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ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: j ()
Date: July 26, 2008 03:49AM

i was just watching a pretty ridiculous movie, RAD. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091817/

shall we reflect?

-punk rock shows at the mantua, merrifield, and lake braddock community centers.
-skating cedar crest, parking garages in tysons corner, and backyard ramps.
-acid from reston.
-the death of andy wells.
-amphora restaurant in vienna.
-rocky horror at fair oaks.
-tastee 29 diner.

feel free to add.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: jilly ()
Date: July 26, 2008 11:23PM

- Forenza sweaters, pointy Mia flats, bi-level haircuts, rat tails and mullets for guys and girls

- Zippers, Pants Corral, Suzie's Casuals, Brooks, Jean Nicole, misc.

- Peoples Drug, Drug Fair, Garfinkel's, Woodward & Lothrop, Korvettes, Kinney's, Thom McAn, Cedar Post, Raleigh's, Morton's; "At all 6 Morton's...now through Saturday!"

- Dash's (Dash's, Dash's Dash's!)

- We're got Crablegs...Sea Galley

- Chesapeake Bay Seafood House...Get all the Seafood...You Can Eat!

- Central Fidelity, Northern Virginia Bank, First Bank of Virginia

- Mix tapes, Beach Boys on the Mall, California Coolers

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Eastsider ()
Date: July 26, 2008 11:49PM

Oh man...what happened to Chesapeake Bay Seafood House? As a 10-year-old, I remember eating 9 servings of the all-you-can-eat baby gulf shrimp after a soccer game.

Good times.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: j ()
Date: July 26, 2008 11:50PM

whatever you want, its belmont.

kung fu theater on saturday mornings.

mr rays hair weave.

im joe jacoby from the world champion washington redskins. and yes, you too can have this...

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Radiophile ()
Date: July 27, 2008 12:09AM

The Capitol Center and the old 930 club, Old WHFS @ 102.3 FM. The original first HFS-tival the first two were at Lake Fairfax. Driving to Rockets in Richmond for the good times. AU was a real party school and everyone was welcome.

Seeing John Waters movies when nobody cared who he was. Merriweather was the only place to see a show during the summer.

Oliver North running for Congress (OK, that was 1994) and being scared cause he might have won.

Fawn Hall - were we that stupid?

The Air Florida crash. I remember how cold the day was and the wet, freezing snow. Those poor souls in the river.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Frank Z ()
Date: July 27, 2008 12:15AM

1. Baseball
2. Hot Dogs
3. Apple pie
4 Chevrolet

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: j ()
Date: July 27, 2008 12:33AM

its like you had nothing to add and then you asked yourself, "how could i have even less than nothing to add?", and this is all you came up with.

Frank Z Wrote:
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> 1. Baseball
> 2. Hot Dogs
> 3. Apple pie
> 4 Chevrolet

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: KeepOnTruckin ()
Date: July 27, 2008 12:45AM

ITs not Chevy, its Ford.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: tomahawk ()
Date: July 27, 2008 12:50AM

>The Air Florida crash. I remember how cold the day was and the wet, freezing >snow. Those poor souls in the river.

And the truly awful TV movie that followed:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087272/

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: ba ()
Date: July 27, 2008 12:52AM

j Wrote:
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> its like you had nothing to add and then you asked
> yourself, "how could i have even less than nothing
> to add?", and this is all you came up with.
>


Ummm, I think it's a veiled reference to the fact that teenagers in Fairfax were mostly all-American kids in the 80's, which is true, and in stark contrast to today.

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Posted by: inkahootz ()
Date: July 27, 2008 12:58AM

a



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/01/2010 02:35PM by inkahootz.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: KayKay ()
Date: July 27, 2008 09:15AM

Skating at Franconia rink
Hayfield Pits
Malt Duck
Sledding at Fort Belvoir golf course
Time Out arcade

Parachute pants? or were they in the 90's?

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: KayKay ()
Date: July 27, 2008 09:16AM

Oh..what about Manhattan's at 123 and 50.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Mrs. K ()
Date: July 27, 2008 01:52PM

Vienna/Tyson's area:

Mall hair - the higher the better.

That restaurant near the Tyson's movie theaters that never carded us for beer.

Four-wheeling at the Tyson's pits (now the Tyson's II area), then later getting wasted at the bonfires there. (Remember the time the FFX police used their new helicopter to try to bust us?)

Drag racing on Rte. 7.

Making out to Journey and REO Speedwagon on the radio, and at the same time calling them gay.

High's Dairy that sold cheap smokes.

"Cruising" Rte. 123 - hanging out at the Madison McDonald's, the mid-town 7/11, and getting chased out of both by the Vienna cops.

Vienna police measuring the rear-end height and the tires of my boyfriend's car.

Safeway and Dart Drug at the Cedar Park Shopping Center.

Cedar Lane Elementary, before it was Cedar Lane School.

Penguin Feather and Spencer's gifts for bongs and rolling papers.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: j ()
Date: July 27, 2008 01:58PM

no andy was in the back of a pickup truck that hit a tree. he was a friend but i had already left the area and never got the whole story (who was driving, were they drunk, ect). andy was a great guy with a lot of friends. he had a band called LDK. we would go watch avail play in someones moms garage after school.

http://www.myspace.com/learningdisabledkids



i didnt know about the tysons mall garage guy but i did hear about a kid who was tripping balls and wandered onto rt 66 around cedar lane and got himself killed.

inkahootz Wrote:

>
> > -the death of andy wells.
>
> Are you talking about the kid who jumped off the
> Tyson's mall garage tripping on acid?
>



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/27/2008 02:03PM by j.
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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: inkahootz ()
Date: July 27, 2008 02:48PM

I remember the L.D. KIDS back in the day! Now that you explained how it happened; I do recall the incident.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Jackie-O! ()
Date: July 27, 2008 03:18PM

How about partying at Timber Lake?

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: TRICKIE ()
Date: July 27, 2008 03:34PM

jilly Wrote:
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> - Forenza sweaters, pointy Mia flats, bi-level
> haircuts, rat tails and mullets for guys and
> girls
>
> - Zippers, Pants Corral, Suzie's Casuals, Brooks,
> Jean Nicole, misc.
>
> - Peoples Drug, Drug Fair, Garfinkel's, Woodward
> & Lothrop, Korvettes, Kinney's, Thom McAn, Cedar
> Post, Raleigh's, Morton's; "At all 6
> Morton's...now through Saturday!"
>
> - Dash's (Dash's, Dash's Dash's!)
>
> - We're got Crablegs...Sea Galley
>
> - Chesapeake Bay Seafood House...Get all the
> Seafood...You Can Eat!
>
> - Central Fidelity, Northern Virginia Bank, First
> Bank of Virginia
>
> - Mix tapes, Beach Boys on the Mall, California
> Coolers

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: you know him ()
Date: July 27, 2008 03:46PM

JOON RHEE KARATE!!!! Noboby Bother me!!!
friday night videos
break dancing
shakeys pizza
farrells ice cream
anyone rember super tv????

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: inkahootz ()
Date: July 27, 2008 04:51PM

you know him Wrote:
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> JOON RHEE KARATE!!!! Noboby Bother me!!!
> friday night videos
> break dancing
> shakeys pizza
> farrells ice cream
> anyone rember super tv????


LOL!!!

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Chica ()
Date: July 27, 2008 05:16PM

Does anyone remember a Reston band called Doubt? They hung around with LD Kids. Who was in it?

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: RESton Peace ()
Date: July 28, 2008 01:43AM

I remember Doubt, but that's about all. there's a myspace page that sorta refers to them in a broader context of talking about the reston hardcore scene, which actually was quite dense for a while. Back when I was still willing to entertain the sXe lifestyle I would hang with a lot of folks in the "scene". I am one of those guys who picks the scene of the month and just dives right in.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=111782482

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: pgens ()
Date: July 28, 2008 08:21AM

Starlit (speaking of BMX), Record Convergence, Record and Tape Exchange (or RAPE for short). My other ideas such as Time out and Denny's were taken.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: 80's South Laker ()
Date: July 28, 2008 09:22AM

Wow that picture of Lake Audubon brings back memories. All the kids at South Lakes use to swim out to that drain and then lay out sun bathing with the cheerleaders in bikinis. They finally put those stupid jagged rocks on top of drain so it was uncomfortable to lay out there.

Late at night we use go skinny dipping in the lakes and Reston pools. Loved the hot tub at the one pool. The police would always show up and boot us. Oh the good old days at South Lakes.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: 496 ()
Date: July 28, 2008 09:37AM

Not talking like this:

"I was up in that bitch in the mid nineties when I lived in Fairfax City and went to Mason"

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Reston old school ()
Date: July 28, 2008 02:13PM

I remember...
Jam for Man mosh pits at the Reston Community Center
The narcs who hung out on the path from South Lakes to Highs
Police chasing us through the tunnels near Lake Thoreau when skipping school
Bob's Big Boy breakfast bar
Playing pickup games on the Twin Branches court with Grant Hill and Darrell Green
Getting Art Monk's autograph when I ran into him at the Erol's Video in the South Lakes shopping center
North East Groovers playing Go-Go in the South Lakes gym
Get caught riding through Midgetville
Rob who got killed in 8th/9th grade while trying to break into someone's house. His dad was a cop...
Bucket and Chuckey RIP...
South Gate pool/hood rats and "The Hill" lookout
Fritzbee's at the Hunters Woods Shopping Center
Reston vs Herdon Pop-warner games and Turkey Bowl
When Arlington was a dumpy place you only went to when your car needed work
The Reston "bunnyman"
Fort Pumpkin off Rt 7 near Lake Fairfax

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: K ()
Date: July 28, 2008 02:23PM

How about Chi-Chis....I loved that place!

Fish Market in Old Town.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Destro ()
Date: July 28, 2008 02:31PM

The Bones-Brigade at the Fair Oaks Mall

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: pgens ()
Date: July 28, 2008 02:48PM

The Fair City Mall movie theater, which is still there and smells the same.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: National ID ()
Date: July 28, 2008 02:58PM

Getting a "National ID" that said I was 21 so I could buy MGD at 7-11. They were sold at the Royal Video store near Wisconsin and O in Georgetown. You had to walk through the Porn section in back to get your picture and thumb print taken. All you had to do was sign a form that said your birthday was whatever and they would make you the ID. Suprisingly it actually worked!

Does anyone know if it is still there?

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: j ()
Date: July 28, 2008 03:07PM

oh shit. ha. few years ago i met the girl whose family owned it and she was fighting them to keep from selling it off. haven't been by there in a long time but in the 80's, it was pretty exciting to go through there with people on mind-altering substances.

Reston old school Wrote:
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> Get caught riding through Midgetville

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Reston old school ()
Date: July 28, 2008 03:26PM

j Wrote:
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> oh shit. ha. few years ago i met the girl whose
> family owned it and she was fighting them to keep
> from selling it off. haven't been by there in a
> long time but in the 80's, it was pretty exciting
> to go through there with people on mind-altering
> substances.
>
> Reston old school Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Get caught riding through Midgetville

Maybe it was her brother who held us at gunpoint??? Yeah you're right- its gone now. I think they are developing some condos there.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: South Lakes 83 ()
Date: July 28, 2008 03:38PM

SLHS Class of '83
Attachments:
slhs83.bmp

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Lurker. ()
Date: July 29, 2008 12:29PM

Ah yes, the 80's when you could drink beer at high school parties legally. Hard to imagine people drinking beer at 18 in bars now.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Berdhuis ()
Date: July 29, 2008 12:53PM

Sledding on Hannah's Hill
Bowling in Reston
Roller Skating in Reston
Ice cream at Friendly's in Oakton
Ocean Pacific shorts and t-shirts every-frickin'-where

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: beach week ()
Date: July 29, 2008 06:04PM

Beach week in Ocean City
corduroy OP shorts
the 'preppy' look-fair isle sweaters, madras plaid pants, pink and green, layered lacoste shirts, docksiders, papagallo purses (wooden handle with interchangeable purse to match any outfit

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: hop ()
Date: July 29, 2008 06:06PM

toga toga toga

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Joven Malazo ()
Date: July 29, 2008 07:31PM

Kemp Mill Records, Penguin Feathers, The orange bowl, Varsity Shop.
Time Out, Ballston Shopping Center, Loehmann's Plazza, Fudrucker's.

Chapion's Sports Bar of Georgetown. (no Duran Duran) please

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Mouse Trap ()
Date: July 29, 2008 07:40PM

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!
Another fine Turner production.
Woolworth: the origina WalMart

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Frank Z ()
Date: July 29, 2008 08:30PM

Bryan Adams- "Summer Of '69"

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: pgens ()
Date: July 29, 2008 08:39PM

"Kemp Mill Records Breaks its Own Record! It's Amazing, it's Incredible! It's Nine Ninety-Nine All the Time, and Only at KEMP MILL RECORDS!"

Erol's video, then Erol's Internet

"Whatever you want think Belmont..."

Captain Twenty

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Radiophile ()
Date: July 29, 2008 09:18PM

pgens Wrote:
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> "Kemp Mill Records Breaks its Own Record! It's
> Amazing, it's Incredible! It's Nine Ninety-Nine
> All the Time, and Only at KEMP MILL RECORDS!"
>

And the line at the end of the commercial that ran the third week of June: "Kemp Mill Records Welcomes a All the Music Business Heavy-Weights In Town for the Bobby Poe Convention!"

Those were the days.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: 80's teen ()
Date: July 29, 2008 09:54PM

getting in winstons in george town with fake ID's
Drinking at chinese restraunts
add a bead necklaces
billy idols white weeding.
cow tipping by fair oaks mall
drivning the family station wagon

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: ZingerRoo ()
Date: July 29, 2008 10:20PM

Realizing 20 years down the line that you've led a worthless and pathetic life and can only find solace in the few pleasant memories of a pointless childhood

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: another 80's teen ()
Date: July 29, 2008 10:20PM

Wally and Beaver-they worked the door at Winston's
I used my sister's ID





80's teen Wrote:
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> getting in winstons in george town with fake ID's
> Drinking at chinese restraunts
> add a bead necklaces
> billy idols white weeding.
> cow tipping by fair oaks mall
> drivning the family station wagon

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: those days ()
Date: July 30, 2008 07:40AM

Duck Pin Bowling
Ponderosa Steak House
X Movies in the Theaters
...........

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: FUNdamental ()
Date: July 30, 2008 09:35AM

Radiophile Wrote:
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> pgens Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > "Kemp Mill Records Breaks its Own Record! It's
> > Amazing, it's Incredible! It's Nine
> Ninety-Nine
> > All the Time, and Only at KEMP MILL RECORDS!"
> >
>
> And the line at the end of the commercial that ran
> the third week of June: "Kemp Mill Records
> Welcomes a All the Music Business Heavy-Weights In
> Town for the Bobby Poe Convention!"
>
> Those were the days.



Bobby Poe! Wow! It's all a blurr!

In the 80’s, Crowded House concert poolside at the Sheraton Premiere in Tyson's Corner. Jane Wiedlin of the Go Go’ s at the Saturday lunch BBQ! Partying with Mr. James Brown and David Cassidy in the same suite. Bruce Hornsby as the hotel lounge piano player for hours. Don and Mike turning on porn on the Westwood One suite’s TV. Who was it that wrecked the WAVA jeep in the parking lot?

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: pgens ()
Date: July 30, 2008 10:16AM

Q-107

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: lee hs 79 ()
Date: July 30, 2008 10:20AM

my girl friends mom

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Radiophile ()
Date: July 30, 2008 10:23AM

And let us not forget seeing the worst movie ever made with the best soundtrack ever!


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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Joven Malazo ()
Date: July 30, 2008 01:16PM

Mr. T.
Max Hedroom, Mad Max, Rinky Dinky rides at Montomery Ward parking lot.

The Cars, Loverboy were #1's on WRQX.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Joven MALAZO ()
Date: July 30, 2008 01:33PM

Crazy Horse, The Bootlegger, Captain Salamander, Bistro Francais(still there).
Michael Jackson burnt his hair during the filming of a Pepsi commercial.
"Beat It"

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Wash. Lee H.S ()
Date: July 30, 2008 02:02PM

Joven MALAZO Wrote:
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> Crazy Horse, The Bootlegger, Captain Salamander,
> Bistro Francais(still there).
> Michael Jackson burnt his hair during the filming
> of a Pepsi commercial.
> "Beat It"

Alfonso Ribeiro in Silver Spoon.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: FUNdamental ()
Date: July 30, 2008 02:02PM

Who could forget St. Elmo’s Fire filming in Georgetown, Alexandria, and College Park? Anyone remember all those extras they used in the Georgetown bar couldn’t get the directions right and kept looking at Rob Lowe directly while filming? The producers deserved all the grief for bringing in a bunch of high school kids to be in a bar scene.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Dr. Feel Goode ()
Date: July 30, 2008 03:38PM

Foxchase Theater(Duke St) Anyone? They showed a different kind of The LOVE
Boat.

CHEERS!

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Petie Green ()
Date: July 30, 2008 05:29PM

Little Caesar's Pizza Pizza!
Maury Povich's Panorama. WAVA's Cerf? Howard Stern was big in this market
back then.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Radiophile ()
Date: July 30, 2008 05:49PM

Petie Green Wrote:
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> Little Caesar's Pizza Pizza!
> Maury Povich's Panorama. WAVA's Cerf? Howard
> Stern was big in this market
> back then.


Cerph...

I THINK Panorama was gone by the 80s. I think Maurey hosted a news program on channel 5 in 1983, but Panorama had been long gone bu that time.

Remember Wonderama?

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: WingNut ()
Date: July 30, 2008 06:25PM

> Radiophile wrote:
> Remember Wonderama?

Exercise,exercise--c'mon everybody do your EXERCISE!

Wackadoo,wackadoo...

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: pgens ()
Date: July 30, 2008 08:04PM

Hanna Barbara/Space Ghost/Far Out Space Nuts/Electra Woman and Dyna Girl

Land of the Lost
Star Blazers
Johnny Quest

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Gay Thread ()
Date: July 30, 2008 08:08PM

Timeout was the SHIT in Springfield mall. Both of em.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Douchebag Itis ()
Date: July 30, 2008 08:11PM

Fucking lying attention whore.

http://www.movie-locations.com/filmarchive/s/stelmo.html





FUNdamental Wrote:
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> Who could forget St. Elmo’s Fire filming in
> Georgetown, Alexandria, and College Park? Anyone
> remember all those extras they used in the
> Georgetown bar couldn’t get the directions right
> and kept looking at Rob Lowe directly while
> filming? The producers deserved all the grief for
> bringing in a bunch of high school kids to be in a
> bar scene.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: FUNdamental ()
Date: July 30, 2008 08:18PM

Wonderama was a weekend kids show produced by Metromedia, which as a television station group, sold to what became Fox in the mid 80's. It was recorded at the WNEW studios in Manhattan. Ventriloquist and Baltimore native Bob McAllister hosted it from 1967 to 1979. It had kids games, entertainment, and celebrity interviews. Sadly, in 1979, Bob bought an add in the New York Times asking people not to watch the show because WNEW had an inserted a movie commercial he objected to. The show was soon cancelled in first runs. About two years later, WNEW TV moved locations, and all the tapes of Wonderama in the library were dumped into the East River, so, there is not much left for TV historians to go over.

Wonderama gave interviews with stars of the day kids would know, and actually had a rare TV performance of ABBA, who, at the time, did not do much TV. The then unknown on these shores cast of Monty Python also appeared and were interviewed. The Jackson 5 appeared as well as young John Travolta, Tatum Oneil, and Jodie Foster with her brother Buddy.

Bob McAllister ended up performing at bowling alleys and birthday parties after the cancellation.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Your mom sucks cocks in hell. ()
Date: July 30, 2008 08:28PM

You're a fucking douchebag. I hope somebody kicks your kid in the face and steals his lunchbox and thermos.


FUNdamental Wrote:
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> Wonderama was a weekend kids show produced by
> Metromedia, which as a television station group,
> sold to what became Fox in the mid 80's. It was
> recorded at the WNEW studios in Manhattan.
> Ventriloquist and Baltimore native Bob McAllister
> hosted it from 1967 to 1979. It had kids games,
> entertainment, and celebrity interviews. Sadly,
> in 1979, Bob bought an add in the New York Times
> asking people not to watch the show because WNEW
> had an inserted a movie commercial he objected to.
> The show was soon cancelled in first runs. About
> two years later, WNEW TV moved locations, and all
> the tapes of Wonderama in the library were dumped
> into the East River, so, there is not much left
> for TV historians to go over.
>
> Wonderama gave interviews with stars of the day
> kids would know, and actually had a rare TV
> performance of ABBA, who, at the time, did not do
> much TV. The then unknown on these shores cast of
> Monty Python also appeared and were interviewed.
> The Jackson 5 appeared as well as young John
> Travolta, Tatum Oneil, and Jodie Foster with her
> brother Buddy.
>
> Bob McAllister ended up performing at bowling
> alleys and birthday parties after the
> cancellation.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: FUNdamental ()
Date: July 30, 2008 08:32PM

They most certainly did film in a drug store in Alexandria. Didn't make the final cut, but they did film a scene there. Also, the short lived "lime Street" with Robert Wagner was filmed in DC and Virgina in the 80's.


Sadly, after Wonderama was cancelled in 1979, All the tapes of the show were dumped into the East River, and Bob McAllister ended up performing at bowling alleys and birthday parties.


Douchebag Itis Wrote:
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> Fucking lying attention whore.
>
> http://www.movie-locations.com/filmarchive/s/stelm
> o.html
>
>
>
>
>
> FUNdamental Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Who could forget St. Elmo’s Fire filming in
> > Georgetown, Alexandria, and College Park?
> Anyone
> > remember all those extras they used in the
> > Georgetown bar couldn’t get the directions
> right
> > and kept looking at Rob Lowe directly while
> > filming? The producers deserved all the grief
> for
> > bringing in a bunch of high school kids to be in
> a
> > bar scene.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Douchebag ()
Date: July 30, 2008 08:35PM

Your mom did a film scene there you lying fucking faggot.


FUNdamental Wrote:
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> They most certainly did film in a drug store in
> Alexandria. Didn't make the final cut, but they
> did film a scene there. Also, the short lived
> "lime Street" with Robert Wagner was filmed in DC
> and Virgina in the 80's.
>
>
> Sadly, after Wonderama was cancelled in 1979, All
> the tapes of the show were dumped into the East
> River, and Bob McAllister ended up performing at
> bowling alleys and birthday parties.
>
>
> Douchebag Itis Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Fucking lying attention whore.
> >
> >
> http://www.movie-locations.com/filmarchive/s/stelm
>
> > o.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > FUNdamental Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Who could forget St. Elmo’s Fire filming in
> > > Georgetown, Alexandria, and College Park?
> > Anyone
> > > remember all those extras they used in the
> > > Georgetown bar couldn’t get the directions
> > right
> > > and kept looking at Rob Lowe directly while
> > > filming? The producers deserved all the
> grief
> > for
> > > bringing in a bunch of high school kids to be
> in
> > a
> > > bar scene.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Spread em ()
Date: July 30, 2008 08:37PM

Riverdancing faggot.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Radiophile ()
Date: July 30, 2008 08:42PM

Douchebag Wrote:
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> Your mom did a film scene there you lying fucking
> faggot.
>
>
It is true. Scott Woodside of "Elliot and Woodside in the Morning" was an extra in several scenes of St Elmos Fire. One story he told on the air is him placing a Q107 bumper sticker near the phone booth in the bar when no one was looking. The bumper sticker is clearly visible in the movie.

I do remember him talking about a drug store scene in Alexandria or Arlington. But if FUN thinks it was Alexandria, it probably was.

I am so glad this thread has evolved from sharing some fond memories to calling eachother a doucebag and wishing ill on children and mothers.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/30/2008 09:03PM by Radiophile.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: California Backlot Bar Scenes. ()
Date: July 30, 2008 08:49PM

People who listren to Elliot in the Morning are faggots too.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Radiophile ()
Date: July 30, 2008 08:58PM

California Backlot Bar Scenes. Wrote:
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> People who listren to Elliot in the Morning are
> faggots too.


So let me understand this. You think everyone in the world, but you, is a faggot?

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Berdhuis ()
Date: July 30, 2008 08:59PM

Greaseman in the morning
Doctor Demento
Benny Hill on Channel 20, 11:00pm

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Flamer ()
Date: July 30, 2008 09:02PM

No..that was directed at you.


Radiophile Wrote:
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> California Backlot Bar Scenes. Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > People who listren to Elliot in the Morning are
> > faggots too.
>
>
> So let me understand this. You think everyone in
> the world, but you, is a faggot?

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: FUNdamental ()
Date: July 30, 2008 09:06PM

I remember the call sheet for the Alexandria shoot. It involved taking a taxi and buying condoms. The only thing I can figure is they removed the scene to secure not getting R rated. Boy, have times changed.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: You are the one who licks the balls. ()
Date: July 30, 2008 09:09PM

It was rated R douchebag.

FUNdamental Wrote:
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> I remember the call sheet for the Alexandria
> shoot. It involved taking a taxi and buying
> condoms. The only thing I can figure is they
> removed the scene to secure not getting R rated.
> Boy, have times changed.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: FUNdamental ()
Date: July 30, 2008 09:13PM

Then I don't know why it was cut.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Ummmmmmmm ()
Date: July 30, 2008 09:16PM

Because you like to tell inaccurate stories?



FUNdamental Wrote:
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> Then I don't know why it was cut.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Berdhuis ()
Date: July 30, 2008 09:17PM

Tony Flagg

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: WingNut ()
Date: July 30, 2008 09:18PM

FUNdamental Wrote:
> and all
> the tapes of Wonderama in the library were dumped
> into the East River, so, there is not much left
> for TV historians to go over.


Dumped in the East River?? Wow is that dramatic! I don't think the show had serious historical value, but it's pretty awful to destroy all records of anything.

I'd forgotten about Metromedia, I guess they were like the 4th network back then, but I don't remember if they had national reach...

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: WingNut ()
Date: July 30, 2008 09:21PM

Sex Pistols at the Alexandria Roller Rink anyone? (78-79?) I didn't go but it sounded epic!


Louies Rock City in Baileys XRoads? Judas Priest played there early on as well as local faves Face Dancer! (She had Red Shoes- I couldn't believe!)

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: TheMeeper ()
Date: July 30, 2008 09:27PM

WingNut Wrote:
>>> Sex Pistols at the Alexandria Roller Rink anyone? (78-79?) I didn't go but it sounded epic!


I woulda been too young and didn't live near here back then, but that sounds fucking badass.

The Sex Pistols really played Alexandria???

Is this true?

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Metal Gods ()
Date: July 30, 2008 09:29PM

HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT. Cap Center son. The Priest ROCKS.

Even if Rob Halford's a faggot.


WingNut Wrote:
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> Sex Pistols at the Alexandria Roller Rink anyone?
> (78-79?) I didn't go but it sounded epic!
>
>
> Louies Rock City in Baileys XRoads? Judas Priest
> played there early on as well as local faves Face
> Dancer! (She had Red Shoes- I couldn't believe!)

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: LOL ()
Date: July 30, 2008 09:33PM



That shit is fucking funny dude...circa 1986.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: WingNut ()
Date: July 30, 2008 09:34PM

Metal Gods Wrote:
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> HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT. Cap Center son. The
> Priest ROCKS.
>
> Even if Rob Halford's a faggot.
>
I was there!but didn't make it into the video :(
Priest was better when I saw 'em (w/ Paul D'Annio's last tour w/ Iron Maiden opening!) in July of 81. It rained like hell that night and there was a long delay semi power outage- all the lights went out during the intro to "Diamond and Rust". The sound men played AC/DC 's Back in Black album 2x before the power was restored- Priest started D&R all over again and slayed!

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: WingNut ()
Date: July 30, 2008 09:36PM

Great video clip!

Don't forget Wild West/Copa/Zaxx/Jaxx ( I think I got the order right!)

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Angus ()
Date: July 30, 2008 09:39PM

Thats fucking awesome.:)

I saw AC/DC at the Cap Center before they destroyed it. Ballbreaker tour, but that was the 90's...lol

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Radiophile ()
Date: July 30, 2008 09:55PM

TheMeeper Wrote:
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> WingNut Wrote:
> >>> Sex Pistols at the Alexandria Roller Rink
> anyone? (78-79?) I didn't go but it sounded epic!
>
>
> I woulda been too young and didn't live near here
> back then, but that sounds fucking badass.
>
> The Sex Pistols really played Alexandria???
>
> Is this true?

Yes they did. So did Meat Loaf on the Bat out of Hell Tour.

Oh and rumor has it that the Little Feat album Waiting for Colubus was partially recorded there too. But Cerph would know better than I would. I knew a DJ in the 70s who always swore to that.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: WingNut ()
Date: July 30, 2008 09:58PM

TheMeeper Wrote:

>
> The Sex Pistols really played Alexandria???
>
> Is this true?

There used to be a roller rink north of Old Town, the city wasn't nearly as yuppied up or gentrified as it is now. I've heard different reports the show played/the show was cancelled. All I know is that show or no show it seems a very unlikely place for a historic punk show...

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: WingNut ()
Date: July 30, 2008 10:01PM

Radiophile Wrote:
> Oh and rumor has it that the Little Feat album
> Waiting for Colubus was partially recorded there
> too. .


Cerphe does the introduction on the Waiting for Columbus album, the show was recorded at Lisner in GWU and partially in the U.K

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Radiophile ()
Date: July 30, 2008 10:56PM

WingNut Wrote:
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> Radiophile Wrote:
> > Oh and rumor has it that the Little Feat album
> > Waiting for Colubus was partially recorded
> there
> > too. .
>
>
> Cerphe does the introduction on the Waiting for
> Columbus album, the show was recorded at Lisner in
> GWU and partially in the U.K

Yes, according to the Liner notes. I am just saying what I was told by someone who would know. It may have been a business decission. Would you want "Recorded live on stage at the Alexandria Roller Rink" on your record?

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: j ()
Date: July 31, 2008 02:22AM

every place historic punk rock happened was very unlikely. there wasn't anywhere else to go.

WingNut Wrote:
All I know is
> that show or no show it seems a very unlikely
> place for a historic punk show...

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: LD KID ()
Date: July 31, 2008 08:14AM

I remember walking from the old 9:30 Club to DC SPACE back and forth
The song "Stepping Stone"
The Church in Mt Pleasants
The Smash
I remember Andy at Cedar Lane
Punk girls in there fishnets.
Woooof!

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Mrs. K ()
Date: July 31, 2008 08:17AM

Joven MALAZO Wrote:
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> Crazy Horse, The Bootlegger, Captain Salamander,
> Bistro Francais(still there).
> Michael Jackson burnt his hair during the filming
> of a Pepsi commercial.
> "Beat It"


How about Annie's in Georgetown?

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Joven MALAZO ()
Date: July 31, 2008 10:08AM

Annie's was fun. How about Dixie Loquor?

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Destro ()
Date: July 31, 2008 10:12AM

I can't find anything about the Sex Pistols playing in Alexandria, not even on their official website. I find no mention of it on the internet at all.
I am not doubting that it happened, I used to work with a guy that saw Black Sabbath play at that Roller Rink in Alexandria. I am sure the Pistols did a few unofficial shows here and there while on there U.S. tour.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Joven Malazo ()
Date: July 31, 2008 07:37PM

Poseurs was a great little place on M St. So was The Bank.

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: j ()
Date: July 31, 2008 07:59PM

here's midgetville today (like, today today).

hooray for progress.
Attachments:
July 31 Midgetville 003.jpg

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: PetieGreen ()
Date: July 31, 2008 08:12PM

There used to be a horse farm(Gallows Rd&Lee Hwy).

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: Barfly ()
Date: July 31, 2008 08:42PM

Bill's Resturant, later Dunphy's

George's Pub (McKeevers)

The Pikestaff (Pub)

Mclean Bowling alley (Animal hospital)

Bill's Hardware (?)

Baskin- Robbins (?)

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: OakTree ()
Date: July 31, 2008 08:55PM

P n P, Clyde's, "Geritol Junction", The coconut club

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: F M Bradley ()
Date: July 31, 2008 08:58PM

Barfly Wrote:
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> Bill's Resturant, later Dunphy's
>
> George's Pub (McKeevers)
>
> The Pikestaff (Pub)
>
> Mclean Bowling alley (Animal hospital)
>
> Bill's Hardware (?)
>
> Baskin- Robbins (?)

The INN Zone

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Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: goodtimes ()
Date: August 01, 2008 09:59PM

Crap I miss midgetville , parents who could care less what school we went to as long as we were home for dinner, drinking from my parents bar, and filling the leve with water. no herpes or aids scares just preganancy . the old station wagon wiht wooden siding and 50 crammed in.

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