Anonymous
Post 10/28/2015 22:12     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:Roberts restaurant at the corner of Bradley and wisconsin where staples is now and next door was a really divey motel.


My dad and I used to stop at Robert's for a Coke after he picked me up from art college back in the early 70's. I used to hang out there, too with other teens and twenty somethings. What wouldn't I give to relive those times!
Anonymous
Post 10/28/2015 22:06     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:Coach Ron Peters, JV football coach at Walt Whitman during the 70's. What a gentleman and amazing inspiration for young men! Thank you, coach!


I remember him, too! Great guy. I remember Walt Whitman when it had the huge dome gymnasium. Also Pyle and Burning Tree elementary schools before they were redone.

-1971 Walt Whitman alum
Anonymous
Post 10/28/2015 21:58     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
korvettes
Zayre
The Pants coral
The Town Theatre on NY Ave
A&P
Hot Shoppes (lived by the big one on ny Ave)
When fort Lincoln was a reform school
S and H Greenstamps next to the supergiant on queens chapel rd
Northeast Ford
Hechingers
Capitol Plaza when it had a movie theatre in the back
Jerry Lewis Cinema
Jumbo Supermarket
Anonymous
Post 10/07/2015 08:57     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
There is a great thread on Fairfax underground that has pictures from the past around Fairfax Co and other parts of NOVA. It's fun to look back and see a lot of the places mentioned on this thread.
Anonymous
Post 10/07/2015 07:07     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Ah..tracks.
Ditto to Scholls.
Adding Lerners clothing downtown
And Food for Thought by DuPont.
Larimers

Also...what happened to:
Sunshine, the hippy fruit seller by DuPont in the early 90s
The wife and son of the afghan vendor (he died )
The guy in a slightly too big tan suit who walked around DuPont circle area every single day with a stack of newspapers
The "compliment man"

?


I remember the Compliment man! In DuPont, right?


Yep. No ONE remembers the dark haired guy with the stack of newspapers, kind of a limp?
I sat next to him on the train to Philly once..his story was a puzzle.
Not the PP, but he mostly hung out in Adams Morgan. "You got a really pretty smile, girl. I like your hair. I like your sandals."
Anonymous
Post 10/06/2015 23:01     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Zebra Room
Maggie's Pizza
Poseurs
Pattons (sort of...what I remember is that they didn't card)
Quigley's
Sutton Place Gourmet


Did you go to AU?


+1


If you went to AU do you remember Chaplins?
Anonymous
Post 10/06/2015 22:58     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Bruce's Variety!


They're still around, they just moved.


they recently closed the new location. Gone for good.
Anonymous
Post 10/06/2015 22:08     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I remember the long lines at Armands Pizza in the early 1980's. Then if you didn't want to stand in the long line, you could go next door to Maggies Pizza. I had Armands not so long ago and wondered what all the fuss was.


I remember standing in line for Armand's pizza too. It's not the same pizza. Changed management, right?


They used to put rice in the sauce (don't know if that's still the case), I guess they pureed it in for the texture or something. Or so I was told by one of their long ago pizza delivery guys.
Anonymous
Post 10/06/2015 22:08     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
"you'll love it at Levitz!"

Pike Theater on Rockville Pike

Anonymous
Post 10/06/2015 22:04     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
Blackie's House of Beef
Anonymous
Post 10/06/2015 22:03     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What was it before Crestar???


Citizens Bank of Maryland. I can still hear the jingle in my head.


Citizenssss Baaank of MERRYL -land...conveniently...yours!

Tele sec temp por raries...workin for you...workin to- ge- ther!

PEEEEE pullls Drug. DING!

Manhattan! Your first choice by far! The first name in imported cars! Doot. Doot. Doot.

You always get your wayyyyyy, at Ourisman chev roll layyyyyy!

We've got crab legs! Sea Galley!

Kids designer jeans! 19.99. At all 6 Morton's! now, through Saturday! (whispered) mortons Morton's mortons


Impressive!!! And spot on!


Agree - great memory! Does anyone watch the Americans? A week or so ago, they showed a belmont furniture ad (Whatever you want's at Belmont . .. ) and the Jhoon Rhee commercial last season


Anyone remember this ad:

"Come one, come all, down the Potomac to Marshall Hall.
Down the Potomac, it's oh so fine, on the great big cruiser of the Wilson Line."
Anonymous
Post 10/06/2015 21:58     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Ah..tracks.
Ditto to Scholls.
Adding Lerners clothing downtown
And Food for Thought by DuPont.
Larimers

Also...what happened to:
Sunshine, the hippy fruit seller by DuPont in the early 90s
The wife and son of the afghan vendor (he died )
The guy in a slightly too big tan suit who walked around DuPont circle area every single day with a stack of newspapers
The "compliment man"

?


I remember the Compliment man! In DuPont, right?



Not the PP, but he mostly hung out in Adams Morgan. "You got a really pretty smile, girl. I like your hair. I like your sandals."
Anonymous
Post 10/06/2015 21:52     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:Ah..tracks.
Ditto to Scholls.
Adding Lerners clothing downtown
And Food for Thought by DuPont.
Larimers

Also...what happened to:
Sunshine, the hippy fruit seller by DuPont in the early 90s
The wife and son of the afghan vendor (he died )
The guy in a slightly too big tan suit who walked around DuPont circle area every single day with a stack of newspapers
The "compliment man"

?


I remember the Compliment man! In DuPont, right?
Anonymous
Post 10/06/2015 20:33     Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Ah..tracks.
Ditto to Scholls.
Adding Lerners clothing downtown
And Food for Thought by DuPont.
Larimers

Also...what happened to:
Sunshine, the hippy fruit seller by DuPont in the early 90s
The wife and son of the afghan vendor (he died )
The guy in a slightly too big tan suit who walked around DuPont circle area every single day with a stack of newspapers
The "compliment man"

?
Anonymous
Post 10/06/2015 20:29     Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:Bruce's Variety!


They're still around, they just moved.