "Peter's" jacket. I had a knock off from E.J. Korvette's on Rockville Pike. (which was rumored to stand for Eight Jewish Korean Veterans)


I forgot about my Peter's Jacket. I had one and we always used to shop at E. J Korvettes for back to school supplies. I used to love that. And then on to J.C. Penneys in Congressional Plaza for new underwear. And then lunch at Roy Rogers or Hot Shoppes Jr in Congressional.


For some reason this brings tears to my eyes.


And maybe this link will make you smile........http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7i5KdtfJM8




More old DC commercials:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrYJbdMgqbA

Anonymous
Post 03/04/2011 14:36     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
When Candy Cane City playground really had candy cane decorated playground equipment.

When Wheaton Plaza was an outdoor mall and Montgomery Mall had weird water fountains inside.

When Bethesda Avenue was some sort of cement factory.

When going to Lowell's toy store on Wisconsin (right about where Modell's is now) was the highlight of my year.

When climbing the Whitman dome was a right of passage.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2011 14:14     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Standing in line at the school nurse's office to receive my sugar cube polio vaccination.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2011 14:06     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
When the Big Mac first came out. They seemed so huge! Have they shrunk since or have we Americans just gotten used to outrageously larger burgers?
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2011 08:58     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:A popular style of jacket called a "Peter's" jacket. I had a knock off from E.J. Korvette's on Rockville Pike. (which was rumored to stand for Eight Jewish Korean Veterans)


I forgot about my Peter's Jacket. I had one and we always used to shop at E. J Korvettes for back to school supplies. I used to love that. And then on to J.C. Penneys in Congressional Plaza for new underwear. And then lunch at Roy Rogers or Hot Shoppes Jr in Congressional.


For some reason this brings tears to my eyes.


And maybe this link will make you smile........http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7i5KdtfJM8
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2011 08:32     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
A girl named Cathy who used to let the boys look up her skirt and beyond on the playground. I wonder if she remembers this as clearly as I do? I wonder what she is doing now?
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2011 08:30     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
When the police did not have radar to tell how fast you were going. How did they ever get convictions just following people and matching their speed?
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2011 08:23     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Anyone remember Congressional Elementary School before it was demolished to make way for an assisted living facility?
Talk about a demographics switch!
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2011 08:22     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:A popular style of jacket called a "Peter's" jacket. I had a knock off from E.J. Korvette's on Rockville Pike. (which was rumored to stand for Eight Jewish Korean Veterans)


I forgot about my Peter's Jacket. I had one and we always used to shop at E. J Korvettes for back to school supplies. I used to love that. And then on to J.C. Penneys in Congressional Plaza for new underwear. And then lunch at Roy Rogers or Hot Shoppes Jr in Congressional.


For some reason this brings tears to my eyes.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2011 08:17     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
The Air Rights Building? Is it still there? It was built over the train tracks going underneath Wisconsin Avenue so they only had to purchase the "air rights" when they built it. Are the train tracks still there?
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2011 08:09     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:Noah's ark at Cabin John


Wow! I remember playing on that! Thank you for the memory!! My dad was away in a foreign prison then and I can remember my mom letting me run up and down the big ramp into the ark as she cried.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2011 07:51     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Captain 20 and the gerbil races! I also seem to remember Captain 20 landing behind my school in a helecopter once...........or is this a dream-turned-rememberance. Can anybody else remember such an event?
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2011 07:36     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
When my skateboard was really made from a piece of hand-sawed board from my dad's workship and the wheels taken off my sisters' skates (clip-on with the leather straps to hold them to your shoes of course). Front wheels came off once going down the hill on Newmarket. Face + sidewalk = ouch
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2011 07:29     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Tastee Diner after a night out with great friends. Oh, please tell me TD's is still there!!