Well, another year is about to pass and for better or worse, old Fairfax keeps on a'changin.

I'd like to hear some people who've been around here for a while share some old memories, if we can do that. You know, back in the day before there was a new shopping "plaza" on every corner, and English was the predominant language spoken.

I'm 33. I remember taking shopping trips to the KMart on Jermantown road with my mom...before KMart became a punchline.

I remember the Sizzler which is now some sort of Mediterranean restaurant in it's umpteenth incarnation.

I remember going to Ed's bait and Tackle with my dad before fishing trips to Burke lake or Lake Fairfax. I remember Burke Lake and Lake Fairfax not being retreats for Al Qaeda, web developers and construction workers.

I remember going out Route 7 on my way to Pennsylvania, passing through Reston and there being absolutely nothing aside from The Reston Zoo and Lake Fairfax.

Ahh, the memories. This place is pretty disgusting now. Arlington keeps moving west and Manassas moving north-east and they're meeting in Fairfax.

Anyone else have any crackery memories of Fairfax to share?

 

I too share your viewpoint on the loss of so many places.
i use to like making the drive down route 7 to leesburg but with the development that streches all the way now it sort of hurts to see the destruction of the landscape so i haven't been out that way in years
don't care for what fairfax turned into and only getting worse trying to move away as fast as I can
maybe some of the streets look a bit like yesterday but fairfax stopped feeling like the place i grew up in a good decade or so back

i think the greed element and yeah the traffic is the most off putting

I also feel like an extra-terrestrial in my own hometown. What gets me is how the change seemed to have happened so radically in just the last 5 years

Melancholy Wrote:
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>
> I remember going out Route 7 on my way to
> Pennsylvania, passing through Reston and there
> being absolutely nothing aside from The Reston Zoo
> and Lake Fairfax.

It's still pretty rural-feeling on Route 7 from west of Tysons/267 until you actually hit FFX Co Parkway past Reston in Dranesville.

There's a gas station on the corner of Baron Cameron, but that's about it.

Now, Route 7 in Loudoun County is a whole other story...

Melancholy Wrote:
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> Well, another year is about to pass and for better
> or worse, old Fairfax keeps on a'changin.
>
> I'd like to hear some people who've been around
> here for a while share some old memories, if we
> can do that. You know, back in the day before
> there was a new shopping "plaza" on every corner,
> and English was the predominant language spoken.
>
>
> I'm 33. I remember taking shopping trips to the
> KMart on Jermantown road with my mom...before
> KMart became a punchline.
>
> I remember the Sizzler which is now some sort of
> Mediterranean restaurant in it's umpteenth
> incarnation.
>
> I remember going to Ed's bait and Tackle with my
> dad before fishing trips to Burke lake or Lake
> Fairfax. I remember Burke Lake and Lake Fairfax
> not being retreats for Al Qaeda, web developers
> and construction workers.
>
> I remember going out Route 7 on my way to
> Pennsylvania, passing through Reston and there
> being absolutely nothing aside from The Reston Zoo
> and Lake Fairfax.
>
> Ahh, the memories. This place is pretty
> disgusting now. Arlington keeps moving west and
> Manassas moving north-east and they're meeting in
> Fairfax.
>
> Anyone else have any crackery memories of Fairfax
> to share?


"Old" Fairfax was already circling the bowl when you came along.

You'd really be melancholy if you were around in the 50's. You'd remember no Beltway, no 66, Old Virginia City (a western theme park where Costco is now), Tyson's Corner was a country store at the corner of (two lane) Rts 7 & 123, Name country acts broadcasting live on WEEL radio from Texas Ted Britt Ford, and while you were there, playing with the livestock that Texas Ted took in trade for vehicles, drunken brawling in the parking lot of the Hunter's Lodge on Saturday night.....

Nope, it was already over for "Old Fairfax" by the 80's.

It's nice to hear stories about fairfax in the 70's & 80's. My father used to own eds bait & tackle and to hear all the stories from that place was miraculous!

I remember meeting Charly Taylor the in the mid seventies at ed's bait and tackle.

old Wrote:
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> Nope, it was already over for "Old Fairfax" by the 80's.

Never minded the cows and goats so much back in the day. It was the damned free range chickens that took "free range" a little too seriously. Ornery little peckers. Must have taken lessons from a goose. And it wasn't exactly English that was spoken outside the Beltway back then. Some kind of mix of redneck and mountain people talk. I got fed up and went to complain about the chickens to Miss Nettie once. She advised that she was going to sue me and went off to call her "laryer". A "laryer"? Oh fuck. I got out of there as quickly as I could.

fuck off. KMART is run from Michigan, all american, has a sports department which sells guns, a great store.

walmart is run by foreigners in NY, sells only chinese stuff, no guns, and hires illegals to work at night, who fire white people right ?

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KMART is no joke

KMART is on it's way back ...

when the damn demcrats start loosing power due to the debt. assholes are asians and mexicans getting american tax money spedinng it on asian and mexican imports by printing usa dollars "by permission of obama"

ummm hmmm

fuck off

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Don't forget about Camp 30, Super29 Drive in, and Patners II. On the other end of the county there was Hillbilly Heaven and the Shirley Highway.

The Kmart opened on Jermantown Road in 1980 on the old site of Belle Air auto parts(junkyard) and then there was the Green Dolphin........

So what year would you say Fairfax County jumped the shark? IMO, I think we're looking in the 1980-1983 range.

Yeah, Uncle Ronnie pretty much fucked up a lot too.

In 1979, we moved from suburban Kansas City to Springfield, VA.

It was a difficult adjustment, as the house my parents bought sight unseen seemed to be in the middle of nowhere, and it was. We lived in a new neighborhood, but there were old farms behind our development, some abandoned, some active. Kids who rode my school bus would walk down dirt roads to 1940s-era (tiny) houses. Many had horses on their property.

Within 5 years, the "farm kids" and their houses were gone, replaced with new construction.

Nike missle base on Popes head road before it was sealed off.
riding my dirtbike off of Bula road Springfield.
Cannabus Woods bridge parties.
Prosperity 7-11 when they had pinball machines.

Pinball actually is one of the things that would be worth going back in time for. The lights, the bells, the sounds of the pop-bumpers, the oneness between man and machine that exists when a player on his game. Shake, rattle, and roll all the way up to j-u-s-t before the TILT light comes on. POP...POP. Oh is that two more free games? For ME? Then a crowd starts to gather around to see how this guy is doing it. POP...POP...POP. Eventually, you just walk away. As a GOD. Leaving all those free games behind.

Henro Wrote:
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> Nike missle base on Popes head road before it was
> sealed off.
> riding my dirtbike off of Bula road Springfield.
> Cannabus Woods bridge parties.
> Prosperity 7-11 when they had pinball machines.


What's cannabus woods. I must know.

Hmmmmm Wrote:
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> So what year would you say Fairfax County jumped
> the shark? IMO, I think we're looking in the
> 1980-1983 range.


No, I would say 1995ish - there were still so many pockets of original Fairfax County around. Yes, built up, but homes still populated by many original owners.

What's cannabus woods. I must know.


It's what we called the woods near Canterberry Woods School.
We did alot of you know.

high water mark for FFX County overall - still an interesting blend of old & new areas, county was raking in tax $$$ and able to spend it on schools, roads, etc., and the locust population was still rather low (many "illegals" were actually from WV - remember the "tent city" out 66?).
By the time the new Gubbment (that'll piss off G2) center (the Taj Mahal according to the WaPo) was up & running w/the attendant structures, the steps to the downturn were already in motion...

HVF4D Wrote:
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> No, I would say 1995ish - there were still so many
> pockets of original Fairfax County around. Yes,
> built up, but homes still populated by many
> original owners.

It's a transient area. Military, diplomats, lobbyists, assorted corporate and political muckety-mucks. They all come, do a few years, and then move on. The area is never going to be one where everyone has known everybody else for generations. That kind of thinking is called "hallucinating."

Mid 90's = Wrote:
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> high water mark for FFX County overall - still an
> interesting blend of old & new areas, county was
> raking in tax $$$ and able to spend it on schools,
> roads, etc., and the locust population was still
> rather low (many "illegals" were actually from WV
> - remember the "tent city" out 66?).
> By the time the new Gubbment (that'll piss off G2)
> center (the Taj Mahal according to the WaPo) was
> up & running w/the attendant structures, the steps
> to the downturn were already in motion...

You're a constant source of stupid. OPEC wishes it had oil wells as reliable as you.

Ol' reliable & stupid.

Memco
Tysons Meat Locker
Super Giant
Jack In The Box
Red Barn
Tysons Pits
Tysons with stores only on the upper level and the big bird chages
Tysons Ice Arena
Village House Ice Rink
State Theater actually played movies
Hechinger Fire in Falls Church
Drag racking on the Dulles Access road and no toll road flanking it

I remember the sewer moratorium ,Then Jack Herrity was elected and Fairfax county exploded.

We had Blue laws..nothing open on Sundays. The big new was a 24 hour diner in Vienna called Amphora.

HoJo's at Fairfax Circle, Ponderosa steak house, Chesapeake bay seafood house.

Old Fairfax HS was GMU Business Dept.

Old Fairfax Theatre- now the showroom @ Ourisman Toyota. The owner would sell you the tickets, drinks and he would get in front of the theatre and TELL you the previews. Next door was Sambo's, across the street was Bachelor II.

We had a Waffle shop where the Hampton inn is and it was next to Shakey's.

123 past Braddock road was 2 lanes and there was nothing until Burke lake,

I remeber when the roads were smooth and the grass was mowed in the medians. Today I saw a county cop car parked in the median, grass taller than the tires.

I remember when white people used to breed.

I remember when everything outside the Beltway was a redneck wasteland. Sent them fuckers off to the reservation, though. BIG improvement!

Trash Taken Out Wrote:
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> I remember when everything outside the Beltway was
> a redneck wasteland. Sent them fuckers off to the
> reservation, though. BIG improvement!


^^^This makes no sense.

Way Backer Wrote:
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> old Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Nope, it was already over for "Old Fairfax" by
> the 80's.
>
> Never minded the cows and goats so much back in
> the day. It was the damned free range chickens
> that took "free range" a little too seriously.
> Ornery little peckers. Must have taken lessons
> from a goose. And it wasn't exactly English that
> was spoken outside the Beltway back then. Some
> kind of mix of redneck and mountain people talk.
> I got fed up and went to complain about the
> chickens to Miss Nettie once. She advised that
> she was going to sue me and went off to call her
> "laryer". A "laryer"? Oh fuck. I got out of
> there as quickly as I could.


Tell us more, that was great

Grew up in Oakton in the 80s....

Playing with buddies around the neighborhood..does not happen anymore.
Lee Hwy Drive
80s Redskins Glory
Riding Dirt Bikes around
Going to Hechingers with my dad....always had that nice lumberyard smell.
Riding in cars with bench seats....no seat belt
Skate boarding at strip shopping centers
Sony Walkman
Many small farmettes around - horses, livestock, etc. Mostly gone now.
Loehmanns Plaza
Red Barn
Roy Rogers - loved the fixins bar, friess, & strawberry shortcake.
Friday night HS football games
Neighborhood yard sales

Blue laws
Massive resistance
The Old Time Gospel Hour

Wasn't safe hereabouts to be anything but a beer-chugging car-tuning flag-flying drawling white male fundie redneck. Better think twice about which flag it was supposed to be too.

Old Civil War stone walls, which local Greenbriar residents would raise and bring to their yard for their gardens.

hYWmP Wrote:
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> Old Civil War stone walls, which local Greenbriar
> residents would raise and bring to their yard for
> their gardens.


When and where did this happen? Nothing of this is mentioned in my history of Greenbriar book. Have I been part of a neighborhood conspiracy and not known it?

Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb IRAN..BOMB IRAN!!! Song.

True The Vote ! Wrote:
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> Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb IRAN..BOMB IRAN!!! Song.

The theme song of sock-puppet John McCain. What a loser!

AYHOLTOLHA ASSAHOLA song.

It's "Ayatollah", you world-class stupid dumbfuck.

Disco Duck

I'm so old. I can remember when KMart, Office Depot, Staples, and other big boxes gave out AOL CD's.

Gerry is a Assahola, and a Obama Head.

And you're still the dumbest piece of shit on FFXU.

Might be dumb, but I'm honest, how bout you Gerry?

Oh I remember all of them. Used to be fun to live here. Sucks now and the traffic is horrific.

Garrett Harper Wrote:
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> It's nice to hear stories about fairfax in the
> 70's & 80's. My father used to own eds bait &
> tackle and to hear all the stories from that
> place was miraculous!

You might appreciate this item from Ed's from 1976...
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I just used some dry wall screws from Fairfax Hardware Store.

tyui: I have a similar map and fishing locations but from Holladay Market in Haymarket or Aldie Country Store.

Henro Wrote:
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> Nike missle base on Popes head road before it was
> sealed off.
> riding my dirtbike off of Bula road Springfield.
> Cannabus Woods bridge parties.
> Prosperity 7-11 when they had pinball machines.

Holy Shit Henro - You named quite a few very familiar things from my misspent youth.

I managed to find and buy the same "Old Chicago" and "Royal Flush" pinball machines they used to have at the Prosperity 7-11. They're down in my ultimate man cave.

Remember when Fairfax County Cops used to make you poor out your beer, dump your weed, and smash your bong in order to avoid a ticket or jail?

Or if you were driving under the influence, they would give your keys to a sober passenger and say I'm following you home?

I meant pour.
Don't want to feed the trolls.

Things Were Better Wrote:
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> Remember when Fairfax County Cops used to make you
> poor out your beer, dump your weed, and smash your
> bong in order to avoid a ticket or jail?
>
> Or if you were driving under the influence, they
> would give your keys to a sober passenger and say
> I'm following you home?


Yeah, in the late 70s and early 80s it was the Fairfax city cops that would bust everyone and the county cops would cut you a break if you spoke to them in a respectful manor. I had a county cop pull me over for dwi on old keene mill rd and take me to 7-11 for a cup of coffee then let me walk back to my car and drive home. Fat chance of that happening today.

Hey HENRO Wrote:
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> Henro Wrote:
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> -----
> > Nike missle base on Popes head road before it
> was
> > sealed off.
> > riding my dirtbike off of Bula road
> Springfield.
> > Cannabus Woods bridge parties.
> > Prosperity 7-11 when they had pinball machines.
>
> Holy Shit Henro - You named quite a few very
> familiar things from my misspent youth.
>
> I managed to find and buy the same "Old Chicago"
> and "Royal Flush" pinball machines they used to
> have at the Prosperity 7-11. They're down in my
> ultimate man cave.

Remember these from Prosperity 7-11?
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lake braddock kid Wrote:
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> Things Were Better Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Remember when Fairfax County Cops used to make
> you
> > poor out your beer, dump your weed, and smash
> your
> > bong in order to avoid a ticket or jail?
> >
> > Or if you were driving under the influence,
> they
> > would give your keys to a sober passenger and
> say
> > I'm following you home?
>
>
> Yeah, in the late 70s and early 80s it was the
> Fairfax city cops that would bust everyone and the
> county cops would cut you a break if you spoke to
> them in a respectful manor. I had a county cop
> pull me over for dwi on old keene mill rd and take
> me to 7-11 for a cup of coffee then let me walk
> back to my car and drive home. Fat chance of that
> happening today.


County cops are still way nicer than Fairfax City cops.

HEY HENRO Wrote:
> Remember these from Prosperity 7-11?

Not from there, but I remember those tables. The Gottlieb was a good one; the Bally sucked, was from the period when they tried something that didn't work.

BTW, if you're into pintables, check out http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/game-over-the-pinball-wizard-and-his-lost-dream-of-a-washington-museum/2014/07/31/e882c48c-cedf-11e3-a6b1-45c4dffb85a6_story.html

Skipping Class at WTW and rideing out thru the "country" Burke going to the old 7-11 there in the old wood building.

The old rt 123 with the long corner before you get to Butts Corner

Taking night rides thru a mystery subdivision way out in the sticks, digging the dark unlight roads thur English Hills

Riding on the power lines in a 4X4 pickup with a load of people in back everybody drinking beers.

Seeing 5 acre lots in Clifton/Fairfax Station for 25000 dollars.

Bells pond in Burke and the Pagens House

Riding dirt bikes at Tysons pits/Blulea Rd Franconia/Reston/Loisdale

Racing a Husqvarna at motocross tracks at Hollywood Md "Chuck Leas, Waldorf, Cedar Ridge Mineral Va, Basum Farm Annapolis, Hagerstown, Shilo Md near Sugar Loaf Clarksburg Md, and the "new track" at Budds Creek Md.

Being thrilled at seeing the Mormon temple off the beltway at night in all its glory.

Going to Dulles and watching the planes land beneath the control tower itself above a surreal sight at night.

Eating at Ginos Hot Shoppes Jr Pappy Parkers chicken, Shopping at Dart Drug.

Spending summers at the local pools

Louies Rock City, Partners II, Hunters Lodge for laughs, the 29 diner at night
Bachlors II at Camp Washington.

Riding to Clark Bros outside of Warrenton to shoot handguns. hunting up at the George Washington National Forest at Cow Knob.

Goodguys in Wash Dc and Bayou, Crazy Horse , Danny Gatton the Worlds Greatest Guitar Player, Steve Bishop too at WTW.

3.2 Beer partys with loud rock music at Annandale NOVA and Geo Mason.and the GM Rothskeller. and parties at the old library in Fairfax that was all beat up back then.

The 1320 club on Rt 1 and the Dixie Pig for meatloaf mashed potato lunches.

Then and Now: the Vienna Inn drinking .39 cent beers eating 25 cent hot dogs and having Jack Herrity hustle me for a vote in 1975. Its almost still the same ole Vienna Inn. Except its 7 dollars for two beers and a hot dog.
'
Belle Haven Marina on the Potomac, paties and now kayak rides and boating.

And thats the tip of the Old Iceburg.. and what do I miss most?? Jack In The Box Tacos and we've been over that a hundred times!

Where was the Tysons Ice Arena?

And the old Fairfax High School is now Paul VI Catholic High School.

There was a frozen food locker place at Tysons they cut up game and sold beef. Never had a ice areana Those are at Fairfax Pickett Rd and Mt Vernon Rec center

I remember the Hunters Lodge, Partners II, and the 29 Drive In. I remember Kamp Washington when it had a People's Drug Store by the ABC Store. There was a Safeway next door. There used to be an Esso at Kamp Washington and a donut shop. Old Virginia City, a miniature western town/amusement park was on 29-211 near West Ox Road. Tony's Pizza was on Lee Highway at University Drive. Route 50 was a two-lane road, with a flashing caution light at West Ox Road. Heller's Store was on the southwest corner of West Ox Road and Route 50. I-66 had not been built. John Payne's Esso was where the entrance ramp to I-66 at Route 50 East is now. I remember when it was Jermantown Elementary on Jermantown Road. I remember when Fair Oaks Mall was a golf course and before that two farms owned by the Thompson brothers. I remember when the OLD Fairfax High School was the only one that existed. I remember when a tornado destroyed the roof of Woodson High School and for almost a year, Woodson students had to share Oakton High School. I remember the soda fountain at People's Drug Store and Chesapeake Bay Seafood House. I remember a restaurant called the Franklin Stove on Route 236 that made wonderful creamed spinach. I remember the old Fairfax Hardware Store and the two guys who always worked there: Eddie and Hubert. Wow!!! I must be getting OLD!

Stealing beer from pickett 7-11 every weekend, and sitting on the hill at starlet watching and laughing at the cops driving around the apartments across the street looking for us

old school fool Wrote:
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> Stealing beer from pickett 7-11 every weekend, and
> sitting on the hill at starlet watching and
> laughing at the cops driving around the apartments
> across the street looking for us


Buying 12 packs of Bud for $3.83 at the Dart Drug on Pickett Road, and going behind the skating rink for the ice scrapings. Load up a pick-up truck with snow and cans of beer in July. Off to Super 29 Drive In.

Tysons Old Timer Wrote:
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> There was a frozen food locker place at Tysons
> they cut up game and sold beef.

Tyson's Locker Plant. Where JKJ is now.

> Never had a ice arena Those are at Fairfax Pickett Rd and Mt
> Vernon Rec center

Tysons Ice Rink was on Tyco Road behind Cherner Lincoln-Mercury or whatever it was. Played hockey there a lot in the mid to late 70's.

Chantilly in the 1980s

I remember when Greenbriar shopping center had the Dart drug store above where the total wine is at now. The old Highs where the 7-11 is at.

Brookfield elementary used to have a bullhorn type siren mounted atop a large pole that I believe would sound to warn for a tornado

I remembered riding our BMX bikes on the dirt trails where the Chantilly library is located across from Chantilly HS

Playing in Frog Branch creek when there was actually water in the creek

Going to the farmers market there on route 50 where the cellular store now sits

Buying baseball cards in a dusty and smoky card shop where the capital one bank now sits at rt 50 and walney rd

Chantilly plaza shopping center when it used to have A&P

old school fool Wrote:
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> Stealing beer from pickett 7-11 every weekend, and
> sitting on the hill at starlet watching and
> laughing at the cops driving around the apartments
> across the street looking for us


Do you remember a slutty girl that used to hang out at Pickett shopping center? Her name was Janet.

This area makes me so sad, all the development and influx of uneducated, unemployed scumbags has made it a much less pleasant place to live. A few of my memories:

- Gifford's ice cream on a Saturday night after getting chores done.
- Being sent out to play at 9:00 AM, being out all day with all the neighborhood kids, getting fed at some random kids house, coming home at 5:00 for dinner and NOT getting molested, nearly killed by a clueless diplomat in a Mercedes or getting bothered by 20 drunk clowns from El Salvador in front of Highs dairy.
- Ben Franklin 5 & 10
- Real fireworks on the 4th
- McLean hardware when it was 5 old dudes who would get you exactly what bolt you really needed and only charge $0.05
- Having a real CHRISTMAS party in school
- The state theater for movies (starwars!)
- Modest homes with neatly landscaped yards
- Fantastic Frtizbee's Flying Food Factory
- Tysons not crawling with Arabic guys reeking of bad cologne to cover up their BO

Sigh... Thanks Carter, Clinton, Obama

EatMahButt Wrote:
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> This area makes me so sad, all the development and
> influx of uneducated, unemployed scumbags has made
> it a much less pleasant place to live. A few of
> my memories:

> - Tysons not crawling with Arabic guys reeking of
> bad cologne to cover up their BO
>
> Sigh... Thanks Carter, Clinton, Obama

Odd that you would conclude in this fashion, since it was St. Ronald Reagan who changed U.S. immigration law making it much easier for "family members" to sponsor other "family members". Prior to this, a potential immigrant had to demonstrate he/she would bring actual value to the U.S., not just "reunite" with the a 2nd cousin who earned an advanced degree. Republican family values at work.

It also didn't help that St. Reagan opened up the country to all the "freedom fighters" on the losing side of various civil wars in central America which he funded, often illegally. Think about this the next time you see an overloaded Toyota Corolla with a bumper sticker that says "mi tierra es El Salvador".

EatMahButt Wrote:
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> This area makes me so sad, all the development and
> influx of uneducated, unemployed scumbags has made
> it a much less pleasant place to live. A few of
> my memories:
>
> - Gifford's ice cream on a Saturday night after
> getting chores done.
> - Being sent out to play at 9:00 AM, being out all
> day with all the neighborhood kids, getting fed at
> some random kids house, coming home at 5:00 for
> dinner and NOT getting molested, nearly killed by
> a clueless diplomat in a Mercedes or getting
> bothered by 20 drunk clowns from El Salvador in
> front of Highs dairy.
> - Ben Franklin 5 & 10
> - Real fireworks on the 4th
> - McLean hardware when it was 5 old dudes who
> would get you exactly what bolt you really needed
> and only charge $0.05
> - Having a real CHRISTMAS party in school
> - The state theater for movies (starwars!)
> - Modest homes with neatly landscaped yards
> - Fantastic Frtizbee's Flying Food Factory
> - Tysons not crawling with Arabic guys reeking of
> bad cologne to cover up their BO
>
> Sigh... Thanks Carter, Clinton, Obama


This is our land now old man. Time for you to move to nursing home senior. We loves your country and we will takes good care of it.

Peter Laidmore Wrote:
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> old school fool Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Stealing beer from pickett 7-11 every weekend,
> and
> > sitting on the hill at starlet watching and
> > laughing at the cops driving around the
> apartments
> > across the street looking for us
>
>
> Do you remember a slutty girl that used to hang
> out at Pickett shopping center? Her name was
> Janet.


Nah but remember moped Dave?

There were a lot of slutty girls at Pickett. But I don't remember janet

Long ago, it must be, I have a photograph...
Preserve your memories, they're all that's left you.

When I lived at Shenandoah Crossing in the early 90's and it wasn't filled with spics and push starts.

Oh, and for those that do not know:

Push Start = Indians with Dots on their forehead (i.e. South East Asians)
Pull Start = Indians with Pony Tails (i.e. native Americans)

Trips to Memorial Stadium, Sunday Blue laws, pasties, Gablinger's beer, and oh my god, lots of really good dope. And home-grown radio -- the REAL WHFS -- 102.3 FM, in Bethesda, Maryland. Broadcasting from high atop the Triangle Towers Building -- 4853 Cordell Avenue, right across the street from the Psyche Deli.
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Occoquan River Jam and drag racing family stationwagon off Edsell/Marlow rd.Grasstracks?

I remember when the Merrifield drive in theater started sending the audio portion of the movies out over a low wattage AM radio transmitter because the wiring to their speakers was screwed up. We parked out behind the furniture store on gallows road and watched free movies for a whole summer. After a while too many kids were parking there and the FCPD started running us off. I squeezed my first boobie there.

I heard there used to be a place where men could box with a chimpanzee to win a prize, and the chimp invariably won. That must've been a very long time ago.

I remember when Seven Corners was a very pleasant place to shop, and Fair City Mall wasn't a madhouse, and Annandale was genteel.

In the suburb where I grew up, the country feel was not far - e.g., there might be an odd, poor neighbor living with farm animals in their yard.

I remember "Balloon Day" at my elementary school, where we unleashed dozens (hundreds?) of balloons with notes on them, and got responses back from afar. Likely that kind of thing wouldn't be allowed anymore.

Becky Wrote:
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>
>
> In the suburb where I grew up, the country feel
> was not far - e.g., there might be an odd, poor
> neighbor living with farm animals in their yard.
>
> I remember "Balloon Day" at my elementary school,
> where we unleashed dozens (hundreds?) of balloons
> with notes on them, and got responses back from
> afar. Likely that kind of thing wouldn't be
> allowed anymore.

Great memories there! I grew up in springfield and in second grade, our class had our year end party at a classmate's farm somewhere off of Rolling Road. She had a barn with horses and pigs and I remember being allowed to go into the chicken coop. This was '76

Also, my elementary school, Rolling Valley, held a balloon launch, too.

Our principal presided over field day with a starter gun. It was seriously competitive with only first, second and third place ribbons awarded. Winners stood on a homemade winners stand.

RVES had a air raid siren and once a month, it was tested.

One of my second grade classmates ripped his pants on the gravel during recess and simply hopped the fence to go home and change. He came back before the end of recess.

Circa 1978/79/80, Burke Center was being developed and there was no ES for the influx of students, so they all were bused to RVES. Terra Centre "the underground school" was under construction.

Becky Wrote:
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> I heard there used to be a place where men could
> box with a chimpanzee to win a prize, and the
> chimp invariably won. That must've been a very
> long time ago.
>


I remember hearing about that. Only it was an orangutan that you fought.

I think it was a traveling carnival and that was one of the attractions.

old Wrote:
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> I remember hearing about that. Only it was an
> orangutan that you fought.
>
> I think it was a traveling carnival and that was
> one of the attractions.


Ah - maybe it was an orangutan - that would be safer than a chimpanzee. That must have been quite a sight.

Tracy from 2nd grade Wrote:
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> One of my second grade classmates ripped his pants
> on the gravel during recess and simply hopped the
> fence to go home and change. He came back before
> the end of recess.

Ha! Those were the days! Things seemed so different then. And those air raid sirens... They left quite an impression on young minds, esp. after the movie "The Day After" came out.

I remember getting wanked off by two girls from Our lady of good counsel.

^^^ Obvious virgin.

Becky Wrote:
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> old Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
>
> > I remember hearing about that. Only it was an
> > orangutan that you fought.
> >
> > I think it was a traveling carnival and that
> was
> > one of the attractions.
>
>
> Ah - maybe it was an orangutan - that would be
> safer than a chimpanzee. That must have been
> quite a sight.


Nope, you would rather box a chimp than an orangutan. Orangutans have a much greater reach and are stronger. You do not want to straight up fight a chimp though, they instinctively go for and will rip/bite your balls off. I think the fucking scariest primate is a Baboon though. I'd fight one of those little fuckers that cling to your finger though!!!!