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anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
Posted by:
buck
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Date: September 08, 2011 07:17PM
does anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
Re: anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
Posted by:
thinredline
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Date: September 08, 2011 07:45PM
They had a pizza joint there...Kaezanos i think. Excellent subs!And Giant Music was there too.
Re: anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
Posted by:
wally pip jr.
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Date: September 09, 2011 03:41AM
Use to stop at the 7/11 all the time after going swimming at the YMCA
What was the name of the business before Chuckie Cheese. Seem to recall it had some association with noted film camera man (2001 space Odyssey) but I'm old and the memory ain't that good
also wasn't that the second Roy Rogers resaurant in the area after the one in Baileys Crossroads
What was the name of the business before Chuckie Cheese. Seem to recall it had some association with noted film camera man (2001 space Odyssey) but I'm old and the memory ain't that good
also wasn't that the second Roy Rogers resaurant in the area after the one in Baileys Crossroads
Re: anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
Posted by:
Sunny D
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Date: September 09, 2011 08:31AM
I remember the Safeway!
Re: anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
Posted by:
DH
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Date: September 09, 2011 11:13AM
Some place I have few memories of.
Was the Safeway where the CVS is now? I seem to remember a Drug Emporium was there and it looked like a Safeway inside before. Anyone know what was where the Trader Joes is?
Was the Safeway where the CVS is now? I seem to remember a Drug Emporium was there and it looked like a Safeway inside before. Anyone know what was where the Trader Joes is?
Re: anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
Posted by:
by
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Date: September 09, 2011 11:19AM
buck Wrote:
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> does anyone remember pickett shopping center in
> the 70's?
I remember safeway, and I remember a tornado touchdown
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> does anyone remember pickett shopping center in
> the 70's?
I remember safeway, and I remember a tornado touchdown
Re: anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
Posted by:
FxNative
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Date: September 09, 2011 06:06PM
I remember the pool hall back in the corner where the Urgent Care is. Pizza Kazzano was the best! We could order a large cheese (square I believe) pizza and pitchers of Coke and sit there for hours. Giant Music - so much fun, lots of great posters and huge headphones. Also, use to be a Hot Shoppes Jr. before Roy Rogers. We could walk around the shopping center all night long - no troubles, no worries.
Re: anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
Posted by:
Really?
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Date: September 09, 2011 07:04PM
You sound as lame as my brother in-law.
Sigh. This is the reason therapist stay in business. It must suck to be you.
PS God speed with your slightly wet situation.
Sigh. This is the reason therapist stay in business. It must suck to be you.
PS God speed with your slightly wet situation.
Re: anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
Posted by:
mudbone
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Date: September 09, 2011 07:11PM
THE FIRST 7-11 I EVER WALKED IN WAS AT PICKETT.STILL THERE?
Re: anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
Posted by:
Sweet Emotion
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Date: September 09, 2011 07:41PM
We recall Pickett from the late 70s well into '80s. Yes, for {thinredline's} mention of Giant Music. Also, a restaurant named Knish-Knosh, a few doors left of Giant Music- facing from the parking lot. Can't recall the business on the other/right side that became Chuckie Cheese. Drove by there earlier this year. Layout looks similar to past memories BUT the stores have changed.
Re: anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
Posted by:
Adolf
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Date: September 09, 2011 11:32PM
The tornado back in the 70s ripped the roof off of Woodson HS, twice. Somewhere there is a photo of a school bus that got tossed into the front of the ABC store. Thank God it didn't hit the gas farm across from Fairfax ice arena.
Re: anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
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Giant?
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Date: September 10, 2011 12:36AM
Was Giant Music owned by Giant Food? Giant was into other non-food stuff in the 70s and early 80s.
Re: anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
Posted by:
wally pip jr.
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Date: September 11, 2011 11:59AM
I saw caesar chavez at the safeway once with some other protestors
Re: anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
Posted by:
Gen Braddock
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Date: September 11, 2011 12:05PM
thinredline Wrote:
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> They had a pizza joint there...Kaezanos i think.
> Excellent subs!And Giant Music was there too.
I thought it was Kosmo's Pizza. It was in the corner right?
Awsome gyro and pizzas.
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> They had a pizza joint there...Kaezanos i think.
> Excellent subs!And Giant Music was there too.
I thought it was Kosmo's Pizza. It was in the corner right?
Awsome gyro and pizzas.
Re: anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
Posted by:
NoVA Blues Society
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Date: September 11, 2011 01:06PM
It was Cosmos Pizza - Greek!! The best baklava around!! Next door was the 7-11
Re: anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
Posted by:
NoVA Blues Society
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Date: September 11, 2011 01:08PM
Anyone go to Mantua E. 1978/79? Or Frost 1980/81?
Re: anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
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Spacy
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Date: September 11, 2011 03:02PM
Didn't there used to be a big tire store there, forever?
Now there is a AAA office of some kind?
Now there is a AAA office of some kind?
Re: anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
Posted by:
DH
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Date: September 11, 2011 04:04PM
Spacy Wrote:
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> Didn't there used to be a big tire store there,
> forever?
> Now there is a AAA office of some kind?
It was a Firestone store
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> Didn't there used to be a big tire store there,
> forever?
> Now there is a AAA office of some kind?
It was a Firestone store
Re: anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
Posted by:
fxnative2
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Date: September 11, 2011 04:23PM
There also was an ice cream store, Dart Drug, a Singer sewing store and a gift store. You could walk to it all from Mantua.
After the tornado hit, Woodson students went half day to Oakton.
After the tornado hit, Woodson students went half day to Oakton.
Re: anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
Posted by:
Gen Braddock
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Date: September 11, 2011 04:38PM
fxnative2 Wrote:
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> There also was an ice cream store, Dart Drug, a
> Singer sewing store and a gift store. You could
> walk to it all from Mantua.
> After the tornado hit, Woodson students went half
> day to Oakton.
Wasent there a roy rogers out in the parking lot too?
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> There also was an ice cream store, Dart Drug, a
> Singer sewing store and a gift store. You could
> walk to it all from Mantua.
> After the tornado hit, Woodson students went half
> day to Oakton.
Wasent there a roy rogers out in the parking lot too?
Re: anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
Posted by:
NoVA Blues Society
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Date: September 11, 2011 05:26PM
Yes to the Roy Rogers
Re: anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
Posted by:
NoVA Blues Society
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Date: September 11, 2011 05:27PM
Spent a few years in the late 70s in the apartments directly behind the shopping center...
Re: anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
Posted by:
a fact
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Date: September 11, 2011 07:04PM
Yup, i remember it well...No illegal hispanics...damn life was good.
Re: anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
Posted by:
back in 1978
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Date: September 12, 2011 08:49AM
There was a slut named Janet that hung out there in 78 and 79. She gave 5 dollar handjobs that were awesome.
Re: anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
Posted by:
kid2
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Date: April 04, 2015 02:08AM
back in 1978 Wrote:
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> There was a slut named Janet that hung out there
> in 78 and 79. She gave 5 dollar handjobs that were
> awesome.
I remember Janet!!
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> There was a slut named Janet that hung out there
> in 78 and 79. She gave 5 dollar handjobs that were
> awesome.
I remember Janet!!
Re: anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
Posted by:
pickettshop
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Date: April 04, 2015 10:26AM
School bus vs ABC store
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Re: anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
Posted by:
GMU Hokie
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Date: April 06, 2015 07:43PM
Giant Music was owned by Jack Schaeffer.
His daughter was a stripper downtown.
His daughter was a stripper downtown.
Re: anyone remember pickett shopping center in the 70's?
Posted by:
70'sKid
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Date: April 06, 2015 07:49PM
I remember back in the 70s Roy Rogers made an appearance at that restaurant and there was a huge crowd that turned out. And somebody threw a pie in Roy's face...totally surreal and he was super pissed.