Just a shot in the dark on the Tastee Freez....Rumor is the old Anita's/Donut Dinette was originally a TF at 147 Maple Ave Vienna...now Maple Ave restaurant. Is that a Magruder's sign in the background of the old pic? Check out the angle comparison of the side...hmmmm.
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Looks the same to me, unless EVERY building they made was the same (like a Pizza Hut). Don't know enough about the franchise to say.

But great detective work!!

Here's the property info: Property Name ANITAS MKT BISTRO RESTAURANT
Land Use Code Restaurant with alcohol
Year Built 1962

If that were a Magruder's sign in the background of the pic at the lower left (it is not), it would be on the wrong side of Maple Ave and I don't think Magruder's was in Vienna in March of 1960. Further, in that same view, I would expect to see Lawyer's Road coming in right about where those cars are park. Same view, I am not sure when Money and King moved to their current location just west of the old Anita's (they have been in business over 100 years), but that building is missing as well.

Not the old Anita's Wrote:
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> If that were a Magruder's sign in the background
> of the pic at the lower left (it is not), it would
> be on the wrong side of Maple Ave and I don't
> think Magruder's was in Vienna in March of 1960.

Correct. Magruders opened on the south side of Maple Avenue in 1970. The space had previously been an Acme Market. (What's currently the Fresh Market had been an A&P at about that time as well.) Meanwhile, the building that has housed the doughnut shop, the original Anita's (which opened in 1974), and Maple Avenue Restaurant (which opened in 2009) is across the street on the north side of Maple Avenue. But it wouldn't have been there in 1960 either. Money & King would have been there in 1960, having been built in its present location in 1948 after 67 years of operation on Church Street.

Not enough pixels for me to make anything out of the sign in the lower-left picture with what graphics software I have to play with, so no help there.

That old photo of Tastee Freeze looks like it has a very low mountain range in the background...almost like on Rt 11 in New Market, Va or something...who knows...

for that Taste-Freez, if you can make out the reflection in the glass, maybe you will recognize the buildings across the street. I don’t recognize any of it.

1962.

New Chantilly airport? Was Dulles originally planed to be in Chantilly?
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but on days that end in 'y' I am a bett'n man....and I would bet that sign is promoting a competitor of the Tastee Freeze who sells 'sandwiches' as described under the name and ice cream as the large ice cream cone top right (separate but attached) would indicate....I've got the name reading "MyG***le's"....but what's sad though is that the picture gets clearer to me the further I hold it away....ain't growing old a bitch!

I'm no detective Wrote:
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> but on days that end in 'y' I am a bett'n
> man....and I would bet that sign is promoting a
> competitor of the Tastee Freeze who sells
> 'sandwiches' as described under the name and ice
> cream as the large ice cream cone top right
> (separate but attached) would indicate....I've got
> the name reading "MyG***le's"....but what's sad
> though is that the picture gets clearer to me the
> further I hold it away....ain't growing old a
> bitch!


Okay, let's look at this again. Blanche are you out there? I think you grew up in the Falls Church area. Can you help us identify the location of the Tastee Freeze?
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I remember Springfield Plaza had a big field adjacent to the shopping center and once a year for several years, circa 1968 or so, a helicopter would drop ping pong balls with numbers on them corresponding to prizes. The BIG prizes were typically a color TV or a bike, but Super Giant gave away a lot of cherry pies. Might have been in celebration of George Washington's birthday. The kids would line up at the starting line, the helicopter would fly over, and a guy would dump the ping pong balls out of boxes down onto the field. Kids would make a mad dash for them. I never won a prize, but a friend won a cherry pie.

Dave Henery thanks for the shout out.

Let's look at the clues:

The lower left picture has the bottom of a school zone sign in it. So that means there is a school nearby.

The mountains in the upper right picture, if it was around here, it would be facing west heading toward the Blue Ridge.

Possibly around Centreville, old Centreville ES area, now Mountain View High for the delinquents?

I thought that I would remember all ice cream places but March 1960, I was a little young.

not a good sign Wrote:
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> 1962.
>
> New Chantilly airport? Was Dulles originally
> planed to be in Chantilly?


I believe Dulles has a Chantilly address- but it really sits on a former town called Willard. The first choice for the airport was Burke. Either the Burke residents at the time (all seven of them) rose up in rebellion to the plan or there were drainage issues at the site - depends who you ask. I think there is a thread elsewhere in Fairfax Underground relating to the Dulles airport history. Here is a link related to Burke Lake Park- where the airport was originally planned to be.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_Lake_Park

Pizza supreme.
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hvGNN Wrote:
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> From another thread, though I wanted to post it
> here. Fairfax County Bourbon. Anyone have more
> information on this?
>
>

according to wiki - Fairfax County Bourbon was a brand from Bowman distillery in (originally) Reston. The same folks who make Virginia Gentleman.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Smith_Bowman_Distillery

Perhaps Fairfax County bourbon is really just Virginia Gentlemen rebranded for Fairfax County employees? Im pretty sure we FCPS kids drove some of the teachers and principals to drink with some of the stuff we pulled. ;-)


Even though the distillery was sold to folks in New Orleans, I am still a fan of the Bowman products when I visit the VA ABC store.

Warrenton. I was thinking Manassas but that place is Klines unless it was a Tasty Freez before

Pizza in minutes! You have 59!

Times have changed... Wrote:
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> Not the old Anita's Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > If that were a Magruder's sign in the
> background
> > of the pic at the lower left (it is not), it
> would
> > be on the wrong side of Maple Ave and I don't
> > think Magruder's was in Vienna in March of 1960.
>
>
> Correct. Magruders opened on the south side of
> Maple Avenue in 1970. The space had previously
> been an Acme Market. (What's currently the Fresh
> Market had been an A&P at about that time as
> well.) Meanwhile, the building that has housed
> the doughnut shop, the original Anita's (which
> opened in 1974), and Maple Avenue Restaurant
> (which opened in 2009) is across the street on the
> north side of Maple Avenue. But it wouldn't have
> been there in 1960 either. Money & King would
> have been there in 1960, having been built in its
> present location in 1948 after 67 years of
> operation on Church Street.
>
> Not enough pixels for me to make anything out of
> the sign in the lower-left picture with what
> graphics software I have to play with, so no help
> there.


I remember that place being a tiny version of Anita's. I used to go here for lunch when I worked in Oakton (almost 20 years ago). Mmmm - good food, New Mexico version- a little different than Mexican. Been a while since I've been to an Anita's, at least we still got one on Old Keen Mill. Think I'll go there soon.

Springfield Wrote:
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> I remember Springfield Plaza had a big field
> adjacent to the shopping center and once a year
> for several years, circa 1968 or so, a helicopter
> would drop ping pong balls with numbers on them
> corresponding to prizes. The BIG prizes were
> typically a color TV or a bike, but Super Giant
> gave away a lot of cherry pies. Might have been
> in celebration of George Washington's birthday.
> The kids would line up at the starting line, the
> helicopter would fly over, and a guy would dump
> the ping pong balls out of boxes down onto the
> field. Kids would make a mad dash for them. I
> never won a prize, but a friend won a cherry pie.

It was on July 4th during the day before the fireworks.

Don't know whether these have been posted here or not. Somehow I've missed that there's an Annandale Chamber of Commerce site until now.

Annandale High before it was Annandale High.




Annandale water towers located at Webb Farm on Columbia Pike near Gallows.




Sinclair station at Annandale Road and Little River. Removed when Annandale Road was realigned with Ravensworth.




This is kind of interesting. Not an actual pic of it but it says that there was a similar Nike missile site located at Gallows and Lincolnshire. That would be somewhere in the triangle area where Annandale and Gallows meet. Never heard of that being there before.




More here:
http://www.annandalechamber.com/annandale_old_1950.rhtml

I'm still going through this whole thread, interesting stuff.

Hopefully this hasn't already been posted but there are a lot of historic photos and maps on the Library of Congress site. Usually with great resolution.

Photos: http://www.loc.gov/search/?q=%22fairfax+county%22&fa=original-format%3Aphoto%2C+print%2C+drawing

Maps: http://www.loc.gov/maps/?q=%22fairfax+county%22

Also, the best way to look through the pictures on this thread: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/1009677/&rlz=1C1CHAF_enUS438US439&espv=2&biw=1536&bih=781&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=CrzsVOX6D4meggSxkoSYBw&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ

I think the Annandale site was a radar control (no missiles there).

e33Vj Wrote:
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> I think the Annandale site was a radar control (no
> missiles there).


I don't see it listed at all on any of the Nike site resources that I checked quickly. I'd tend to trust those more than the Annandale Chamber. As I said, that was the first reference to anything there that I'd ever seen so it had me wondering. Could just be a mistake or maybe confusion with some other system or related storage/transportation/whatever area.

Springvale Rd. Great Falls,Protecting us from the Commies!
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> Also, the best way to look through the pictures on
> this thread:
> https://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.fa
> irfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/1009677/&rlz=1C1
> CHAF_enUS438US439&espv=2&biw=1536&bih=781&source=l
> nms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=CrzsVOX6D4meggSxkoSYBw&ved=0C
> AYQ_AUoAQ


You might want to think twice about clicking on that link!

^^^ Ok, I'll bite. Why not?

Penguin feather 1978. not sure of the location.
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One of the fine products sold at penguin feather back in the day.
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1968 Key bridge Marriott.
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Dave Henery Wrote:
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> Penguin feather 1978. not sure of the location.

That looks like the location at Baileys Crossroads.

@DH...I believe you are correct...It was a bank before and you could buy "papers" etc. through the drive thru window...they had a great underground record area also...

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> @DH...I believe you are correct...It was a bank
> before and you could buy "papers" etc. through the
> drive thru window...they had a great underground
> record area also...


Hey Sleepy, I remember it being a bank before and that window. They still had the vault inside and you could go into it, but I don't remember what they kept in there.

DH Wrote:
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> Sleepy Holla Wrote:
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> -----
> > @DH...I believe you are correct...It was a bank
> > before and you could buy "papers" etc. through
> the
> > drive thru window...they had a great
> underground
> > record area also...
>
>
> Hey Sleepy, I remember it being a bank before and
> that window. They still had the vault inside and
> you could go into it, but I don't remember what
> they kept in there.


Why were they waiting on such a long line 37 years ago?

Thats Roy Rogers and he was a good guy a 100% American. But Hot Shoppes to RR's in 1968? The Hot Shoppes Jr at Picket shoipping center by WT Woodson did not change until about 1976.

Who remembers when Roy and his band played at that Roy Rogers about 76 or 77 and the long haired "punk" from W.T.W threw the pie at Roy, and Roy stopped and told the crowd that was the only time in his life someone did that. I thought it was really shitty of the "punk" but got to know him a bit and the punk was only a smoked up kid at the time and he was not really that bad a fellow. He went to work for the school maintenance dept. after WTW.

I will take a Roys hamburger over a Wendys, McD's any day of the week and theres still three left on the southern end of FXCO today. Their chicken was very good too have not had that in a while all fried chicken today is getting up in price

county kid Wrote:
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> DH Wrote:
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> > Sleepy Holla Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > @DH...I believe you are correct...It was a
> bank
> > > before and you could buy "papers" etc.
> through
> > the
> > > drive thru window...they had a great
> > underground
> > > record area also...
> >
> >
> > Hey Sleepy, I remember it being a bank before
> and
> > that window. They still had the vault inside
> and
> > you could go into it, but I don't remember what
> > they kept in there.
>
>
> Why were they waiting on such a long line 37 years
> ago?

I think at one time they sold tickets to concerts before TicketMaster, etc. took over with scalper-like service charges...

Good Times!

Hey Leonard Slye!USA All The Way Wrote:
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> Thats Roy Rogers and he was a good guy a 100%
> American. But Hot Shoppes to RR's in 1968? The Hot
> Shoppes Jr at Picket shoipping center by WT
> Woodson did not change until about 1976.
>
> Who remembers when Roy and his band played at that
> Roy Rogers about 76 or 77 and the long haired
> "punk" from W.T.W threw the pie at Roy, and Roy
> stopped and told the crowd that was the only time
> in his life someone did that. I thought it was
> really shitty of the "punk" but got to know him a
> bit and the punk was only a smoked up kid at the
> time and he was not really that bad a fellow. He
> went to work for the school maintenance dept.
> after WTW.
>
> I will take a Roys hamburger over a Wendys, McD's
> any day of the week and theres still three left on
> the southern end of FXCO today. Their chicken was
> very good too have not had that in a while all
> fried chicken today is getting up in price

Marriott owned both Hot Shoppes And Roy's. Old man Marriott was a good friend of Roy(both Mormon) and bailed out the fast food chain. But Billy Jr. sold off everything to build the hotel empire.
What goes up eventually falls down. Marriott isn't top dog anymore. the old man believed in taking care of the employees.

Love that Country Squire Station Wagon! We had a Gran Torino wagon that was my first car. Great party bus in the early 80s. Shuttled lots of friends to Springfield Mall and HS football games in that thing.

Think I remember Hot Shoppes Jr. had a burger called the Royal Burger along the same lines of the Mighty Mo. Also had the signature Hot Shoppes Pappy Parker fried chicken

No Teen Twist at Hot Shoppes Jr? No mention of the Teen Twist? Or Special Sauce

They were at the Marriott cafes I dont remember any special burgers No Mighty Mo's at Hot Shoppes Jr. Just burgers, fries, chicken.

Marriotts cafe's were great I loved the one at Tysons and Wed Spaghetti Night
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Old Dude Wrote:
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> Don't know whether these have been posted here or
> not. Somehow I've missed that there's an
> Annandale Chamber of Commerce site until now.
>
> Annandale High before it was Annandale High.
>
> src="http://www.annandalechamber.com/__edited_imag
> es/Site%20of%20future%20AHSreduced_edited_1.jpg">
>
>
> Annandale water towers located at Webb Farm on
> Columbia Pike near Gallows.
>
> src="http://www.annandalechamber.com/Historic%20Ph
> otos/Annandale%20of%20Old/Water%20Tower%20Annandal
> e%201950%20at%20Webb%20Farm%20resized.jpg">
>
>
> Sinclair station at Annandale Road and Little
> River. Removed when Annandale Road was realigned
> with Ravensworth.
>
> src="http://www.annandalechamber.com/Historic%20Ph
> otos/Annandale%20of%20Old/Thomas%20Preston%20Servi
> ce%20Station%20Annandale%20Rd%20236%20resized.jpg"
> >
>
>
> This is kind of interesting. Not an actual pic of
> it but it says that there was a similar Nike
> missile site located at Gallows and Lincolnshire.
> That would be somewhere in the triangle area where
> Annandale and Gallows meet. Never heard of that
> being there before.
>
> src="http://www.annandalechamber.com/Historic%20Ph
> otos/Annandale%20of%20Old/Nike%20Missile.jpg">
>
>
> More here:
> http://www.annandalechamber.com/annandale_old_1950
> .rhtml

The last picture is the Nike missile site in Lorton. It was a larger site than others in the county.

From the washington post 1957
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Interesting vid of the WO&D rail line in action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8aXR48nxYg

> I will take a Roys hamburger over a Wendys, McD's
> any day of the week and theres still three left on
> the southern end of FXCO today. Their chicken was
> very good too have not had that in a while all
> fried chicken today is getting up in price

RR's hamburger's were much better when Marriot owned them. The ham on the RR was also much better. Their salad bar was pretty good for a fast food restaurant.

Who remembers this? I sure don't. Supposed to be Alexandria 1978.
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Old Man Fairfax Wrote:
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> > I will take a Roys hamburger over a Wendys,
> McD's
> > any day of the week and theres still three left
> on
> > the southern end of FXCO today. Their chicken
> was
> > very good too have not had that in a while all
> > fried chicken today is getting up in price
>
> RR's hamburger's were much better when Marriot
> owned them. The ham on the RR was also much
> better. Their salad bar was pretty good for a
> fast food restaurant.

What are the roast beef sandwiches like now-a-days? Are they as good as they were 20 years ago, or are they that "processed" roast beef like at Arby's? I keep meaning to check out the Roy's near Kingstown, but the girlfriend refuses to eat fast food, it's too far for take-out and I hate eating alone at a restaurant.

Had a French Dip sandwich at Angie's in Fairfax, corner of Twinbrook and Braddock, on Friday. Very good and lots of real roast beef. I have eaten there before, decent pizzas, too.

DH...Good find...here ya go...
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The Lamplighter was in a little strip mall adjacent the west side of Kann's Department Store, the latter having served as the George Mason School of Law in the more recent past. It was there at least through the mid to late 80s. The strip mall was leveled for redevelopment, and the Lamplighter moved out to Fairfax, next door to The Deli (Fairfax location). I think I heard that it eventually closed its doors for good, but am not sure.

Lamplighter was where I (finally) got caught using my fake ID.

It was a perfectly altered driver's license that had gotten me in anywhere I'd wanted in Georgetown, etc., since about age 16.

I feel kinda bad for kids these days. It was fairly easy to fake driver's licenses back then with the old paper ones. Also other passable official looking IDs were easy to get. I was a foreign student named Frederick with a fake German license for a while. lol

This is a long shot but does anyone remember the bratwurst haus? It was off route 50 in the falls church area in a strip mall. It was on the right if you were headed east maybe a mile inside the beltway.
They had rockin bands on the weekends and they had pitchers!!

wezel Wrote:
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> This is a long shot but does anyone remember the
> bratwurst haus? It was off route 50 in the falls
> church area in a strip mall. It was on the right
> if you were headed east maybe a mile inside the
> beltway.
> They had rockin bands on the weekends and they had
> pitchers!!


Yeah, it was in Loehmann's Plaza. A couple of doors down from where Celebrity Delly is now.

Yeah, I don't have any pictures of Bratwursthaus, but it was in the same strip as Celebrity Delly, as mentioned above. One of my neighbor buddy's Dad bought the place about the time I left for college, and it became a true haven for underage drinking for the FCHS crowd for a while (mid to late 70s).

wezel Wrote:
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> This is a long shot but does anyone remember the
> bratwurst haus? It was off route 50 in the falls
> church area in a strip mall. It was on the right
> if you were headed east maybe a mile inside the
> beltway.
> They had rockin bands on the weekends and they had
> pitchers!!


Class of '82 here and we used to cruise Loehmann's alot on weekends. I remember it, but I was never old enough to venture inside. I just remember seeing slutty looking girls a couple years older than me go in there alot and wishing I was a bit older. Our thing was Uncle Sam's (now Kilroy's) on Ladies' Night. Not likely to see a local bar full of drunken high school seniors again anytime soon.

WOW!
I am glad to see that my memories of Bratwursthaus were real. I was only there a few nights but it was some intense music from mostly local bands. Great times! Thanks.

GMULaw Prof. Watering Hole Wrote:
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> The strip mall was leveled for redevelopment, and the
> Lamplighter moved out to Fairfax, next door to The
> Deli (Fairfax location). I think I heard that it
> eventually closed its doors for good, but am not sure.

If it was The Lamplighter in Jermantown Square, yes, it closed two or three years ago.

request: palm reader house/hut across from pan-am shopping center. (never got in but i was always asking !)

request: seed silo at 123 and 236. there was a webber there i'm unsure it was a webber silo though. it was stiil use in the 1980's, the hands there told me

1950s Arlington
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fcba
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I have a few thousand pictures of fairfax county from the late 1900"s to the 50's. What would be the best way get them on here? Privacy is a concern so a direct download from my computer is something I would like to avoid.

vbxKP Wrote:
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> I have a few thousand pictures of fairfax county
> from the late 1900"s to the 50's. What would be
> the best way get them on here? Privacy is a
> concern so a direct download from my computer is
> something I would like to avoid.

You could set up one or more free accounts on Flickr and bulk upload there

Yes, that EAT place was Bournes Drive Inn, my family bought it in 1962. George Pittaway was in the band and he used to bring his Austin Healey to the Esso station next door which my family also owned. It had a big Reston Billboard sign on the property. Great to see that pic again, it was on the back of the album cover

David Bourne Wrote:
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> Yes, that EAT place was Bournes Drive Inn, my
> family bought it in 1962. George Pittaway was in
> the band and he used to bring his Austin Healey to
> the Esso station next door which my family also
> owned. It had a big Reston Billboard sign on the
> property. Great to see that pic again, it was on
> the back of the album cover


I used to stop at EAT a couple times a week back in the early 80s. They had some kind of ham soup with beans in it that was so awesome. They would sell me that soup piping hot on a freezing cold day, so hot you had to let it cool about 5 minutes before you could eat it. That place was fantastic.

Re post of pic from page 17 of this thread.
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EAT place was a beacon on Rt. 7 West before Reston exit... good memories.

^^^cute guys posed in front of EAT. What was the name of the band? Was this their only album? All local guys?

Where are they now?

Centreville 1955 R29 looking east

https://goo.gl/maps/HwGC7
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Fan Girl Wrote:
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> ^^^cute guys posed in front of EAT. What was the
> name of the band? Was this their only album? All
> local guys?
>
> Where are they now?


this is their website.

http://4outof5drs.com/

Traveling Rt 1 South from Alexandria/the Beltway:

The Travelers on right. Pool used to be where outside lane of rt 1 is now
Brookside Motel on left
Ford Motel (gone, now one building might remain, pool company) on right
Cedar Lodge (once Harry Smith) on right
The Virginia Lodge on left
Alexandria Motel on left
Fairview Motel (recently torn down) on left
The Old Penn Daw Motor Lodge on the right, where Wells Fargo is, went almost all the way to Applebee's on right
Next to Groveton Baptist, old motel on left there until around 2006, now Chili's (what was this???)
Beedoo Motor Lodge where/near Delray Glass on left
Old Groveton Elementary School (new apartment circa 2013-2014) on right
Wagon Wheel on right, now self storage facility on right
Old Mt Vee Motor Lodge on left, now townhomes
Belle Haven Lodge on left, at Richmond Highway and Sherwood Hall Lane, little plot of woods now
Doran Motor Court on left, abandoned for years, torn down circa 2008
Miller's Motor Court on right, Post Office now
Southern Motel on left
The Pines Tourist Court on left, now a hotel

Many, many more

Giant, Alexandria. 50s maybe?
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> > ^^^cute guys posed in front of EAT. What was
> the
> > name of the band? Was this their only album?
> All
> > local guys?
> >
> > Where are they now?
>
>
> this is their website.
>
> http://4outof5drs.com/


^^^ This for the answers. Followed by a Duck Duck Go inquiry.

6th Doctor Wrote:
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> fat old guy Wrote:
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> > Fan Girl Wrote:
> >
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>
> > -----
> > > ^^^cute guys posed in front of EAT. What was
> > the
> > > name of the band? Was this their only album?
>
> > All
> > > local guys?
> > >
> > > Where are they now?
> >
> >
> > this is their website.
> >
> > http://4outof5drs.com/
>
>
> ^^^ This for the answers. Followed by a Duck
> Duck Go inquiry.


Last time I ate at EAT I was carrying one of these,
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> It had a big Reston Billboard sign on the property.

Makes me think George Martin's Motorhaus foreign car service was somewhere nearby. The giant RESTON sigh was the landmark to get to that as well. They did good work until George perfected his fancy inventory software and went off to get rich selling that instead.

Times have changed... Wrote:
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> > It had a big Reston Billboard sign on the
> property.
>
> Makes me think George Martin's Motorhaus foreign
> car service was somewhere nearby. The giant
> RESTON sigh was the landmark to get to that as
> well. They did good work until George perfected
> his fancy inventory software and went off to get
> rich selling that instead.


Anyone got pics of the giant RESTON billboard sign on Rt. 7 pointing the way?

6th Doctor Wrote:
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> Times have changed... Wrote:
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> > David Bourne Wrote:
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>
> > -----
> > > It had a big Reston Billboard sign on the
> > property.
> >
> > Makes me think George Martin's Motorhaus
> foreign
> > car service was somewhere nearby. The giant
> > RESTON sigh was the landmark to get to that as
> > well. They did good work until George
> perfected
> > his fancy inventory software and went off to
> get
> > rich selling that instead.
>
>
> Anyone got pics of the giant RESTON billboard sign
> on Rt. 7 pointing the way?




Its in this thread somewhere. So many pages,, cant find it.

here is one old reston pic that someone posted earlier.
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> Times have changed... Wrote:
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> > David Bourne Wrote:
> >
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>
> > -----
> > > It had a big Reston Billboard sign on the
> > property.
> >
> > Makes me think George Martin's Motorhaus
> foreign
> > car service was somewhere nearby. The giant
> > RESTON sigh was the landmark to get to that as
> > well. They did good work until George
> perfected
> > his fancy inventory software and went off to
> get
> > rich selling that instead.
>
>
> Anyone got pics of the giant RESTON billboard sign
> on Rt. 7 pointing the way?


It is about 2/3 of the way down on page 17 of this thread.

http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/1009677/page-17.html

Overhead view of the Springfield Interchange sometime in the 1960s prior to May 1968 (left) and today (right).

In both images, south is at the top.

GBW, re post of said pic.
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I was on the Pic Temple show when I very young. Maybe 6 years old. Very long time ago. I'm 61 now.

David Whitmon Wrote:
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> I was on the Pic Temple show when I very young.
> Maybe 6 years old. Very long time ago. I'm 61 now.


That is sweet!

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> Centreville 1955 R29 looking east
>
> https://goo.gl/maps/HwGC7


Is the sign in the photo that says "Centerville Restaurant" the building that had Paynes Restaurant in it? That place was awesome. So sad when they closed. Interesting that the sign in the forefront with the arrow says Centreville and the sign on the building says Centerville. What is up with that???

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> I was on the Pic Temple show when I very young.
> Maybe 6 years old. Very long time ago. I'm 61 now.


Pic Temple was before my time but your comment led me to this video of a grand opening of a Giant food store in northern Virginia sometime in the 50s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg-S2Qm7N-k

Can anybody identify the exact location of the Giant food in this video? One Youtube comment says it's Bradlee shopping center and another says it is somewhere else.

Looks like Bradlee to me.

That Centreville pic looks like Social Circle would have been just out of the frame to the right.

I grew up in a Duke too .. Eastbourne!

Cool video from the 1950s,

http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675050411_Potomac-River_Lincoln-Memorial_Jefferson-Memorial_National-Airport_Key-Bridge

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I don't think so, unless the building completely changed (as in knocked down). I too was a Fairlington kid, if you stood out front of the Giant and looked to your left (where the Pastry Shop etc is), there was a swimming pool. I don't see that in the video, but am curious as to where it could be...

where was or is this place?
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wherethehellis this? Wrote:
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> where was or is this place?

Mt Vernon Ave, Alexandria. Near Monroe Ave.

wherethehellis this? Wrote:
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> where was or is this place?


What's that blue thing on the wall?

wherethehellis this? Wrote:
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> where was or is this place?


What's that blue thing on the wall?

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> > where was or is this place?
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> Mt Vernon Ave, Alexandria. Near Monroe Ave.


Al's is still there. Beautiful looking cheesesteaks, absolutely devoid of any beef flavor whatsoever. Gets rave reviews on some online sites. Caveat Emptor!

That is Route 7 and Carlin Springs just Passing over Columbia Pike heading East. Roy Rogers was on the Right and the White and Red Building at that time was a Myer Emco.

Here's a Google Street View image of Al's last summer. Looks like the pay phone remains in place.

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.819898,-77.057506,3a,75y,299.73h,85.68t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1syP2c3Xi3U6pk73Hp59dXrg!2e0

I worked for the Fairfax County Park Authority from 1973 utill 2002. I worked with the Park Police but in my time they were driving dark green cars. I worked Lake Fairfax from 73 to 80, but was in another park Riverbend when they held the Lalapaloosa (cksp)in 91. I lived at the pits driving souped up beetle buggies. I lived in Broyhill McLean Estates 58-71 got out of McLean high in 65. There was a fellow named Lemuel Morris Northern than ran a pony farm right across Davidson road from the high school, in my teens I worked horses and ponies for him. I also worked Judge Hammels fields with J. Preston Rodgers baling hay in the summers. I lived on Audmar Dr, just across 123. That property has been Lewinsville Park for quite some time now. About the house burning behind the Mclean garden vegetable stand. The fire truck parked next to the house got roasted. The fire fell through the second floor and it was to hot to get to the truck to move it. I worked for Ed White who ran the Esso at 123 and Old Dominion during the time it changed over to Exxon. there was an Amoco on the other side of Old Dom. and a Sunoco next to Us on 123. I went to seventh grade at the Franklin Sherman School just behind the Esso. We were supervised by the principal when we fired off homemade CO2 cartridge/matchhead rockets in the school playground. I can't even imagine kids today being allowed to do that. I belonged to McLean Chapter of DeMolays and later to Sharon 327 Masonic lodge. I remember the building of the Giant food store strip mall it also had a Peoples Drug store, Around the corner was Preston Drug, They had a much better lunch counter. I worked for 9 months in late 65-66 at the Falls Church C&P telephone building If I remember the address was 6700 lee hiway in Falls Church, Actually My step-dad Albert Child was the boss of the building a few years earlier than that. When the Mc Lean McDonalds opened in the early sixties they offered the ".47 cent meal" a burger, fries and a shake, oh yeah it was a walk-up service only building at first. I am now retired and living in Minnesota. I look at satelite views of McLean and don't recognize any of it. the times they have already changed.

Pizza supreme behind the Safeway store. The Supreme burger was awesome and way before its time. The picture on page 34 of the Reston area must have been taken well before 1950. Lake Fairfax Park was built by a citizen and opened in 1953 or so. Mr Crippen damned up the output side of a soapstone quarry to create the Lake The Park Authority bought it from him. Niether the lake nor the quarry show on the photo. The lake is off rt.606 about 1/2 mile south of rt 7. I do not see Springvale ave (rt 606 north of rt 7). nor Huntermill rd which is between rt 7 and Lake Fairfax Drive. The picture 5-11-14 of 123 and old dominion dr. the large wooden house was the Routh Robbins realty office. and it was BLUE. I worked for a short time at the Esso station and in 69 the price of gas was about 33-35 for regular. The Spaghetti Mill in Annandale had a run of bad trouble there was glass in the sauce. It turned out that one of the cooks broke the seal on the jars of sauce by whacking the lid with the backbone of a heavy kitchen knife. He apparently never noticed the broken rim of the glass jars. I took Food Service Managers Permit classes from the Health inspector that figured out the problem.

Len Little Wrote:
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> I worked for the Fairfax County Park Authority
> from 1973 utill 2002. I worked with the Park
> Police but in my time they were driving dark green
> cars. I worked Lake Fairfax from 73 to 80, but
> was in another park Riverbend when they held the
> Lalapaloosa (cksp)in 91. I lived at the pits
> driving souped up beetle buggies. I lived in
> Broyhill McLean Estates 58-71 got out of McLean
> high in 65. There was a fellow named Lemuel Morris
> Northern than ran a pony farm right across
> Davidson road from the high school, in my teens I
> worked horses and ponies for him. I also worked
> Judge Hammels fields with J. Preston Rodgers
> baling hay in the summers. I lived on Audmar Dr,
> just across 123. That property has been
> Lewinsville Park for quite some time now. About
> the house burning behind the Mclean garden
> vegetable stand. The fire truck parked next to
> the house got roasted. The fire fell through the
> second floor and it was to hot to get to the truck
> to move it. I worked for Ed White who ran the
> Esso at 123 and Old Dominion during the time it
> changed over to Exxon. there was an Amoco on the
> other side of Old Dom. and a Sunoco next to Us on
> 123. I went to seventh grade at the Franklin
> Sherman School just behind the Esso. We were
> supervised by the principal when we fired off
> homemade CO2 cartridge/matchhead rockets in the
> school playground. I can't even imagine kids today
> being allowed to do that. I belonged to McLean
> Chapter of DeMolays and later to Sharon 327
> Masonic lodge. I remember the building of the
> Giant food store strip mall it also had a Peoples
> Drug store, Around the corner was Preston Drug,
> They had a much better lunch counter. I worked for
> 9 months in late 65-66 at the Falls Church C&P
> telephone building If I remember the address was
> 6700 lee hiway in Falls Church, Actually My
> step-dad Albert Child was the boss of the building
> a few years earlier than that. When the Mc Lean
> McDonalds opened in the early sixties they offered
> the ".47 cent meal" a burger, fries and a shake,
> oh yeah it was a walk-up service only building at
> first. I am now retired and living in Minnesota.
> I look at satelite views of McLean and don't
> recognize any of it. the times they have already
> changed.


Lalapaloosa was fucking awesome in 1991. It sucked ass in 1992 because it was too fucking hot. They ran out of water and had to bring in water trucks to hose down the crowds. They eventually brought in delivery trucks and just threw bottles of water into the crowds for free because people were passing out from the heat.

$62,500 for a Glencourse condo in Reston? What do they sell for now?
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> Lalapaloosa was fucking awesome in 1991. It sucked
> ass in 1992 because it was too fucking hot. They
> ran out of water and had to bring in water trucks
> to hose down the crowds. They eventually brought
> in delivery trucks and just threw bottles of water
> into the crowds for free because people were
> passing out from the heat.


You got your years mixed up there. 1991 was the hot year when they ran out of water. One of my female friends actually fainted from the heat. 1992 was the wet year, where it got super muddy and tore the field up and I suspect that's why they never had it there again.

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> Is the sign in the photo that says "Centerville
> Restaurant" the building that had Paynes
> Restaurant in it?

Yes. It closed in 2009 after about 50 years in business.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-FocPEmb_E

A couple of photos back on page 26:
http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/1009677/page-26.html

Interestingly, the next door building that now houses Jireh's Bakery was once Paynes General Store.
http://www.novahistory.org/PaynesStore/PaynesStore.htm


> Interesting that the sign in the
> forefront with the arrow says Centreville and the
> sign on the building says Centerville. What is up
> with that???

There was a period of time in Centreville history when I see the spelling as Centerville. No often, but occasionally. As I recall it was mostly around the 1920s-1930s.