Here's a tool apron I'd gotten around 1990 from a Hechinger store in Woodbridge, which is still Northern VA sort of. Hell, with urban sprawl rampant as it's been since forever, Woodbridge is practically Metro DC nowadays. But yeah, there was a Hechinger right close to Highway 95 whose massive parking lot was used as a commuter pick-up and drop-off point for slug line riders back in the 1990's whe
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Vienna Res Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 1979 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Here's some employee swag from my one year with > > Kinney Shoes at 414 East Maple Avenue in Vienna > > next door to Wu's Garden Chinese restaurant > (still > > there, amazingly). It's a ruler-calculator, >
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Here's some employee swag from my one year with Kinney Shoes at 414 East Maple Avenue in Vienna next door to Wu's Garden Chinese restaurant (still there, amazingly). It's a ruler-calculator, though I've managed over the years to misplace the calc. The old Kinney Shoes building still stands, but it is now two separate suites whose tenants are Leslie's Pool Supplies and Sandy Spring Bank, respectiv
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... Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphoto > s-ak-prn1/t1/1010249_10200269473159278_1171979727_ > n.jpg"> I remember Waxie Maxies used to be in the malls. Is that an employee pinback? Gawd, when was the last time I went to a mall to buy music? LOL.
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I recall hearing tons of consumer griping over Circuit City's... whatever. Customer care or lack thereof, maybe? I forget what people were bitching about. But I used to love Circuit City and in my opinion, it still sucks that they vanished. Got this item at a Circuit City that existed in Springfield on Old Keene Mill.
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get it now Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Make sure you grab some of the artificial turf, as > when the school budget finally crashes, it will > have to be torn up as they can't maintain it. Yeah, wasn't there some wealthy benefactor or some such?
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Henro Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Capt 20 card I'd say that has to be pre-1986 when WDCA was bought out by TVX.
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LOL
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Another bit of Northern VA swag I got some years back was this frisbee disc. Got it as a give-away item in 1998 at Bob's Big Boy which was located in Falls Church on West Broad Street. That place has since changed hands twice. After Big Boy, it was an Original Pancake House for a short stint and then became a Famous Daves.
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Henro Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > an My son graduated from Fairfax High. My understanding is that Paul the Sixth school is where the original Fairfax High building stood. I love little Fairfax historical tidbits. I was a Robinson grad myself.
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Speaking of Dart Drug and sister entities, there was a TRAK AUTO tucked into a weird corner adjacent to Old People Buffet in Fair City Mall. I used to get my motor oil there and, after collecting a sufficient number of proofs of purchase, sent them off along with $6.50 for shipping and got this swell item here in return. It's fluky that I managed to accidently hang on to it all these years.
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I wanted to open a thread for posting of photos of Fairfax/No-VA stuff I actually own. I have just a few items I've collected for their nostalgic or sentimental value that remind me of Northern Virginia days past. I would love to see pics of all of YOUR stuff here too, if you'd care to contribute. I'll start off posting photos of a circa 1981 employee pinback from my first full-time job. The loca
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Yes, I acknowledge that Pfaltzgraff was there beyond 1979, which was the year I first touched ground in Fairfax. To put it into context, when an old guy like me says "not long after" it may actually be years long in duration, but relative to the number of years I've lived in this area by now, it seems as if it was a mere handful of months or so to me. I'm sure it was a number of years though, in
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Ah what a cool photo!! Does it have a date?
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Walgreens stands at 10320 Main Street in Fairfax presently. Harris Teeter didn't last long there but it was a very nice two-story grocery that I used to like to patronize. That corner location has changed hands quite a number of times over the decades. In fact, since the early 1980's, the corner of Main Street and Old Lee Hwy has been truly and thoroughly cleared, revamped, pruned, groomed, re-cl
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I happen to be a large person with heavy long-term involvement with strength training athletics. I tend to eat extra large, extra heavy meals..... so when I say I used to love the soup and salad at Black-eyed Pea in Old Town Fairfax, that's really saying something. They had some kind of sausage gumbo, I believe it was. And it was absolutely addictive. And how good can a salad really be, honestly?
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