Anonymous
Post 06/15/2011 20:50     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:Driving to Georgetown u parking lot and drinking beers before heading to the fishmarket....high school yes
Oh dc being 18 to drink while va was 21


What? When was this?
Anonymous
Post 06/15/2011 20:45     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
Driving to Georgetown u parking lot and drinking beers before heading to the fishmarket....high school yes
Oh dc being 18 to drink while va was 21
Anonymous
Post 06/15/2011 20:25     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:When 7 Corners was an open air mall.


When Landmark was an open air mall!
Anonymous
Post 06/15/2011 14:06     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:tea room in lord & taylor, is that still there?


Oh man, my mom would take me to lunch there after Feast Wishes every winter semester.
Anonymous
Post 06/15/2011 14:03     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
When 7 Corners was an open air mall.
Anonymous
Post 06/15/2011 13:58     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What an absolute hellhole the Chinatown area was - you wouldn't dare step in that area 20 years ago, even in broad daylight......



So true. I used to intern at the American Art Museum... nothing in the neighborhood... got sick of Chinese food for lunch real quick...

My friends and I used to go to a sketchy night club there. You were patted down at the door before you could enter. All pre-MCI Center (Verizon Center)...


Oh, I did too, in the library!

Woodies
Garfinkels
Hecht's
the Sears and Penney's in Clarendon and Ballston (Parkington!) respectively
When there wasn't a Ballston Mall
Before Chevy Chase Pavilion
When Georgetown didn't look quite so much like Santa Monica
Anonymous
Post 06/15/2011 12:15     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Driving past "Resurrection City" on the Mall in DC in the summer of 1968 with my family. I was 9. We were stopped in traffic. A white guy hopped the fence to take a short cut across the corner of the area and a group of 8-10 men jumped him and took turns kicking him in the face. It was terrifying.
Anonymous
Post 04/28/2011 07:13     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Peter Max posters.

Stick-on flowers.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2011 07:19     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:Going all the way in the back seat of a 1964 VW beetle. Oh to be 14 again when a VW back seat could shadow the thrill of a 5-Star hotel today.


Uhmm.....don't think it was the back seat that you found so thrilling at 14.
Anonymous
Post 03/29/2011 09:12     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Radio station WINX.
Anonymous
Post 03/29/2011 08:19     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Listening to Allan Sherman and Bill Cosby on vinyl. (Anybody remember "Chicken Heart" or "Buck Buck?"). "You went the wrong way old King Louis......"
Anonymous
Post 03/29/2011 08:17     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Going all the way in the back seat of a 1964 VW beetle. Oh to be 14 again when a VW back seat could shadow the thrill of a 5-Star hotel today.
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2011 11:54     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.

Oh, I dreaded the trip to Lazarus. They had the most f-ugly and uncomfortable shoes.


Lowen's didnt sell toy guns, I will never forget going there to get one and they said they didn't sell them, I was o upset I said they should close this place and the next month it was closed.
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2011 11:14     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote: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.

Oh, I dreaded the trip to Lazarus. They had the most f-ugly and uncomfortable shoes.
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2011 09:01     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Mario's Pizza - on River Rd in B-Town. Best pie ever!