Andy Ratlips Wrote:
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> Who remembers Transpo 72 out at Dulles? These
> space saving parking lots they had on display
> somehow never made it into common use. Maybe
> someday.


More than likely never. That is one of the most stupid things I have ever seen.

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> Andy Ratlips Wrote:
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> > Who remembers Transpo 72 out at Dulles? These
> > space saving parking lots they had on display
> > somehow never made it into common use. Maybe someday.
>
>
> More than likely never. That is one of the most stupid things I have ever seen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_parking_system

Not sure how common they are, but they have those in Manhattan.
I parked my car in one around 1995, and it didn't look like a new facility.
I figured, "Wow, that's how they park cars in NYC, huh!" but since then
I have also parked in NYC in conventional human-parked multistory garages.
Mostly when I go up there I manage to park on the street, and haven't seen
the robot-elevator parking thing, so no idea how common it is today.

Andy Ratlips Wrote:
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> Who remembers Transpo 72 out at Dulles? These
> space saving parking lots they had on display
> somehow never made it into common use. Maybe
> someday.

Anyone see the old 6 month Va inspection sticker on the brown car? Looks to be a "8".

and a VW bus.

Not sure if it’s still there, but there was vertical robo-parking in the old UMWA headquarters at 15th and L NW after Camden converted it into high-end residential units.

Old Iron Wrote:
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> Andy Ratlips Wrote:
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> > Who remembers Transpo 72 out at Dulles? These
> > space saving parking lots they had on display
> > somehow never made it into common use. Maybe
> > someday.
>
> Anyone see the old 6 month Va inspection sticker
> on the brown car? Looks to be a "8".
>
> and a VW bus.


The only folks in the picture seem to be interested in the VW more than anything else.

Sunday Throwback...miss this place...tooooo much fun.
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Walney and 50 then and now.
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The same thing has happened almost everywhere. Both good and bad have com from it.

Niggah the State of the Art car was money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_the_Art_Car

Speaking of old long gone Mclean Restaurants...a SH Tuesday throwback.
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Evans Farm Inn -- my aunts wanted to go there after my high school graduation. My sister and I wanted to go to Joshua Tree since they were not very concerned about who drank their sangria -- was it complimentary or just cheap?

We ended up at Evans Farm Inn since it was so "quaint."

Beef Steak Charlies several locations with steaks spiced shrimp and all you could drink sangria I remember the one on Duke St near by the old gone Bombay Bicycle Club which I went in and looked at and left

Another was Emerson's all you could eat and cheap mixed drinks during happy hour with a glittering disco ball hanging from the ceiling over the dance floor, high platform shoes, silk shirts with crazy prints, long pointed collars, mullet or Prince Valiant hair, disco clown garb is what I thought

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> Evans Farm Inn -- my aunts wanted to go there
> after my high school graduation. My sister and I
> wanted to go to Joshua Tree since they were not
> very concerned about who drank their sangria --
> was it complimentary or just cheap?
>
> We ended up at Evans Farm Inn since it was so
> "quaint."


blanche, My Wife and I always went and ate downstairs in the "Sitting Duck Pub"...nice vibe and different crowd. Hey, Dave Butz sand Happy Birthday to my Wife and bought us a drink.

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> We ended up at Evans Farm Inn since it was so "quaint."

Never thought all that much of Evans Farm as a restaurant, but it was a great place to take the kids when they were young to feed carrots and apples to the horses and such. The geese over by the mill pond were a different story. Mean and ornery as they come! Hateful creatures!

Time marches on Wrote:
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> blanche Wrote:
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> > We ended up at Evans Farm Inn since it was so
> "quaint."
>
> Never thought all that much of Evans Farm as a
> restaurant, but it was a great place to take the
> kids when they were young to feed carrots and
> apples to the horses and such. The geese over by
> the mill pond were a different story. Mean and
> ornery as they come! Hateful creatures!

I remember the spoonbread....served family style.

Didn't care for Evan's Upstairs...the Pub was great....Rack of Lamb and a nice Cab...and a Piano Bar!

Springfield Virginia. Not sure of the date.
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Looks like mid 60's from the cars...GREAT PIC Fran.

Yes, great picture!! Corner of Old Keene Mill and Backlick Rds looking towards I-95. I believe around 1963/64 with construction of the right turn from Backlick onto Old Keene Mill?

That intersection, when it was an intersection, was the location of the first traffic light in Springfield.

Also shows Northern Virginia Bank, built around 1962, and that the Hot Shoppes had car hops!

I really don't know for sure but I think this car is westbound on route 7 near route 28. Anybody have any better guesses? Could it be the Dulles access road?
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Was Dulles Airport ever visible from Route 7? I thought 7 would have been too far north. My guess would be Route 28 approaching the Dulles Access Road.

The road in the picture probably like 28 when its wasn't super highway like. The overpass the car is approaching is probably the Access Road. Route 7 is north of the location of this picture.

The very edge of my memory is when 28 was only two lanes.

I know that I'm ancient.

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> I really don't know for sure but I think this car
> is westbound on route 7 near route 28. Anybody
> have any better guesses? Could it be the Dulles
> access road?

It is the Dulles access road. Because of the construction of all the overpasses they built up berms, so I was not able to get the exact angle of the photo so this goolemaps link is closer to the airport. But looking at this you can see the dark building at the left edge of your photo and the approximate size of the control tower and terminal. Remember that they added on to both ends of the terminal, so the tower does not appear to be on the edge of the terminal like in your photo.

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9623231,-77.4419388,3a,75y,225.94h,77.52t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sXp6xHySWZjbTpaRm5mbXow!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

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> The road in the picture probably like 28 when its
> wasn't super highway like. The overpass the car
> is approaching is probably the Access Road. Route
> 7 is north of the location of this picture.
>
> The very edge of my memory is when 28 was only two
> lanes.
>
> I know that I'm ancient.

Pretty sure that's the Dulles Access Road. 28 was only two lanes, for one thing. And I'm pretty sure I've seen that angle from the DAR myself.

It's definitely not Rt. 7.

This picture has been on here before:
http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/1009677/2729574.html#msg-2729574
(look for "Hyatt"). But that was me speculating again about where the pic was, so I'm sort of talking to myself here :)

This is Woodbridge in 69. Color slides are awesome.
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This may have been posted before but what the heck.
1985 seven corners. pic courtesy of the Washington post.
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Greybeard Wrote:
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> blanche Wrote:
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> > The road in the picture probably like 28 when
> its
> > wasn't super highway like. The overpass the
> car
> > is approaching is probably the Access Road.
> Route
> > 7 is north of the location of this picture.
> >
> > The very edge of my memory is when 28 was only
> two
> > lanes.
> >
> > I know that I'm ancient.
>
> Pretty sure that's the Dulles Access Road. 28 was
> only two lanes, for one thing. And I'm pretty sure
> I've seen that angle from the DAR myself.
>
> It's definitely not Rt. 7.
>
> This picture has been on here before:
> http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/100
> 9677/2729574.html#msg-2729574
> (look for "Hyatt"). But that was me speculating
> again about where the pic was, so I'm sort of
> talking to myself here :)

What is the road is the car will shortly go over? I think that is the DAR. The road the car is on is going north and the DAR goes southwest to the airport.

Yes, it was South of the Chevy Dealer

Andy Ratlips Wrote:
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> Walney and 50 then and now.

Question - Is the old building at the Texaco Sign actually the location of Cash and Carry?

Fran Conia Wrote:
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> Springfield Virginia. Not sure of the date.


Looking at the style of the Shell and Mobil signs - My guess is mid 1960's

Fran Conia Wrote:
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> I really don't know for sure but I think this car
> is westbound on route 7 near route 28. Anybody
> have any better guesses? Could it be the Dulles
> access road?


Great picture of the Dulles Access Road. The giveaway on this photo is the reflectors mounted on the little posts lining both sides is the road.

We would race on the access road back in the 1970's before there was very much police patrol action.

At 140+ mph those little white reflectors became a blur when running at night, and the center lines became a solid white line.

It looks like a 1969 Camaro.

Sunday Throwback...great photo from Annadale Website...at least it's till standing.
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Sleepy Holla Wrote:
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> Sunday Throwback...great photo from Annadale
> Website...at least it's till standing.


We used to love the fish or clam fry nights at HJ. Everything they had was great except for the HoJo cola!
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@ springfielder1...very cool graphic. I agree on all counts...how did they make that Cola so nasty? I went to the final 3 HO Jo's before they closed. Bangor, ME---Lake Placid, NY---Lake George, NY. Sad.

blanche Wrote:

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> What is the road is the car will shortly go over?
> I think that is the DAR. The road the car is on
> is going north and the DAR goes southwest to the
> airport.

The access road runs due West. Rt. 28 runs North. If this car is "going north" then the Control Tower would be in front of the terminal building not behind it.

Sleepy Holla Wrote:
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> @ springfielder1...very cool graphic. I agree on
> all counts...how did they make that Cola so nasty?
> I went to the final 3 HO Jo's before they closed.
> Bangor, ME---Lake Placid, NY---Lake George, NY.
> Sad.


Did you know that Lake George is still open half of the year? The current owner is facing some legal trouble right now,
https://www.eater.com/2017/10/12/16465854/howard-johnsons-jon-la-rock-sexual-abuse

The place is for sale and there is a lady who is trying to get the financing to take it over with the intent on restoring the menu and the building to as close to original as possible. I will be up there on vacation in a few weeks.

A&P! I'd love a pic also of the A&P at Columbia Pike and Gallows Rd in the 70s/80s.

Andy Ratlips Wrote:
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> This is Woodbridge in 69. Color slides are
> awesome.

Fairfax Fred Wrote:
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> Sleepy Holla Wrote:
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> > @ springfielder1...very cool graphic. I agree
> on
> > all counts...how did they make that Cola so
> nasty?
> > I went to the final 3 HO Jo's before they
> closed.
> > Bangor, ME---Lake Placid, NY---Lake George, NY.
> > Sad.
>
>
> Did you know that Lake George is still open half
> of the year? The current owner is facing some
> legal trouble right now,
> https://www.eater.com/2017/10/12/16465854/howard-j
> ohnsons-jon-la-rock-sexual-abuse
>
> The place is for sale and there is a lady who is
> trying to get the financing to take it over with
> the intent on restoring the menu and the building
> to as close to original as possible. I will be up
> there on vacation in a few weeks.

Yea, I knew that it's on it's death throes...we will see. Make sure you hit the Garrison for some drinks...a real LG icon.

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> A&P! I'd love a pic also of the A&P at Columbia
> Pike and Gallows Rd in the 70s/80s.
>
Is this it? (Probably early 60s though)
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Hey, my tape measure just broke. Does anyone know how I can return it? It has a lifetime warranty and I'm not dead yet!
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Like all lifetime warrantys when it broke its lifetime is over

Andy Ratlips Wrote:
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> > A&P! I'd love a pic also of the A&P at
> Columbia
> > Pike and Gallows Rd in the 70s/80s.
> >
> Is this it? (Probably early 60s though)


Photo was taken in the summer of 1962

GIS Wrote:
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> The access road runs due West. Rt. 28 runs North.
> If this car is "going north" then the Control
> Tower would be in front of the terminal building
> not behind it.

Good point. What you implied (and obviously knew) is that the terminal faces north. So gotta be the DAR.

Heard today that the entire shopping center in Vienna with the Giant has been sold. It will be torn down and stores/restaurants/etc. with condos over them will be built up against Rt. 123, and all the parking will be behind the buildings. The "master plan" for Vienna is to do this all along Rt. 123. Wont that be nice?

You knew that was coming, its mostly true. Sorry to be an ass in the best thread on FXU, post in the main forum news or old pics in this thread or it never happened

Pic time...Throwback Tuesday...Tis the Season...loved this place.
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My contribution.
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In cans, yes Novas favorite true crabhouse

wrinkled Restonian. Wrote:
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Nice. Moved here in the mid 80's. Lived in Oakton but would drive out to use the Reston Library to work on homework/papers. Back then the Reston library pretty much sat by itself. And there certainly were not homeless people hanging out in it like today.

Sleepy Holla Wrote:
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> Pic time...Throwback Tuesday...Tis the
> Season...loved this place.


I went there often enough but always parked further back. I can remember the shacks that were back there.

Sleepy Holla Wrote:
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> Pic time...Throwback Tuesday...Tis the
> Season...loved this place.

Capt. Pell’s is still a nice stop, though now down the road in the old Hungarian place. The RCA dog was a neighbor at the old location. I think he moved up to Baltimore someplace.

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> > Pic time...Throwback Tuesday...Tis the
> > Season...loved this place.
>
> Capt. Pell’s is still a nice stop, though now
> down the road in the old Hungarian place. The RCA
> dog was a neighbor at the old location. I think he
> moved up to Baltimore someplace.


$9.95 for an order of hush puppies is a little high considering many crab joints give them out for free.

Anyone have any old band pics from the 80's?

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> $9.95 for an order of hush puppies is a little
> high considering many crab joints give them out
> for free.

If you can’t afford to go there, don’t.

Would love some pictures of Springfield mall and Tysons corner mall back in the day!!

Some old pics of Fair oaks Mall prob around early to mid 80's.
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Miss the old place sometimes
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Stephanie Michelle Palmeri Wrote:
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> Anyone have any old band pics from the 80's?


Nope. But WETA (PBS) has been running a series of shows covering the 60's, 70's, 80's and the 90's. They show some great footage of local bands in the clubs and arenas in the area. I recorded them all and am keeping them! Some awesome footage that brings back great memories. 80's Punk, 90's Grunge, all the cool clubs in D.C.......

https://weta.org/tv/program/washington-80s

Free info for those in need.
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Hi All! I found this thread while working on a public health research project about the Northern Virginia/ DC Area. This forum is a gold mine of historical documents!

I saw that "Time Machine" posted a very early map of DC from the 1850's that I haven't seen elsewhere, but I was wondering if anyone out there had a Map of the DC area during the depression? Specifically released by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC). I'd also be interested in any map from the early 20th century of the area that provides data on race. Please feel free to email me directly e l l i s o n c j [at] v c u . e d u

Thanks!

Throwback Thursday High Schools-1960 Annandale/JEB STUART!
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Not a band pic, but how about this?
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Cassandra Wrote:
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> Hi All! I found this thread while working on a
> public health research project about the Northern
> Virginia/ DC Area. This forum is a gold mine of
> historical documents!
>
> I saw that "Time Machine" posted a very early map
> of DC from the 1850's that I haven't seen
> elsewhere, but I was wondering if anyone out there
> had a Map of the DC area during the depression?
> Specifically released by the Home Owners' Loan
> Corporation (HOLC). I'd also be interested in any
> map from the early 20th century of the area that
> provides data on race. Please feel free to email
> me directly e l l i s o n c j [at] v c u . e d u
>
> Thanks!

This is a message board about Fairfax County Virginia, not a research tool. What you want can be found with a little effort on your part at the National Archives in Washington D.C.

I thought you folks might appreciate this shot of the chain bridge. It was taken by a huge camera that used glass negatives. This technology was the "HD" graphics of the 1860s and it was helped along by some digital enhancement of modern day for a incredibly clear image for this time period.
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Had this too.
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nww7x Wrote:
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> Cassandra Wrote:
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> > Hi All! I found this thread while working on a
> > public health research project about the
> Northern
> > Virginia/ DC Area. This forum is a gold mine of
> > historical documents!
> >
> > I saw that "Time Machine" posted a very early
> map
> > of DC from the 1850's that I haven't seen
> > elsewhere, but I was wondering if anyone out
> there
> > had a Map of the DC area during the depression?
> > Specifically released by the Home Owners' Loan
> > Corporation (HOLC). I'd also be interested in
> any
> > map from the early 20th century of the area
> that
> > provides data on race. Please feel free to
> email
> > me directly e l l i s o n c j [at] v c u . e d u
>
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> This is a message board about Fairfax County
> Virginia, not a research tool. What you want can
> be found with a little effort on your part at the
> National Archives in Washington D.C.


I don't usually respond to comments like this, but this time I will.

This is a friendly thread, and the regulars post many interesting photos/comments. Yes it is focused on Fairfax, but it is not uncommon to find picture or comments from other areas of the D.C. Metro area.

People feel free to ask questions, and it is possible to learn something.

Please don't troll on this thread or attempt to bully because you are a miserable person.

Thanks -
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Time for more eye-candy....I wonder how many homes used this place for building. Love the JE 2 phone #
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Old Iron Wrote:
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> nww7x Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
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> > Cassandra Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Hi All! I found this thread while working on
> a
> > > public health research project about the
> > Northern
> > > Virginia/ DC Area. This forum is a gold mine
> of
> > > historical documents!
> > >
> > > I saw that "Time Machine" posted a very early
> > map
> > > of DC from the 1850's that I haven't seen
> > > elsewhere, but I was wondering if anyone out
> > there
> > > had a Map of the DC area during the
> depression?
> > > Specifically released by the Home Owners'
> Loan
> > > Corporation (HOLC). I'd also be interested in
> > any
> > > map from the early 20th century of the area
> > that
> > > provides data on race. Please feel free to
> > email
> > > me directly e l l i s o n c j [at] v c u . e d
> u
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> >
> > This is a message board about Fairfax County
> > Virginia, not a research tool. What you want
> can
> > be found with a little effort on your part at
> the
> > National Archives in Washington D.C.
>
>
> I don't usually respond to comments like this, but
> this time I will.
>
> This is a friendly thread, and the regulars post
> many interesting photos/comments. Yes it is
> focused on Fairfax, but it is not uncommon to find
> picture or comments from other areas of the D.C.
> Metro area.
>
> People feel free to ask questions, and it is
> possible to learn something.
>
> Please don't troll on this thread or attempt to
> bully because you are a miserable person.
>
> Thanks -


@Iron While I agree with you in principle, I must say that this person is taking the easy way out at doing her job. If she is truly doing research, do the research, do not ask someone else to provide the answers. She needs to find the information on her own. As far as being a miserable person... nope, have been one of the most positive posters on this thread since its inception.

Sleepy Holla Wrote:
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> Time for more eye-candy....I wonder how many homes
> used this place for building. Love the JE 2 phone
> #


Great pic Sleepy! My neighbor use to work there.

A little love for Woodbridge.
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Believe it or not, some folks don't remember this place.
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Thank you!

Andy Ratlips Wrote:
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> 7VFJN Wrote:
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> > A&P! I'd love a pic also of the A&P at
> Columbia
> > Pike and Gallows Rd in the 70s/80s.
> >
> Is this it? (Probably early 60s though)

Hey Blondie! bring me another beer !

Or Brookover something like that , a private pay for the day pool, it was off I95 just north of Landmark on that side of the road, super crowded on weekends, the only place to swim and cool off in summer in a pool for many in NOVA years ago. it closed about 1980

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> Or Brookover something like that , a private pay
> for the day pool, it was off I95 just north of
> Landmark on that side of the road, super crowded
> on weekends, the only place to swim and cool off
> in summer in a pool for many in NOVA years ago. it
> closed about 1980


Was this it?
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Another shot of Brookville pool. I don't know for sure but I bet this came from a color slide. Ektachrome beats Kodachrome every time. Got to be a couple VW's parked in the back there somewhere.
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One more.
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Any Old Pics Of Brookville Pool Wrote:
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> Or Brookover something like that , a private pay
> for the day pool, it was off I95 just north of
> Landmark on that side of the road, super crowded
> on weekends, the only place to swim and cool off
> in summer in a pool for many in NOVA years ago. it
> closed about 1980


The place looks and sounds like it was very exclusive.

Is exclusive a code for no POC?

The Ponderer Wrote:
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> Is exclusive a code for no POC?

Just look at the photos

So, no lifeguards?

No shade except for a few umbrellas.

Water all over the small pool deck.

Kids doing their own thing without adults hovering.

Zero fat people.

Curious about the exclusivity. Since it was private, was it whites only? Schools in Fairfax County weren't yet integrated. Town of Vienna never did build a community pool as it would have to be open to all. No pool, no controversy.

I was a teen then and the pool was huge, it still looks huge in the pics. Lots of people went there good times

In that bottom pic, that must have been very early 60's

>Got to be a couple VW's parked in the back there somewhere.
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What's the crazy thing in the first pic, far right, white color, rounded shape, right over the top of the lower building,

Yes I just described myself but Im not a crazy thing, Im a Trump Voter

Copied from Washington Post 1978


For 25 years Frank and Wilda Malcolm's Brookville Swimming Club has been a summer institution in Alexandria, a place where neighbors would gather to cool off in a huge L-shaped pool to socialize and perhaps even to challenge each other to game of shuffleboard.

Among high school seniors, a midnight swim at the club after the prom became a rite of spring and graduation. For others, there were fashion shows, dances and beauty contest.

Although the pool was open only 100 days a year - the Malcolms worked all year for the pool. When it was open they would be there, 64 hours a week. When it was closed, they would go to conventions of pool operators to get ideas for the next season.

But this summer it may not be so.

The Malcolms have decided to retire, and unless residents from the Brook-ville-Seminary section of Alexandria can raise more than $113,000 between now and Monday the pool, off Shirley Highway will not reopen.

Washington Post 12/21/96

FRANCIS E. FRANK' MALCOLM

Real Estate Broker

Francis E. "Frank" Malcolm, 82, a retired Northern Virginia real estate broker and swimming pool operator, died of congestive heart failure Dec. 18 at the Hermitage in Alexandria.

Mr. Malcolm was born in Occoquan and graduated from Jefferson High School in Alexandria. He attended Strayer Business College in Washington.

From 1956 until 1983, Mr. Malcolm owned and operated Brookville Swimming Club in Alexandria.

No cool places like Brookville around today, FXCO park rec centers are now 10 bucks a pop to get in "Youth at Risk " huh $$$$$$$$

Marco Polo blub blub blub Now to Shut up its the old pics thread

I think this photo was posted before but I thought it was worth posting again. A good friend of mine took two pictures of the Springfield Howard Johnsons that had had the Commerce street bridge run between the restaurant and the motel. He patched the two pics together to make this one awesome pic. Bob Evans now occupies the spot where the HOJO restaurant once stood.
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Thanks for all the recent pics and conversation starters. As a child in the late ‘60s/early ‘70s, our family traveled from Oxon Hill, MD to Lake Fairfax or Bull Run for a day at the pool. We moved to Arlington in ‘72. Never heard of that Pool on Van Dorn. Learn something new every day.

Andy Ratlips Wrote:
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> I think this photo was posted before but I thought
> it was worth posting again. A good friend of mine
> took two pictures of the Springfield Howard
> Johnsons that had had the Commerce street bridge
> run between the restaurant and the motel. He
> patched the two pics together to make this one
> awesome pic. Bob Evans now occupies the spot where
> the HOJO restaurant once stood.

I believe the motel was torn down to make room for this building
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That's what the obit said about Mr Malcom's Brookville pool, never knew it had been opened that far back into the 50's. Often saw it along Shirley Highway 395 from the 70's to when it closed in 83 it seems, then town houses were built there, he was a real estate broker, smart man to buy property cheap and make use of it with smaller profits till it goes way up and sell or develop

I said Shirley Highway then 395 as I think in the early 70's it was not called 395 yet, maybe Im wrong, It looks like Shirley Highway in the first pictures background, but the pool was on a 2 lane road running along the side of the highway I thought, you could see the pool very well from Shirley Hwy it was a bit higher up then the highway

Old Iron Wrote:
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> Andy Ratlips Wrote:
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> > I think this photo was posted before but I
> thought
> > it was worth posting again. A good friend of
> mine
> > took two pictures of the Springfield Howard
> > Johnsons that had had the Commerce street
> bridge
> > run between the restaurant and the motel. He
> > patched the two pics together to make this one
> > awesome pic. Bob Evans now occupies the spot
> where
> > the HOJO restaurant once stood.
>
> I believe the motel was torn down to make room for
> this building


Actually, no. The hojo motel was on the other side of the bridge. The Tower, hojo motel and hojo restaurant were all there side by side for many years. The motel started as the Skylark then became hojo and finished its life as the Friendship inn.
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They moved that building on me again. HA HA!

I did tell you that it was a trick question, and nobody even guessed the
location -- even when I pointed out the BJs in the background.
Some even called me a liar when I admitted that I took the photos
of these cool 1980s cars in mid-July of 2018!

Sleepy Holla had the closest guess, he said 1984.

And indeed, now that it is all gone and safe, let's put on our magic hats,
and travel to the year 1984, at the "Southfields" Mall.
Just off Shirley Highway where there ought to be some sort of Landmark...
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I get it now, Wonder Woman!

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> I get it now, Wonder Woman!

It was also awesome watching tons of those cars getting moved
around downtown, the day they were shooting on I Street.
Didn't have the opportunity to snap at that instant, though.

I am told that the cars run, too, but I didn't witness that.
Just think, somewhere there are monster warehouses of cars
from whatever era you might need for your upcoming production!

Places like these:

https://cinemavehicles.com/catalog.html
http://www.movietimecars.com/

I don't know where the cars in my photos came from.
The studios probably also own a lot of their own.
I suppose they use old photos to dress vehicles like police cars accurately.

Fairfax VFD photo. No exact date given. Plenty of pintos but I don't see any VW's.
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> Fairfax VFD photo. No exact date given. Plenty of
> pintos but I don't see any VW's.


8 Pintos in one photo. Like too much of a bad thing.

I am going to guess 1974 because of the age of the cars, and the boy wearing the #42 Charley Taylor jersey.

Andy Ratlips Wrote:
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> Fairfax VFD photo. No exact date given. Plenty of
> pintos but I don't see any VW's.

Any idea where this is exactly?

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> > Fairfax VFD photo. No exact date given. Plenty
> of
> > pintos but I don't see any VW's.
>
> Any idea where this is exactly?


The big blue BFI trash truck is at the intersection of East St and Sager Ave where you can see the Mathy Club House.

In the background you can see the Draper House, and Amoco Gas Station on Main St.