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When Fairfax Circle was a true "circle" there was Tops Drive-In restaurant on the north side and Howard Johnson's restaurant on the east side. There wasn't an Arthur Treacher's but Tops had great fried shrimp and Howard Johnson's had their delicious fried clams!
There used to be a really upscale homeless camp in the woods behind Home Depot. It was between the CCT and Army-Navy Country Club.
The men were amiable and the women were good cooks.
If you ran into to any of them outside the store, they'd invite you to have a bite to eat with them. They loved kids and animals and, to tell you the truth, they had lots of each. What a wonderful place they had there.
They sure don't make homeless camps the way they used to.
AMC Javelin Wrote:
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> It was Bob Tedd American Motors then switched to
> Datsun in 1969. Was located where Chick fil A is
> now.
Datsun Saves Wrote:
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> Remember Bob Tedd Datsun?
Yes. Wasn't it some other car dealer between that and Chick fil A. I remember going with some girl and her family there once to look at a car, but I don't think it was a Datsun.
Here's a memory for some of you. Remember how Guaranty Bank & Trust just west of Fairfax Circle used to put a light display of Santa on his sleigh with reindeer on its roof for Christmas.
"Captain" Bob Ted Datsun's dealership was in the building where the SESCO and Circle Barber is now located. He claimed to be a sea-going Captain and wore the same hat like the Skipper on Gilligan's Island. In the mid-80s he drove a Rolls Royce with sheepskin floor mats.
Former Washington Redskin Mark Mosely had a hot tub business out of one of those buildings around 1990.
As previously reported, the Dunkin Donuts was a Howard Johnson's until the late 1970s, early 1980s. I recall getting one of the hardest, worst tasting hot dogs from HoJo's when I was little.
Geno's turned into a NY pizza joint in the mid-1980s - pretty good pizza as I recall.
I always equated Dino's Den to Fairfax's version of the Regal Beagle when I was a kid.