Anonymous
02/12/2016 21:15
Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:And don't forget Korvette's. Right up there with Morton's.
Am I the only person who still refers to CVS as People's sometimes?
No, I sometimes refer to CVS as People's. However, most natives know what I'm talking about. It's the transplants who look at me like, "WTH is a People's?"
+1
I do too. Also, I remember Dart Drug!
"Transplant" here. I remember Dart, People's, and over half of what is mentioned on this thread!
Anonymous
02/12/2016 21:03
Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Going to White Flint Mall with my mom shortly after it opened. I thought the glass elevator inside was so cool- just like the elevator in "The Towering Inferno."
Record World at White Flint. They had a whole wall of 45" records. I specifically remember buying a copy of Hall & Oates' "Maneater" there- early 80's
The cheesy commercials for Dick Steven's Chevrolet in Wheaton. I found some of them on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onMXzujXiDQ
Theater Vision commercial with Joe Jacoby & Mark May: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeXHXoNPZj4
Shredder's Surf Shop at Wheaton Plaza
The Sunshine House surf shop at Lakeforest Mall
The County Seat
When "To Fly", the first IMAX film opened at the Air & Space Museum
When my high school (Sherwood High, Sandy Spring MD) gave students an excused absence to attend the Redskins SuperBowl parade in 1988 (my senior year in HS). And some of us actually did go downtown to see the parade.
I remember when White Flint was a field. We used to ride mini bikes there. My favorite memory of the field is of the MoCo Poo Poo getting his cruiser stuck in the field while chasing us.
What was the sports store behind White Flint? I bought my rugby shirts there. Lived next to Georgetown Prep. Rode my ten speed up and down Rockville Pike and Wisconsin Ave. to G'town.
Anonymous
02/12/2016 20:59
Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:Going to White Flint Mall with my mom shortly after it opened. I thought the glass elevator inside was so cool- just like the elevator in "The Towering Inferno."
Record World at White Flint. They had a whole wall of 45" records. I specifically remember buying a copy of Hall & Oates' "Maneater" there- early 80's
The cheesy commercials for Dick Steven's Chevrolet in Wheaton. I found some of them on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onMXzujXiDQ
Theater Vision commercial with Joe Jacoby & Mark May: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeXHXoNPZj4
Shredder's Surf Shop at Wheaton Plaza
The Sunshine House surf shop at Lakeforest Mall
The County Seat
When "To Fly", the first IMAX film opened at the Air & Space Museum
When my high school (Sherwood High, Sandy Spring MD) gave students an excused absence to attend the Redskins SuperBowl parade in 1988 (my senior year in HS). And some of us actually did go downtown to see the parade.
I remember when White Flint was a field. We used to ride mini bikes there. My favorite memory of the field is of the MoCo Poo Poo getting his cruiser stuck in the field while chasing us.
Anonymous
02/12/2016 20:48
Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
Dancing at Studebakers on Rockville Pike.
Anyone else?
Anyone else?
Anonymous
02/12/2016 20:41
Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
Tower Records on Rockville Pike, Houstons, 99.1 WHFS, the original morning show on 99.5 (pre-Kane), 1223, Club 5, Sign of the Whale, The Reef and countless clubs in Georgetown that cease to exist.
This is a great post!
This is a great post!
Anonymous
02/12/2016 18:27
Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
And we loved serving you Shirley Temples in pint glasses and putting the mars chino cherries on the bar so you could gorge yourself to illness! 
Anonymous
02/12/2016 18:18
Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:No one mentioned Mel Krupin's, Mike Baker's, Cafe Lautrec or Cities, or the 1789 when the front dining room was the Cheers of the Georgetown set!
To all of you noting Rumours, the Bottom Line, Mr. Days, the Sign of The Whale and so many more, the bartenders of that era would like to thank you for putting them through college and grad school. Many of us made it through debt-free owing to your generosity!
I spent my childhood in Sign of the Whale! My father probably generously contributed to many college tuitions
Anonymous
02/12/2016 18:12
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No one mentioned Mel Krupin's, Mike Baker's, Cafe Lautrec or Cities, or the 1789 when the front dining room was the Cheers of the Georgetown set!
To all of you noting Rumours, the Bottom Line, Mr. Days, the Sign of The Whale and so many more, the bartenders of that era would like to thank you for putting them through college and grad school. Many of us made it through debt-free owing to your generosity!
To all of you noting Rumours, the Bottom Line, Mr. Days, the Sign of The Whale and so many more, the bartenders of that era would like to thank you for putting them through college and grad school. Many of us made it through debt-free owing to your generosity!
Anonymous
02/12/2016 17:32
Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
Reeve's Bakery
Anonymous
02/12/2016 17:29
Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
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
Raleighs
The Bunnyman legend
HongKong in Springfield Mall
World Bazaar
The Circle movie theatre chain
The original version of Commander Salamander
The Vault club
The original 930 club on 930 F street
Chesapeake House, The Exile, Lost & Found
The Pier club and telephones at each table
Nan King restaurant
Uncle Sam's Tiffany Shade Shop
Continental Federal Savings & Loan
The original Frozen Dairy bar on Lee Highway
Pam E Kay Donuts
Anonymous
02/12/2016 15:25
Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
I remember hanging out at the Fritzbe's in Reston, before they changed Hunter Mill Plaza all around.
I remember spending all my money at Kemp Mill Records.
Someone upthread mentioned Farrell's. I remember whenever anyone ordered one of their awesome huge ice cream sundae concoctions. I seem to recall sirens blaring...
I remember spending all my money at Kemp Mill Records.
Someone upthread mentioned Farrell's. I remember whenever anyone ordered one of their awesome huge ice cream sundae concoctions. I seem to recall sirens blaring...
Anonymous
02/12/2016 15:22
Subject: Re:I grew up here and I remember .....
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Going to White Flint Mall with my mom shortly after it opened. I thought the glass elevator inside was so cool- just like the elevator in "The Towering Inferno."
Record World at White Flint. They had a whole wall of 45" records. I specifically remember buying a copy of Hall & Oates' "Maneater" there- early 80's
The cheesy commercials for Dick Steven's Chevrolet in Wheaton. I found some of them on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onMXzujXiDQ
Theater Vision commercial with Joe Jacoby & Mark May: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeXHXoNPZj4
Shredder's Surf Shop at Wheaton Plaza
The Sunshine House surf shop at Lakeforest Mall
The County Seat
When "To Fly", the first IMAX film opened at the Air & Space Museum
When my high school (Sherwood High, Sandy Spring MD) gave students an excused absence to attend the Redskins SuperBowl parade in 1988 (my senior year in HS). And some of us actually did go downtown to see the parade.
Why were there so many surf shops back then for an area so far from the beach. Bethesda Surf Shop long sleeve t shirts were all the rage in my high school.
It was the "in" thing even through 90% of the cool kids didn't even surf;
-kind of like anyone who has ever visited an ocean now sports a "Salt Life!!" Sticker on their car.
Anonymous
02/09/2016 08:26
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I remember when River Rd was a dirt road.
Anonymous
02/08/2016 12:46
Subject: I grew up here and I remember .....
I remember when movies were $1!
And I remember when there weren't so many cars around!
And before the local roads were converted to highways/freeways.
And the worse part, I was a refugee-new to the area in 1980s. And people made fun of us-we were 7 years old. And I still see the same thing.
And I remember when there weren't so many cars around!
And before the local roads were converted to highways/freeways.
And the worse part, I was a refugee-new to the area in 1980s. And people made fun of us-we were 7 years old. And I still see the same thing.
Anonymous
02/08/2016 11:08
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I remember.....on hot summer nights, we used to jump the fence of the water towers on Radnor Rd in Bethesda and take a swim in the community water supply.
Do you think we will ever have a time of freedom again in our lives like high school summer nights? (Why do I hear Bob Seger's "Night Moves" playing in my head?)
What if would give.......
Do you think we will ever have a time of freedom again in our lives like high school summer nights? (Why do I hear Bob Seger's "Night Moves" playing in my head?)
What if would give.......