Bombay Bicycle Club

W. Bell

Zayre's

Woolco

tube socks

Fairfax County P.E. uniforms - red/white/blue tees and navy polyester shorts

ribbon barrettes

rainbows and unicorns

Must See TV

The 4 O'Clock Movie on Channel 7

The Wild Pair?
Memco was the shit back then. You could go on a date at Washinton Nat't
Airport(shops/restaurants).

Jilly Wrote:
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> Bombay Bicycle Club
>
> W. Bell
>
> Zayre's
>
> Woolco
>
> tube socks
>
> Fairfax County P.E. uniforms - red/white/blue tees
> and navy polyester shorts
>
> ribbon barrettes
>
> rainbows and unicorns
>
> Must See TV
>
> The 4 O'Clock Movie on Channel 7

RICK SPRINGFIELD on General Hospital?

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


My brother who everyone called Dio played drums. DJ sang, Chris and Ananda played guitar, and I can't remember the bassists name. At least two or three others were in the band at some time. I know later they had a girl singing.

How about Birdwells!

No!
I was a Road Duck.

F M Bradley Wrote:
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> Barfly Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > 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

Gino's?
Don Beyer Volvo?

"No!
I was a Road Duck."


Oh no, its Jay Nedry

WingNut Wrote:
>
> 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...

I know they did wiping (recording new shows on old tapes) quite a bit until ~1980 or so. Tape was expensive back then.

Most soap operas from before the 1970s are gone forever. Even the first two Super Bowls are lost except for the scoring plays.

But why the dump into the East River?

Mrs. K Wrote:
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> 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.


You hung out at the McD's at Nutley and 123, and midtown 7/11?

STONER!!!

;)

The 3 Chefs Wrote:
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> F M Bradley Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Barfly Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > 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
>
> Gino's?
> Don Beyer Volvo?


Sunday school?

AV Club?

Math Club?

Latin Club?

80's South Laker Wrote:
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> 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.

I remember when the cops didn't haul everyone off to jail for stupid shit.

Yeah, they'd break up parties, and they'd tell you to leave a park if you were hanging around smoking a joint with friends. And even when they caught you with some weed, they'd make you pour it into the grass and step on it, then let you go.

Who remembers drinking in parking garages around Tysons? Especially when they built the Tycon Tower, and you could go up on the top level of the parking garage and sit on the ledge overlooking the beltway, and pound back some beers?

Or cliff diving at the quarry in Occoquan?

Or climbing up on top of the big bubbles they put over the tennis courts at Fairfax Country club during the winter, to smoke a bowl with a few friends.

Bowling
Champion Billiards?
Sleeping outside Hecht's, trying to buy concert tickets.

Anybody remember the 3 Chefs restaurant that used to be located in Annandale? Or how about the Jack in the Box fast food joint also used to be located in Annanadale, I believe near 236 or around the Markham street area? Did Jack in the Box leave in the 80"s or in the very late 70's?

3 chefs was located at the corner of Rt. 50 & Annandale Rd. It was a roach motel!

Speaking of McD's The lower parking lot at the M'cDonalds on rolling rd. and Keene Mill. And talking to rednecks on the CB radio from it and other places. It was, the poor teenagers cell phone

That's an excellent point GOOD Buddy!

Bump

Time to bring this thread back. Any old school FFX people out there?

Tops Drive-In in Fairfax. Old Keene Mill Rd. when it was still a two lane road, long before the 80's. Fairfax High School, the original. Drag racing on 123, again when it was still a two lane rd. If you were under 18 and caught drunk driving, the cops would drive you home and let your parents deal with you! Which was much worse than anything the cops could dish out. Discipline, that still existed in the 80's.

Downtown Springfield Memories:

Howard Johnson's

Ourisman Dodge (Great name, great cars!)

Barbara Ellen Fitness Salons

little league baseball games behind Brandon Avenue Medical Bldg

The Pop Shoppe

Fireworks at the KMart Shopping Center before KMART was there

Hong Kong at Springfield Mall - orange shag carpet!

and...

Newman's Repeal Beverages - DC liquor store in DC for anyone under 18

Jilly Wrote:
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>
> Hong Kong at Springfield Mall - orange shag
> carpet!
>

LOL!! Hong Kong had great ceramic pipes and pretty roach clip earrings! They also had that disgusting candy with the edible rice paper wrapper.

Frozen Daily Bar.

Small 100 sq. ft. shack, sold three flavors of soft serve (choc., vanilla or swirl) and lines that used to stretch across the parking lot. When I was 10, I used to wait over an hour for a friggin' ice cream cone! WTF.

Bump

Giant Music in Falls Church - weird owner named Jack...

Lums in Tyson's Corner

Magic Pan Restaurant at Tyson's

Bogart's in Fairfax

Field parties in Clifton

I dated a cheerleader from Marshall High School with the nicest boobs. I still think about them all these years later. I remember taking off her little outfit sweater and top thingy, and unleashing those puppies! Glorious!

Bob Wrote:
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> Mrs. K Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > 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.
>
>
> You hung out at the McD's at Nutley and 123, and
> midtown 7/11?
>
> STONER!!!
>
> ;)

HAHAHA... yes I was! Ahhh... the good old days. I was telling Mr. K the other day that if they legalize pot, we'll have to re-work our budget to include some quality smoke. :-)

Marshall Cheerleader Wrote:
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> I dated a cheerleader from Marshall High School
> with the nicest boobs. I still think about them
> all these years later. I remember taking off her
> little outfit sweater and top thingy, and
> unleashing those puppies! Glorious!

I think I need to drink some ice water...

suburbanmom Wrote:
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> Giant Music in Falls Church - weird owner named
> Jack...
>


Giant Music, used to sell those old "cut out" (discontinued) albums. They had that glassed in area where you could play the instruments they sold. When "Waynes World" did the "No Stairway to Heaven" gag, I knew right what they meant!

> Lums in Tyson's Corner
>

MMmm, good burgers and great seasoned fires, a similar refcipe to the old Ollies Trolley's that used to be around Arlington (I've got to google them!)

Marshall Cheerleader Wrote:
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> I dated a cheerleader from Marshall High School
> with the nicest boobs. I still think about them
> all these years later. I remember taking off her
> little outfit sweater and top thingy, and
> unleashing those puppies! Glorious!


BOING!

Shakey's Pizza

I remember:
Going to see movies at Springfield I & II.
The Fair that came to Springfield Plaza.
Playing soccer in a filed that was the Toys R Us parking lot (near Blackie's).
Time Out.
Old Keene Mill when it was just two lanes.
Going to Rolling Valley Elementary for half a year because Orange Hunt hadn't opened yet,

Bradlee's
Garbage Pail Kids
Town of Vienna Halloween Parade, Fireworks, etc.
Duckpin Bowling in Arlington? or Falls Church?
Saturday Godzilla/monster movies on Channel 20, then Kung Fu Theater at 4pm on channel 5!!
Giffords ice cream
Captain 20
The Greaseman (and actually thinking he was funny) WADDA DOODLE!!
Cops that would make you pour your beer out and just go home. Now you're in the slammer for whatever charges they can trump up.
Pond Hockey at Lakevale
Media General Cable and checking Ffx County Schools Channel 21 (Red Apple Channel) in hopes that school was closed.
Lazy summer days where your parents said "get out of this house but be home by 6 for dinner".

Sitting behind Best & Co. on Gallows Rd., watching the Lee Highway Drive In Movie shows (without sound), while pounding some beers (Busch or "The Bull", for us FCHS types). We had memorized the lines to Blazing Saddles, so we did not need the sound. Then they would show some of those horny cheerleader movies...

Frozen Dairy Bar was cool.

Driving down to Mario's Pizza House, "in Arlington town" for a very late night steak and cheese sub.

Playing "Midnight Madness" at the Putt-Putt minigolf course down on Rt. 1 (Hybla Valley area), from Midnight to 5 a.m. on Saturday night, for something like $2.00, taking breaks between rounds to go out to the car and drink a beer or two, and then hitting the Jack in the Box in Annandale at about 5:30 a.m., for some "breakfast" tacos. (yes, we were losers, did not have dates on Saturday nights).

What about the Giant Music here in Fairfax at Pickett shopping center? It was an actual music store where I bought my first Stratocaster in 1983. They all knew me there and we would have jam sessions after they closed.

Does anyone remember the tornado that blew through here and left a school bus stuck in the ABC store at Turnpike shopping center? It also demolished the Safeway at Pickett shopping center and a bunch of houses near Woodson High.

Or Lakeside Park before they added the water. My brother used to haul ass around inside it in his Plymouth Duster.

Does anyone remember when Van Dyke Park was "weed central"? You could go there anytime and choose what type of weed you wanted from all the different people selling it.

What about Dixie Hill? Me and my friends use to ride dirt bikes there. It was a great place to take chicks on the back of your bike with lots of secluded place for hobble doogaga or a snarlin.

I think my first guitar came from Giant Sound (not Giant Music) too.

Boys of Summer Wrote:
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> Sitting behind Best & Co. on Gallows Rd., watching
> the Lee Highway Drive In Movie shows (without
> sound), while pounding some beers (Busch or "The
> Bull", for us FCHS types). We had memorized the
> lines to Blazing Saddles, so we did not need the
> sound. Then they would show some of those horny
> cheerleader movies...

I remember the first time I went to that spot behind the drive-in, it was dark and we weren't sure where we were, then all of a sudden I see Richard Pryor about 30 ft tall onscreen doing hi s standup act. I think I was 13 it must have been maybe 79 or 80. I saw "Blazing Saddles" inside the lot there with the parentals when it was new, double feature with "The Longest Yard" !

The drive in used to show some really schlocky movies. I saw "Scanners" there, "Bloodsucking Freaks" and "Mothers Day". Great memories!

Anyone remember Seneca Rd, just north of RT 7? You could get air off that one turn back there. We would get our cars up to 80+MPH when we went over and managed to get a couple feet of air. Oh... the stupid things we did back then...

I heard they altered the road to make it less likely to get air. Is that true?

The good ole days are long gone, but the best are still ahead.

Hey you Burke people- whatever happened to those Miller brothers? I saw their compund was finally torn down and replaced with McMansions a few years ago??

j Wrote:
> feel free to add.


- a teenage suicide rate that wasnt nearly high enough...

Joven Malazo Wrote:
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> Poseurs was a great little place on M St. So was
> The Bank.


Don't you mean the Vault? What about the Fifth Column? Z Club?

Champions(Georgetown)
The Dome

bring the good times back!

TIMEOUT!

When you take Jhoon Rhee Self Defense
Then you too can say...
Nobody Bothers Me
Nobody Bothers Me
Call U-S-A One Thousand
Jhoon Rhee is Might for Right

Nobody bothers me
Nobody bothers me eitha

How could any of us have an 80’s thread without referencing a MTV music video shout in September of 83 at the old Capitol Centre. The day before kicking off their tour, during the tour rehearsal, The Who filmed the video for “Eminence Front” right over in Largo, MD. Watch it.

I want my MTV.

Call U-S-A 1000 Wrote:
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> When you take Jhoon Rhee Self Defense
> Then you too can say...
> Nobody Bothers Me
> Nobody Bothers Me
> Call U-S-A One Thousand
> Jhoon Rhee is Might for Right
>
> Nobody bothers me
> Nobody bothers me eitha


That was Bethesda's own Nils Lofgren singing the the Jhoon Rhee jingle, it's on YouTube!

WingNut Wrote:
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> Call U-S-A 1000 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > When you take Jhoon Rhee Self Defense
> > Then you too can say...
> > Nobody Bothers Me
> > Nobody Bothers Me
> > Call U-S-A One Thousand
> > Jhoon Rhee is Might for Right
> >
> > Nobody bothers me
> > Nobody bothers me eitha
>
>
> That was Bethesda's own Nils Lofgren singing the
> the Jhoon Rhee jingle, it's on YouTube!

Jhoon Rhee commercial, before Nils decided to waste his time with that poser from NJ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7PEMGuA6tw

Crack Cocaine!

Difficult Run and Evans Farm Inn

High tops and tank tops!

wow..... so much stuff in here that i'd forgotten about! The truly classic 2nd movie at the Lee Hwy Drive-In - I Spit On Your Grave!!!! 1/2 horror movie, 1/2 porn movie, all bad!!!

Best make out spots for Springfield:
1.) Back parking lot of Bobs Big Boy
2.) Parking lot of Walden Glen Pool (before the butt heads put a chain up)
3.) The parking lot of that creepy old abandon church behind West Springfield High School (they tore it down and built a townhouse development). I got caught there once doing the nasty with my girlfriend by FCPD. One of the more embarrassing moments of my youth.
4.) Parking lot of Rolling Hills pool. That wasn't as good as Walden Glen, but would do in a pinch.
5.) Parking lot of Royal pool. I couldn't believe that place closed down:(
6.) Sneaking into the Springfield Country Club. Favorite make out place in the summer was by the 7th hole. Scored a couple hole-in-ones the summer before my senior year.
7.) Lake Accotink park at night (Carrleigh Parkway enterance)
8.) Burke Lake park at night.
9.) Jefferson Memorial at night. This used to be the most romantic. Pull in, park and then make out on the steps of the Jefferson Memorial and watch the sun rise over the tidal basin.

Sad thing is I don't think any of these places are available or safe anymore. Hell, I bet if you tried to make out at the Jefferson Memorial at night, the Park Police would probably consider it a violation of the Patriot Act.

Zayre's back parkinglot was a pretty good spot to makeout!

nickel bags, jeri curls, jordache jeans, members only jackets, A J jeans, nickel bags, Penquin Feather, Garfinkels, Hermans, Mortons, Woodies

i miss those days Wrote:
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> nickel bags, jeri curls, jordache jeans, members
> only jackets, A J jeans, nickel bags, Penquin
> Feather, Garfinkels, Hermans, Mortons, Woodies

Remember when the nickel bags were little manila envelopes instead of plastic? Now thats a relic

Segrio Valente, Genera. 7 corners had a "mall".

Wow!
Some local gas stations sold beers.

Andrea's restaurant was the hottest spot in Alexandria.

I was only a kid, but I remember:

-Freezing Cold Winters, with Tons of Snow.

-Train around Lake Fairfax (No Water Park either).

-Pumpkin Patch (Reston) that was gigantic with Rides, Mazes, etc.

-Expanded Reston Zoo.

-Erol's Video (As others have mentioned). Blockbuster was a mystery then.

-The Ice Cream truck used to actually drive through the neighborhoods more often.

-MJ Concert (I had a shirt from the Tour as well, it had that Stone hand on it. Yeah, I watched MTV a lot too (Yo!MTV Raps lol) ).

-No Spanish (lol, just had to add it).

-D.C. was the Murder Capital (I saw some real craziness in Dodge City).

-Bums used to absolutely infest the D.C. side of the VA bridges going into the City.

-Police carried Revolvers (With individual bullet holders on their belts), and drove those boxy cars.

-"Jones Communications" was the Cable Company in Reston (The only other option in FFX was "Cox Communications" ).

-There was no "Greenway", FFX Co. Parkway, Reston Town Center (Lake Anne was the "Downtown"), etc.

-Bradley's was on the corner of Reston Parkway and Baron Cameron before Hechinger's.

-Reston Parkway was two lanes for its entire length (North of Baron Cameron you drove through a tunnel of trees for a short distance).

-Also, Reston Parkway stopped at Wiehle Avenue (It didn't go all the way to Route 7).

-Reston's developments only extended as far North as halfway between Center Harbor, and Wiehle Avenue.

-Wiehle Ave. ended at a reflective barrier against a hill (With woods).


-The original Reston Parkway is now Reston Avenue (A side road with Fire Station 39 on it now).

-Fair Oaks was THE Mall unless you lived around or East of Tysons.


LOL, So YEAH, I know I wasn't a Teenager in the 80's, but quite a few of my friends and family were, and I just couldn't resist adding some local memories of the time.

The only other option back then was media general... cox didn't buy them til the 90's.

skating at best. (best the store) skating behind hooters in fairfax, cheasepeake bay was the shit. i remember the one across from paul iv then the last one in herndon. ministry, D.R.I., breaking into soda machines every summer at mosby woods, eating 711 nachos in the woods while smoking swisher sweets. those were the only "cigs " they use to not carry them behind the counter. they were actually in the isle's like candy. oh oh oh jolt, and dominion beer non alcoholic, hahaha they use to sell those to kids too. then our parents got mad at the 711 guy and he never sold to us again.

i wasnt a teenager either till 93 but all my friends in my neighborhood were older than me.

shakeys in annandale for our end of the year football little league party.
summer school at robinson, im getting off track here. SPANDEX, HYPER COLOR, THAT IS ALL

BODY GLOVE SPANDEX!!!!!
YEAH LONG FORGOTTEN FASHION CRISIS.

Spa lady!

;



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Does anyone remember Mr. Gatti's...all the soccer parties were there.

Body Glove...Yes that was my first bikini, with the zipper!

How about Brothers (I, II, or III--something like that), the one in Fairfax never carded for beer purchases (by the pitcher) if you were willing to order their mediocre-to-crappy food (which tasted really good with beer when you were 16 or 17). This was the mid to late 70's, not sure if they stayed around in the 80's after the drinking age went up to 21.

I once had someone knock over about half a pitcher on me--one of my tenser moments returning home from being out during HS!

Possibly that was "Batchelors" instead of "Brothers", now that my depleted brain cells have given it more thought...

I thought Brothers I, II, III were typewriters! (autoerase features)

ThePackLeader Wrote:
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> I was only a kid, but I remember:
>
> -Freezing Cold Winters, with Tons of Snow.
>
> -Train around Lake Fairfax (No Water Park
> either).
>
> -Pumpkin Patch (Reston) that was gigantic with
> Rides, Mazes, etc.
>
> -Expanded Reston Zoo.
>
> -Erol's Video (As others have mentioned).
> Blockbuster was a mystery then.
>
> -The Ice Cream truck used to actually drive
> through the neighborhoods more often.
> ...
>
> -There was no "Greenway", FFX Co. Parkway, Reston
> Town Center (Lake Anne was the "Downtown"), etc.
>
> -Bradley's was on the corner of Reston Parkway and
> Baron Cameron before Hechinger's.

Bradlees
It was also a K-mart around then, I think.

> -Reston Parkway was two lanes for its entire
> length (North of Baron Cameron you drove through a
> tunnel of trees for a short distance).

Yep - Reston AVENUE back then (you noted this below).

> -Also, Reston Parkway stopped at Wiehle Avenue (It
> didn't go all the way to Route 7).
>
Thought it did, through a neighborhood - then they cut "old" Reston Ave. off when they did the new one that they have now.

> -Reston's developments only extended as far North
> as halfway between Center Harbor, and Wiehle
> Avenue.
>
> -Wiehle Ave. ended at a reflective barrier against
> a hill (With woods).
>
When I was at HHS I kept waiting for them to cut Wiehle through, to make a shortcut to school. They'd talked about that for long enough. Didn't actually cut through until several years later.

> -The original Reston Parkway is now Reston Avenue
> (A side road with Fire Station 39 on it now).
>
> -Fair Oaks was THE Mall unless you lived around or
> East of Tysons.
>
Tysons was "the mall" for us; Fair Oaks, once it got built, was "the NEW mall". Who else remembers those orange platforms at Tysons?

x



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This is graymoose's wife, I knew Andy from the time he and my son met in 2nd grade at Hunters Woods Elementary. They were great friends and shared a townhouse in Reston at one time. In July 1990, Andy Wells was riding in the backseat of a car driven by his friend, Jason. My son and his girlfriend were in a car behind them. No one knew Jason was drunk at the time. When Jason's car came to a stop, everyone got out of the car but Andy, his neck was broken and he died instantly. Andy was an only child and his Mom was and still is devastated by his loss.

So many lives are lost by drunk drivers, please don't let this happen to you or your family and friends.

Linda

WTF??? graymoose? Andy? That story doesnt even make sense ('When Jason's car came to a stop' .... did he hit something? Did he stop for a light?). And it definitely has no place here. I'm sure there are ample places for you to peddle your anti-drunk-driving messages. Why do you feel like you need to flounce in here and drop that load on us?

Eastsider Wrote:
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> As a 10-year-old, I remember eating 9
> servings of the all-you-can-eat baby gulf shrimp
> after a soccer game.

I'll wager a guess and say they couldn't sustain the obesity of America

Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's new
Posted by: jeez ()
Date: June 14, 2009 02:05AM


WTF??? graymoose? Andy? That story doesnt even make sense ('When Jason's car came to a stop' .... did he hit something? Did he stop for a light?). And it definitely has no place here. I'm sure there are ample places for you to peddle your anti-drunk-driving messages. Why do you feel like you need to flounce in here and drop that load on us?



This is graymoose's wife again, Jason hit a tree while driving drunk. As i said before, my son and Andy were friends since 2nd grade.To this day when my son visits Va, he goes to Andys grave. When we see Andys Mom, She still gets upset about her loss.
If you feel this is a anti-drunk-driving- message, then I guess it could be. Why don't you ask Andys mom How she feels about drunk drivers

---------------------------------------------------
W.W.S.D. what would Scooby Doo

You are killing me!

1. Who the fuck is graymoose and how does being his wife somehow legitimize you?

2. I can't ask Andy's mom any questions because unlike you, she knows that this lighthearted thread about silly stuff we remember from the '80's is not an appropriate place to wade in with a bunch of crap about an accident from 20 years ago.

3. Perhaps you should just entertain the idea, just for a minute, that it is you who is the dumbass. Just for a minute. Does it seem to be fitting?

Re: ffx county teenagers in the 80's
Posted by: jeez ()
Date: June 14, 2009 10:21AM


You are killing me!

1. Who the fuck is graymoose and how does being his wife somehow legitimize you?

2. I can't ask Andy's mom any questions because unlike you, she knows that this lighthearted thread about silly stuff we remember from the '80's is not an appropriate place to wade in with a bunch of crap about an accident from 20 years ago.

3. Perhaps you should just entertain the idea, just for a minute, that it is you who is the dumbass. Just for a minute. Does it seem to be fitting?





Im sorry that talking about Andy is such a bummer for you, you fucking asshole.
Somebody wrote they thought that Andy jumped from a building. I was just setting the record stright.

---------------------------------------------------
W.W.S.D. what would Scooby Doo

FUNdamental Wrote:
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> >
> How could any of us have an 80’s thread without
> referencing a MTV music video shout in September
> of 83 at the old Capitol Centre. The day before
> kicking off their tour, during the tour rehearsal,
> The Who filmed the video for “Eminence Front”
> right over in Largo, MD. Watch it.

Don't forget Steve Winwood's "Back In The High Life Again" video which was shot in Manassas.

Anonymous Coward Wrote:
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> Don't forget Steve Winwood's "Back In The High
> Life Again" video which was shot in Manassas.


I never knew that. Looked it up on YouTube, but the town shots look like it could be from any town with train. Why would they shoot the video in Manassas of all places?

I remember purple carpet in the circle "seating" areas of Springfield mall.

Hayfield pits and the other 4 wheeling spots.

The absolute BEST times we had, were in a field we aboslutely owned for almost 1/2 a decade!!! Behind Evans Farm on Rt 123, was an old farm house with a barn - we used to have bonfires and 4-wheel in the fields.

During the winter, we began to have fires in the barn... This was around 1989. By 1993, it was all over, as Crosspointe had expanded and new houses were going up...

A couple things I remember well"
A certain redhead from Fairfax City :)
Burning the outhouse - worst smelling wood, EVER :(
Hitch hiking home when my friend ran his jeep into a pond.
Campfires with a couple of cheerleaders I knew
Four wheel drifting in the snow, in the fields

Good times! Thanks for letting me run through the memories!!!

Garage bands popped up everywhere!

about LDK check out LDK on my space...
Andy Wells was killed in a drunk driving accident he was a passenger at the back of a car.

The old 9:30 club, DC Space, punk rock Denny's, jumping off Jacob's rock at Fountainhead or the bridge at Bull Run, the movie theatre at Rolling Valley Mall, Mr. Gatti's Pizza (The Best Pizza in Town. Honest!) Arcade games at the "Highs" convenience store, Roy Rogers, the Redskins winning superbowls, second run movies at University Mall, the little Italian Deli/Sub shop in Burke Town Plaza, Record Convergence, Waxie Maxie's (or was it Maxie Waxie's?) and Kemp Mill, the Mom and Pop record store in Burke Center and the record store in Rolling Valley, buying tapes with those big plastic things to make them harder to steal, BEST, cigarette machines in grocery stores, the one lane bridge on Lee Chapel, Burke Elementary School, Dominos delivering pizza in 30 minutes or it's free (Avoid the Noid!), Track Auto, Crown Books, the first HFStival, Don and Mike on B107, the first Lollapalooza, Chi Chi's being the premier (and only) Mexican restaurant, "old" Ox Road, No 7100 parkway, "new" neighborhoods like South Run and Cherry Run being built, and so on...



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This about sums up my high school experience in the 1980's:

"Springfield Mall...the only mall you'll ever need!" Remember THAT jingle?

Smoking lounges in high school...yes, we WERE allowed to smoke at school!

Clove cigarettes.

Turquoise jeans. Concert tee-shirts. Tube socks. Davy Crockett suede boots for guys and girls. Feathery roach clips. Wallet chains. levi's cords. Black eyeliner. Bandannas.

Howard Johnson's restaurant, Rhiannon's, Mugs (by GMU), Winston's (come on, you know you went there at least once, Maybe even on a school night).

Fake id's.

Hangar Club.

Dart Drug. People's Drug. Drug fair. (We were really into drugs).

Woolco.

Good times!

More Complete Wrote:
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> The old 9:30 club,
The house that seth built!
> DC Space,

930 club and DC Spacew had bartendenders, Allison and Bitsy respectively, who went on to fame and hopefully fortune.

> the first HFStival,

Hmmm Let me see if I can remember correctly. Lake Fairfax. July 1 (Weasel led the crowd in "Oh Canada), Winter Hours, The Persuit of Happiness, Concrete Blonde, special surprise appearance by Robyn Hitcock, Gang of 4, etc

Farrells and the "ZOO" for your birthday - I think every time I stood in line I paid a dime to see what kind of lover I was...or something similar where you squeeze the trigger and the bulbs lit up until you got your score...

The Crypts on Rte 1

Dr. Bilodeou who looked like Steve Martin!

Every dude in West Springfield worked at Shell at some point.

All the new Burkesters (the new place on the other side of the train tracks - in a literal way) went to West Springfield Elementary at first.

Sledding at Washington Irving or the Golf Course

Ginos - then Roy Rogers and now a bagel place I think

Wild West (wasn't that what it was called before Zaxx?)

Key Theatre with Rocky Horror - The Library, Crazy horse, Dejavu, Commander Salamander

And we still have Maliks for late night Gyro delivery!

It's all GOOD!

Joven Apostolou Wrote:
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> It's all GOOD!

This slang term didn't come aroudn until the 90s. ;-)

Radiophile Wrote:
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> More Complete Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > The old 9:30 club,
> The house that seth built!
> > DC Space,
>
> 930 club and DC Spacew had bartendenders, Allison
> and Bitsy respectively, who went on to fame and
> hopefully fortune.
>
> > the first HFStival,
>
> Hmmm Let me see if I can remember correctly. Lake
> Fairfax. July 1 (Weasel led the crowd in "Oh
> Canada), Winter Hours, The Persuit of Happiness,
> Concrete Blonde, special surprise appearance by
> Robyn Hitcock, Gang of 4, etc

Hell yes. Good times.

More Complete Wrote:
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> Radiophile Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > More Complete Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > The old 9:30 club,
> > The house that seth built!
> > > DC Space,
> >
> > 930 club and DC Spacew had bartendenders,
> Allison
> > and Bitsy respectively, who went on to fame and
> > hopefully fortune.
> >
> > > the first HFStival,
> >
> > Hmmm Let me see if I can remember correctly.
> Lake
> > Fairfax. July 1 (Weasel led the crowd in "Oh
> > Canada), Winter Hours, The Persuit of
> Happiness,
> > Concrete Blonde, special surprise appearance by
> > Robyn Hitcock, Gang of 4, etc
>
> Hell yes. Good times.

I am digging out some pics I have of the First two HFSstivals at Lake Fairfax. I ordered the part for my scanner so it should be here this weekend. I have pics of Michael Jackson at RFK and many other shows in the area from the 80s and 90s. PM me a request and I just might have it.

Radiophile Wrote:
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> I am digging out some pics I have of the First two
> HFSstivals at Lake Fairfax. I ordered the part for
> my scanner so it should be here this weekend. I
> have pics of Michael Jackson at RFK and many other
> shows in the area from the 80s and 90s. PM me a
> request and I just might have it.

Sweet. I missed the days when there was a great local music scene. I saw Fugazi a zillion times because they seemed to always be playing. Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Government Issue, Dag Nasty and later Shudder to Think, Jawbox, etc.

Now we have.... uhmmm... gimmie a minute.... ummm...

Rebecca Wrote:
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> Dr. Bilodeou who looked like Steve Martin!

And someone who worked in that same building would sometimes park his Lamborghini Countach out in front. Man, how we West Springfield HS 10th graders would stare at that thing - a perfect icon of 80s-ness!

very few AP classes
no bike helmets
kegs mandatory at teenage parties
dime bags
High school smoking areas

good times

Vajayjay Wrote:
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> This about sums up my high school experience in
> the 1980's:
>
> "Springfield Mall...the only mall you'll ever
> need!" Remember THAT jingle?
>
yes

> Smoking lounges in high school...yes, we WERE
> allowed to smoke at school!

remember kids smoking in the bathrooms


> Feathery roach clips. Wallet chains. levi's
> cords. Black eyeliner. Bandannas.
>
Remember all of those. Found a purple feathery roach clip in my Halloween box this month that I'd kept from back then. My kid thought it was pretty and wore it to school.

BBFBF! LOL!!!