So there have to be more....

I call Costco, Price Club; Hecht's??? Oh, you meant Macys....

What other local establishments will never loose their namesake to you?

Auld Shabeen? Do you mean the Black Eyed Pea?

yr dating yrself, JB - I mean do you still also call the Fx County Pkwy "Pohick Road"?

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> yr dating yrself, JB - I mean do you still also
> call the Fx County Pkwy "Pohick Road"?

Damn... This sums up the question about the parkway.

http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/629561/635479.html#msg-635479

I guess I could call all of Union Mill Centreville instead of Clifton. That doesnt take me back THAT far does it?

Ha ha

Peoples Drug

Potomac Falls = Sterling

Galleria = Tysons II

Verizon Center = MCI Center

Wizards = Bullets

Dulles = Herndon

Oak Hill = Herndon

No one ever got around to calling USAir Arena that after it was renamed from the Cap Centre. It is demolished now. I saw many concerts there... Clapton, Floyd, ah the days.

I want to kick anyone who calls DCA "Reagan" instead of "National" in the crotch.

YES, I love them all!!!!

More Please!

Dart Drug!

Ames=Hechingers=Home Depot (FFX Circle)

Chantilly - Clifton HS naming attempt (/nose up 0bama like)

Life Time Fitness (FFX City) - Evans Catalogue Store

Giant (original) - Giant (Ahold)

many many more....

Rite Aid in Rose Hill ='s Drugfair back in the day

Dollar Store in Rose Hill ='s TJ Maxx but can't recall what was there before.

Beulah Pits ='s bull shit now..retirement home, kingstowne, elementary school, etc..I remember playing baseball on those fields and riding my dirt bike in the pits after. Remember all the junk cars and trash back there. Good riding with trails though.

Beulah road was one lane with one light at telegraph.

The mobile gas station on the corner of franconia rd and commerce st.

Shit...I am racking my brain but this miller lite is not helping...oh oh...anyone remember the original Cisco back in the day? damn, memories..or loss there of..lol

Blue Pearl = Dragon Sea Buffet

Sunoco = Mobil

Rose Hill here....

Please tell me that the (Original) Mama-Mia's is still there?

As for Cisco'...a friend of mine, and I , used to sing a little song...

Goin' to a party
better yet a disco
with a couple of friends
and a bottle of Ciscooo'

Peace


Wanted to add that there was a Arthur Treachers' / a store called the "6-12" ala 7-11 and an Erols' at Rose Hill Shopping Center way back.



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Mama Mias is still there and Sam is still a great grill man :-)

Okay, the store Best is Springfield is now Trader Joes after it was Mars (the music store)

Chesapeake Bay restaurant in Springfield now...well I don't know...popeyes, health way or something else..damn miller lite..lol

roller skating rink in franconia now a lazer tag place or some shit....

Hahahahahaha...damn, I remember Erols...way way back..good call

Dong-A market in Fairfax.
Tops.
I still drive in there looking for a bucket of chicken.
You too?

Cam Neely = Sea Bass

Junior highs are now middle schools in Fairfax County. So annoying.

Select soccer is now called travel soccer.

I remember when Springfield's "youth sports club" was called Springfield Boys Club.

I referred to our phone company the other day as "C & P" when I meant to say Verizon.

School libraries were called libraries; now, many FCPS have media centers.

Something FCPS students will never say: "I'll be in the smoking lounge!"
Yes, my high school had an outdoor smoking "lounge" (no lounging, just standing).

I refuse to say "EXxonMobil" - it is always just Exxon or just Mobil, not both.

Oh, and I also refuse to call THE big hospital "Inova Fairfax Hospital." Nope, it is and always will be called "Fairfax" or "Fairfax Hospital."

Whole Foods is Fresh Fields

Jiffy Lube is Nissan Pavilion

Oh, and if we're talking hospitals, "Virginia Hospital Center" in Arlington will always stay Arlington Hospital.

Fairfax City Oldie Wrote:
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> Ames=Hechingers=Home Depot (FFX Circle)
>

Actually, that spot at the Fairfax Circle area was a Bradlee's discount store back in the mid-80s, before it turned into a Hechinger store. I'm not sure if it was ever an Ames store, though.

Also, how about F&M Drug? That was a drug store that claimed to be "different" when it came on the scene. I don't recall it lasting more than a few years. They had a location out in Chantilly that I was aware of as well as others.

Also, Dulles Expo Center = Builder's Square. One of the exhibit halls at the Dulles Expo Center used to be a Builder's Square - which was a Home Depot "knock-off" store, but it was owned by the KMart corporation.

FrostedMiniWheats Wrote:
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> Sunoco = Mobil

Mobil = Texaco. 3 locations that I know of are changing to Mobil stations. The Texaco in Merrifield, the one in Fairfax City next to Dolce Vita and the one in Centreville. Odd ... how things change, yet stay the same.

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> >
>
> Actually, that spot at the Fairfax Circle area was
> a Bradlee's discount store back in the mid-80s,
> before it turned into a Hechinger store. I'm not
> sure if it was ever an Ames store, though.

It was first a MEMCO

The Pizza Hut located at Little River Tnpke and Prosperity Rd used to be a Gino's back in the day! I believe they were like a KFC back in the day?? Here is more about Gino's

http://ginoshamburgers.homestead.com/GinosHamburgersHistory.htm

JB, youve done it again - opened the floodgate 'o' memories!!
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How about 1st America Bank to First Union to ??? To Wachovia. Parkington instead of Ballston.



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Microcenter use to be Channel Home Improvement
Sears at Seven Corners use to be Calador and before that Lord & Taylor
Fuddruckers in Annandale use to be 3 Chefs
Target at Seven Corners use to be Montgomery Wards
Sunset Grill use to be Tom Westons
Popeyes in Annandale use to be Jack in the Box
Jerry's subs in Annandale use to be Arthurs Treachers and before a Burger Chef
Empty lot on Rt. 29 in Merrifield use to be a Taco Bell and before a Jack in the Box

OMG this is dating me but prior to 1st American bank it was known as Alexandria National Bank.

Before MEMCO, the name was GEMCO or simply the GEM store.

the other day I told my wife I had to go to Trak Auto. When I got there I saw it was Advance Auto Parts. When did that happen?

Woah, I remember that Montgomery Wards in Seven Corners. Remember Seven Corners mall, it had an Orange Julius inside.

The Original Pancake House in Falls Church used to be Bob's Big Boy. Actually I don't think it's even an OPH anymore, don't know what's there now. Where the Panera is in Falls Church used to be one-story office buildings.

There used to be a Kemp Mill in the Vienna shopping center with the Outback Steakhouse in the parking lot.

The Safeway on Colshire Dr. in Pimmit Hills used to be a whole complex with a Rite Aid, a bank, a fancy Chinese restaurant with a koi pond in the lobby, an optometrist, and a dry-cleaners.

There was a Little Caesar's in Vienna, near the Virginian, but I think it was turned into a Jerry's.

Wasn't there a Zayre's in Annandale? Don't know what's there now.

Bob in Southeast Loudoun Wrote:
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> the other day I told my wife I had to go to Trak
> Auto. When I got there I saw it was Advance Auto
> Parts. When did that happen?

I think it was about five years ago. I had a friend who work for
Track (or Trash as he called it) and when they (Track) sold out
they treated the employees like shit. Last time I went to Advance
it was no speaky de Engwish.

Friendly's is now motherfucking Santini's (in oakton). Thankfully there is still a Friendly's in Sterling to not go to.

Arlingtonkid Wrote:
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> How about 1st America Bank to First Union to ???
> To Wachovia. Parkington instead of Ballston.

I remember it as being Ameribanc before it was First Union.

John Cougar

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> John Cougar

HAH! Good one. Also, Prince.

Obviously Tysons Corner has exploded in size and quality, but remember Farrell's? I believe it was in the same wing as Woolworth's. I had many a birthday party at Farrell's, and bought many a sickly hamster at Woolworth's.

Intermeadiate Schools = Middle Schools
Dominion National Bank
Hot Shoppes Resturant
Arthur Treachers (still one on Rt. 1)
Giffords Ice Cream at Baileys Crossroads
Jack In a Box in Merrifield
Mason Neck was Lorton
Dixie Pig on Rt. 1
A&W Drive Ins
Drive In on Rt. 1 and Lee Hwy
Only 1 Tyson's Corner Mall
Gems at Tyson's Corner

Green Stamp Stores
Grand Union

will always be main street to me.

still say fresh fields and price club.

thats about it.

KFC - I guess they want you to forget the chicken is fried.
I still call CVS - Peoples.

Remember the collapse of the building at Skyline (early 70's????)

What about all of the radio changes to call-letters and formats?
B106
WGAY
WAVA
WPGC

Target at Springfield Mall used to be a Montgomery Wards
United Bank used to be George Mason Bank
Bloom, former Food Lion/former Home Depot Expo Design Center, future Wal-Mart used to be a Caldor
Lifetime Fitness used to be an Ames
Office Depot/WSC used to be a Best
Jo-Ann Fabrics used to be a Circuit City which used to be a Tower Records (is that right?)
Title Max used to be Pars and some other restaurant after that.
Super H Mart used to be a Super Fresh

hoocoodanode Wrote:
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> Title Max used to be Pars and some other
> restaurant after that.

Popeyes-->Pars--->Cusco (Salvadorian Fod)--->Title Max

DDS Wrote:
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> What about all of the radio changes to
> call-letters and formats?
> B106
> WGAY
> WAVA
> WPGC


I'll never forget tuning my little AM transistor radio to WEEL Radio, 1310 on the dial.

WEEL transmitted the Top 40 from the American Legion Hall on Oak St in Fairfax City. I think the old antenna is still there.

say Wrote:
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> DDS Wrote:
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> > What about all of the radio changes to
> > call-letters and formats?
> > B106
> > WGAY
> > WAVA
> > WPGC
>
>
> I'll never forget tuning my little AM transistor
> radio to WEEL Radio, 1310 on the dial.
>
> WEEL transmitted the Top 40 from the American
> Legion Hall on Oak St in Fairfax City. I think
> the old antenna is still there.

The building is now a "montessori" day-care....whatever that is supposed to mean/do.

Six Flags will always be Wild World to me. Now that's fucking old school.

__________________________________
That's not a ladybug, that's a cannapiller.

hoocoodanode Wrote:
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> Jo-Ann Fabrics used to be a Circuit City which
> used to be a Tower Records (is that right?)

Yes. *hangs head in mourning for Tower*

say Wrote:
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> I'll never forget tuning my little AM transistor
> radio to WEEL Radio, 1310 on the dial.
>
> WEEL transmitted the Top 40 from the American
> Legion Hall on Oak St in Fairfax City. I think
> the old antenna is still there.

It's a farm of antennas nearby (in the field between the American Legion building and the baseball field), actually. The studios were across the side street / driveway north of the ballfield, on the corner of Oak Street and Panther Place.


There is some foreign language (Koeran) station on 1310 now, WDCT, and I assume they are still transmitting from those antennas. The transmitter used to be in the same building as the studios, but that is a daycare now. Maybe the transmitter is in an outbuilding by the antennas. I think the studios are now in Fairfax Circle in the building with Renee's nightclub (across from Fritzbees....errr..Arties).



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Q107 - !!!

Dixie Pig on Rt. 1 - <<< WOW! That takes me back....

Grand Union.....How about A&P? Anyone remember Lumms? The Post office on the corner of Glebe and Cleveland was the Buckingham threater?

hoocoodanode Wrote:
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> Target at Springfield Mall used to be a Montgomery
> Wards
> United Bank used to be George Mason Bank
> Bloom, former Food Lion/former Home Depot Expo
> Design Center, future Wal-Mart used to be a
> Caldor
> Lifetime Fitness used to be an Ames

The Lifetime in Fair City Mall? It was an Evans catalog store.


> Office Depot/WSC used to be a Best
> Jo-Ann Fabrics used to be a Circuit City which
> used to be a Tower Records (is that right?)
> Title Max used to be Pars and some other
> restaurant after that.
> Super H Mart used to be a Super Fresh


Way back in the day...Northern Virginia Bank...many changes, a few I can recall: Virginia National Bank, Sovran, Bank America.


High's Dairy Stores.


Changing direction completely....the boob tube. Do kids even know what you mean if you say that?

Spacy Wrote:
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> say Wrote:
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> > I'll never forget tuning my little AM
> transistor
> > radio to WEEL Radio, 1310 on the dial.
> >
> > WEEL transmitted the Top 40 from the American
> > Legion Hall on Oak St in Fairfax City. I think
> > the old antenna is still there.
>
> It's a farm of antennas nearby (in the field
> between the American Legion building and the
> baseball field), actually. The studios were
> across the side street / driveway north of the
> ballfield, on the corner of Oak Street and Panther
> Place.
>
>
> There is some foreign language (Koeran) station on
> 1310 now, WDCT, and I assume they are still
> transmitting from those antennas. The transmitter
> used to be in the same building as the studios,
> but that is a daycare now. Maybe the transmitter
> is in an outbuilding by the antennas. I think the
> studios are now in Fairfax Circle in the building
> with Renee's nightclub (across from
> Fritzbees....errr..Arties).


When the American Legion Hall was opened in 1957, WCFR (WEEL's original call letters) rented studio space in the Hall, as well as the land under the antennae.

In 1964, a fire that may have started in the radio studio or the kitchen destroyed the Hall. Shortly after, the building across the street was built for the radio studio. Maybe the Post felt that the fire did start in the studio and they weren't going to be taking any chances on their new Hall?

It Was a Bradlees Wrote:
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>
> Actually, that spot at the Fairfax Circle area was
> a Bradlee's discount store back in the mid-80s,
> before it turned into a Hechinger store. I'm not
> sure if it was ever an Ames store, though.

It was built as a Bradlee's.

This is from a bit earlier than that ...
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Was never a Ames.
In the 80's it was a Memco. We went there all the time

Warhawk Wrote:
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> Six Flags will always be Wild World to me. Now
> that's fucking old school.

I was at the Largo Wildlife Preserve the day it reopened....get out of the way youngster.

Six Flags America is a family theme park and water park located in Mitchellville, Prince George's County, Maryland.[1] It is situated 15 miles (24 km) east of Washington D.C. and 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Baltimore. The park covers 523 acres (2.12 km2), 131 of which is currently used for park operations. Founded as a wildlife center in 1973 by Ross Perot, ABC television operated the park as a drive-through safari called The Largo Wildlife Preserve beginning in 1974 until its ultimate decline that led to its closure in 1978. The property was bought by Jim Fowler's Wild Kingdom where thereafter, the site was converted from a wildlife preserve into a theme park gradually over the years. In 1992, the park was renamed to Adventure World after being acquired by Premier Parks, and ultimately was branded as the 10th Six Flags park when Premier Parks acquired Six Flags Inc. and adopted its name. The "America" in the park's name was chosen regarding the close proximity to the United States' capital.

I will always call it Nissan Pavilion.

Anyone remember Korvettes at Springfield Mall?? It was like the Target/Walmart back in the day! Also, anyone mention Penguin Feather Records in Annandale??

Remember When Wrote:
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> Anyone remember Korvettes at Springfield Mall?? It
> was like the Target/Walmart back in the day! Also,
> anyone mention Penguin Feather Records in
> Annandale??


I need to stop reading this thread - I know of most everything mentioned --- I do not feel THAT old.

Bob Peck Chevy. Before Arlington Blvd had the walking path over it near Thomas Jefferson Jr high. Charles Chips?

Some others we may miss...

Woolworth's at Tysons 1 (now LL Bean)
Hechinger was all over the place it seems
Best Products at 29/50 is now Office Depot and gym (and pearl vision and Erols were next door)
Montgomery Ward has vanished
Boomerangs > JP Manhattans > Silhouettes (now a Fudrucker's in Fairfax)
Britches (of Georgetown, Great Outdoors, for Women)
Levitz is now Unique Thrift
Brentano's Books
People's Drug/Dart Drug/F&M/Fantle's Drug
Evans/Service Merchandise
Kiddie City
Kemp Mill/Sam Goody/Tower
Pace Warehouse (next to membership driven Builder's Square II)
PoFolks!
Varsity Shop at Fair Oaks (along with Candy Express, ATT Boutique, Dart, KB Toys, Babbages, Cartoon Cuts, aww damn... that list goes on forever)

Britches Great Outdoors --- #1 in my mind, although, I am thinking in the frame of still being a teenager.

say Wrote:
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> DDS Wrote:
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> > What about all of the radio changes to
> > call-letters and formats?
> > B106
> > WGAY
> > WAVA
> > WPGC
>
>
> I'll never forget tuning my little AM transistor
> radio to WEEL Radio, 1310 on the dial.
>
> WEEL transmitted the Top 40 from the American
> Legion Hall on Oak St in Fairfax City. I think
> the old antenna is still there.


you can still hear weel.

Red Barns - Fast Food - there was one on Rt. 1 and Annandale Rd.
Ben Franklin Stores - like Michael's
SCAN - small scale IKEA
Dullus Airport was in the "country"
Garfinkel's at Seven Corners
"Fast Foods" were not allowed in the city of Falls Church and then came Burger King but "drive-ins" weren't allowed.....not sure when they changed that.....
S&W cafeterias - there was one in Falls Church and Seven Corners
Pony/Carnival place at corner of Rt. 7 and Columbia Pike
Chesapeake Bay Seafood (most are Chili's) - Loehman's Plaza, Bailey's and Tyson's

Ok so I was a long term resident of Greenbriar, and I have a bet with a friend. I hope someone can help. I say Roy Rogers used to be Ginos. She says that Ginos was in a different location. Any help is much appreciated.

Roy Rogers use to be Hot Shoppes Jr. I think.

that was Memco before Ames before Hechinger before Home Depot (fairfax Circle)

Roy Rogers in Manassas Park by Sheetz used to be a Hardees...the road is still called Hardees Dr.

The Sunoco at Braddock and 495 used to be Phillips-66 before it became Mobil

Pizza Hut at Prosperity and Little River used to be a Gino's. There was also a Gino's at Fairfax Circle that is now some Asian place.

Lion Country Safari at Kings Dominion.

Northern Virginia Bank
Central Fidelity Bank
Riggs
Sovran
Citizens Bank of Maryland (Conveniently Yours)

Giant Food...The Quality Meat People
Bring back that Enormous Big G logo!

Zayres (befoe it was Ames)
Bradlees

Dash's

Morton's

"Dress Shops" - these were all over the place...

Eva Trice, Fashion Factory, misc, Jean Nicole, Brooks, Suzies Casuals

Kids on Up

Hahn's Shoes

Zippers, Pants Corral, County Seat, Athletic Attic, Cedar Post

Kinney's, Thom McAn

Ben Franklin

Off to build a time machine!

Local branches of what is now Bank of America were once Fairfax County National Bank, which became Virginia National Bank in the 1970s, then merged with First & Merchants in 1983 to become Sovran Bank. Sovran merged with C&S and NCNB to become NationsBank and later became Bank of America. The old Virginia National Bank back then was not related to the current bank of that name.

Seven Corners was anchored by Woodies at one end and Garfinckel's at the other. The entrance to the mall had a big pylon that changed color depending on the weather. Black people were not welcome at the Garfinckel's downtown.

Fuddruckers in Annandale used to be Three Chefs.

There used to be a movie theatre in the space next to where Popeye's in Annandale is now (the space was a strip mall). I remember seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark there in 1981. I think it was part of the NTI chain.

Shoppers Food Warehouse in Annandale used to be Jumbo Foods.

Silverado Restaurant in Annandale was Fritzbee's (sp?) Flying Food Factory.

There was a very large single-screen movie theater in the strip mall in Fairfax City where the Staples is now at the corner of US-50 and Blake Lane (which didn't go all the way through to 50 back then, neither did Pickett). I remember seeing Return of the Jedi there in 1983.

There used to be a Giant Food store in the back of Tysons I where the Circuit City later moved in. That space is now set for demolition, to be rebuilt as a 26-floor office tower.

Reston Parkway used to be Reston Avenue. When the Dulles Toll Road opened, the Reston HOA tried to get it named the "Reston Expressway" and ran ads calling their area "Reston D.C."

The Chili's on Annandale Road at the corner of US-50 used to be the Jefferson Theater.

The balcony of the State Theatre was once the colored section. There are still two men's rooms in there because one was for white people and the other was for colored people.

What is now the Skyline Plaza and Apartments used to be an AIRPORT: Washington-Virginia Airport. If you drive down Seminary Road today in back of Skyline, say if you take Carlin Springs to Seminary and make a left, you'll see the Burke and Herbert Bank. Look closely and you'll see that the red runway warning lights are still on top of the building 40 years later. The bank was located right at the end of one of the runways.

The cinema at Tysons Corner Center used to be a smaller one down the back where Lord & Taylor is now; there was a Lum's Restaurant next door. The space where the new cinema is now was where Woodies was. The mall itself was one level (except in the three department stores, which were Woodies, Hecht's, and Bloomingdale's) and all the parking was in surface lots.

For many years the space where the big mirror-glass windowed building outside Tysons Corner Center is today was occupied by a church. I guess the land simply got too valuable.

There was a two-screen cinema at Loehmann's Plaza down in the right-hand corner as you face it from US-50, near where Scan used to be. I remember seeing Song of the South there. Up from there used to be a pizza place called Jacamo's (sp?). It closed and Sign of the Whale moved in, very successful for many years but I think it's now closed.

The police station on Woodburn Road was Pine Ridge Elementary School, the first place I went to school. It closed after the 1982 school year because it didn't have a gym. Kids were then sent either to Camelot or to Mantua. The school buses used to go over the one-lane bridge on Woodburn Road.


Gino's was separate from Roy Rogers. I remember they both existed at the same time. Gino's had the Sirloiner burger. When we were little kids Roy's had the "Buckaroo Club" where you got a free burger or something until you turned 10 years old. There was a Roy's at Merrifield (it's now an Arby's) and a Gino's on Prosperity at 236 (now a Pizza Hut). Gino's had the KFC franchise. I don't remember who bought out Gino's, but Gino's was originally owned by some former Baltimore Colts players. Roy's was owned by Marriott and they later sold it to Hardee's. Hardee's converted the restaurants into Hardee's and it flopped. They wound up converting them back, but the damage was done and McDonald's bought most of them.

There is still a Roy Rogers in the Manchester Lakes Shopping Center and another down near the Mount Vernon Rec Center (itself notable as the place where the Capitals used to practice!).


I also remember the MEMCO at Fairfax Circle that later became a Bradlees and then a Hechinger's.


Regarding Trak Auto, they were owned by the notorious Haft family, the same people who owned Crown Books and Dart Drug. All those chains collapsed.


The International Spy Museum downtown used to be the home of a peep show.

@ 1995hoo ()

Bravo! Nicely done!

Now I can't stop running my mind back down Memory Lane! I sometimes give directions by saying "drive to where XYZ used to be and turn left," as long as I know the person knew the old landmark.

Let's see....


Grevey's Restaurant at Yorktowne Center (Gallows and 50) used to be the Wagon Wheel Restaurant. There was a bookstore in the back corner of that shopping center, the Book 'N' Card Shop, that was the first place to get new releases but, more importantly, was also the only place that put the nudie mags in full view without the brown plastic barriers to hide them from kids' eyes.

There was a chain of cinemas called Roth's. I don't remember all of their locations, but I recall one in the strip mall on Heritage Drive in Annandale, another in Vienna where Spokes Etc. is now, and a third in the Marumsco Plaza in Woodbridge. They had some kind of discount movie program in the summers for kids, something dirt-cheap for a multi-use pass for the whole summer.

Anyone else remember Brenner's Bakery at the corner of Columbia Pike and Glebe Road? Our doctor was around the corner from there (he later moved to Arlington Hospital) and our mom took us to Brenner's if we behaved at the doctor's office. I think Brenner's later provided the buns to the first Five Guys.

The space at the corner of Main Street and University Drive in Fairfax City (SW corner) was Picco's Pizza for many years. Good place, I was bummed to learn that it had closed.

Squire Rockwell's Restaurant (used to be at Prosperity and 236, now demolished and a vacant lot) was once the Jolly Ox.

There is now a restaurant whose name escapes me on the ground floor of Circle Towers facing US-29. It used to be J.R.'s, a steakhouse, but I believe it wasn't affiliated with J.R.'s Stockyards Inn at Tysons.

Harvest Moon on US-50 at Graham Road used to be Black Angus, a steakhouse.

There used to be a duckpin bowling alley on Maple Avenue in the City of Falls Church.

The location that is now a Capital One Bank at the corner of Hunter Mill Road and VA-123 in Oakton was Appalachian Outfitters for many years. I remember a lot of trips there to buy equipment for Boy Scout trips.

The public library in Fairfax City, which used to be on VA-123 but I hear has now moved, was simply called "Central" for many years. It was the main branch of the Fairfax County public library system (why it was part of the county's system if it was in the city was never clear).

The space on VA-236 in Fairfax City where the Walgreen's is now was Pfaltzgraff Pfactory Store for many years. The space at 236 and Pickett where Total Wine is now used to be Drug Emporium. If you dropped your film off on a Wednesday you got double prints for free.

Landmark Mall used to be primarily an outdoor mall with Sears at one end and Hecht's at the other. Funny thing is, now they want to demolish the indoor mall and make it into a "town center." (Sears would remain: They own their building there.)

Someone mentioned Farrell's. They had a location at Springfield Mall in the entry next to JC Penney on the Loisdale Road side. Speaking of that particular JC Penney, Prince Charles and Princess Diana went shopping there on one of their early visits to the USA. Even as a kid I wondered why the heck they went THERE.

Fair Oaks Mall used to be a golf course. People called it "Pinecrest No. 2" in a play on Pinehurst in North Carolina. Penderbrook was built after the mall. Speaking of Pinecrest, it was redesigned. The housing wasn't there and the golf course occupied the full property. I think I heard that the people who owned the land sold part of it to developers and gave the rest to the county to maintain the current nine-hole golf course.

The neighborhood off Tobin Road in Annandale that is currently called "Prosperity Heights" was originally Prosperity Woods (I remember when it was built). Apparently it was later renamed because the developer failed to register the name with the county. Who knew you had to do that? Makes sense, though, to avoid multiple places with the same name. How did we get to have a Fairfax Square in Tysons (where Tiffany's and Morton's are) when there was already a Fairfax Square on VA-236 in Fairfax City (where the amusingly-named Dell's Bra Boutique is located)?


I am certain I remember Bannerwood Drive going all the way through to Woodburn Road when I was a little kid (the now-unused right-of-way between the medical office buildings and the Pine Ridge High School Site Park where the ballfields are). If you look at the spot you can see the power lines alongside where the road was.

The interchange of Gallows Road and the Beltway used to be a half-interchange: You could exit from the Inner Loop to Gallows and enter from east/southbound Gallows to the Outer Loop, but there were no ramps on the side closer to Tysons and you had to go up to US-50.

Great memory, 1995hoo!

Anyone remember playing Little League baseball in the dirt field behind Brandon Avenue in downtown Springfield? My first dentist was in the then-modern office building just in front of the fields.

I also recall watching fireworks on July 4th in a big field off of Keene Mill Road, near the KMART in Springfield.

1st American?
My first bank account was with Clarendon Bank & Trust.
(At the teeny branch in Westover!)
Ah, the 60's in Arlington... {grin}

1995hoo Wrote:
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> There was a two-screen cinema at Loehmann's Plaza
> down in the right-hand corner as you face it from
> US-50, near where Scan used to be. I remember
> seeing Song of the South there.

It's still there, showing the finest films Bollywood has to offer!. {grin}

--MAB

Trucker's Stop - Lee HWY in Falls Church
Giant Music/Giant Sound RT7 @Lee HWY/Over the Palm reader on Lee HWY
Tyson's 1 & 2 theaters
I agree with whoever said they would always call CVS People's
The Drive-in Theater at Gallows and Lee HWY

Don't really know what is in those locations now, but I miss them all!

I think it was a Linens and things, but I remember it as Hechingers
Macy's=Hecht's
That new wing at Tysons I=Woodies/JCPenney
Norton's=Slade's
Guapo's at Fair Lakes=Don Pablo's
Clyde's= Decent value family restaurant.
Galleria=Tysons II
Silver Line=Pipe dream
South Lakes= ghetto

Outback in Vienna = Big Boy's
Vienna Inn = Freddy's
Anita's = former Penguin Feather site.

Apparently the name "University Drive" will never change..........now that there seem to be three separate ones LoLz

Cabin John Brigde will always be Cabin John Bridge to me. I keep confusing the other name american legion bridge and think it is purple heart or VFW. Easier to just call it the Cabin John Bridge.

The old Cabin John...................man, that was a NASTY bridge - way worst that the old WW Bridge used to be - didnt a truck fall thru a hole in it once?

Burger Chef at Gallows Road & Rt 7. Used to be a stop sign at that intersection
Gulf gas station across from Tysons
Finnigans car wash
The Pits where Tysons 2 is
Dick Herriman Ford
Rt 7 Being 2 lanes after Tysons heading west
Gotta stop, my head hurts and I have to take my Geritol!

That's the "new" Anita's location, across from Wu's Garden near East Street in Vienna. The original Anita's was across from the (now defunct) Magruder's grocery store on Maple Avenue, near Courthouse Road / Lawyers Road. Before Anita's, it used to be the old Donut Dinette.

As for the Outback Steakhouse in Vienna, that used to be a Bob's Big Boy Restaurant. But, before that, it was part of the parking lot. In that same strip of stores, which include Giant and Michael's, there used to be a Grant's and also a Virginia ABC liquor store.

Also, does anyone remember Brown's Meat Market in Vienna?

How about the old house that used to sit between the High's Dairy Store (now a pet supply store) and the Vienna Movie Theater (now a Spokes etc.)?

And there was also a Scott's Gas Station (which became a BP station) at the northeast corner of Maple Avenue & Glyndon Street.

There was also an Esso gas station on the southeast corner of Maple Avenue & Beulah Road.

And, where the Jiffy Lube is now located at Courthouse Road & Maple Avenue (on the other side of Courthouse Road from the now-defunct Magruder's), there was another Esso gas station.

And, where the now-defunct BP gas station is on the north side of Maple Avenue at Park Street, there was an AMOCO gas station, which used to be an American gas station.

Things have changed.

Galyan's - Dicks

ffx yuppie //m5 Wrote:
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> Galyan's - Dicks

How fast can you drive over Key Bridge?

I definitely remember the Bredlee's, Hechinger, Home Depot at Faifax Circle. I worked at Hechinger just before Home Depot arrived on the scene. Our softball team was called the "Circle Jerks", lol. We had some guys who drank during the games and to motivate them to run to second base from first, you'd have to place a can of beer on second base.

I also remember Ed's Bait and Tackle out Rt. 50... not sure what is there now.

I was going through some old papers the other day and came across a package of graph paper with the Dart Drug price tag still affixed.

There's a church now where the dirt BMX track was at the intersection of Picket Rd. and 236.

Pine Ridge Elementary was closed when I lived nearby and my brother stole the metal "P" from the sign on the building and he still has it.

There's a bank where Appalachian Outfitters was in Oakton.

ok................am I crazy or did there used to be a gas station in the parking lot where the Home Depot is?

You are correct. When I worked at Hechinger, we would sometimes have customer's that locked their keys in their cars. We'd borrow a slim jim from that gas station to unlock the cars. Ironically, one time the head loss prevention person from corporate locked her keys in her car and asked us to break in for her.

The seven dwarfs of wisdom Wrote:
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> ffx yuppie //m5 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Galyan's - Dicks
>
> How fast can you drive over Key Bridge?


I can get it up to 110 on the key bridge. The other guy was just a terrorist, he was trying to blow up the hotel. Any //M car can handle 90 mph over 1/4+ mile.

great memories got my head spinning! i didn't see this one yet - my mom calls 395 "Shirley Highway".

Sheboygan Schnoid Wrote:
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> That's the "new" Anita's location, across from
> Wu's Garden near East Street in Vienna. The
> original Anita's was across from the (now defunct)
> Magruder's grocery store on Maple Avenue, near
> Courthouse Road / Lawyers Road. Before Anita's,
> it used to be the old Donut Dinette.
>
> As for the Outback Steakhouse in Vienna, that used
> to be a Bob's Big Boy Restaurant. But, before
> that, it was part of the parking lot. In that
> same strip of stores, which include Giant and
> Michael's, there used to be a Grant's and also a
> Virginia ABC liquor store.
>
> Also, does anyone remember Brown's Meat Market in
> Vienna?
>
> How about the old house that used to sit between
> the High's Dairy Store (now a pet supply store)
> and the Vienna Movie Theater (now a Spokes etc.)?
>
> And there was also a Scott's Gas Station (which
> became a BP station) at the northeast corner of
> Maple Avenue & Glyndon Street.
>
> There was also an Esso gas station on the
> southeast corner of Maple Avenue & Beulah Road.
>
> And, where the Jiffy Lube is now located at
> Courthouse Road & Maple Avenue (on the other side
> of Courthouse Road from the now-defunct
> Magruder's), there was another Esso gas station.
>
> And, where the now-defunct BP gas station is on
> the north side of Maple Avenue at Park Street,
> there was an AMOCO gas station, which used to be
> an American gas station.
>
> Things have changed.

I recall an employee of Vienna theater was killed from falling off the roof. The theater closed shortly afterwards.