Anonymous wrote:Remember Memco on Rockville Pike where Micr Center is? Memco wae the only store there with a huge parking lot. You had to have a membership card.

Korvettes on Rockville Pike

Super Giant on the Pike when it sold clothes, toys and food along with most anything else you could need.

The Pepsi bottling plant on the corner of Twinbrook Pkwy and Rockville Pike.

The bridge over the train tracks on Twinbrook Pkwy used to have curvy steel over the road and looked like a real bridge.

Houlihans in Georgetown

Biograph

Rockville Mall

Congressional Roller Skating Rink with organ music

Putt Putt and its arcade on Rollins Ave.

I Magnun

The old Eatery in White Flint that had two entrances and raised seating areas.

Lake Forest Mall's ice rink

The smell of cow manure outside of the Mc Donalds on 355 in Rockville that had the train and a farm across the street with lots of cows.

The old Wheaton Park and Cabin John Park Playground eqipmesnt like Cinderellas pumpkin wth horses, the 4seater that went around and around with two statinary seats and two that went up and down.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like a lot of posters on here are - gulp - pretty old (?). I mean, I am 40, and people on here are posting about doing something (as an adult) in the 70s or 80s? I was 7 in 1980. And again, I am 40, so no spring chicken. Some of you all have memories that make me think you are more like my parents' ages? 60s or so? Not saying that is wrong, I am just curious to see people of this age group on DCUM? Who knew. Oh well. Enjoying reading some of the memories! Thx!

I'm not one of the PPs, but I'm 52 with teenage kids now. That means I was in high school in the late 70s and graduated college in 1982. BTW, I don't consider myself geriatric

No, and I would not consider a 52 yo geriatric either. Sorry it came across that way. I guess age differences are more pronounced when you are younger, ya know? So that is why it is jumping out at me. Someone who was doing something like going to a job after college (at age 22) in 1982 would seem sort of "yikes" to me if I was 9 at that time. Right? So, that is probably why I am noticing it with some of the memories on here. But again, on the street today, wouldn't think that way.

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Anonymous wrote:The Box was my music channel. I remember Peoples Drug. Anyone remember the guy who hired a hitman to kill his wife and disabled child in Silver Spring, was it? I cannot remember which area exactly but it became a lifetime movie. I also remember a young girl (Jennifer or Jessica) disappearing when she went to get potato chips but I don't know is remember if that was local or not.

Don't remember the Jessica/Jennifer incident, but do remember the hired hitman. And yes, I think the family was in Silver Spring. - It became a lifetime movie? If anyone remembers the movie's name, would you post?

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Silver Spring and Graduated from Blair 1979. I remember the Good Humor Man and Jack and Jill Ice Cream Trucks. Going to Birthday parties at the Enchanted Forest in Ellicott City. Wileys Ice Cream in Langley Park. I remember my first year at the University of Maryland there were beer parties in front of every dorm with huge beer trucks parked every couple feet. Dancing at the Big Apple in Lanham, The Paragon and Bastile in College Park, The Paragon II, Abbey Road, Pall Mall in D.C. and everyonce in a while we'd take a drive out to Reflections and Martiniques in Baltimore. I remember only one Chesapeake Bay Bridge and tolls on both sides and once in O.C. I remember the haunted house at the end of the pier which was the scariest around. I remember hip huggers and bodysuits, Farrah Fawcett Hair. And when I was real young, I remember Claire and Coco and the Romper Room. and I'm only 51!!!!