where did teens go to hang out/party way back in the 60's-80's?

The "Grass Tracks" on General Washington Drive, the industrial where Marlo and other building supply, furniture stores, etc. are now located next to I-395 and Edsall Road.

Good Times!

Butts Corner....123 and Chapel rd...early 70s per my dad

Also, where target is now by the train station in Burke used to be all woods before Roberts rd bridge and target existed....used to be a toke spot for early 70s Robinson heads.

Dirt biking in Lorton right off of Richmond Highway

Springfield Mall

Korvettes, Harmony Hut, Penguin Feather.

Skateworld in ALexandria

Erol's was considered upscale in the beginning because the only people who owned a VCR back then were people with money.

are there any drag racing hotspots left?

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> are there any drag racing hotspots left?

As far as "legal" drag racing tracks, you'd have to go to southern Maryland. The track in Manassas shut down as they sold the property to a developer.

As to other "not legal" drag spots? I'm sure there are not really any left either. All the roads are clogged. Instead, the teens tend to prefer "hill hopping" in the area of Great Falls and Clifton.

Wee ... Wee ...

Truro Trails
The Drain - End of Ardfour Lane

Here's some hanging out at the BGR Joint.

I'm aware of Mario's, but wasn't around when this incident happened in Arlington.
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I also remember Fairfax Circle in the late 1980s. Where the Lamb Center is now next to the Shell station, the building used to be a car audio shop. I still wish it was a car audio shop.

Me and my girl Michelle could be found on the back row at Super 29 Drive In 1975

We have been married for 34 years - We have 3 grown kids 8 grand kids

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> I also remember Fairfax Circle in the late 1980s.
> Where the Lamb Center is now next to the Shell
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> I still wish it was a car audio shop.

In the late 70's there was a Head Shop called Record Lords in the sme building that the Lamb Center is in today. The gas station was a ARCO Station, and both were beside Sweenies Motor Court.

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Do you have the complete story on Mall Rat(s)?

Back in the late 70's, early 80's some of our favorite hangout spots were:

Springfield Mall, around both arcades and gotta see if there's any cool new junk at Hong Kong.

Skyline Mall for midnight movies and there was a small arcade there for a while too.

Playtime and Flipper McGee's arcades in Falls Church city.

Loehmann's Plaza for cruisin'

And most importantly, highschool keg parties! Back then the drinking age was still 18 for beer and wine so seniors could by kegs....ah the good old days.

FUCK THE VERIZON CENTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I recall going to the Merrifield drive-in and one of the guys had to go in the trunk.

The triple feature was Last House On The Left, Don't Look In The Basement, and some South American revolution exploitation pic with some young American tourists with nice titties. There may have been a prison chick exploitation flick on the same bill.

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the remy mausoleum bitches!

Cap center parking lot for concerts. Best acid,weed and fucked up chicks.

Grew up in West Springfield. Really, tons of kids had parties at their parents houses. Every Friday,after football games, we'd meet up at the McDonalds on Rolling and then find out who was having the party and where and then we'd drive all over looking for it. That was part of the fun. Lots of parties off of Carrleigh Parkway in Rolling Valley and even way out towards Huntsman Blvd.

Lots of parking/drinking on side roads, especially Huntsman Dam, Burke Lake, Tuttle Road, to name a few.

HoJo's in downtown Springfield was open all night, as was Denny's. That's where you'd tell your parents you'd been all night if they asked.

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> I recall going to the Merrifield drive-in and one
> of the guys had to go in the trunk.
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> The triple feature was Last House On The Left,
> Don't Look In The Basement, and some South
> American revolution exploitation pic with some
> young American tourists with nice titties. There
> may have been a prison chick exploitation flick on
> the same bill.


Lee Highway drive-in! I remember it well. Fingered a girl there during a double feature of Naked Stewardesses and Satan's Cheerleaders. Also got chased out of the alley behind Levitz while watching free movies and eating Hardee's food once.

Vale Road and Tysons Corner

The old Dart Drug parking lot in Fair City Mall and Hamilton Dr in Mantua for impromptu street parties when nothing was going on. Circa 1981-1984..

Gallows Rd 7-11, Powerlines, Behind Pan-Am, Multiplex $1 Tuesday night.

Early 70's The pool hall in the corner at Pickett Shopping Center. Springfield McDonalds for street race cars to eyeball. The W.T. Woodson H.S. parking lot for drag races and motorcycle wheel stands during school hours.The Pagens House in Burke, Bells Pond, Clifton, Lake Accotink.Occcquan and Jacobs Rock the rope swing. The quarry in Strasburg Va. "way out" Rt 55 No I66 there yet. Over 18 We went to Nova and GMU for huge 3.2 beer fests with loud bands playing rock in roll music. We would go to Dulles to see the planes land from the deck below the control tower. And the legendery house parties where teens would have a party when there parents were gone and it would be crashed and the house totaled, cigerettes on the carpets, beer spilled everywhere, a hundred people in the house more in the yard cars every where on the street and the cops useually would not come till 11 pm cause we were having fun.

And my main hang outs The pits at Tysons Corner, Buela Road, Franconia, Loisdale Rd,and Reston as it was being built on my dirt bikes.

Right on man

Lake Audobun and Thoreau. Swim out to the drainage tower and climb up on top. The cheerleaders use tan in close to nothing bikinis. Cops would come and yell but they would never swim out. Just ignored them.

Reston pools. Lake Fairfax Park.
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Fish Market in Old Town Alexandria. Dirt cheap schooners of Shittz beer and no one carded ever.

Dairy Queen by old Walt Whitman Intermediate (route 1)
Woodlawn McDonalds
Ground Round
Mount Vernon Drive-In
"The Party Log" by Mount Vernon High School

University mall upper level was a crazy time back in the early 80s. Lots of drugs and sex,

Georgetown. You could drive there in 30 minutes. The place is now mostly stores. Back then, it was restaurants and bars.

Rest of the Mall Rats Story...They all die in a fiery crash...


http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/1176255.html

Fun in the wood's...4x4s, dirt bikes, ATCs... BACK COMPTON!

"where did teens go to hang out/party way back in the 60's-80's?"

in the 90's northern fairfax was likely one of the most boring developed areas one could be in.

i would have fallen in in the 1990's for hangouts. but it was mostly private / in home deals. and i'm not the only person who observed that.

fairfax city area during the late 80's 90's, due to "zero tolerance" was a bleak place of fau morals to be in. adults were doing allot of fucking and stealing money. they arrested anyone young wishing to do the same to, ie, start a family.

all they had in the 90's in fairfax was bars. not even bare breasts allowed. 99% guys (cp near zero chance of getting a date in a bar). high chance of being arrested. if you wanted a date it was a better chance to be at a grocery store. thanks to police i never had time for even that.

the police were continually at private parties, crashing arresting people at those too.

in the 90's northern fairfax was likely one of the most boring developed areas one could be in. and the most likely for you to be arrested or harassed by police if you were just heading to work or class.

HOWEVER. 80's and early 90's. different town. police were nice then. let you off with a warning. some partied a little. etc. but that was not my time really i only heard and saw news and town talk back then.

the late 90's began the "me generation" of adults in fairfax

they were double dipping big time.

they were destructive and sought to put an end to anyone having fun they wanted for themselves

they were trying to prevent young adults from starting families: calling it evil

they were SUCCESSFUL at stealing themselves a second, and now a third, childhood. they tripled their pay and billed it to my generation: who some of died in the debt of. they moved gov technology into private firms which they had had access to for free as well.

triple: like you'd have a sexy school teacher making more money than the captain of a major navy ship just years ago. and the captain? suffering inflation loss and struggling becasue there is no way to adjust for that kind of illegally high. it's theft clear and simple.

meanwhile they were telling my generation: sorry, hiring freeze. whilst they were giving their family members cush gov jobs.

(2nd childhood: gets stuff for free, ie non-necessities, and enjoys what they did not sweat to make and enjoys light penalties for wrongs and gets money from ma and etc: on the dole. skaters. free-loaders)

alan greenspan told congress: back off your living in a tech bubble.

10 yrs later they called him back to the floor and publicly blamed him for not warning them

tv and radio today is a pile of crap. a pile of Seoul City Sue crap. they only put on stories that helps gov unionized workers hold their story.

i'm not saying anything nice about late 90's 2000's. see me in court. the judges recused. though that's a whole nother set of complaints



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The tombs (0ld underground area near fort Belivor) Mickey-D 's on route one in hybla valley, worked at the Wendy's across from crispy cream, usually drank in the parking lot after work, or a close by managers house. Or just cruising around when one of us could get a car.

Skateboarders would hang out on this street in Mount Vernon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_iYWcw8498

You can watch home movies of it here.

BMX at Starlit @ 236/Pickett Road.....the bicycle exchange in Pickett Shopping Center....Fair City Mall, when it was a mall....the Annandale Ramp, wooden half pipe in the woods off Wakefield Chapel.....Fairfax Surf Shop, Bethany Surf Shop when at the beach....

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> Fish Market in Old Town Alexandria. Dirt cheap
> schooners of Shittz beer and no one carded ever.


remember that place :)

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> Georgetown. You could drive there in 30 minutes.
> The place is now mostly stores. Back then, it was
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bayou, desperadoes, cellar door, crazy horse,

Who cares, those kids are on death's door.

Lorton low security prison. But they broke out pretty often.

I remember loving it when my parents would take us out to Mansassas for...
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more like starbucks....LOL

mostly your moms house

Between the 5 of us giving $10 each towards the room then another $3 towards pizza to sop up the bottle of liquor (for less thrown away), our hotel parties at the hojo or holiday inn with the pool went off fine. :)

Pickett 7-11 every weekend.
"Cannabiswoods" Bridge after school.

Man this is a great thread. I grew up in Centreville in the 90's and remember there was nothing to skate. We would always build our own ramps but asshole neighbors would steal them so we wouldn't skate near their homes. We did have the arcades. I remember the closest was flip dizzy in Manassas.

I just wish my son could ride his dirtbike today...

I was one of the riding hooligans out route 1 grabbing beers and running from high's and 711's and hopping on my bike parked around the corner and going to a friend's house successful. i was likely at that party you went to somewhere down route 1 with a beer in hand since 14 years old, my old man didn't care as long as i kept my grades up so i could go to college and earned my own gas money for the bike, but it only cost $2 to fill back then so it wasn't hard...in exchange for a cold 6 pack when i got home the old man would overlook how late it was and covered for me to mom- thanks man.

My kid would get caught today, too may cameras and overzealous police :(

Where at least one teen would be declared the Mayor of 7-11 , he would be easily spotted, a jobless unemployable long haired dirt bag , pushing weed on younger ones and spare changing people

Today if still alive he's a convicted felon and a solid Democrat voter who still is jobless for long periods and exists on welfare and handouts drunkenly following women who avoided him saying shit like " Ma'am you dropped a smile" waiting for summer again to bum around at the beach spending time here and there in jails

Kids nowadays are pussies. If any smart kids are reading this (doubtful), I recommend your career go in the path of medical (specifically eyes and spinal/neck issues) as well as psychological field.
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Ye Ole Woodson Man Wrote:
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> Early 70's The pool hall in the corner at Pickett
> Shopping Center. Springfield McDonalds for street
> race cars to eyeball. The W.T. Woodson H.S.
> parking lot for drag races and motorcycle wheel
> stands during school hours.The Pagens House in
> Burke, Bells Pond, Clifton, Lake Accotink.Occcquan
> and Jacobs Rock the rope swing. The quarry in
> Strasburg Va. "way out" Rt 55 No I66 there yet.
> Over 18 We went to Nova and GMU for huge 3.2 beer
> fests with loud bands playing rock in roll music.
> We would go to Dulles to see the planes land from
> the deck below the control tower. And the
> legendery house parties where teens would have a
> party when there parents were gone and it would be
> crashed and the house totaled, cigerettes on the
> carpets, beer spilled everywhere, a hundred people
> in the house more in the yard cars every where on
> the street and the cops useually would not come
> till 11 pm cause we were having fun.


I remember the house parties. “Where’s the party tonight?” It was just like you said in Arlington too.