Anonymous
Post 03/28/2011 08:13     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
The Fish Market in Georgetown - GIGANTIC long island ice teas
The Fish Market in Old Town took up three buildings and had Piano guys playing "songs for drunks' in atleast two, sometimes three, rooms
Irelands Own in its old location - St. Patricks Day and "green Alligaters and Long necked geese"
Rally in the Alley at Mister Days
Rumours - home of perms, long, fake nails, and flashdance sweatshirts with high heels
Six girls trying to use ONE ID to get into bars in Georgetown - always worked
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2011 08:00     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Shakey's Pizza.
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2011 07:58     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Taking my homecoming date to Ponderosa on the Pike. Wonder why that was our only date?
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2011 07:11     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
GD Grafiti on the Pike. The waiters were dressed up as gangsters and the menus were in viOlin cases.
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2011 00:08     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Does anyone remember the falling apart railroad tressle bridge in Kensington that teens would crawl out over to sit and drink on? I think there was a sensor that blasted a message to "GET OFF NOW" if you sat in just the right spot.
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2011 00:06     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Fritzbe's on Rockville Pike
Venture on Veirs Mill Rd.
Z Cavarichi
Georgetown Station

What was the name of the hot club in Frederick everyone would drive up to? We thought it was so cool of us to drive up to Frederick from DC, like we were "the shit".
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2011 23:55     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Did anyone have boyfriend's with race car's (or who thought they had race cars) who hung ut down at V Street to race?

Anonymous
Post 03/25/2011 23:41     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Emmylou Hariss and the Hot Band opening the Warner Theater in 1976. Broadcast on WHFS.
(Junior at Whitman that year - oh so hot for Penzy)


And I thought I was old. I was only in 9th grade in 1976. I remember sneaking out of school for the first earth day, maybe it was 1979?, to see Jackson Browne on the mall.


I wasn't born until 1977, whew!
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2011 23:36     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
If you remember Lowen's, you must also remember J.A. Lazarus for kids' shoes! I think they were both where Modell's is now on Wisconsin in Bethesda.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2011 22:45     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Track's
Anastasia's
The Ritz
Roxy's
5th Column

oh the days!


There is no way we do not know each other. The Ritz, I haven't thought about that awful place in forever!


Does anyone remember The Cellar and the David Lee Roth look-a-like that was a bartender there?



Oh my god, The Cellar... what a meat market that place was. I brought home a one night stand after a crazy night there.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2011 22:42     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Track's
Anastasia's
The Ritz
Roxy's
5th Column

oh the days!


There is no way we do not know each other. The Ritz, I haven't thought about that awful place in forever!


Does anyone remember The Cellar and the David Lee Roth look-a-like that was a bartender there?
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2011 20:19     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Woodward & Lothrop
The Hecht Co.
Hechingers
Garfinkels
Raleighs
Lowen's Toy Store
AdCom Art Store
Peoples Drug
Dart Drug
Bradlees
Aimes
Roy Rogers Restaurant
Hot Shoppes Cafeteria
Hot Shoppes Jr.
Woolworths
Drug Fair
Kinney Shoes
G. C. Murphy
A&P
Pike Theater
J.C. Penneys in Congressional Plaza
Trav's Bar in Glen Echo
Loving Chevrolet
Hill & Sanders Ford
Bob's Famous Ice Cream
Swensons Ice Cream
The Petting Zoo at Wheaton Regional Park
The Tobogan Slide at Cabin John Regional Park
Free State Bank
Suburban Trust
Suburban Bank
Sovrain Bank
Chevy Chase FSB
Chevy Chase Bank
The Carousel at Great Falls National Park, GF, Va


Hey, OP, I finally opened the thread. I used to work at the Pike Theater. Next to Crown Books and the Jumbo grocery store. That has been a long time ago.


I'm the OP, and I worked at Pike Theater for 3 weeks after I dropped out of college. I must have watched the original Superman 150 times. I was not happy working there. I worked the daytime shift and they made me ask 5 year olds "Would you like a Large Popcorn and a large soda with that?" Ug. I ended up much happier working at Regional Office Supply in Bethesda, also gone. They had a nice little art department in the back, not as big or nice as Lowens, but nice enough.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2011 10:08     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Buying chemicals from Lowen's Toy Store - they had it all. I used to buy the ingredients for gun powder and then had a blast formulating different recipes and testing them in the field behind Whitter Woods. Amazing I can still count to ten and see all my fingers.
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2011 08:24     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
I dont know if anyone mentioned this but the CINEMA DRAFT HOUSE! Where the I think Whitley (spelling?) apartments are now. That place had the BEST root beer floats and nachos. I think there is one in Arlington but you can smoke in it and its gross.
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2011 07:35     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
The time I rode my bike into Georgetown with my girlfriend in 8th grade from Bethesda along the toe path. No real purpose in mind, just stopping in the shops that looked interesting. We stopped in a store named the Pleasure Chest. I could only blush but my girlfriend did not want to leave for an hour. Should have married her.