never mind. wrong thread. nothing to see here. move along. move along.

Fagin and Becker (Steely Dan) are from Annandale-on-Hudson in NY not VA!




dead kid's ghost Wrote:
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> It's the ghost of a boy they used to call Kid
> Charlemagne. His friend Steely Dan wrote a song
> about him after graduating from Annandale. Steely
> Dan later became a popular singer/songwriter. He
> wrote a popular song about Annandale High School
> that became a big hit back in the 70s.

"After Mr Donut went away, Dunkin' Donuts opened up shop there"

DD bought out MD. The KW corner plumbing is interesting - after Hurricane Isabel, that side of the corner was open for business, while the other side(s) were out for several days - it was the only place to get a cup'o'joe...

The Story Wrote:
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> Fagin and Becker (Steely Dan) are from
> Annandale-on-Hudson in NY not VA!
>
>
>
>
> dead kid's ghost Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > It's the ghost of a boy they used to call Kid
> > Charlemagne. His friend Steely Dan wrote a song
> > about him after graduating from Annandale.
> Steely
> > Dan later became a popular singer/songwriter.
> He
> > wrote a popular song about Annandale High
> School
> > that became a big hit back in the 70s.


First, you don't get jokes, do you? and B, Fagin and Becker are most certainly not from Annandale-on-Hudson NY.

"Fagin and Becker are most certainly not from Annandale-on-Hudson NY"

"The met while at Bard College"
"Bard College, founded in 1860 as St. Stephen's College, is a private liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York"

"Fagin and Becker are most certainly not from Annandale-on-Hudson NY"

"The met while at Bard College"
"Bard College, founded in 1860 as St. Stephen's College, is a private liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York"

"Donald Fagen
Musician
Donald Jay Fagen is an American musician and songwriter, best known as the co-founder and lead singer of the rock band Steely Dan.
Born: January 10, 1948 (age 65), Passaic, NJ

Walter Becker
Musician
Walter Carl Becker is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as the co-founder, guitarist, bassist and co-songwriter of Steely Dan.
Born: February 20, 1950 (age 63), Queens, New York City, NY"

"Fagin and Becker are most certainly not from Annandale-on-Hudson NY"

"Fagen was born in Passaic, New Jersey. The Fagen family moved from Passaic first to the suburb of Fair Lawn around 1958, then quickly moved and settled into a ranch-style house in the Kendall Park section of South Brunswick, New Jersey. Later the family moved to Annandale, Virginia where Fagen attended Annandale High School and played tuba in the marching band."

"Becker was born in Queens, New York City and grew up in Westchester County and Forest Hills, Queens. When Becker was 14 his family relocated to Annandale, Virginia. Becker attended Annandale High School where he became proficient at playing the skin flute."

funny stuff right there. Goodonyamate!

When using quotes, always cite your sources.

this pic speaks for itself.
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And another one from the same source. John Hechinger's version of a ribbon cutting at his new Alexandria store in 1961.
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Why do people post pictures of places otehr than Fairfax County on this thread are they retarded?

Dickey's Farm House, Matildaville (now ruins at Great Falls)
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I believe this was the Memco on Route 1, where Target is now. The photo quality is rather poor, but it still gives you a general idea of what it looked like.
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That Memco on Rt 1.. Scene of "The Playtex Swim Cap Riots" when they were 50% off on Memorial Day! Flower petals galore!! But I will say some were much more pretty to see then the slick Egg Head, Blah Blah Ugly Brain Surgery skin head caps there wearing today.

lbss82 Wrote:
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> this pic speaks for itself.
Lbss...who's the man front and center in the Rosenthal pic? Jack Herrity? Next to man with shovel...

Miss Havisham Wrote:
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> lbss82 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
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> > this pic speaks for itself.
> Lbss...who's the man front and center in the
> Rosenthal pic? Jack Herrity? Next to man with
> shovel...


Look what's going on at Columbia Pike and Glebe now. I guess the developers think the trolley is going to be the bomb.

Keep Arlington weird, if there are any places to keep weird.

In that Rosenthal photo , That fellow on the shovel on the left sure looks like Goober.

It does resemble Jack Herrity, but according to the source of the photo it is Harry Rosenthal.

Really it looks like Jerry Connolly.

The guys on the shovel in the Rosenthal pic are, left, Harry Rosenthal and right, his son Robert M Rosenthal. Everybody's heard of Bob Rosenthal, haven't they?

@worked there...my Dad bought our brand new 1968 Impala station wagon right off the showroom floor of Rosenthal's...as a wee lad I wondered how the hell we were going to get it through the glass wall:) Great memories.

...anyhow, some color to go w/ the b/w photos (previously in this fine thread) of this Annandale icon.
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Ravensworth, House & Stable, 5200 Port Royal Road.
date unknown.
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Earp's Ordinary, Main Street, Fairfax, Fairfax City, VA

anyone remember this place??
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I lived in the town of Clifton for a few years and got pulled over by cops several times because the town refused to upgrade to the windshield mounted sticker that proved that your property tax was paid. They kept using these stupid plates into the 90s!
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A scarce throw back from the late 60's...Annandale....easy guess on what is was recently?
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Washington Descendant Wrote:
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> This pic of my Grandparents is from the 1960's,
> located near Purks Court, in Mt. Vernon, Va.


I seem to recall going to elementary school with a Sara Purks, could that be the same family?

Just Another Old Fart Wrote:
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> I believe this was the Memco on Route 1, where
> Target is now. The photo quality is rather poor,
> but it still gives you a general idea of what it
> looked like.


They all looked the same. I guess it still happens now with big box stores.
The one on 236 (now a home depot) near Jefferson HS looked just like that too.

I remember the membership thing.

It was Osaka recently, but it's operated under all sorts of other names over the years. Restaurants that opened in the building never seemed to last very long.

Great job "Just Another O F". That was truly a revolving door.

exffx Wrote:
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> Just Another Old Fart Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
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> > I believe this was the Memco on Route 1, where
> > Target is now. The photo quality is rather
> poor,
> > but it still gives you a general idea of what
> it
> > looked like.
>
>
> They all looked the same. I guess it still happens
> now with big box stores.
> The one on 236 (now a home depot) near Jefferson
> HS looked just like that too.
>
> I remember the membership thing.

The Annandale store had its main entrance located on the narrow side of the building fronting 236, while other stores had the entrance located on the wider face. I believe it was Home Depot that re-oriented the store so its main entrance is now on the wider Braddock Road side.

Correct, Bill N. The main entrance faced 236 while it was Memco, then Bradlees, then Hechinger, before Home Depot took over and changed the configuration.

Good old Texas Ted!
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lbss82 Wrote:
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> Good old Texas Ted!


Talk about the good ole days!

Bought my first car from texas ted. A 1972 maverick with a 6 cylinder. Got it used in '75 with 20,000 miles on it. Great car! This picture is not my maverick but it had the same burnt lemon crappy paint job that mine did.
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Does anyone have any photos of these former railroad lines in the area?

* Washington and Old Dominion Railroad
* Great Falls and Old Dominion Railroad
* Washington, Alexandria, and Mount Vernon Railway
* Lorton and Occoquan Railroad
* Fort Belvoir Military Railroad
* Fairfax line (streetcar)
* Thrifton-Bluemont Junction Connecting Line



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Dork Wrote:
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> Does anyone have any photos of these former
> railroad lines in the area?
>
> * Washington and Old Dominion Railroad
> * Great Falls and Old Dominion Railroad
> * Washington, Alexandria, and Mount Vernon
> Railway
> * Lorton and Occoquan Railroad
> * Fort Belvoir Military Railroad
> * Fairfax line (streetcar)
> * Thrifton-Bluemont Junction Connecting Line

The Library of Virginia has plenty of pics like that but you probably already know that.

http://image.lva.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/photo.cgi/VDLP/Fairfax/railroad/images/washod_079

Dork Wrote:
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> Does anyone have any photos of these former
> railroad lines in the area?
>
> * Washington and Old Dominion Railroad
> * Great Falls and Old Dominion Railroad
> * Washington, Alexandria, and Mount Vernon
> Railway
> * Lorton and Occoquan Railroad
> * Fort Belvoir Military Railroad
> * Fairfax line (streetcar)
> * Thrifton-Bluemont Junction Connecting Line

I don't know if you are aware of these websites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8aXR48nxYg
http://worldofdecay.blogspot.com/2012/07/railroad-warehouses-fort-belvoir.html
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMF5CE_Lorton_Occoquan_RR_Boxcar

Annandale love, willis service 50s maybe?
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I have no memory of this place but I am told it was at the intersection of Annandale rd and Arlington blvd.
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lbss82 Wrote:
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> I have no memory of this place but I am told it
> was at the intersection of Annandale rd and
> Arlington blvd.


The Frozen Dairy Bar was the best! I remember driving through the intersection (Annandale Road and Route 50) after the blizzards in 1986 and seeing a milk tanker making a delivery.

Good times! So few wonderful local color places left around here. I hate the homogenizing of America.

blanche Wrote:
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> lbss82 Wrote:
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> > I have no memory of this place but I am told it
> > was at the intersection of Annandale rd and
> > Arlington blvd.
>
>
> The Frozen Dairy Bar was the best! I remember
> driving through the intersection (Annandale Road
> and Route 50) after the blizzards in 1986 and
> seeing a milk tanker making a delivery.
>
> Good times! So few wonderful local color places
> left around here. I hate the homogenizing of
> America.


Although its not in Fairfax Co, Kline's Freeze in Manassas off 28 has the same nostalgic feel as the Frozen Dairy Bar.

http://thehesaidshesaidexperience.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/101_2975.jpg



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Some Fairfax love....Old Coach Inn...which I researched was across the street from the old Fairfax HS (Pope Paul VI HS)...where The Shops of Fairfax are located. Any memories?
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>
> Although its not in Fairfax Co, Kline's Freeze in
> Manassas off 28 has the same nostalgic feel as the
> Frozen Dairy Bar.
>
> http://thehesaidshesaidexperience.files.wordpress.
> com/2012/06/101_2975.jpg


I try to go by there when I'm out that way. Not too much after the closing of Old Dominion Speedway though. And missed the county fair this year too.

Long ago but not that far away, I was an 8-year-old, visiting my grandparents in Mantua. It was June 1969.

I remember driving east on Rt. 50, and an Esso (now Exxon) station -- I'm pretty sure at Graham Rd -- had burned. The entire building and parking lot were black with carbon.

Anyone remember that? Did I hallucinate it? For extra credit, post pictures :-)

Greybeard Wrote:
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> Long ago but not that far away, I was an
> 8-year-old, visiting my grandparents in Mantua. It
> was June 1969.
>
> I remember driving east on Rt. 50, and an Esso
> (now Exxon) station -- I'm pretty sure at Graham
> Rd -- had burned. The entire building and parking
> lot were black with carbon.
>
> Anyone remember that? Did I hallucinate it? For
> extra credit, post pictures :-)

It was a hallucination. They didn't let 8 year olds drive in 1969.

>It was a hallucination. They didn't let 8 year olds drive in 1969.

+1

To clarify: I was the *passenger*. But it was the 60s, so maybe we were all hallucinating (yeah, my grandmother...I think not; she was a "proper" Southern lady!).

Herndon depot 1907.
Has this been posted before?
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Greybeard Wrote:
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> Long ago but not that far away, I was an
> 8-year-old, visiting my grandparents in Mantua. It
> was June 1969.
>
> I remember driving east on Rt. 50, and an Esso
> (now Exxon) station -- I'm pretty sure at Graham
> Rd -- had burned. The entire building and parking
> lot were black with carbon.
>
> Anyone remember that? Did I hallucinate it? For
> extra credit, post pictures :-)


I don't remember the Esso/Exxon at Graham Rd. catching on fire but the Esso/Exxon at Patrick Henry Dr. at Seven Corners caught fire in the 70's. My brother in law was sitting at the light when the fire started in one of the bays.

DH Wrote:
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> Greybeard Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Long ago but not that far away, I was an
> > 8-year-old, visiting my grandparents in Mantua.
> It
> > was June 1969.
> >
> > I remember driving east on Rt. 50, and an Esso
> > (now Exxon) station -- I'm pretty sure at
> Graham
> > Rd -- had burned. The entire building and
> parking
> > lot were black with carbon.
> >
> > Anyone remember that? Did I hallucinate it? For
> > extra credit, post pictures :-)
>
>
> I don't remember the Esso/Exxon at Graham Rd.
> catching on fire but the Esso/Exxon at Patrick
> Henry Dr. at Seven Corners caught fire in the
> 70's. My brother in law was sitting at the light
> when the fire started in one of the bays.

Well, that's pretty close, and it *was* a long time ago. But it would have had to be June 1969, because that's when I visited my grandparents alone; a couple of months later we moved far away for a long time. Are you sure it was "the 70s"?

Interesting stuff @ the fire - the Esso @ PH & 50 burned in the 60's: http://www.fallschurchvfd.org/photovideo.asp?event=18

but the "old" Esso station at Graham wasn't - it was sold off, and the new developers built a different station. From the FFX County Zoning Board Minutes Book 11 (1964) "Lee-Graham Venture, to permit erection and operation of a
service station, S. W. corner of Lee Highway and Graham Road,
Falls Church District. This station is leased to Mobile oil"

It didn't become an Esso/Exxon station until later.

BTW, FFX County has scanned in most of their record books from '41 thru 2004. Fascinating reading about who wanted to do what across the county during the postwar/start of growth eras...

http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpz/bza/bzaminutes/

here is pic.
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Waited in line here with my mom during the fuel shortages back then in her'68 Beetle. It sucked, waited for at least four hours in line...

The Frozen Dairy Bar was a great place. My wife and I used to go there often on Saturday nights back when we were dating.

Thanks for the starving marvin pic, eat there many times had it #1 on my speed dial, mostly as a joke. Lived in Orleans village for several years.

I think the drive up photo was at Bradlick plaza...

Ravensworth here...original owner in'63 next door used bricks from the Ravensworth house in his backyard gardens, I used to find arrow heads and civil war stuff in the woods nearby...he told me about the"country folk"living in a house back in what became Wakefield park, Lots of junk, we used to play in the old fifties cars in the woods...

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> > Rory Wrote:
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> > > blanche Wrote:
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> > > -----
> > > > Rory Wrote:
> > > >
> > >
> >
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> >
> > >
> > > > -----
> > > > > I do have a question, does anyone know
> > where
> > > > > Ravensworth mansion was located Southeast
> > of
> > > > > Braddock and Beltway the still leaves a
> big
> > > > area!!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I believe its was torched for the
> Ravenworth
> > > Farm
> > > > development. There is an old book called
> > > Northern
> > > > Virginia Heritage that had alot of old
> > > mansions,
> > > > farms, etc. listed in it. Some things are
> > > still
> > > > standing, others are long gone...
> > > >
> > > > Anyway, the Fairfax County Fire Department
> > used
> > > to
> > > > torch buildings for "practice" once they
> had
> > > been
> > > > sold, eminent domain, etc.
> > > >
> > > > I remember when they did this to the house
> > that
> > > > stood on the land where Holmes Intermediate
> > > > (Middle) School located.
> > >
> > >
> > > What house is where Holmes is at?? I went to
> > > middle school there!
> >
> >
> > There was a small Cape Cod, one house on the
> > entire piece of land that Holmes was built on.
> > Mid 60s it was torched to clear the land for
> the
> > school to be built on.
> >
> > I used to collect coke bottles on Saturdays at
> the
> > building site with my friends for pocket
> change.
> > We'd take them to the 7-11 on 236 next to the
> Home
> > Depot. It was a High's then. Good Times!
>
>
> I love hearing stories like this!! Really never
> knew there was a house there just thought was
> woods before. I went to school there in the late
> 90s.

Janaye Wrote:
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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...

Got my first restaurant job washing dishes for Whitey and Vinnie at their Kings Park restaurant, great family, learned to party from the staff!

In honor of Veterans day. This picture from the Fairfax city cemetery.
Thanks Alfred!!!!!!!
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Greybeard Wrote:
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> DH Wrote:
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> > Greybeard Wrote:
> >
>
> Well, that's pretty close, and it *was* a long
> time ago. But it would have had to be June 1969,
> because that's when I visited my grandparents
> alone; a couple of months later we moved far away
> for a long time. Are you sure it was "the 70s"?


Not sure, it could of been in the late 60's

Jess1 Wrote:
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>
> but the "old" Esso station at Graham wasn't - it
> was sold off, and the new developers built a
> different station. From the FFX County Zoning
> Board Minutes Book 11 (1964) "Lee-Graham Venture,
> to permit erection and operation of a
> service station, S. W. corner of Lee Highway and
> Graham Road,
> Falls Church District. This station is leased to
> Mobile oil"
>
> It didn't become an Esso/Exxon station until
> later.
>

As far back as I can remember the Exxon at Graham has always been an Esso/Exxon.
That is at the N.E corner of Graham and Arlington Blvd. (RT. 50)
The S.W. corner of Lee Highway and Graham is the next light north of RT. 50
There was a station in the corner of the shopping center there.
It opened as a Mobil and is a Sunoco station now

lbss82 Wrote:
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> Annandale love, willis service 50s maybe?


Looking a little closer at the willis service picture I see the words Kaiser Frazier on top of the building. I am 49 years old and I have never heard of the Kaiser Frazer car company until now. Cool!

This picture was posted on a previous page of this thread. I did not pick up on the Kaiser Frazer sign hanging out front.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzZei7cS7Nw

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser-Frazer
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good stuff here
http://www.shorpy.com/search/node/fairfax+county

Local Wrote:
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> Ravensworth here...original owner in'63 next door
> used bricks from the Ravensworth house in his
> backyard gardens, I used to find arrow heads and
> civil war stuff in the woods nearby...he told me
> about the"country folk"living in a house back in
> what became Wakefield park, Lots of junk, we used
> to play in the old fifties cars in the woods...
>
> I remember those old cars as well. A coule of them were still there in the late '70's

more
http://www.bfcollection.net/cities/usa/va/vienna/vienna_hist/

2nd massaschusetts cavalry at freeman store in vienna



same 2nd massachusetts camp at Vienna 1863


Entrance to Washington Water Works, Great Falls. Photo 1860's.



http://www.bfcollection.net/cities/usa/va/greatfalls/greatfalls.html

Greybeard Wrote:
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> >It was a hallucination. They didn't let 8 year
> olds drive in 1969.
>
> +1
>
> To clarify: I was the *passenger*. But it was the
> 60s, so maybe we were all hallucinating (yeah, my
> grandmother...I think not; she was a "proper"
> Southern lady!).


I'm about your age. I remember the Hechinger's in the City of Falls Church burnt down back in the early 70's.

Are you an old Jefferstonian by chance? LoL Refering to the starvin marvins photos.

Mundane requests- pics- Rchard c. Byrd library springfield, Jack in the Box annandale (saw the theater pic only), the "rocking chair" theater off hertitage drive at 236/hummer.

Mind blowing to learn cap't 20 was that "scary" guy from Creature Feature. :-) Maybe someone should post a pic from that other fabulous channel 20 show, Wonderama".

I had forgotten all about captain dan and his choppper landing at our runty school until this thread. THANKS ALL.

Hmm, wonder if the Fisher's Hardware Springfield is in business still after all the mention of ho jo's and the springfield mcD's. I remember that sign turning 1 million gagged down!

Lastly, no one seemed to notice or remark on the Foo Fighter ringing in on page 8 of this thread. That was a nice photo of he and his mom.

According to the Fall Church VFD, the Willston Esso fire occurred in June 1966 and the Hechinger fire happened on Memorial Day in 1969. Here are a couple of pics of the aftermath of the Hechinger fire.
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that varsol was some mean stuff. I think there is a taco vendor truck or the asianic vegetatable moon resterruent behind whare the the old esso sign fell down.

DH Wrote:
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> Not sure, it could of been in the late 60's

...it could HAVE been...

Willston Esso! nice picture!

temember paying for gas like this?
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I remember hearing about the Hechinger that was just north of 29 in Falls Church and the fire. I must have been a vacant lot for at least a decade afterwards.

idontlikebeingrightaboutshitlikethisbutiam



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Wonderama.

"Exercise, exercise- come on everybody do your exercise..."

"Kids are people too- wacka doo, wacka doo"

Remember like yesterday. I think Bob McAllister offed himself but not sure, gonna Wiki it now.

EDIT- Nope, McAllister died of lung cancer at 63 in 1998.

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Wonderama videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA8iC1niJ4E

Kids are People Too.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYzt1rEBx5Y

Exercise.


I think it's urban legend that some kid told Bozo to fuck himself after botching the Bozo Bucket Bonanza.

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The courthouse prior to restoration in 1967.
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Nice! Best courthouse pic yet!

Sweet pics thanks

Sour pucs thunks

A.P. Holmes stands in front of his gas station, at the intersection
of Lee Highway and Braddock Road in Centreville, sometime in the
early 1930's. (Photo courtesy of the Fairfax County Public Library Photographic Archive)
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Anyone have a picture of the lunch counter that was at Rexall Drug in Vienna?

Burke 7-11 1970s
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They were still there till around the late eighties, the park authority moved/added trails around then and they pulled out the last two, a black one and a (I think) white one, close to Braddock and the creek. Near where there used to be a bridge over Accotink creek to Howry Field/community gardens area, close to the brick power building.

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> > Ravensworth here...original owner in'63 next
> door
> > used bricks from the Ravensworth house in his
> > backyard gardens, I used to find arrow heads
> and
> > civil war stuff in the woods nearby...he told
> me
> > about the"country folk"living in a house back
> in
> > what became Wakefield park, Lots of junk, we
> used
> > to play in the old fifties cars in the woods...
> >
> > I remember those old cars as well. A coule of
> them were still there in the late '70's

David G. Wrote:
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> Me & Mom.


Hey man hope all is well
Craig and Jason

I remember an Ollies' in Clarendon, Arlington at 10th St & Washington Blvd.

Gordon Blvd Wrote:
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> @facebook - I would have never in a million years
> guessed that used to be a store - how'd ya know?
>
> @springfielder - gracias!! Now does anybody know
> where that Interstate Inn was?
>
> edit: so this is what was there before P.F Chang's
> and the Westin............
> and that Buick dealer in the back is where the
> Greene Turtle is now. MAN does Arlington know how
> to remix LoLz

I grew up / lived in Waycroft-Woodlawn '67-'87. I remember thinking naming a car dealership "Larry" was hilarious. Next door to a Chevy dealer owned by "Peck" no less lol

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> where in the hizzy WAS this place? Looks
> familiar........................
>
> edit: and what brand was it originally?


I seems to recall it was a Scot's gas station and it was on Rt. 7 near the NOVA Comm College Alexandria campus.

Gordon Blvd Wrote:
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> Sleepy Holla Wrote:
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> > Good job on the Amoco folks....how about a
> little
> > more Falls Church love.
>
>
> You REALLY want a challenge?

Was that a Chinese restaurant at Culmore (Rt. 7 and Carlyn Springs Road area)?

Sleepy Holla Wrote:
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> @lbss82...Thank you....our memories are something
> no can take away...we own them and they make us
> realize how things were and can be. This thread
> keeps them living and every now and then joggles
> our mind.....enough of the depth...the Giant Music
> was across from the State Theatre in Falls Church.
> How about this small pic for the Bailey's
> Crossroads Ice Cream lovers.


Lookin like Giffords - had something like my 10th birthday there!

Gordon Blvd Wrote:
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> Jess1 Wrote:
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> > 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.
>
> 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
>
> pic unrelated


Hey, isn't that the Hot Shoppes that was near the Giffords in a pic a few pages back?

blanche Wrote:
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> The Hecht Company at Parkington. I loved the
> message board that faced the corner of Glebe and
> Wilson Blvd.
>
> My mom used to take us to the bargain basement at
> Hects to get our new school clothes.
>
> Good Times!


Do you remember the restaurant in the Hecht's basement. What a weird place for a restaurant!

Gordon Blvd Wrote:
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> Blanche, Fart, Facebook, Burke, Holla, others too
> numerous to mentions: thank you ALL for all the
> knowledge and history you have shared - cause
> yeah, this is honestly awesome :)


Hey, that looks like some of the Washington-Lee HS crew team in the foreground... I graduated in 1984 and the one kid there looks like Jerry Mayer class of '86?

PeckFan Wrote:
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> fxcograd Wrote:
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> > peck check Wrote:
> >
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>
> > -----
> > > Okay this one is Arlington but didn't Bob
> Peck
> > get
> > > torn down a few years back?
> >
> >> Going farther south, as a kid I remember Rose
> Hill
> > (Franconia) had a sit down Mexican restaurant.
> I
> > think it was called El Palacio. Anybody got
> photos
> > that far back?
>
>
> Bought a few cars at Peck, still driving my
> loaded, leather, Bose sound, DVD & two package
> equipped 2005 Tahoe (I'm sure Katie will ask if
> I'm still paying on it - no, dummy I paid $45k
> cash LOL!!) Dragged a few cars out of snow banks
> with it to include a VA state trooper ... those
> big Fords are heavy ...
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-state-of-n
> ova/post/landmark-bob-peck-chevrolet-diamonds-faca
> de-reappear-on-new-glass-tower-in-arlington/2012/0
> 9/13/f6e8d89a-fdda-11e1-8adc-499661afe377_blog.htm
> l


Last cars our family picked up at Peck: 1979 Malibu Wagon for my dad, 1979 Malibu sedan for me : )

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> Springfielder Wrote:
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> > 1. 6733 Lee Highway, Arlington, VA in 1900.
> House
> > built in 1876.
> >
> > 2. Same house today.
>
>
> That reminded me of an old Victorian I walk by
> near work. 5151 14th St North, in Arlington. It
> sold recently and apparently was owned by one
> Major Lacey. Listed as built in 1860.The adjoining
> land was parceled and two smaller Mcmansions were
> plopped next door (at 1.2 mil each)- probably paid
> for purchasing the original house.
>
> home tour
>
> http://www.homevisit.com/mobile/iPad.asp?id=51167
>
> history of neighborhood
>
> http://waycroft.tripod.com/his.htm
>
> Zillow listing
>
> http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5151-14th-St-N-A
> rlington-VA-22205/12068215_zpid/


Used to walk past the Lacey place on the way to shoot hoops at Lacey Woods... used to have a stately look of history to it. Now looks like a Disney attraction imho

jbull0ck Wrote:
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> Sleepy Holla Wrote:
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> > @lbss82...Thank you....our memories are
> something
> > no can take away...we own them and they make us
> > realize how things were and can be. This thread
> > keeps them living and every now and then
> joggles
> > our mind.....enough of the depth...the Giant
> Music
> > was across from the State Theatre in Falls
> Church.
> > How about this small pic for the Bailey's
> > Crossroads Ice Cream lovers.
>
>
> Lookin like Giffords - had something like my 10th
> birthday there!

There's an artist who works out of an artist collective in Occouqan -- Local Color -- she works exclusively on places around here (and the Outer Banks). I have a portrait, picture of Giffords in Baileys XRoad and the old Frozen Dairy Bar. But she has a lot of wonderful, long gone places you might want to see.

I remember seeing this sign many a holiday shopping season.
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Great pic lbss82...I'm sure if you had plenty of $ you went here after shopping, for dinner. Long gone, but had a great reputation. Sleepy out...
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I don't think THe Company Inkwell ever actually opened at Tysons. The sign was standing out there forever, but I don't think a single meal was ever served. Ate many times at the real location in Rosslyn and it was indeed very good.

Old Vienna Resident Wrote:
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> I don't think THe Company Inkwell ever actually
> opened at Tysons. The sign was standing out there
> forever, but I don't think a single meal was ever
> served. Ate many times at the real location in
> Rosslyn and it was indeed very good.

They were building that place for years. It had a plywood front door - Ever open for business?

Old Vienna Resident Wrote:
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> I don't think THe Company Inkwell ever actually
> opened at Tysons. The sign was standing out there
> forever, but I don't think a single meal was ever
> served. Ate many times at the real location in
> Rosslyn and it was indeed very good.


My girlfriend was a bartender at the Tysons location, she met her jackass husband there...