Actually Hunters Lodge onced owned by Gene {( who also owned Socail Circle) in Centreville} than Tommy Sanders, anywasy sat on the corner next to Va City, the drive- in was right behind it and a few old houses sat next to the rd on West Ox, the area that the new Emer Management Bldg sits had an old horse farm on it, and the horses used to escape all the time...lol remember when that was stop sign? Whew have times changed!! BTW, we aren't related but your named sounds familiar..

Pohick store?

Remember that store I knew it when I first started typing...lol was on that hill going into Chantilly on the left of rt 50...DOWNS market, thats it, anyone remember that store?...they had a big old pair of blue jeans in there we used to laugh at, hell my big as* could probably fit it them now... ( JK) The car wash sits there now...

I knew a guy named Bob and his brother used to work there, was suppsoed to be their familys gas station, name Krump doesn't sound familiar...used to hang with the man who owned Bel Aire auto parts in Kamp Washington.

Its in the shopping center in Annandale across from those apts... cant remember name of apts sorry,

there's a guy pumping in the picture, we got gas there but in the early 70's. I hated when they changed it...my bus driver moms used to run it...mid/late 60's

236 and Columbia pike? Thats my old baby sitters house on 236, the two story, and Im 58 now....lol

Tom Weston's was where the sunset grill is or was, ( if its still there) he later moved to the shopping center where Giant is located because people would stand line for hours just to eat at his place, Whitey and Vinnie ( Vinnies place in Fairfax) used to cook and waitress for him, and a lot of others... Tom remarried and bought another place that he named Anglers Inn, I never went to that place, Tom died at a young age with lung cancer, I don't ever recall him smoking. He was one of the sweetest people I ever knew, may he rest in peace...

It was at the intersection of now.. Waples Mill & Rt 50, sat back on a small service rd, that went around the old, way on Legato rd to rt 29.

I was at Lake Braddock in the spring of 1979 when the main switchgear to the building burned up and we all had to go to school at Robinson for a few weeks. The county split the school days in half, Robinson kids came in early and left early while we came in late and left late.
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> Tom Weston's was where the sunset grill is or was,
> ( if its still there) he later moved to the
> shopping center where Giant is located because
> people would stand line for hours just to eat at
> his place, Whitey and Vinnie ( Vinnies place in
> Fairfax) used to cook and waitress for him, and a
> lot of others... Tom remarried and bought another
> place that he named Anglers Inn, I never went to
> that place, Tom died at a young age with lung
> cancer, I don't ever recall him smoking. He was
> one of the sweetest people I ever knew, may he
> rest in peace...


Westons moved to the shopping center where KMart is.

Here's a better shot of the "EAT" establishment that was in the parking lot in front of the blue "Reston Turn Left" sign if you were headed West on Route 7.
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where's this? 7 Corners? I want to say 7 Corners but for the life of me I dont know why.........................
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It does look like the Wilston Center before they built the part that has the CVS (I mean Peoples Drug). The apartments are sort of on a hill behind that Shopping center and for a long time that part of the strip was (and might still be) a grocery store of some sort

Annandale Dreadnaughts, founded in 1940. semi pro.
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They never did find the Bunny Man who was terrorising resident in Fairfax County, Virginia. On Oct. 22, 1970, the Washington Post
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> It does look like the Wilston Center before they
> built the part that has the CVS (I mean Peoples
> Drug). The apartments are sort of on a hill
> behind that Shopping center and for a long time
> that part of the strip was (and might still be) a
> grocery store of some sort


That is what I would say. Those were the Wilston Apartments. At the opposite end of Kresge was a grocery store. I think I remember it being an A&P and later maybe it was a Giant.

Great photo Gordon

@Blanche/DH/Gordon...agreed, great pic and it looks like Wilston, although I do not believe a Giant was ever at that location....maybe an A&P. Hey, where do you think this was? Blanche?
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Wild guess. Columbia Pike at Lacy Blvd -- its now some sort of discount place. I'm only guessing, it looks like some sort of power substation or something next to it on the left. I should know where something like this is located, but its not coming to mind.

What is behind the Dreadnaughts in the photo. The Sunset Drive-in or the one on Lee Highway in Merrifield?

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> @Blanche/DH/Gordon...agreed, great pic and it
> looks like Wilston, although I do not believe a
> Giant was ever at that location....maybe an A&P.
> Hey, where do you think this was? Blanche?


Hey Sleepy, could that be what I know as Jerry's Sunoco?
Located at Columbia Pike and Lacy Blvd.
I can't remember Jerry's last name, I know he owns/or use to own GDC Trucking
It's some kind of Gas/Food Mart/Used tire place now?

Blanche/DH...You are both CORRECT....Great Job!

No photos, sadly, but does anyone know anything about the old woods that bordered Jefferson District Park/Pinewood Greens/Hollywood Gardens? Used to play back there as a kid, and there was a ton of holes all dug through the woods, like open pits, never could figure out why. THere was a stream that cut through, and there were old, rusted wire fences back through some of the woods going toward Hollywood Gardens. The woods opened up on Shreve Road on one side, and King David Memorial Gardens on the top.

The building is still there.

Now owned by Marymount, it had been used by the CIA.

I seem to remember the grocery store in Willston was a Grand Union (this was not in the section of the Safeway). It was down near the end where the school was

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> I was at Lake Braddock in the spring of 1979 when
> the main switchgear to the building burned up and
> we all had to go to school at Robinson for a few
> weeks. The county split the school days in half,
> Robinson kids came in early and left early while
> we came in late and left late.


And we had to go on Saturday to make-up for Tuesday. Only a handful actually went on Saturday.

Spoke with my best friend today and he went to Wilston Elementary, he seems to remember the grocery store being an A & P He's not 100%, but are any of us these days? :)

Another one for you folks....as Sleepy thinks you got to have some eye-candy...
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Crossroads Rambler

@old....ah yes.
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> @old....ah yes.

You know, I don't remember Crossroads Rambler being that nice of a building. I remember an old structure with the AMC logo (or something) painted on the roof.

Boy, that brings back memories. I was working in the Ben Franklin when the tornado hit. I was petrified of storms for years!

@old...I think you are remembering this...the crappy Used Car outpost.
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I'm pretty sure this was an early incarnation of Crossroads Rambler (Nash/Rambler/Amc evolution) if you follow the older buildings bones/brickline/windows compared to the Crossroads building. It was called Fairfax Rambler and the only mention of it was on a Nash site saying it was in DC...I doubt it. If anyone knows anymore, speak out....Sleepy loves to learn.
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Anyone have any pictures of Old Town before it was nice and quaint? I heard it used to be pretty rundown and shitty.

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> @old...I think you are remembering this...the
> crappy Used Car outpost.


HA HA, thats the sign I remember. I don't remember the actual dealership.

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> Here's a better shot of the "EAT" establishment
> that was in the parking lot in front of the blue
> "Reston Turn Left" sign if you were headed West on
> Route 7.


Great scan/photo... with autographs, too! Thanks for posting.

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> > Anyone have any pictures of Old Town before it
> was
> > nice and quaint? I heard it used to be pretty
> > rundown and shitty.
>
>
> Love to see some too.
>
> Miraculous how grubby that place was in the 70's
> when I was a wee lad.

Disagree. In the 1970s Old Town had character then as opposed to the disneyfied world of today. There was a time when Smoot Lumber was down there, when Interarms warehouses actually held guns that were being marketed worldwide, and when ships would bring newsprint to Robinson Terminal. People living in Old Town would work switching trains in Pot Yard to the north, or working on freight cars at the FGE just to the west. I have vague memories of parking in one of the old Torpedo Factory buildings, and I believe there was a a gun shop in one of the King Street stores.

Bill, I say grubby but part of me would love the Time Machine to go back to how it was.

The waterfront by Interarms used to smell like fish, the townhouses that have been gentrified by lobbyists and other DC pukes were inhabited by a totally different kind of Alexandrian.

DelRay and Huntington were dumps until the last decade or so.

I love the change and I hate the change.

Okay Old Town lovers.....not 70's, but one from mid 60's and one from King Street 1967....I remember the transition blight well....
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Interesting...see right below the "ice" sign, it looks like it says "HWM 72", as in high water mark?

If so, this is after the water subsided, I guess, and that water must have been pretty dang high.

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Just chiming in as a "flood veteran" from my neighborhood, that now currently works near Mt Vernon Ave. It's possible the water got that high but scroll around the picture and look at the "scum" marks on the brick, I think it was a few feet lower (but still incredibly high). For the water to reach that level it would have to mark that high all the way down the block at the same height; or it was a "wave" of a flash flood. Perhaps the water crested very quickly at that high water mark and receded to the lower water mark I am referring to. Floods happen so quickly and are so damn terrifying, been through enough of them on our street in the past 10 years.

Whatever happened to the olden days when women didn't complain on the internet that men were telling them compliments about the beauty of their cleavage,bosoms and rears? Whatever happened to ladies who did not behave childishly, tattling to cowardly "cops" just because they were complimented?

Don't let this thread die!!! It's much better than threads about Mike O'Meara or Glory Days.

Mr. McBump...I would not let that happen....it is a little more informative than M O'M and C & D is it not? How about a little Bailey's Crossroads....
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Thank you very much, Mr. Holla.

Dulles airport, 1962.
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Guess...1973
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is that the C.I.A. ?

@Springfielder.....LOVE that Dulles pic...very classic. Thanks!

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> @Springfielder.....LOVE that Dulles pic...very
> classic. Thanks!

I sure miss the old Dulles Airport. Well, what I really miss is the Dulles Access Road. We drag raced on that thing for years. Dulles had about 2 flights a day and the Access road had maybe one or two FAA cops patrolling it. In those much darker, pre-development nights, we could see them coming for miles.

Almost died out there though. A buddy had a '67 Corvette (427/435 engine with a 3.08 rear end ratio). I've never been that fast in a car before or since. We were drinking and almost lost it at about 130mph.

In the early days of Dulles, you could literally lay down on the pavement of the Access road with little chance of getting run over. It was deserted most of the time.

Okay, this picture is only a couple years old but it shows what a huge change the route 7 corridor has gone through in just the last couple years.
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Yeah, figured that was an easy one!

@Sleepy Holla/old:

Yeah, glad I found the pic.

I remember as teenagers we used to drive out there just to hang out. (And yes, the access road was part of the fun!) The place was a tomb! We all thought it was a bust--who in their right mind would drive all the way out there to catch a flight when National Airport (just can't call it Reagan), was so much closer!

Wow, were we wrong.

Bill.N. Wrote:
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> > Old Town Guy Wrote:
> >
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> > -----
> > > Anyone have any pictures of Old Town before
> it
> > was
> > > nice and quaint? I heard it used to be pretty
> > > rundown and shitty.
> >
> >
> > Love to see some too.
> >
> > Miraculous how grubby that place was in the
> 70's
> > when I was a wee lad.
>
> Disagree. In the 1970s Old Town had character
> then as opposed to the disneyfied world of today.
> There was a time when Smoot Lumber was down there,
> when Interarms warehouses actually held guns that
> were being marketed worldwide, and when ships
> would bring newsprint to Robinson Terminal.
> People living in Old Town would work switching
> trains in Pot Yard to the north, or working on
> freight cars at the FGE just to the west. I have
> vague memories of parking in one of the old
> Torpedo Factory buildings, and I believe there was
> a a gun shop in one of the King Street stores.


You're both right. It was "grubby" but it was real. Most of what's there now is phony and put on.

There were several gun shops other than Potomac Arms/Hunters Haven (never did know what was which) and Interarms. One up King a little ways. Another where Interarms had a store for a while and then some other business in the shops near Potomac Arms.

I grew up around Del Ray. The people living there and in Old Town now would shit if they knew what some of those neighborhoods looked like back then. lol Some of the historic sections were OK but as far as the rest, well, it wasn't Detroit ghetto but it wasn't too far off in some places. All of those old row houses on Duke, Prince, Queen and other side streets were (kinda) painted pink and lime green. At least on the parts that still had siding on them and weren't falling down. Usually had clotheslines running from one window to another. All poor ass black folks who'd been there forever. Junkies and drunks in the alleys. It was a different world.

Wasn't Pfaltzgraff attached to a Tuesday Morning store?

"Well, what I really miss is the Dulles Access Road"

Way to bring back a few memories. Amazing that the roadway would be all but deserted at times - even thru the early 80's...

And yes, it was a largely unpatrolled racetrack at times - not at all unusual to see a couple of higher performance cars lighting it up from time to time.

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> > real. Most of what's there now is phony and
> put
> > on.
> >
> > There were several gun shops other than Potomac
> > Arms/Hunters Haven (never did know what was
> which)
> > and Interarms. One up King a little ways.
> > Another where Interarms had a store for a while
> > and then some other business in the shops near
> > Potomac Arms.
> >
> > I grew up around Del Ray. The people living
> there
> > and in Old Town now would shit if they knew
> what
> > some of those neighborhoods looked like back
> then.
> > lol Some of the historic sections were OK but
> as
> > far as the rest, well, it wasn't Detroit ghetto
> > but it wasn't too far off in some places. All
> of
> > those old row houses on Duke, Prince, Queen and
> > other side streets were (kinda) painted pink
> and
> > lime green. At least on the parts that still
> had
> > siding on them and weren't falling down.
> Usually
> > had clotheslines running from one window to
> > another. All poor ass black folks who'd been
> > there forever. Junkies and drunks in the
> alleys.
> > It was a different world.
>
> If I recall there was a gun shop on King St
> northside somewhere east of Rt 1. ALexandria would
> shit if there was a gun shop there now.
>


It was Old Town Armory. Which relocated out to Manassas in the 1990's.

Jess1 Wrote:
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> "Well, what I really miss is the Dulles Access
> Road"
>
> Way to bring back a few memories. Amazing that the
> roadway would be all but deserted at times - even
> thru the early 80's...
>
> And yes, it was a largely unpatrolled racetrack at
> times - not at all unusual to see a couple of
> higher performance cars lighting it up from time
> to time.

Me too. Whenever I bought a new motorcycle or finished working on one...the Dulles Access Road would be my next stop. One night was the fastest I've ever ridden any machine. I couldn't believe how I all of a sudden ran out of road from Tysons to the airport. As many of you said...no other vehicles the entire way.

Other story on the King Street gun shop. I worked at a custom leather shop up the block. The Sultan of Oman (mid 80's) bought a few handguns one day and dropped by the leather shop with them looking for custom hosters for all! What a bonanza and a scenario that would be impossible to repeat in today's climate. Each required forming that resulted in him leaving the new guns in our care for a few weeks. My boss couldn't believe it.

Dad took me to the Dulles Airport Dedication in November 1962. JFK spoke on the tarmac at the base of the Control Tower. We were seated on metal chairs and were about 20 rows back so I walked up the aisle to within about 20 feet of him and took several photos with my Kodak Brownie camera. One year later we stood at the entrance to Arlington Cemetery as the entourage went past...I will never, ever forget the drumbeat, hoofbeats and utter silence of the crowd as he passed by.
Back to Dulles airport...originally the only access was Route 28 which was a 2-lane road. The intersection with Route 50...also a 2-lane road was controlled by a flashing yellow light. There was so little traffic it didn't warrant a traffic signal! We would go out to Dulles just to spend an afternoon and there was free and uncontrolled access to an outdoor observation deck below the control tower. In those days smaller jets would roll right up to the terminal and the Mobile Lounges would take passengers to and from the DC-8's and 707's parked further out. When the Concorde serviced Dulles we would watch it take off...climbed very steeply and noisily but what a sight. I remember that talk began in the 70's of an aviation museum to be built at Dulles...and now we have it. Ironically the museum is larger than the original Dulles Terminal and houses a Concorde which will never fly again. I also remember that Dulles was built on one of 3 parcels that were being considered at the time. I know that Burke was strongly favored because no one ever, ever believed that passengers would even consider going as far out as Loudoun County to catch a flight.

Yes, even in the late 80's the Dulles road was empty...much like 66 West when it was extended....remember when it ended in the Oakton area?

Okay, Sleepy thinks you need some Saturday morning visuals....remember this place? What name did it change to and why?
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When the chain, was it "Benninghams" came to town Bennington's became Caldwells and then started its slide down hill. Was in the building where the original Shakey's was located.

Good Times

Very good Blanche....the chain that made them change the name was the once powerful national chain (now defunct-trying to make a comeback under new owners) "Bennigan's" who was then opening a unit across from Landmark Shopping Center.

Now for a litttle more Annandale love...hey, ya' gotta' have pics...
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Good old Fritzbe's. Where my swim coach took a bite of pizza and bit into a sheet metal bolt.

It was pretty easy to find. Here is the modern angle of the theater today...
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@LMS Roys-Hey, a little "Fritzbe's" fiber never hurt anyone. :)

@Enrico P-Great job on the timeline transition.

Anyone have any pics of this place or have I just missed them?
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That's were I worked for 36 years. USGS in Reston

That was Willston shopping center on Arlington Blvd. I worked across the parking lot at Meenehan's Hardware

That's North Willston Apartments.

The discussion of the Washington-Virginia Airport led me to do some work on its Wikipedia page ... which was only consisted of one short paragraph.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington-Virginia_Airport

Please leave your thoughts on the article's talk page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Washington-Virginia_Airport

JW

@Enrico - cool pic!!
@Sleepy - FRITZBES!!! lol
@Springfielder - wow - place has CHANGED!!

whelp, we all know where this Sunoco is, dont we?

p.s. Direct is the first company to remove the "FURNITURE" off the wall, isnt it?
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> @Sleepy - FRITZBES!!! lol
> @Springfielder - wow - place has CHANGED!!
>
> whelp, we all know where this Sunoco is, dont we?
>
>
> p.s. Direct is the first company to remove the
> "FURNITURE" off the wall, isnt it?


That's on 29/50 across from Jim McKay, isn't it? Same parking lot as Hooters (or Doc Walkers, depending on when you went there)

yep - you can see the light at the end of University on the left side of the pic

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http://maps.google.com/maps?q=fairfax&ll=38.860137,-77.302691&spn=0.003079,0.004823&hnear=Fairfax+County+Public+Schools&gl=us&t=m&z=18&layer=c&cbll=38.86005,-77.302568&panoid=AOkFlC960F6U_ihkXG7_Cw&cbp=12,1.95,,0,-0.1

yep! (say? When did that coffeeplace go out of business anyways?)

And DMV used to be wear Soccer Fake/Scam Shop is now

So is the Baskin Robbins in a newly constructed part of that mall, or is it some bastardized thing like "Mama's/El Paso" down near Fairfax Circle?

@parker - i always knew it as part of the shopping center - but then again I didnt know until this morning it was an Amoco so what do I know LoLz



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I love the Hudson Bay Outfitters bumper sticker on the truck there.

Well, heck! "Gordon Blvd" removed the photo right as I was typing that comment about Hudson Bay Outfitters!

I was trying top get rid of it before anyone noticed - it was named Gallows Hell so I thought it was the car wash in Merrifield across from Luther Jackson when I posted it - but it's actually the Shell off of Rollins Ave in Rockville and the Finnegans in the pic is the one on Twinbrook Parkway (yeah, I speak some MoCo as well LoLz)

p.s. the Beamer's from VOB
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The one on Gallows across from Luther Jackson was the "Clean Machine" car wash for many years. We lived not far from there in the 1970s and my mother was always afraid to drive through the car wash for some reason. Still is, I believe, based on my father's comments!

I recall there was a Finnegans at Tysons on Route 7 just west of the "Tysons Professional Building" (an office building elevated above grade that you drove underneath without going underground), which was in turn just west of Herman's Sporting Goods.

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> @Sleepy - FRITZBES!!! lol
> @Springfielder - wow - place has CHANGED!!
>
> whelp, we all know where this Sunoco is, dont we?
>
>
> p.s. Direct is the first company to remove the
> "FURNITURE" off the wall, isnt it?


I've driven by that little shopping center a million times over the (many) years and I've never been to one store there. Not even pulled into the parking lot to turn around. Just one of those places there was no reason to go ever go.

"yep! (say? When did that coffeeplace go out of business anyways?)"

Ok, but what was it before F-mat? NETR clearly shows the little structure there in '62 (FM started in Cali - 65).

The gas station was there in '62, torn down in '63, w/the B/R building showing up in '64.

Oddly enough, pics show the Furniture store "building" there first, with the rest of the strip added later on. Both it and the gas station show up in the '49 pics, and were probably built shortly after the 4 lane ('47?)

"Oddly enough, pics show the Furniture store "building" there first, with the rest of the strip added later on."
The Kimel's Furniture store portion was originally built as the first home of Ted Britt Ford. Britt later moved to what is now the Mazda dealer on Fairfax Blvd then eventually to its current location west of Kamp Washington.

"Oddly enough, pics show the Furniture store "building" there first, with the rest of the strip added later on."
The Kimel's Furniture store portion was originally built as the first home of Ted Britt Ford. Britt later moved to what is now the Mazda dealer on Fairfax Blvd then eventually to its current location west of Kamp Washington.

"The Kimel's Furniture store portion was originally built as the first home of Ted Britt Ford"

Really? I thought TBF opened in my day ('59)

"Really? I thought TBF opened in my day ('59)"
That's what I'm saying...the building was built as Ted Britt Ford. When Britt moved it became Kimel's.

"the building was built as Ted Britt Ford"

Not likely, as the building predates TBF by a decade.

Pic taken 1931-1932. Anyone ever hear of this?

USS Akron (ZRS-4) was a helium-filled rigid airship of the United States Navy that was lost in a weather-related accident off the New Jersey coast early on 4 April 1933, killing 73 of the 76 crew and passengers on board.
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"Anyone ever hear of this?"

Yep. FWIW, These airships were photo pioneers, and due to DC's proximity, much of NoVa was photographed from the air early in the 20th Century as military experiments...

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>
> Really? I thought TBF opened in my day ('59)


I remember TBF in it's current location, but it was a gravel lot with a trailer parked on it. It was like that for quite awhile.

Good memory!
Also, the drive in (now BoA) across the street was finished before TBF. Had to have been the only "drive in" anything for miles around in postwar FFX.

Went to church in the theater before our church was built. My husband proposed to me in the restaurant next door to the theater in 1953. Lots of memories.

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> Also, the drive in (now BoA) across the street was
> finished before TBF. Had to have been the only
> "drive in" anything for miles around in postwar
> FFX.

drive in?

it was a drive in?

as for what that coffeehouse was pre-fotomat I cant tell ya what it could have been I was nowhere near VA back then LoLz

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Great Hot Shoppes pic Gordon...Arlington?

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> Great Hot Shoppes pic Gordon...Arlington?


gotta love the pike :)

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