Anonymous
Post 03/08/2011 14:37     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Who was your favorite barber in B-town? Mine was Buzz Sproul - hands down the best!!!
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2011 14:33     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Ten cent beer night at the Cap Center - profoundly rotten boxers scraped off the streets but a cheap buzz. First time in my life I ever had to drive my dad home.
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2011 14:32     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Bethesda House of Billiards - I bet the pool tables had cancer from all the cigarettes smoked in that place.
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2011 09:21     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
When the new "sex education" curriculum was released in 5th grade. Huge deal! Parents had to sign a permission slip to have you attend - they had boys and girls only and a mixed class.

NOTE TO SEX EDUCATORS - If you really want a 5th grade boy to learn the subject, make sure he first has a crush on his teacher. Miss Gibson. Yowza Yowza!!
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2011 06:53     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
When the homes at the sharp bend on Wilson just off River Rd were abandoned. We called them "ghost houses." Spooky Spooky.
(Now they are rebuilt and probably $800K cottages - Spooky Spooky Spooky )
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2011 20:10     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
When Glen Echo was an abandoned amusement park. Spooky!
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2011 18:32     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
The KB Baronet theatre on Wisconsin Ave. The Wiz played there forever.
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2011 17:47     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
The Key theater.
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2011 16:43     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:A few of these posts are not very area specific, you could have gotten those in Fargo too.


That may be true but I never left the Bethesda/Upper NW (and by NW I mean only Wisconsin Ave from Friendship Heights to Georgetown, plus the Uptown Theater) area so who cares what was going on in Fargo.
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2011 16:37     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
A few of these posts are not very area specific, you could have gotten those in Fargo too.
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2011 16:35     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Bubble gum cigarettes that had a paper wrapper and just enough flour on the gum so you could blow a puff or two. Probably subsidized by Phillip Morris.
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2011 16:13     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Bruce Variety! In a 10 year old boy's mind, if they did not carry it, it must not be that important. If it cost more than $1.00, it must be rare and precious. If you could not carry it home on your bike, who cares?
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2011 16:10     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
The worlds best banana split at Giffords Ice Cream on Wisconsin Avenue in B-town.
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2011 10:20     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
In Friendship Heights, going to Fanny Farmer in the formerly Giant shopping plaza where Luis Vuitton now stands, and getting chocolate cigarettes. Good times.
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2011 07:52     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Us white kids with afro picks (combs) jammed into the back pocket of our straight leg levis - having just recently transitioned from exclusively flare bottom. Anyone else remember that?