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Welcome to Fairfax Underground, a project site designed to improve communication among residents of Fairfax County, VA. Feel free to post anything Northern Virginia residents would find interesting.
Welcome to Fairfax Underground, a project site designed to improve communication among residents of Fairfax County, VA. Feel free to post anything Northern Virginia residents would find interesting.
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
kevin t
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Date: November 09, 2015 10:00PM
Sorry, Village Inn on Columbia Pike. The place across the street was the Iron Skillet
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
Trying to Rember
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Date: November 11, 2015 02:36AM
kevin t Wrote:
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> I agree, The brick place on the hill throws me
> off. Wheres the hill today and that place?
> Probably a Pizza joint but not Springfield. That
> Village Inn building does have a high speed look
> to it like the Mexican Food place. Will have to
> take a closer look next time I pass by.
>
> Not the Springfield location in the photo.
> Probably had several around since it was a
> franchise. El Paso still has the original
> fireplace in the middle of the dining area. I
> remember that the Baileys location did as well
> since I used to go there in my younger days.
> Across the street on 7 was a steak place
> something skillet which was pretty good.
Wasn't there a Viiage Inn near Cameron Station (sort of near Landmark Shopping Center)? Maybe that's it?
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> I agree, The brick place on the hill throws me
> off. Wheres the hill today and that place?
> Probably a Pizza joint but not Springfield. That
> Village Inn building does have a high speed look
> to it like the Mexican Food place. Will have to
> take a closer look next time I pass by.
>
> Not the Springfield location in the photo.
> Probably had several around since it was a
> franchise. El Paso still has the original
> fireplace in the middle of the dining area. I
> remember that the Baileys location did as well
> since I used to go there in my younger days.
> Across the street on 7 was a steak place
> something skillet which was pretty good.
Wasn't there a Viiage Inn near Cameron Station (sort of near Landmark Shopping Center)? Maybe that's it?
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
blanche
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Date: November 11, 2015 06:06AM
kevin t Wrote:
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> I agree, The brick place on the hill throws me
> off. Wheres the hill today and that place?
> Probably a Pizza joint but not Springfield. That
> Village Inn building does have a high speed look
> to it like the Mexican Food place. Will have to
> take a closer look next time I pass by.
>
> Not the Springfield location in the photo.
> Probably had several around since it was a
> franchise. El Paso still has the original
> fireplace in the middle of the dining area. I
> remember that the Baileys location did as well
> since I used to go there in my younger days.
> Across the street on 7 was a steak place
> something skillet which was pretty good.
It was the Iron Skillet, a good French place, for a LONG time (next to Giffords RIP).
It became Daks and is now the German Store. A long time waiter at the IS was running around in shorts at Daks, I guess he was grandfathered in as an employee...
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> I agree, The brick place on the hill throws me
> off. Wheres the hill today and that place?
> Probably a Pizza joint but not Springfield. That
> Village Inn building does have a high speed look
> to it like the Mexican Food place. Will have to
> take a closer look next time I pass by.
>
> Not the Springfield location in the photo.
> Probably had several around since it was a
> franchise. El Paso still has the original
> fireplace in the middle of the dining area. I
> remember that the Baileys location did as well
> since I used to go there in my younger days.
> Across the street on 7 was a steak place
> something skillet which was pretty good.
It was the Iron Skillet, a good French place, for a LONG time (next to Giffords RIP).
It became Daks and is now the German Store. A long time waiter at the IS was running around in shorts at Daks, I guess he was grandfathered in as an employee...
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
whitecamry
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Date: November 16, 2015 12:17PM
fritz bee Wrote:
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> WFAX
I like the speaker in place of the spare.
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> WFAX
I like the speaker in place of the spare.
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Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
bucks
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Date: November 16, 2015 12:53PM
Bucks store on georgetown pike great falls late 70s
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Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
Times Have Changed
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Date: November 19, 2015 04:19PM
Mess Hall line at Camp A.A. Humphreys. Which is now Fort Belvoir...
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Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
Unit 8
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Date: November 21, 2015 09:43PM
Times Have Changed Wrote:
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> Mess Hall line at Camp A.A. Humphreys. Which is
> now Fort Belvoir...
> .
Wow, no Nigros to be Seen. ARMY must of been nice in those days.
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> Mess Hall line at Camp A.A. Humphreys. Which is
> now Fort Belvoir...
> .
Wow, no Nigros to be Seen. ARMY must of been nice in those days.
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
Bill.N.
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Date: November 22, 2015 12:19AM
The U.S. Army was segregated at the time Camp Humphreys was established and remained so until 1948. When the camp was established during WW1, several thousand black soldiers were posted there to assist with construction.
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
len little
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Date: November 22, 2015 03:00AM
I was serving my internship in Great Falls in 1976, The house I lived in only had electricity in one half. I borrowed several of my mothers antique oil lamps to light the other half. I bought kerosene at Bucks, his kero pump was literally just inside the front door. We also feasted on Thelmas Ice cream about a block to the left of the photo above. Good days those.
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
old gm guy
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Date: November 22, 2015 07:17PM
bucks Wrote:
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> Bucks store on georgetown pike great falls late
> 70s
looks like a 1976 chevy nova 2 door and that truck looks like maybe a 1965 or so?
Nice picture, thanks.
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> Bucks store on georgetown pike great falls late
> 70s
looks like a 1976 chevy nova 2 door and that truck looks like maybe a 1965 or so?
Nice picture, thanks.
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
old
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Date: November 22, 2015 11:29PM
old gm guy Wrote:
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> bucks Wrote:
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> > Bucks store on georgetown pike great falls late
> > 70s
>
>
> looks like a 1976 chevy nova 2 door and that truck
> looks like maybe a 1965 or so?
>
> Nice picture, thanks.
That truck has side marker lights. So, it's a '68 or later.
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> bucks Wrote:
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> > Bucks store on georgetown pike great falls late
> > 70s
>
>
> looks like a 1976 chevy nova 2 door and that truck
> looks like maybe a 1965 or so?
>
> Nice picture, thanks.
That truck has side marker lights. So, it's a '68 or later.
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
old gm guy
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Date: November 23, 2015 12:38PM
old Wrote:
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> That truck has side marker lights. So, it's a '68
> or later.
You are 100% right!
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> That truck has side marker lights. So, it's a '68
> or later.
You are 100% right!
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
old gm guy
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Date: November 23, 2015 12:50PM
This is from a 1980 yearbook so maybe 1979. Was that a gulf station or maybe a Crown? Looks like it was Christmas time.
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Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
Bill.N.
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Date: November 23, 2015 01:44PM
len little Wrote:
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> We also feasted on Thelmas Ice cream about a block to
> the left of the photo above. Good days those.
Is that the place that used to serve homemade ice cream? When I was a teen working construction our crew chief insisted we stop there whenever we were in the Great Falls area we had to stop for ice cream.
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> We also feasted on Thelmas Ice cream about a block to
> the left of the photo above. Good days those.
Is that the place that used to serve homemade ice cream? When I was a teen working construction our crew chief insisted we stop there whenever we were in the Great Falls area we had to stop for ice cream.
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
Photo Detective
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Date: November 23, 2015 05:49PM
old gm guy Wrote:
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> This is from a 1980 yearbook so maybe 1979. Was
> that a gulf station or maybe a Crown? Looks like
> it was Christmas time.
That was a Crown gas station, and it was when it was full service. Price of the Regular Leaded gas was 94 cents a gallon.
I see a 79' AMC Eagle and a 78' Dodge Aspen, and a 74' Toyota Corona, last a 78' Chevy Malibu.
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> This is from a 1980 yearbook so maybe 1979. Was
> that a gulf station or maybe a Crown? Looks like
> it was Christmas time.
That was a Crown gas station, and it was when it was full service. Price of the Regular Leaded gas was 94 cents a gallon.
I see a 79' AMC Eagle and a 78' Dodge Aspen, and a 74' Toyota Corona, last a 78' Chevy Malibu.
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
beach boys of
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Date: November 23, 2015 05:59PM
Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran was a big hit that year.
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
causeican
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Date: November 24, 2015 12:18AM
.94 cent a gallon?! That’s a lot. Too close to a whole dollar.
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
Kingsarms
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Date: November 25, 2015 12:49AM
Here's one of Arlington's original dive restaurants/bars. Back in the late 70's I got a hack license in Arlington and drove Arlington Yellow and Red Top cabs (they were both owned by the same company). If I remember correctly, Whitey's was popular with the Red Top drivers. The Yellow Cab drivers hung out more at another dive restaurant on Wilson Blvd near N. Fillmore or N. Garfield. I don't recall the name of that place, but it's long been gone as Clarendon got all spruced up and rebuilt.
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Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
Kingsarms
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Date: November 25, 2015 12:51AM
Forgot to mention, Whitey's was located on Washington Blvd. about 1/2 block off of Pershing Drive. Last time I was by there, the building remained and still looked like a dive - but no longer named Whitey's.
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
Joke Insurance
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Date: November 25, 2015 03:01PM
Can someone please post some photos of the former at-grade railroad crossings for Burke Lake Road, Burke Road, Guinea Road, and Van Dorn Street? Thank you.
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
causeican
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Date: November 26, 2015 12:32AM
Have you seen this site before? Chesterbrook 1950s. Lots of pictures.
http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/virginia/index.html
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Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
Kingsarms
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Date: November 26, 2015 12:32AM
I know this has been mentioned before but I don't think a photo was posted. In any event, here is a photo of the Kann's department store in Arlington's Virginia Square. It looks like it was taken in the 1950s and the view is from Fairfax Drive.
When I was in elementary school, my family shopped here regularly during the early to mid sixties. They had a relatively large monkey cage, painted and decorated like a circus wagon, in the children's shoe department that held two or three monkeys whose antics fascinated us each time we visited. There was a snack bar on the first floor called the "Kannteen" that was sort of like a soda fountain. The other thing I remember about the building is that they had operators in each elevator taking you from floor to floor.
The store closed, I think, in the early 70s and the building eventually became George Mason's Arlington Campus housing the law school and a few other graduate programs. In the 80s when I was earning my masters, I took classes in the building.
The second photo from Google Steetview shows how the building appears today. It's hidden partially by some trees but I think you can make it out.
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When I was in elementary school, my family shopped here regularly during the early to mid sixties. They had a relatively large monkey cage, painted and decorated like a circus wagon, in the children's shoe department that held two or three monkeys whose antics fascinated us each time we visited. There was a snack bar on the first floor called the "Kannteen" that was sort of like a soda fountain. The other thing I remember about the building is that they had operators in each elevator taking you from floor to floor.
The store closed, I think, in the early 70s and the building eventually became George Mason's Arlington Campus housing the law school and a few other graduate programs. In the 80s when I was earning my masters, I took classes in the building.
The second photo from Google Steetview shows how the building appears today. It's hidden partially by some trees but I think you can make it out.
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Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
causeican
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Date: November 26, 2015 12:42AM
Joke Insurance Wrote:
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> Can someone please post some photos of the former
> at-grade railroad crossings for Burke Lake Road,
> Burke Road, Guinea Road, and Van Dorn Street?
> Thank you.
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> Can someone please post some photos of the former
> at-grade railroad crossings for Burke Lake Road,
> Burke Road, Guinea Road, and Van Dorn Street?
> Thank you.
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Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
Kingsarms
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Date: November 26, 2015 12:44AM
Here's another view of Virginia Square, taken from a little further down Fairfax drive. It shows the shopping center itself with the Kann's building in the background.
It's hard to see from this angle, but I believe the store on the corner of the center was a People's drug. The store with the canopy in front was the Lamplighter Restaurant which operated there for many years.
Based on the cars in the photo, it looks like it was taken somewhere between 1968 and 1973.
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It's hard to see from this angle, but I believe the store on the corner of the center was a People's drug. The store with the canopy in front was the Lamplighter Restaurant which operated there for many years.
Based on the cars in the photo, it looks like it was taken somewhere between 1968 and 1973.
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Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
topcat
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Date: November 26, 2015 01:55AM
Great photo! I see the Lamplighter Restaurant where the canvas covering goes to the street. Thanks
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
Times Have Changed
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Date: November 26, 2015 08:38AM
There used to be a plumbing supply place along there somewhere. They (thankfully) carried replacement heads for the zone valves we had in the heating system back then. I think Dominion Datsun was up the road a ways to the west as well, but I might be misremembering that. Either way, building the Orange Line changed a lot of things. Did the Lamplighter move from there out to Fairfax when the digging started? There was a place called that on Jermantown Road between 50 and 29, but it's gone now as well.
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
oldarl
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Date: November 26, 2015 08:42AM
On the Washington Blvd side of the shopping center there was a GreenStamps store, as well as a Giant Grocery store.
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
gbw
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Date: November 26, 2015 09:44AM
Times Have Changed Wrote:
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> Did the Lamplighter move from there out to Fairfax
> when the digging started? There was a place
> called that on Jermantown Road between 50 and 29,
> but it's gone now as well.
According to this post the answer would be yes. http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/1009677/1801715.html#msg-1801715
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> Did the Lamplighter move from there out to Fairfax
> when the digging started? There was a place
> called that on Jermantown Road between 50 and 29,
> but it's gone now as well.
According to this post the answer would be yes. http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/1009677/1801715.html#msg-1801715
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
Photo Detective
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Date: November 26, 2015 10:16AM
Kingsarms Wrote:
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> Here's another view of Virginia Square, taken from
> a little further down Fairfax drive. It shows the
> shopping center itself with the Kann's building in
> the background.
>
> It's hard to see from this angle, but I believe
> the store on the corner of the center was a
> People's drug. The store with the canopy in front
> was the Lamplighter Restaurant which operated
> there for many years.
>
> Based on the cars in the photo, it looks like it
> was taken somewhere between 1968 and 1973.
Photo is circa 1965
The plates on the 62 Pontiac, and the Jag are 1965 issue.
The 1964 Ford Galaxie is going to other way.
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> Here's another view of Virginia Square, taken from
> a little further down Fairfax drive. It shows the
> shopping center itself with the Kann's building in
> the background.
>
> It's hard to see from this angle, but I believe
> the store on the corner of the center was a
> People's drug. The store with the canopy in front
> was the Lamplighter Restaurant which operated
> there for many years.
>
> Based on the cars in the photo, it looks like it
> was taken somewhere between 1968 and 1973.
Photo is circa 1965
The plates on the 62 Pontiac, and the Jag are 1965 issue.
The 1964 Ford Galaxie is going to other way.
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
flag bro
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Date: November 26, 2015 10:35AM
circa 79, tysons corner mall. Looks like the indoor fountains had been drained by then. I remember they caused high humidity and mold in the building and one kid almost drowned in one.
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Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
Kingsarms
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Date: November 26, 2015 11:00AM
I saw the tag on the Jaguar but the reasons I was thinking 1968 or later were that the Volkswagon Microbus appears to be the 2nd generation which came out in '68. Also, take a look at what I think might be a Red Top cab next to the microbus. It's hard to tell, but it looked to me like a later model.
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
Sleepy Holla
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Date: November 26, 2015 11:45AM
Great stuff...BTW, the Pontiac is a 1960...keep 'em coming.
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
Photo Detective
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Date: November 26, 2015 11:49AM
Kingsarms Wrote:
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> I saw the tag on the Jaguar but the reasons I was
> thinking 1968 or later were that the Volkswagon
> Microbus appears to be the 2nd generation which
> came out in '68. Also, take a look at what I
> think might be a Red Top cab next to the microbus.
> It's hard to tell, but it looked to me like a
> later model.
Look at the bumpers on the 2 VW Buses, 1967 was the last year VW used that style bumpers on any of the vehicles produced for export to the US.
The 1968 plates were black with white letters. The cab looks to be an AMC Ambassador.
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> I saw the tag on the Jaguar but the reasons I was
> thinking 1968 or later were that the Volkswagon
> Microbus appears to be the 2nd generation which
> came out in '68. Also, take a look at what I
> think might be a Red Top cab next to the microbus.
> It's hard to tell, but it looked to me like a
> later model.
Look at the bumpers on the 2 VW Buses, 1967 was the last year VW used that style bumpers on any of the vehicles produced for export to the US.
The 1968 plates were black with white letters. The cab looks to be an AMC Ambassador.
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
Photo Detective
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Date: November 26, 2015 11:57AM
Photo Detective Wrote:
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> Kingsarms Wrote:
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> > I saw the tag on the Jaguar but the reasons I
> was
> > thinking 1968 or later were that the Volkswagon
> > Microbus appears to be the 2nd generation which
> > came out in '68. Also, take a look at what I
> > think might be a Red Top cab next to the
> microbus.
> > It's hard to tell, but it looked to me like a
> > later model.
>
>
> Look at the bumpers on the 2 VW Buses, 1967 was
> the last year VW used that style bumpers on any of
> the vehicles produced for export to the US.
>
> The 1968 plates were black with white letters. The
> cab looks to be an AMC Ambassador.
The Pontiac Bonneville is in fact a 1960 model.
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> Kingsarms Wrote:
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> > I saw the tag on the Jaguar but the reasons I
> was
> > thinking 1968 or later were that the Volkswagon
> > Microbus appears to be the 2nd generation which
> > came out in '68. Also, take a look at what I
> > think might be a Red Top cab next to the
> microbus.
> > It's hard to tell, but it looked to me like a
> > later model.
>
>
> Look at the bumpers on the 2 VW Buses, 1967 was
> the last year VW used that style bumpers on any of
> the vehicles produced for export to the US.
>
> The 1968 plates were black with white letters. The
> cab looks to be an AMC Ambassador.
The Pontiac Bonneville is in fact a 1960 model.
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
roths
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Date: November 26, 2015 12:38PM
Roths Americana. Annandale. 1970s I think.
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Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
Kingsarms
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Date: November 26, 2015 12:44PM
Wow, great job Photo Detective. You picked up on a lot of details that I missed and you certainly know your cars.
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Posted by:
roths
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Date: November 26, 2015 12:46PM
Sleepy Hollow old folks home. Not sure of what date. Any guesses?
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Posted by:
Photo Detective
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Date: November 26, 2015 01:28PM
roths Wrote:
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> Roths Americana. Annandale. 1970s I think.
Looks like a CVS Drug Store in the background. Peoples Drug Stores became CVS Stores in 1993 or 1994 so I would date this photo in the 1990's sometime.
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> Roths Americana. Annandale. 1970s I think.
Looks like a CVS Drug Store in the background. Peoples Drug Stores became CVS Stores in 1993 or 1994 so I would date this photo in the 1990's sometime.
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Posted by:
blanche
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Date: November 26, 2015 01:51PM
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> Sleepy Hollow old folks home. Not sure of what
> date. Any guesses?
Looks like the service road right in front of the nursing home that is still there, lots of additions to the building itself.
Is Columbia Pike only two lanes or is the median very wide?
I used to ride horses where Mason District Park is located now (across Columbia Pike from Sleepy Hollow) and sang with my girl scout troop at the nursing home, mid 60s or so.
I think it was fairly new then but of course its getting to be fifty years ago that the singing happened.
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> Sleepy Hollow old folks home. Not sure of what
> date. Any guesses?
Looks like the service road right in front of the nursing home that is still there, lots of additions to the building itself.
Is Columbia Pike only two lanes or is the median very wide?
I used to ride horses where Mason District Park is located now (across Columbia Pike from Sleepy Hollow) and sang with my girl scout troop at the nursing home, mid 60s or so.
I think it was fairly new then but of course its getting to be fifty years ago that the singing happened.
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
Joke Insurance
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Date: November 26, 2015 02:20PM
causeican Wrote:
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> Joke Insurance Wrote:
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> > Can someone please post some photos of the
> former
> > at-grade railroad crossings for Burke Lake
> Road,
> > Burke Road, Guinea Road, and Van Dorn Street?
> > Thank you.
Haha, you're a funny guy!
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> Joke Insurance Wrote:
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> > Can someone please post some photos of the
> former
> > at-grade railroad crossings for Burke Lake
> Road,
> > Burke Road, Guinea Road, and Van Dorn Street?
> > Thank you.
Haha, you're a funny guy!
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Posted by:
Oletimeyman
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Date: November 26, 2015 05:42PM
1964 or 1965. Final homes in Sleepy Hollow Woods yet to be built next door. You can see they are just dirt lots in this photo. That neighborhood was finished by late 1965. Also, another clue is newer addition of nursing home next door not yet built - that happened circa 1970ish.
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Posted by:
causeican
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Date: November 27, 2015 02:40PM
Joke Insurance Wrote:
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> causeican Wrote:
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> > Joke Insurance Wrote:
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> > > Can someone please post some photos of the
> > former
> > > at-grade railroad crossings for Burke Lake
> > Road,
> > > Burke Road, Guinea Road, and Van Dorn Street?
> > > Thank you.
>
>
> Haha, you're a funny guy!
What’s funny? isn’t that Burke Lake Road at-grade railroad crossing? Are you looking for the picture to be taken at grade too?
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> causeican Wrote:
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> > Joke Insurance Wrote:
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> > > Can someone please post some photos of the
> > former
> > > at-grade railroad crossings for Burke Lake
> > Road,
> > > Burke Road, Guinea Road, and Van Dorn Street?
> > > Thank you.
>
>
> Haha, you're a funny guy!
What’s funny? isn’t that Burke Lake Road at-grade railroad crossing? Are you looking for the picture to be taken at grade too?
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
remember this?
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Date: November 27, 2015 03:10PM
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Posted by:
bUYWn
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Date: November 27, 2015 03:23PM
I delivered the Star. 1974-75, something like that. Even jumped a short time.
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
sub
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Date: November 27, 2015 06:26PM
Substitute route manager for the Star, 1967-1970. I drove the routes when the regular guys were off.
It was the first job I stumbled across when I came back from 'Nam. Wasn't bad.
It was the first job I stumbled across when I came back from 'Nam. Wasn't bad.
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
OleStarBoy
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Date: November 27, 2015 06:52PM
I delivered the Washington Star too circa 1979. Remember one day they went on strike. I was so happy as it meant I got to sleep in one Saturday or Sunday when it was morning delivery - but they didn't print an edition.
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
Ying Ko
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Date: November 27, 2015 06:55PM
I delivered the Washington Daily News in grade school. hard to believe DC had 3 mainstream newspapers.
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
Posted by:
sub
()
Date: November 28, 2015 07:05PM
OleStarBoy Wrote:
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> I delivered the Washington Star too circa 1979.
> Remember one day they went on strike. I was so
> happy as it meant I got to sleep in one Saturday
> or Sunday when it was morning delivery - but they
> didn't print an edition.
It was renamed the Washington Star right before it folded.
When I worked for them in the 60s (and for many years before that), it was The Evening Star. Only on Sunday was it a morning paper.
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> I delivered the Washington Star too circa 1979.
> Remember one day they went on strike. I was so
> happy as it meant I got to sleep in one Saturday
> or Sunday when it was morning delivery - but they
> didn't print an edition.
It was renamed the Washington Star right before it folded.
When I worked for them in the 60s (and for many years before that), it was The Evening Star. Only on Sunday was it a morning paper.
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old
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Date: November 28, 2015 07:10PM
sub Wrote:
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> OleStarBoy Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I delivered the Washington Star too circa 1979.
> > Remember one day they went on strike. I was so
> > happy as it meant I got to sleep in one
> Saturday
> > or Sunday when it was morning delivery - but
> they
> > didn't print an edition.
>
>
> It was renamed the Washington Star right before it
> folded.
>
> When I worked for them in the 60s (and for many
> years before that), it was The Evening Star. Only
> on Sunday was it a morning paper.
And on Sunday, the masthead said Sunday Star.
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> OleStarBoy Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I delivered the Washington Star too circa 1979.
> > Remember one day they went on strike. I was so
> > happy as it meant I got to sleep in one
> Saturday
> > or Sunday when it was morning delivery - but
> they
> > didn't print an edition.
>
>
> It was renamed the Washington Star right before it
> folded.
>
> When I worked for them in the 60s (and for many
> years before that), it was The Evening Star. Only
> on Sunday was it a morning paper.
And on Sunday, the masthead said Sunday Star.
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Date: November 28, 2015 07:26PM
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Posted by:
miss the star
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Date: November 28, 2015 07:48PM
Oh, and in the mid 60s, the Sunday Star ran a COLOR photo above the fold on the front page every Sunday!
Color photos in newspapers was very rare back then, but the Star ran one every Sunday. We didn't get the Post so I don't know if the color pics were in response to the Post doing it or if the Star was being innovative.
Color photos in newspapers was very rare back then, but the Star ran one every Sunday. We didn't get the Post so I don't know if the color pics were in response to the Post doing it or if the Star was being innovative.
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old
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Date: November 28, 2015 07:57PM
older Wrote:
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> The last edition of the Washington Star
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfXYrSN4aR0
Don't need no stinkin Youtube. I have three copies of the last Star.
Got a few copies of the July '69 landing on the moon.
And at least one copy of the November 22,23,24 1963 Stars. That was an awful weekend.
Everybody regardless of political persuasion mourned our President. If that happened today, can you imagine the horseshit today's partisan morons would spew? Oh well, people had some class back then.
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> The last edition of the Washington Star
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfXYrSN4aR0
Don't need no stinkin Youtube. I have three copies of the last Star.
Got a few copies of the July '69 landing on the moon.
And at least one copy of the November 22,23,24 1963 Stars. That was an awful weekend.
Everybody regardless of political persuasion mourned our President. If that happened today, can you imagine the horseshit today's partisan morons would spew? Oh well, people had some class back then.
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remember this?
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Date: November 29, 2015 08:01AM
Fantles was a short lived (in our area anyway) drug/discount store that I think might have moved into some of the former dart drug buildings. Anybody remember where they were located?
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Date: November 29, 2015 09:48AM
sub Wrote:
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> When I worked for them in the 60s (and for many years before that),
> it was The Evening Star. Only on Sunday was it a morning paper.
The Post in the morning and the Star/Star-News in the afternoon. The latter was the only way to get the out-west baseball box scores from the night before.
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> When I worked for them in the 60s (and for many years before that),
> it was The Evening Star. Only on Sunday was it a morning paper.
The Post in the morning and the Star/Star-News in the afternoon. The latter was the only way to get the out-west baseball box scores from the night before.
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Posted by:
Day of drums
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Date: November 29, 2015 10:08AM
old Wrote:
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> Everybody regardless of political persuasion
> mourned our President. If that happened today,
> can you imagine the horseshit today's partisan
> morons would spew? Oh well, people had some class
> back then.
People at the time believed that things like that couldn't happen in this country. There was a similar component to 9/11. Now people just live in fear.
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> Everybody regardless of political persuasion
> mourned our President. If that happened today,
> can you imagine the horseshit today's partisan
> morons would spew? Oh well, people had some class
> back then.
People at the time believed that things like that couldn't happen in this country. There was a similar component to 9/11. Now people just live in fear.
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Posted by:
gn
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Date: November 29, 2015 10:36AM
There was a Fantles located in the Sully Station shopping center just down from the Safeway.
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Posted by:
DH
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Date: November 29, 2015 10:48AM
Diamond Jim Wrote:
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> sub Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > When I worked for them in the 60s (and for many
> years before that),
> > it was The Evening Star. Only on Sunday was it
> a morning paper.
>
> The Post in the morning and the Star/Star-News in
> the afternoon. The latter was the only way to get
> the out-west baseball box scores from the night
> before.
I also delivered the Star when I was a kid. It was Sunday mornings and the rest of the week was in the afternoon. I didn't deliver the Post because I didn't want to get up early every morning. I could handle just Sunday mornings, plus I got to see all the drunks coming home from Saturday night.
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> sub Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > When I worked for them in the 60s (and for many
> years before that),
> > it was The Evening Star. Only on Sunday was it
> a morning paper.
>
> The Post in the morning and the Star/Star-News in
> the afternoon. The latter was the only way to get
> the out-west baseball box scores from the night
> before.
I also delivered the Star when I was a kid. It was Sunday mornings and the rest of the week was in the afternoon. I didn't deliver the Post because I didn't want to get up early every morning. I could handle just Sunday mornings, plus I got to see all the drunks coming home from Saturday night.
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DH
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Date: November 29, 2015 10:50AM
remember this? Wrote:
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> Fantles was a short lived (in our area anyway)
> drug/discount store that I think might have moved
> into some of the former dart drug buildings.
> Anybody remember where they were located?
There was a Fantles in Loehmanns Plaza
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> Fantles was a short lived (in our area anyway)
> drug/discount store that I think might have moved
> into some of the former dart drug buildings.
> Anybody remember where they were located?
There was a Fantles in Loehmanns Plaza
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Posted by:
How the mighty have fallen
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Date: November 29, 2015 11:04AM
remember this? Wrote:
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> Fantles was a short lived (in our area anyway)
> drug/discount store that I think might have moved
> into some of the former dart drug buildings.
> Anybody remember where they were located?
Fantle's simply bought what was left of Dart Drug in 1987, but the chain went bankrupt themselves in 1989, and that was that. Bud Fantle himself had previously tried to resuscitate People's Drug, but he failed at that as well. The parent company of CVS acquired People's in 1990 and rebranded them all in 1994. Most Dart Drug stores went down the same CVS road over the same time frame. Drug Fair had been sold in 1981 to Gray Drug which was itself owned by Sherwin-Williams, They sold Gray Drug to Rite-Aid in 1987.
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> Fantles was a short lived (in our area anyway)
> drug/discount store that I think might have moved
> into some of the former dart drug buildings.
> Anybody remember where they were located?
Fantle's simply bought what was left of Dart Drug in 1987, but the chain went bankrupt themselves in 1989, and that was that. Bud Fantle himself had previously tried to resuscitate People's Drug, but he failed at that as well. The parent company of CVS acquired People's in 1990 and rebranded them all in 1994. Most Dart Drug stores went down the same CVS road over the same time frame. Drug Fair had been sold in 1981 to Gray Drug which was itself owned by Sherwin-Williams, They sold Gray Drug to Rite-Aid in 1987.
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Posted by:
Robert Hafts Cotton Top Hair
()
Date: November 29, 2015 11:36AM
How the mighty have fallen Wrote:
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> remember this? Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Fantles was a short lived (in our area anyway)
> > drug/discount store that I think might have
> moved
> > into some of the former dart drug buildings.
> > Anybody remember where they were located?
>
> Fantle's simply bought what was left of Dart Drug
> in 1987, but the chain went bankrupt themselves in
> 1989, and that was that. Bud Fantle himself had
> previously tried to resuscitate People's Drug, but
> he failed at that as well. The parent company of
> CVS acquired People's in 1990 and rebranded them
> all in 1994. Most Dart Drug stores went down the
> same CVS road over the same time frame. Drug Fair
> had been sold in 1981 to Gray Drug which was
> itself owned by Sherwin-Williams, They sold Gray
> Drug to Rite-Aid in 1987.
Remember going to Dart Drug on Sundays when the sales started. There was always that little old lady with a cart full of items that required price checks, and then she wrote a check to pay - Checks required a manager approval.
If someone paid with a credit card they had to look up the number in the book to see if the card was "Good".
I just wanted to pay cash for my 12 packs of Bud, and go home with my parts that I purchased next door at Trac Auto.
Bud Was usually on sale for $3.59 a 12 pack.
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> remember this? Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Fantles was a short lived (in our area anyway)
> > drug/discount store that I think might have
> moved
> > into some of the former dart drug buildings.
> > Anybody remember where they were located?
>
> Fantle's simply bought what was left of Dart Drug
> in 1987, but the chain went bankrupt themselves in
> 1989, and that was that. Bud Fantle himself had
> previously tried to resuscitate People's Drug, but
> he failed at that as well. The parent company of
> CVS acquired People's in 1990 and rebranded them
> all in 1994. Most Dart Drug stores went down the
> same CVS road over the same time frame. Drug Fair
> had been sold in 1981 to Gray Drug which was
> itself owned by Sherwin-Williams, They sold Gray
> Drug to Rite-Aid in 1987.
Remember going to Dart Drug on Sundays when the sales started. There was always that little old lady with a cart full of items that required price checks, and then she wrote a check to pay - Checks required a manager approval.
If someone paid with a credit card they had to look up the number in the book to see if the card was "Good".
I just wanted to pay cash for my 12 packs of Bud, and go home with my parts that I purchased next door at Trac Auto.
Bud Was usually on sale for $3.59 a 12 pack.
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Posted by:
Joke Insurance
()
Date: November 29, 2015 12:01PM
Video of a former Southern unit crossing over the former at-grade crossing for Burke Road, circa 1982: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRXcCwvn4ZM
Video of a former Southern unit crossing over the former at-grade crossing for Burke Lake Road, circa 1984: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDk53PIkBwQ
Video of a former Southern unit crossing over the former at-grade crossing for Burke Lake Road, circa 1984: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDk53PIkBwQ
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Joke Insurance
()
Date: November 29, 2015 12:23PM
Can any of you name all the stores in this photo?
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Bill.N.
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Date: November 29, 2015 12:42PM
old Wrote:
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>
> And at least one copy of the November 22,23,24
> 1963 Stars. That was an awful weekend.
>
> Everybody regardless of political persuasion
> mourned our President. If that happened today,
> can you imagine the horseshit today's partisan
> morons would spew? Oh well, people had some class
> back then.
This is how we like to remember it. The reality was somewhat different. JFK was not popular in large portions of the US in 1963 and the mourning was far from universal. What you didn't have back in the 1960s though were idiots going on the media cheering about it.
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>
> And at least one copy of the November 22,23,24
> 1963 Stars. That was an awful weekend.
>
> Everybody regardless of political persuasion
> mourned our President. If that happened today,
> can you imagine the horseshit today's partisan
> morons would spew? Oh well, people had some class
> back then.
This is how we like to remember it. The reality was somewhat different. JFK was not popular in large portions of the US in 1963 and the mourning was far from universal. What you didn't have back in the 1960s though were idiots going on the media cheering about it.
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Posted by:
Greybeard
()
Date: November 29, 2015 01:02PM
Joke Insurance Wrote:
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> Can any of you name all the stores in this photo?
Is that Merrifield?
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> Can any of you name all the stores in this photo?
Is that Merrifield?
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Posted by:
Tank Farm Cookout
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Date: November 29, 2015 01:12PM
Greybeard Wrote:
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> Joke Insurance Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Can any of you name all the stores in this
> photo?
>
> Is that Merrifield?
That was the Tornado that tore up WT Woodson HS back in April of 1973, then it hit the shopping center. There was the Sears Catalog store, and the Ben Franklin, and the famous school bus into the ABC Store.
Woodson got hit twice(different years) the first tornado tore up the football bleachers. About 1979 the roof of the school got torn off.
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> Joke Insurance Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Can any of you name all the stores in this
> photo?
>
> Is that Merrifield?
That was the Tornado that tore up WT Woodson HS back in April of 1973, then it hit the shopping center. There was the Sears Catalog store, and the Ben Franklin, and the famous school bus into the ABC Store.
Woodson got hit twice(different years) the first tornado tore up the football bleachers. About 1979 the roof of the school got torn off.
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Bill.N.
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Date: November 29, 2015 01:12PM
I believe it is either the Turnpike or Pickett shopping center at Picket and 236 right after the woodson tornado JI.
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Tank Farm Cookout
()
Date: November 29, 2015 01:17PM
Bill.N. Wrote:
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> I believe it is either the Turnpike or Pickett
> shopping center at Picket and 236 right after the
> woodson tornado JI.
Yes that is right - Before Fair City was built, and Comstock was still under construction.
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> I believe it is either the Turnpike or Pickett
> shopping center at Picket and 236 right after the
> woodson tornado JI.
Yes that is right - Before Fair City was built, and Comstock was still under construction.
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Posted by:
Joke Insurance
()
Date: November 29, 2015 03:00PM
Does anyone have any photographs of the former railroads crossings at Burke Road and Burke Lake Road? Or heck, even just the forme alightments of those roads would be even better.
Thanks.
Thanks.
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Posted by:
Bill.N.
()
Date: November 29, 2015 04:58PM
I don't have any pictures. The second floor of the Fairfax City library branch has a large collection of local history books. You might find something there.
When you are talking about former alignments, you may need to specify when. Burke Road from just west of Rolling Road to the railroad tracks beyond Burke Lake Road is actually the former railroad right of way from the 1800s. I believe the former train station is now an insurance broker's office. East of Rolling Road the tracks were located north of their former location and to a large extent follow the bike path from Lake Accotink Park to Rolling Road. The railroad was relocated to its current location around 1900 as part of a project to double track the line and reduce grades and curves.
When you are talking about former alignments, you may need to specify when. Burke Road from just west of Rolling Road to the railroad tracks beyond Burke Lake Road is actually the former railroad right of way from the 1800s. I believe the former train station is now an insurance broker's office. East of Rolling Road the tracks were located north of their former location and to a large extent follow the bike path from Lake Accotink Park to Rolling Road. The railroad was relocated to its current location around 1900 as part of a project to double track the line and reduce grades and curves.
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Posted by:
blanche
()
Date: November 29, 2015 07:03PM
Burke Lake Road crossed the train tracks just east of the shopping center (the one with Spartan's in it) until sometime in the late 70s/early 80s. The cul-de-sac that ends in front of Lake Braddock High School across BLR was where Burke Lake Road was formerly located heading down to the train tracks.
Burke Road didn't end at Burke Lake Road, go over the train overpass and then pick up again on the other side of the tracks. It was one road that crossed the tracks at some point.
I think this is the alignment Joke Insurance is looking for.
The Virginia Room of the Fairfax City Library is a good place to look for Fairfax history.
Burke Road didn't end at Burke Lake Road, go over the train overpass and then pick up again on the other side of the tracks. It was one road that crossed the tracks at some point.
I think this is the alignment Joke Insurance is looking for.
The Virginia Room of the Fairfax City Library is a good place to look for Fairfax history.
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Posted by:
Bill Bailey
()
Date: November 29, 2015 11:01PM
Carolls Amoco Route 7 Tysons Corner
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Posted by:
causeican
()
Date: November 30, 2015 01:23AM
From the videos
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Fran Connia
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Date: November 30, 2015 08:44AM
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Fran Connia
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Date: November 30, 2015 08:50AM
Rt 1 @ beltway. Now Hampton inn.
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heymack
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Date: November 30, 2015 08:53AM
.....no more email.
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Fran Connia
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Date: November 30, 2015 08:54AM
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Hungry Hippo
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Date: November 30, 2015 09:56AM
Fran Connia Wrote:
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> Rt 1 @ beltway. Now Hampton inn.
$2.95 for the "Sala Dbar".
Is that for Alla u Deat?
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> Rt 1 @ beltway. Now Hampton inn.
$2.95 for the "Sala Dbar".
Is that for Alla u Deat?
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Posted by:
HoJo's...
()
Date: November 30, 2015 10:09AM
Who cares. Great hot dogs, great fried clams, 28 flavors of ice cream. No need to order anything esle.
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Posted by:
Joke Insurance
()
Date: November 30, 2015 11:55AM
causeican Wrote:
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> From the videos
I already posted those videos, haha.
Thanks though.
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> From the videos
I already posted those videos, haha.
Thanks though.
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Posted by:
hNKkG
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Date: November 30, 2015 02:07PM
I guess no one had cameras with them while stopped at railroad crossing.
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Posted by:
Joke Insurance
()
Date: December 02, 2015 09:26AM
hNKkG Wrote:
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> I guess no one had cameras with them while stopped
> at railroad crossing.
As posted way earlier in this thread, were these two videos:
Video of a former Southern unit crossing over the former at-grade crossing for Burke Road, circa 1982: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRXcCwvn4ZM
Video of a former Southern unit crossing over the former at-grade crossing for Burke Lake Road, circa 1984: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDk53PIkBwQ
While the videos are nice, I was looking for more than just those.
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> I guess no one had cameras with them while stopped
> at railroad crossing.
As posted way earlier in this thread, were these two videos:
Video of a former Southern unit crossing over the former at-grade crossing for Burke Road, circa 1982: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRXcCwvn4ZM
Video of a former Southern unit crossing over the former at-grade crossing for Burke Lake Road, circa 1984: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDk53PIkBwQ
While the videos are nice, I was looking for more than just those.
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Posted by:
Joke Insurance
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Date: December 04, 2015 05:11PM
One-lane bridge over the railroad tracks on Rolling Road as a place avoided by school buses and where cars stopped and drivers took turns crossing.
Source: http://braddockheritage.org/items/show/59
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- dA rEaL fArTiAn -
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Date: December 04, 2015 05:46PM
Joke Insurance Wrote:
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> One-lane bridge over the railroad tracks on
> Rolling Road as a place avoided by school buses
> and where cars stopped and drivers took turns
> crossing.
>
> Source: http://braddockheritage.org/items/show/59
Was this bridge around before or after Kings Park?
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> One-lane bridge over the railroad tracks on
> Rolling Road as a place avoided by school buses
> and where cars stopped and drivers took turns
> crossing.
>
> Source: http://braddockheritage.org/items/show/59
Was this bridge around before or after Kings Park?
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Posted by:
blanche
()
Date: December 04, 2015 06:41PM
- dA rEaL fArTiAn - Wrote:
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> Joke Insurance Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
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> > One-lane bridge over the railroad tracks on
> > Rolling Road as a place avoided by school buses
> > and where cars stopped and drivers took turns
> > crossing.
> >
> > Source:
> http://braddockheritage.org/items/show/59
>
> Was this bridge around before or after Kings Park?
Kings Park being developed probably marked the end of the bridge since traffic increased a lot after all those houses were put in there.
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> Joke Insurance Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > One-lane bridge over the railroad tracks on
> > Rolling Road as a place avoided by school buses
> > and where cars stopped and drivers took turns
> > crossing.
> >
> > Source:
> http://braddockheritage.org/items/show/59
>
> Was this bridge around before or after Kings Park?
Kings Park being developed probably marked the end of the bridge since traffic increased a lot after all those houses were put in there.
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Posted by:
causeican
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Date: December 04, 2015 07:13PM
very cool picture of bridge. never saw that before. thanks.
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VD76C
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Date: December 05, 2015 06:24AM
Kingsarms Wrote:
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> Here's one of Arlington's original dive
> restaurants/bars. Back in the late 70's I got a
> hack license in Arlington and drove Arlington
> Yellow and Red Top cabs (they were both owned by
> the same company). If I remember correctly,
> Whitey's was popular with the Red Top drivers.
> The Yellow Cab drivers hung out more at another
> dive restaurant on Wilson Blvd near N. Fillmore or
> N. Garfield. I don't recall the name of that
> place, but it's long been gone as Clarendon got
> all spruced up and rebuilt.
Keyhole Inn, right next to the cab company.
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> Here's one of Arlington's original dive
> restaurants/bars. Back in the late 70's I got a
> hack license in Arlington and drove Arlington
> Yellow and Red Top cabs (they were both owned by
> the same company). If I remember correctly,
> Whitey's was popular with the Red Top drivers.
> The Yellow Cab drivers hung out more at another
> dive restaurant on Wilson Blvd near N. Fillmore or
> N. Garfield. I don't recall the name of that
> place, but it's long been gone as Clarendon got
> all spruced up and rebuilt.
Keyhole Inn, right next to the cab company.
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JxWNe
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Date: December 05, 2015 06:29AM
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Posted by:
Times Have Changed
()
Date: December 05, 2015 07:16AM
Went to the Keyhole Inn in the winter of 1995-96 maybe. It was cold and damp out when I went in. When I came back out, there was four inches of snow on the ground. Never went back.
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Posted by:
old trolly
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Date: December 05, 2015 09:01AM
A Washington-Virginia Railway Company trolley on the Nauck Line (circa 1909).
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Times Have Changed
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Date: December 05, 2015 11:41AM
And here's a picture of a car on the Great Falls and Old Dominion, probably from about the same time frame. The GF&OD ran from Georgetown to Great Falls, providing speedy mail service and doing a brisk tourist business in the summer while also hauling local farm and dairy products into the city. Old Dominion Drive now runs along the former GF&OD right-of-way. The car shown is pulling out of the station at Jewell. That dusty path at the right is now Rock Spring Road.
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Fran Connia
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Date: December 05, 2015 12:41PM
This is Falls church? But Where and is it still there today? Date of pic unknown.
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Date: December 05, 2015 12:54PM
The intersection of 29 (Washington Street) and 7 (Broad Street) is still right in the heart of downtown Falls Church.
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Posted by:
Sleepy Holla
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Date: December 05, 2015 12:58PM
Yes Falls Church....basically near State Theatre on Broad St....The great Giant Music in the pic....
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Sleepy Holla
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Date: December 05, 2015 01:11PM
Giant pic in Falls Church-1960's and a 1966 countdown from Giant.
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Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
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Date: December 06, 2015 02:01PM
Tysons Corner Center, around 1992.
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Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
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FC route 7 and 29
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Date: December 07, 2015 08:42PM
That signpost up ahead Wrote:
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> The intersection of 29 (Washington Street) and 7
> (Broad Street) is still right in the heart of
> downtown Falls Church.
You are correct. Here's the same shot from google in 2012.
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> The intersection of 29 (Washington Street) and 7
> (Broad Street) is still right in the heart of
> downtown Falls Church.
You are correct. Here's the same shot from google in 2012.
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Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
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Was it that long ago
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Date: December 07, 2015 09:12PM
- dA rEaL fArTiAn - Wrote:
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> Joke Insurance Wrote:
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> > One-lane bridge over the railroad tracks on
> > Rolling Road as a place avoided by school buses
> > and where cars stopped and drivers took turns
> > crossing.
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> > Source:
> http://braddockheritage.org/items/show/
>
> Was this bridge around before or after Kings Park?
We moved into Cardinal Forest in 1967 - when Keene Mill Road was dirt past Rolling Road. I have a vague recollection of the old trestle bridge on Rolling, so did some websurfing and found this:
http://uglybridges.com/1574963
Replacement bridge finished in 1969......
And this:
http://www.westspringfieldvillage.org/VillageHistory/history.html
Scroll about 2/3 of the way down.
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> Joke Insurance Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
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> > One-lane bridge over the railroad tracks on
> > Rolling Road as a place avoided by school buses
> > and where cars stopped and drivers took turns
> > crossing.
> >
> > Source:
> http://braddockheritage.org/items/show/
>
> Was this bridge around before or after Kings Park?
We moved into Cardinal Forest in 1967 - when Keene Mill Road was dirt past Rolling Road. I have a vague recollection of the old trestle bridge on Rolling, so did some websurfing and found this:
http://uglybridges.com/1574963
Replacement bridge finished in 1969......
And this:
http://www.westspringfieldvillage.org/VillageHistory/history.html
Scroll about 2/3 of the way down.
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
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Joke Insurance
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Date: December 08, 2015 03:43AM
Was it that long ago Wrote:
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> And this:
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> http://www.westspringfieldvillage.org/VillageHisto
> ry/history.html
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> Scroll about 2/3 of the way down.
About Burke Lake Park?
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> And this:
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> http://www.westspringfieldvillage.org/VillageHisto
> ry/history.html
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> Scroll about 2/3 of the way down.
About Burke Lake Park?
Re: Old pictures of Fairfax county, love em!
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Keep going
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Date: December 09, 2015 09:33PM
Joke Insurance Wrote:
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> Was it that long ago Wrote:
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> > And this:
> >
> >
> http://www.westspringfieldvillage.org/VillageHisto
>
> > ry/history.html
> >
> > Scroll about 2/3 of the way down.
>
> About Burke Lake Park?
To the paragraph after Hurricane Isabel. You can do it.
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> Was it that long ago Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > And this:
> >
> >
> http://www.westspringfieldvillage.org/VillageHisto
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> > ry/history.html
> >
> > Scroll about 2/3 of the way down.
>
> About Burke Lake Park?
To the paragraph after Hurricane Isabel. You can do it.