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The RRR was a hoot! All kinds of crazy rafts and no one really cared who won it was all about fun! They had RRR's all over the country it was a radio promotion thing.
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> I worked at the Landmark Hecht's from November of
> 1973 to early 1975 selling art supplies in a
> department at the base of the escalator. I
> remember taking the WSP's as well as Hecht's own
> credit cards. Hecht's delivered for free, and I
> remember some woman who came in and bought a dozen
> mens shirts, all the same size, and had them
> delivered so he could pick the one color he
> wanted. Then she returned the rest LOL. Things
> like that killed off customer service.

Huh? That's exactly what people do today via the internet. It's expected, even encouraged, when it comes to apparel and accessories.

I guess it's not really an old picture, but the place no lopnger exists as of a few weeks ago. Putting townhouses for 77 families on the site now!
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> I worked at the Landmark Hecht's from November of
> 1973 to early 1975 selling art supplies in a
> department at the base of the escalator. I
> remember taking the WSP's as well as Hecht's own
> credit cards. Hecht's delivered for free, and I
> remember some woman who came in and bought a dozen
> mens shirts, all the same size, and had them
> delivered so he could pick the one color he
> wanted. Then she returned the rest LOL. Things
> like that killed off customer service.

How is this any different than what we do today? Free shipping on orders over $50? I order a ton of clothes, try on everything at home to figure out what I want to keep and I return the rest to the store.

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> Old Hechts Employee Wrote:
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> -----
> > I worked at the Landmark Hecht's from November
> of
> > 1973 to early 1975 selling art supplies in a
> > department at the base of the escalator. I
> > remember taking the WSP's as well as Hecht's
> own
> > credit cards. Hecht's delivered for free, and
> I
> > remember some woman who came in and bought a
> dozen
> > mens shirts, all the same size, and had them
> > delivered so he could pick the one color he
> > wanted. Then she returned the rest LOL.
> Things
> > like that killed off customer service.
>
> How is this any different than what we do today?
> Free shipping on orders over $50? I order a ton
> of clothes, try on everything at home to figure
> out what I want to keep and I return the rest to
> the store.

It is stupid people like you that cause the prices to be so high. They pass the cost of your laziness off on everybody else. Fuckwad.

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> I guess it's not really an old picture, but the
> place no lopnger exists as of a few weeks ago.
> Putting townhouses for 77 families on the site
> now!


Good job man. That pic is cool now but it will be really cool years from now. Thanks!

Some terrific 90-year old pictures on the Historic Fairfax site below from the time when Old Lee Highway was being built and rebuilt between Falls Church and Fairfax City. Also some wonderful local history that almost no one knows...

http://www.historicfairfax.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/HFCI61-2008.pdf

Seeing the Lee Highway History: 30 years ago when the Courthouse was being renovated after the Jennings Building had opened, the County waas clearing out the attic for the rehab. There was a big cardboard box up there all by itself. It held the records of the Fairfax County Highway Dept. This was way before the State Road dept existed.Before the State road dept was created each county in Va had to take care of there own roads. The records were from 1916 , 17, 18 so on. They were each in a manila folder with all the records for that year in the folder. There were payroll checks to the employees, The highest pay was a foreman or mechanic about 18 dollars for the week the lowest laborers 7 dollars a week. Truck drivers made about 11 dollars. there were checks to farmers for use of their teams widening roads and checks to land owners for the land taken to widen a road, say 6 feet for 500 feet maybe 7 dollars or so.I think these were some kind of warrant check or some special account. Reports of what they did were also in there plus checks and recipts for things like gas in truck # 1 for 5 dollars. It seemed like no one was interested much in the box. I mentioned its existance to some court clerks back then that the box be saved. I hope these records were taken to the Archives dept. they held much history and were very interesting. The Fairfax County Highway Dept was at that time located at the corner of Burke Station Road and Rt 236. It later became the County garage where school buses were repaired abouit 1935 then in 1948 when the bus garage was built at Jermantown Road it became the School Maintenance Dept. in 1977 it was turned over to Fairfax County and has been the FMD County maintenance dept since. A older man live next door, he died about 1988. He told me he worked for the Fairfax Co. Road Dept and came down from the country to do so. he lived in barricks on the FMD compound and married a girl whos family lived next to the compound. he built the gray 1 story house on Burke Station next to the County compound about 1926 and raised his family there. he worked as a truck driver for Stuart Oil Co many years till he retired. In his yard he had several out buildings one of which he said he built in 1940 for his daughters ponys. He was a old school gentleman who drove his 1966 red Ford PU to the Picket Center bank each month and paid his utility bills there in cash..
These records should be found as they would make a very interesting display of life in FXCO almost 100 years ago and many of the names on the payroll are those of old time Fairfax Families.

FYI Back then the big deal was wideing the roads in Fairfax for automobiles from old horse and buggy paths The people at the FCRD went out in their old trucks with their saws. They cut down trees on the side of the road. Local farmers provided horse teams and pulled stumps and logs out and back into the woods were they were left to rot. I can see some of these trees in my minds eye in the 1970's as much of Fairfax was still rural and even today some remains may be out there rotted. The county then totaled up the land taken for the land owner and paid them, and paid the farmers for the use of the teams. Also they filled in holes in the roads, repaired the old bridges many other tasks.

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I remember having to go to the Uptown in D.C. to see The Exorcist, early 70s. It was banned in Virginia because of the language and the christians were all up in arms about it.

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> It was on 7 in Falls Church near 66 recently and it
> looks like that little garden center bit the dust also.

If you mean Sam's Farm, yup, it has been bulldozed to become what everything else seems to become in time. Too bad, too. Their combination of quality, price, and selection was very good. They'll be missed by many area homeowners. Garden World on Lee Highway at Waples Mill is somewhat comparable.

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> I guess it's not really an old picture, but the
> place no lopnger exists as of a few weeks ago.
> Putting townhouses for 77 families on the site
> now!


A week after getting my license at age 16 in 1968, I crashed my 1960 Ford into a telephone pole. I was going for something I dropped, the road turned and I didn't.

Needed a bumper, right front fender, hood and windshield. Rosslyn Auto Body did the whole job for $308. Like it never even happened.

Not even being sarcastic, I will miss that neon Rosslyn sign. Can't wait until that intersection becomes another area for heavy traffic. They'll have to put a traffic light in there.

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> I guess it's not really an old picture, but the
> place no lopnger exists as of a few weeks ago.
> Putting townhouses for 77 families on the site
> now!


I had two cars painted there a long time ago. A 1970 442 and a 1978 Trans AM.

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> Okay last one for today courtesy of Robyn Carter.
> Is there a difference between Keene mill and Old
> Keene mill road?


Nope. I don't know whether the formal name changed at some point. In the '70s, no one said "old." It was on the signs, but that's it.

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> Thanks to Andrew Ratliff for this one from Falls
> Church. What did they mean by "Color Shows"? Were
> some of the shows in Black and white?


I think "color" is supposed to be separate from the rest of the text (note the letter spacing).

This was an era with lots of B&W TV sets, so it was worth advertising that the movies were in color.

First color TV was advertized in Playboy.
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> All the movies used to come to DC before they hit
> the burbs in those days.
>
> When I lived in FC the State was somewhat
> dilapidated, they used to show all the American
> International flicks. They did some midnight
> movies for a while too, I think I remember "Easy
> Rider" and "Song Remains the Same" up there.
> Balcony was cool.
>
> The guys who run it now have really turned the
> place around and did a great job. I think the
> place crushes the Fillmore.

Saw the "Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii"movie at the State sometime in '72 or '73. Tough to see the screen. Seemed to be a mysterious "fog" in the theater. Same "fog" was encountered at the old Fairfax Theater!?!

This is the Alexandria torpedo factory circa 1968.
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Here's an August article on the houses that are going into the Rosslyn Auto site: http://annandaleva.blogspot.com/2014/08/77-townhouses-planned-for-columbia-pike.html?m=1

I was curious about the abandoned house on the site, I guess someone made out pretty well once someone wanted the land:

3701 Powell Lane, Falls Curch. Built in 1925. 912 sq feet, 0.65 acres.
Sold 7/10/03 for $400,000
Sold 7/23/14 for $6,762,000

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> Saw it too but it was probably in 1984 or so at
> Skyline.
>
>
> "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun"


I think I saw every movie ever shown at Skyline's midnight movies at least once and most more than once. We used to go all the time from about 1980 to 1984. Most of the ushers were fellow J.E.B. Stuart burnouts and didn't care if we smuggled beer in or smoked whatever during the shows. Years later I didn't believe it when my girlfriend told me the entire mall had been turned into a Target...until I saw it. There was also a small arcade type place down a long hallway at the left end of the mall that we would sometimes go to.

I'll never forget seeing Dawn of the Dead there when I was about 15. I seriously thought I might throw up. I slept with a light on for like a week afterwards.

I think the last show I saw and the old State Theater was a double feature of Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke and The Warriors. I remember we weren't old enough to get in, but luckily a guy we knew from school showed up with his dad and he bought us all tickets.

Hello my name is Allie and I'm a current employer at Fuddruckers Fairfax. I close most nights I work and Ive experienced some weird situations. Like little kids laughing from the back room when the store was closed. Being alone in the bathroom and hearing somebody else in there but then realizing I was the only person In the bathroom. I'm wondering if an inc incident had happened many years ago to where the building could be haunted?

I remember that barn, and the fire. Grew up on Broadmoor St. Do you know the source of that fantastic photo?

Columbia P Wrote:
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> Here's an August article on the houses that are
> going into the Rosslyn Auto site:
> http://annandaleva.blogspot.com/2014/08/77-townhou
> ses-planned-for-columbia-pike.html?m=1
>
> I was curious about the abandoned house on the
> site, I guess someone made out pretty well once
> someone wanted the land:
>
> 3701 Powell Lane, Falls Curch. Built in 1925.
> 912 sq feet, 0.65 acres.
> Sold 7/10/03 for $400,000
> Sold 7/23/14 for $6,762,000

Wonder if the “nonstructural fill materials” from a building that had collapsed in another location, was from the building collapse at Skyline in 1973...

The article says that the fill operation was done in the 1960s. That could have been a mistake, but if that's correct it was before the Skyline collapse.

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> I guess it's not really an old picture, but the
> place no lopnger exists as of a few weeks ago.
> Putting townhouses for 77 families on the site
> now!


Roslyn Auto Body, I remember there used to be a big white house on the hill above it (now townhouses). No idea who lived there, but I can remember going to a couple of keg parties there back in the 80's. Even saw the band Scream play at one of them.

unsure of the date.
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Rose Hill Esso 1965.
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Why does it say HUMBLE on the gas station? I saw another esso picture earlier in this thread that said HUMBLE. Was HUMBLE the owners name?

Humble (from Humble, TX) was the parent Company for Esso/Enco/Humble brand gas stations operating under those names in different states. They combined Esso and Enco during the energy crisis of 1972 to unify one brand....Exxon.

I would say the Bill Page pic is from 1964ish. Great pics Jim Keys!

Not an old picture, but a recent picture of something that happened 150 years ago.

Anyone who has visited Pohick church has seen the vandalism on the stones next to the entrances of the church - left behind by occupying Federal soldiers.
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> Humble (from Humble, TX) was the parent Company
> for Esso/Enco/Humble brand gas stations operating
> under those names in different states. They
> combined Esso and Enco during the energy crisis of
> 1972 to unify one brand....Exxon.

Actually, Standard Oil of New Jersey had acquired Humble Oil and Refining in 1959. The parent company used Esso as it's major service brand while Humble used both Humble and Enco. Neither Esso nor Enco was usable in certain parts of the country where the likes of Standard Oil of Ohio or Kentucky had sued to keep them out, so Humble became a useful brand alternative there as well. Rather than pushing the clumsy Esso-Humble-Enco trio however, what the parent company wanted was a single identifiable brand that it could market under nationwide. That's where Exxon came from. The old Standard Oil of NJ became Exxon, the Humble refining and marketing arm became Exxon USA, and the Enjay Chemicals division became Exxon Chemicals. Problem solved.

The switchover to Exxon was announced in May of 1972. The Arab oil boycott and resulting "energy crisis" was punishment of the US and other western nations for their support of Israel during the Yom Kippur War in October of 1973.

I just went to the Safeway at Ravensworth Shopping Center. It is closing for good. Been shopping there for over 30 years. Apparently the entire shopping center is getting a face lift soon with some stores getting kicked out and new ones to replace them. Safeway has less than a week to go. Time to get pictures of the way it use to be.

I talked to an old contractor who told me some of the houses that were built in the Ravensworth area in the 60s had recycled bricks from Ravensworth mansion used in some fireplaces and door stoops.

Great link. Appreciate your research and sharing!

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> I talked to an old contractor who told me some of
> the houses that were built in the Ravensworth area
> in the 60s had recycled bricks from Ravensworth
> mansion used in some fireplaces and door stoops.


Possible I suppose but they'd be few and far between.

What they do have are lots of bricks from the old Lorton kilns.



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Some pictures of Lorton area then and now.

https://books.google.com/books?id=ajcxvjzlaSYC&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=lorton+brick+kiln&source=bl&ots=LDqa4o1EQq&sig=x1hPrJ1bN4iu2Kl93wkgs3L5Uww&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kprOVLm7GI_asASGxYLgCg&ved=0CE4Q6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=lorton%20brick%20kiln&f=false

Old Dude,You almost quoted the contractor I spoke with. He only knew of a few houses with the Ravensworth bricks. Old and an odd size. Great shot of the brick kiln. Now I know where my house came from.

jimmy if your him reme/mber the maverick, fish hooks on west ox rd,let me know its you, been a long time,love to talk w[th you

From another thread, though I wanted to post it here. Fairfax County Bourbon. Anyone have more information on this?

I talked to an old contractor who told me some of the houses that were built in the Ravensworth area in the 60s had recycled bricks from Ravensworth mansion used in some fireplaces and door stoops.

The mansion burned down in 1926 then a smaller replacement farmhouse was built on the same location then torn down when the Ravensworth subdivision was built. Judging from the photos there doesn't seem to be too many bricks used on either home. The same holds true for Ossian Hall and Oak Hill. If there were some don't think they came from the original mansion.
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I doubt that story about old mansion bricks used in Ravensworth Farm houses.

I've lived in Ravensworth since 1968 and have known a lot of original owners and other assorted old timers over the years. Never heard of this brick story.

I've also seen all the old Oliver Carr sales brochures for Ravensworth Farm. No mention of mansion bricks.

It seems to me that if Carr went to the trouble of cleaning the old mortar off the bricks and put them in some houses----they would have made a big deal out of it, or at least mentioned it in the ads.

Previously posted picture of Ravensworth mansion is the back view. Below is the front view pictured in the 1920s.

Second picture below shows the chimneys remaining after the fire. The website where I found this picture stated that the fire actually took place in 1924 and the remains stood for a few years prior to the building of the new house. Old bricks from the chimneys were used in the construction of the replacement house. Can't find anything that states they were used in the construction of the present day houses.
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I don't have any photos, but plenty of memories not mentioned yet

- Bar J riding stables in Merrifield
- The squirrel monkeys in the shoe section at the Kann's department store on Fairfax Dr.(currently part of George Mason University)....ok it's Arlington.
- The Village House indoor skating rink near the State Theatre
- The Byrd Theatre at Rt 50 & Washington Blvd
- Bernie's Pony Ring at Bailey's Xrds
- Trucker's Stop "head shop" in Falls Church next to Coleman's Powersports

and how about this one... The trampoline center in Falls Church where Koon's Ford is now !!!

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> I don't have any photos, but plenty of memories
> not mentioned yet
>
> - Bar J riding stables in Merrifield
> - The squirrel monkeys in the shoe section at the
> Kann's department store on Fairfax Dr.(currently
> part of George Mason University)....ok it's
> Arlington.
> - The Village House indoor skating rink near the
> State Theatre
> - The Byrd Theatre at Rt 50 & Washington Blvd
> - Bernie's Pony Ring at Bailey's Xrds
> - Trucker's Stop "head shop" in Falls Church
> next to Coleman's Powersports
>
> and how about this one... The trampoline center in
> Falls Church where Koon's Ford is now !!!



Thanks for the name of the Village House skating rink. I lived not too far from that. I could not remember the name. Also, there was an indoor skating rink a little west of Tysons Corners on RT. 7. Anyone remember the name of that?

Old Mclean courtesy of oldmclean.com
1966

For reference, the Giant Food store is the shopping center in the upper left corner
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Tysons Ice Rink. Not too original. Played a lot of late night pick-up hockey there in the 70's.

Strange pic.
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Sam Browne Belts, The old Patch with Mt Vernon on it, the long coats with the swivel holsters and a Smith Wesson Model 10 old style slim barrel with lead 158 grain round nose bullets factory rounds with only about 800 fps.And the whistles on the coats Cool. I can see them now.. "Stand Back Give Him Air"

And check out the Gapers all around looking at the young man. A sad ending.

I thought those jumps knocked the shoes off jumpers. RIP would be old guy

They shot the dude. He lowered his hands a little bit so he deserved it.

The water tower BS was just a cover story.

Those old school Fairfax County Coppers, Dotsons, Doves, King , Conner, Wahl, Timm, Cox,and others, Those guys would have gone STRIGHT IN at Columbine , Sandy Hook, takeing down the ones shooting the kids down, not waiting for a command post to be set up. And they would have never shot a unarmed man lowering his hands a bit.They were Hero Cops back then.

1980s
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> Sam Browne Belts, The old Patch with Mt Vernon on
> it, the long coats with the swivel holsters and a
> Smith Wesson Model 10 old style slim barrel with
> lead 158 grain round nose bullets factory rounds
> with only about 800 fps.And the whistles on the
> coats Cool. I can see them now.. "Stand Back Give
> Him Air"
>
> And check out the Gapers all around looking at the
> young man. A sad ending.


From page 31 of this thread, 1966 cops.
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> Doves, King , Conner, Wahl, Timm, Cox,and others,
> Those guys would have gone STRIGHT IN at Columbine
> , Sandy Hook, takeing down the ones shooting the
> kids down, not waiting for a command post to be
> set up. And they would have never shot a unarmed
> man lowering his hands a bit.They were Hero Cops
> back then.


Never would have shot an unarmed man? Nah, there just would have been no backlash. Protesters would have been labeled commie pinko fags and run out of town.

"To Protect and Serve" became "To Harass and Detain". No heroes anymore.

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> Detain". No heroes anymore.


In 1980 another kid and I got caught trying to break into a car in the W Springfield HS parking lot. These two county cops took us into the woods and handcuffed us to trees, they smacked us around a little and read us the riot act for an hour then took us back to school and told the admin that we were loitering in the parking lot. Looking back now I guess they were trying to help us but at the time they scared the living shit out of us. I will say I never screwed with someone else s car again.

How be we just stick to old photos of Fairfax County here and leave bickering over the other stuff for all those other threads.

This is a 1924 photo of eastbound Lee Highway just east of Fairfax Circle. Blake Lane enters from the left just past the top of the hill.
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Does anyone know when that farmers market off of Ox Road in Fairfax Station closed? It was right across the street from the Burke Centre Shopping Center.

Bought a couple Fords here back in the day.
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Eye spy cameltoe.

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> How be we just stick to old photos of Fairfax
> County here and leave bickering over the other
> stuff for all those other threads.
>
> This is a 1924 photo of eastbound Lee Highway just
> east of Fairfax Circle. Blake Lane enters from
> the left just past the top of the hill.
> .

That building there on the left must be Arthur Treachers.

Here's a photo of the old Pine Ridge Elementary School on Woodburn Rd, circa 1981, before it closed and the building became a police station.
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Actually, it was Frank Gibson's. The west side of the Citgo station now sits where the house once did, so the now no longer Arthur Treacher's would have been a bit to the camera side of the house in that picture.

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LOL you saw it first

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> Treachers.
>
> Actually, it was Frank Gibson's. The west side of
> the Citgo station now sits where the house once
> did, so the now no longer Arthur Treacher's would
> have been a bit to the camera side of the house in
> that picture.

Way to throw water all over possibly the funniest post I have read on this forum in 10 years!

Chish--good thing I did not have coffee in my mouth when I read your post.

I wouldn't guarantee it but I think that's the grave yard at Pohick chruch

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> Here's a photo of the old Pine Ridge Elementary
> School on Woodburn Rd, circa 1981, before it
> closed and the building became a police station.

I went to Pine Ridge. I actually went back into that building one more time, many years later, in either 1998 or 1999, because my polling place was located there. It was actually in my old second-grade classroom (teacher was Mrs. Burd, formerly Miss Graham....I think, based on remembering how the room numbers went around in a circle, it must have been Room 3). It was weird to go back there almost 20 years later, and the room felt tiny when I was there to vote. How time changes your perspective. I remember as a little kid it seemed like a big place even though I knew it wasn't.

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> > chish & fips Wrote:
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> > > That building there on the left must be
> Arthur
> > Treachers.
> >
> > Actually, it was Frank Gibson's. The west side
> of
> > the Citgo station now sits where the house once
> > did, so the now no longer Arthur Treacher's
> would
> > have been a bit to the camera side of the house
> in
> > that picture.
>
> Way to throw water all over possibly the funniest
> post I have read on this forum in 10 years!
>
> Chish--good thing I did not have coffee in my
> mouth when I read your post.

I didn't even notice Hush Puppy coming up the road the 1st time I looked at the photo.

The stone house on Greenway Blvd was actually burned on New Year's Eve I believe sometime 1970....I lived on George Mason Rd at the time and remember the huge fire at that time. As I remember, a bunch of "hippies" as my Dad called them were burning candles and that started the fire. There were always stories that George Washington kept his stables there. I have looked for some old photos of that house because as kids we were so drawn to that spectacular place. I don't know about the George Washington stories, but it must have been a historic home because all the other homes were built up around that place.

Wow - you may have been in my class! I remember Mrs. Burd/Miss Graham - my second-grade teacher. I also went back there to vote, and it did look so small through the eyes of an adult. I read your entry about the one-lane bridge on Woodburn Rd - we loved going over that on the schoolbus! We'd deliberately sit in the very back to get the biggest bounce - such fun. Good childhood memories from Pine Ridge school days.

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> Wow - you may have been in my class! I remember
> Mrs. Burd/Miss Graham - my second-grade teacher. I
> also went back there to vote, and it did look so
> small through the eyes of an adult. I read your
> entry about the one-lane bridge on Woodburn Rd -
> we loved going over that on the schoolbus! We'd
> deliberately sit in the very back to get the
> biggest bounce - such fun. Good childhood memories
> from Pine Ridge school days.

P.S. Above I was replying to 1995hoo's February 09, 2015 04:57PM post.

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> Wow - you may have been in my class! I remember
> Mrs. Burd/Miss Graham - my second-grade teacher. I
> also went back there to vote, and it did look so
> small through the eyes of an adult. I read your
> entry about the one-lane bridge on Woodburn Rd -
> we loved going over that on the schoolbus! We'd
> deliberately sit in the very back to get the
> biggest bounce - such fun. Good childhood memories
> from Pine Ridge school days.

I definitely remember the one-lane bridge as well. We lived in Strathmeade Square and the school bus went over the bridge twice a day except when the road was subject to one of its very frequent floods, in which case it went around through Camelot. I may have mentioned it before, but I also remember the day the bus rear-ended a VW Beetle waiting to cross the bridge on the way home (at the foot of Spicewood Drive). Everyone was talking about the bus driver hitting it in the trunk and I pointed out the engine was in the back on a Beetle. How I knew that at age 6 or 7, I have no idea.

You must be either the same age as me or a year younger because I remember the teacher in question was called Miss Graham when I was in the first grade and then she was Mrs. Burd the next year. When I was in the first grade they had me spend the mornings in the second-grade classroom and the afternoons in the first grade (same thing again in second grade, I went next door to third grade for things like reading and spelling and such). That's one reason I remember her name changing. I suspect the kids who had already moved on to fourth through sixth grades by then would not remember that.

I was always sorry Pine Ridge closed. I understood why, of the three schools in question at that time (Pine Ridge, Camelot, and Mantua), Pine Ridge was selected, given its lack of a gymnasium and (I didn't get this then, but I do now) given the wealthier residents of Mantua and Camelot who had more political clout compared to Strathmeade and Prosperity Avenue. But Pine Ridge always felt like a lot more of a "community school" than the others did. The staff and the teachers were nicer. After Pine Ridge closed I was sent to Mantua for fourth through sixth grades and I hated my three years there. Things were never the same.

Following up on my previous reply to Becky: Given your first name, I am curious whether you lived at 8366 Glastonbury Court (I had to look at the real estate map to get addresses straight in my head....I can picture who lived in which house but I can't easily recall addresses except our own).

Gordon Blvd Wrote:
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Arlandria? Good see you're still around Ms. Gordo.

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> Following up on my previous reply to Becky: Given
> your first name, I am curious whether you lived at
> 8366 Glastonbury Court (I had to look at the real
> estate map to get addresses straight in my
> head....I can picture who lived in which house but
> I can't easily recall addresses except our own).


I grew up on Prosperity Avenue - I still miss the big yard we had along that road. Lovely mature trees, dogwoods in every yard, the azaleas... but now so much traffic. I also loved the community feel at Pine Ridge school - it felt more like a home than other schools. Neighboring St. Ambrose church also had a community feel back in the day - not sure what it is like now.

Becky Wrote:
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> 1995hoo Wrote:
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> > Following up on my previous reply to Becky:
> Given
> > your first name, I am curious whether you lived
> at
> > 8366 Glastonbury Court (I had to look at the
> real
> > estate map to get addresses straight in my
> > head....I can picture who lived in which house
> but
> > I can't easily recall addresses except our
> own).
>
>
> I grew up on Prosperity Avenue - I still miss the
> big yard we had along that road. Lovely mature
> trees, dogwoods in every yard, the azaleas... but
> now so much traffic. I also loved the community
> feel at Pine Ridge school - it felt more like a
> home than other schools. Neighboring St. Ambrose
> church also had a community feel back in the day -
> not sure what it is like now.

Ah, you aren't who I thought you might be, then. Your comment about the school bus going over the one-lane bridge made me wonder if you were the Rebecca who lived down the block from us. Guess not......though hmmm, Prosperity Avenue, Pine Ridge, Mrs. Burd, and St. Ambrose.....if you lived right by the corner of Prosperity and Leroy Place and have a twin sister, then I remember you.

Last time I went to St. Ambrose it felt like mostly old people in the congregation, but then it was also the Sunday 7:45 AM Mass (I went to that in order to make it to my golf round on time). I remember in the 1970s when Mass was celebrated in their school auditorium before they built the church, but I don't have any pictures to upload. I always wondered why they built the school before the church when they didn't open a school for so many years! I recall the pastor in the 1980s was Msgr. William Reinecke. He shot and killed himself in 1992 after someone accused him of molestation. I never had any such issue with him nor any reason to suspect him, but his shooting himself was pretty damning.

Old pictures! These have been extracted from a transcript of Congressional hearings about highway signs conducted in the late 1960s. I guess they used the Beltway as an example because it was local and the congressmen would be familiar with it. All pictures date back to sometime between 1964 and 1968 since the Beltway opened in 1964.

I'm not bothering with current pictures to do a "Then and Now" type thing because I assume everyone knows how the Beltway looks today.

The Inner Loop at the Springfield Interchange. The ramp on the right pretty much remains in this same configuration today.




The Outer Loop at the Springfield Interchange.




Also the Outer Loop at the Springfield Interchange at the old left-side exit to what is now I-395. The congressmen found it confusing how the signs seemed to imply you had to get in the left lane for Alexandria and the right lane for Baltimore, especially when Alexandria was much closer.




The Outer Loop at the Dulles Airport exit. Notice the utter lack of development on the hill in the background where the Westpark corporate park is today!




The Inner Loop at I-66. Recall I-66 ended at the Beltway until December 1982.




Just north of the previous picture. That overpass, since rebuilt, is now used by the W&OD Trail. In the 1960s, the railroad still ran.




The old eastern end of I-66 at the Beltway. Just a hunch, but I think you were supposed to keep left.

Nice relics Hoo!

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The house on the other side of Arthur Treachers was built and owned by Gerome Gibson the son of Frank Gibson. Gerome was a long time gunsmith and former armorer at Fort Myers as was his father. Geromes house was a Sears kit house that had the basement excavated by horse drawn scoop. Gerry died about 2000 and the house lasted a few more years.

The Chilla Villa Motel was located on Route 50 across the highway from Waples Mill Road. It was adjacent to the entrance to Random Hills. (It was about 1/2 mile west of Jermantown Road.)

Weather was 936-1212, and time was 844-2525, as I recall.

supposed to be falls church or mclean. anybody remember?? caus I dont.
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wherethehellis this? Wrote:
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> supposed to be falls church or mclean. anybody
> remember?? caus I dont.


Thats Laurel Maryland. Fail.

Does anyone remember an outdoor Go-Kart track (it was popular in the 80's) in Alexandria, just inside the beltway near Telegraph Rd area? I can't remember what the name of it was, but would like to know if anyone remembers or happens to have photos?

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> Does anyone remember an outdoor Go-Kart track (it
> was popular in the 80's) in Alexandria, just
> inside the beltway near Telegraph Rd area? I
> can't remember what the name of it was, but would
> like to know if anyone remembers or happens to
> have photos?


Alexandria GO-Kart Raceway. That was there long after the 80s. See some references to it but don't see any pics online now.

Yes I went there several times in the 80's,It was a blast but libility lawyers probably killed it off. There is a Go Kart track in King Georges Co Va. on Rt 301 but its a mystery to me as I have never seen any karts ran there.


Many many years before in that creek near there were Arks, with Go Go girls aboard or rather Boom Boom girls before Boom Boom was heard of.

wherethehellis this? Wrote:
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> supposed to be falls church or mclean. anybody
> remember?? caus I dont.


I thint that was in the 7 corners area.

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> wherethehellis this? Wrote:
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> > supposed to be falls church or mclean. anybody
> > remember?? caus I dont.
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>
> Thats Laurel Maryland. Fail.

Proof?

There is no proof. I'm not sure which Tastee Freez this is (there were several in Northern Virginia), but it's definitely not the one in Laurel. The Laurel Tastee Freez looked very different, mainly because it was a converted McDonalds building. The conversion of that building from Tastee Freez to McDonalds took place well after 1960, when the pictures posted above were taken. See http://lostlaurel.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/the-big-t/ for details.