Used to be able to ride a trolley from Rockville to dc. in the mid 1930s when i was in high school. Now at the age of 96 I am just happy to still be able to walk.

Rockville was a long drive out in the country. No beltway. No Mcdonolds. Still farms in kensington and bethesda.

Who are the Whitman teachers you had a crush on?

Mine were:
Miss Fotini Tsintolas!!
English Teacher - was the chearleader lead
Mrs. A_____ - english teacher. Was actually a possibility.
Miss Charnetski - biology

Anonymous wrote:Other Whitman senior pranks. I think one year tires were stacked all the way up the flagpole. Another year the administrative offices were flooded, and either the same year or a different year a skeleton was sitting at a piano in the front hall. Also I think once there was a Volkswagon in the foyer. True or did I dream it???

I know the VW was true as well as the tires on the flag poles - I saw them. Graduated in 77 but I lived across the street from the school so it could have been earlier.

My senior year, they tried to paint/augment the dome to look like a boob. Giant paper machet __ipple in the middle and flesh tone paint. As I recall, they were caught part way and never finished.

Prior year, somebody tapped into the PA system and put together a "radio program" that was broadcast over the PA system - it was great. Took them several hours to find it and disable it. The audio was really distorted but the effort was fantastic!

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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?

For Maryland it was 1983 I think. I was grandfathered in and could drink in DC at age 18.

No, in Maryland, starting in 1982, the cutoff to drink at 18 was July 1. If you were turning 18 after July 1, you had to wait until 21 to drink legally. Thus, as a member of the Wheaton class of 1982, half of my friends could drink and the other half couldn't. I and my best friend were born late in 1982, so we went to American Cafe in Friendship Heights and other DC bars.

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Anonymous wrote: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

OMG! I could have written this. Lots of great memories

You were in high school in the early 1980s, right? This is so familiar to me, especially Rally in the Alley and Rumours.

Pleasant Peasant in Mazza Gallerie -- always reliable for lunch, dinner, showers, whatever, and amazing desserts

Hamburger Hamlet in Friendship Heights

American Cafe -- Georgetown, the Hill, Friendship Heights

Swenson's ice Cream

Garfinckels

Woodies

Trover Shops

Olssons

Sirius Coffee (by UDC)

DC Space

Anonymous wrote: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

OMG! I could have written this. Lots of great memories

How about driving over the ford in rock creek park off beach?
My grandparents used to do this with me and I loved it! What a great part of our area, wish they would open this back up

Other Whitman senior pranks. I think one year tires were stacked all the way up the flagpole. Another year the administrative offices were flooded, and either the same year or a different year a skeleton was sitting at a piano in the front hall. Also I think once there was a Volkswagon in the foyer. True or did I dream it???

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I really, really miss WHFS....

IT'S BACK!!!!!!! @ 97.5 as of August 1, 2011.

I did not know this!!! Awesome!!

But is it really alternative, or the stuff they play today that is really just an alternative to pop music; it still sounds like pop and it's all over the radio and XM. How is that alternative? I remember when there was mainstream rock and alternative rock.

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Anonymous wrote:
I really, really miss WHFS....

IT'S BACK!!!!!!! @ 97.5 as of August 1, 2011.

I did not know this!!! Awesome!!

The Cellar
Waxie Maxie's
DC Space
Olsson's Books & Records

Crazy Horse in Georgetown
now .. it's a Coach store.

Dance club in Georgetown next to Filomena's called "1063" at 1063 Wisconsin Ave. We had a favorite bartender, named Brenda, who worked there.