Tell me about your home town

[Wenchy (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Gilligan

Wow. That (where Montgomery Village is) was land we and a couple neighboring farms leased and farmed for corn, wheat and hay. Nearly all of it..about 2000 acres or more as I recall. When informed that a development would be built there and our lease was cancelled, I remember the guffaws..."What?..who on earth would want to live out there??"

Families with young children. I'm glad Mom moved us there.

My high school was still surrounded by fields and cows. Now. it's surrounded my condos.

Seneca Valley (my HS) was in Germantown and not MV.

The area is now unrecognizable.

Pretty much a strip from DC to almost Frederick.

[Gilligan (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Wenchy

Pretty much a strip from DC to almost Frederick.

I know. It pains me almost too much to see it..I seldom ever go back. Jack Roush took our home space away when he bought the apple orchard in 1966 or whenever and started that cancer called "Columbia"....the rest just piled on.

[RoseRed (Premo)]

Born in Palo Alto, CA and we moved around the Bay Area a lot. I lay claim to Los Altos, CA because that is where I spent the most years. Until I moved here in 1990.

[Wenchy (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Gilligan

I know. It pains me almost too much to see it..I seldom ever go back. Jack Roush took our home space away when he bought the apple orchard in 1966 or whenever and started that cancer called "Columbia"....the rest just piled on.

Yup.

I do have to say, it was a great place to grow up (circa early 80's)

Then it all went nuts.

[Gilligan (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Wenchy

My high school was still surrounded by fields and cows. .

I kept running tractors with equipment in tow down 97 and 650 (or towards Gaithersburg, the back way) to our Monkey County leased fields well in to the mid-70s. Used to be quite amused when I would have as many as a dozen cars stacked behind me on 650 after I turned off at Sunshine..they would beep..I would glance back and shrug..

Can you imagine?..nowadays I would probably be shot. Another road rage incident.

[b23hqb]

Originally Posted by vraiblonde

How do you get a Sooners cheerleader in your dorm room?

Grease her up and push like hell.

Sure sounds like any Nebraskan "girl", but with the corncob inserted......

Mooooo......

[my-thyme]

Lexington Park, MD

I remember when Hermanville Road was dirt.

Hardees, when it came, was a big deal. Mama took us for lunch during the summer every payday.

Peebles was THE place to go for dressy clothes.

A twice year trip to the shops in Waldorf was a BIG deal.

We used to load 2 parents, 5 kids in PJs, and 2 paper grocery bags of popcorn in the station wagon and head to the drive-in every Friday.

They used to string Christmas lights across 235 on the traffic lights at the base main gate (now gate 2).

Every holiday meant Grandma's house, 22 Aunts and Uncles, 42 cousins, then their spouses and kids, in a four room house.

Daddy also from here, Mama a Navy brat.

Daddy's family here from way back.

PopPop from Alabama, Grandma from Minnesota.

Hubby from Vermont. I love Vermont - I dream of making a home there someday...

[Wenchy (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Gilligan

I kept running tractors with equipment in tow down 97 and 650 (or towards Gaithersburg, the back way) to our Monkey County leased fields well in to the mid-70s. Used to be quite amused when I would have as many as a dozen cars stacked behind me on 650 after I turned off at Sunshine..they would beep..I would glance back and shrug..

Can you imagine?..nowadays I would probably be shot. Another road rage incident.

So much for a hometown.

I went to college in Salisbury and called it "Smallsbury". It was still a quaint town with a college and only the beach nearby to salvage it (in my mind)

I'm glad I enjoyed those days.

I do pray for my children.

[Wenchy (Premo)]

Originally Posted by my-thyme

I love Vermont - I dream of making a home there someday...

I hope you will and that it will remain the same.

Change (haha) is not always good. JMO

[mamatutu]

Originally Posted by Wenchy

Families with young children. I'm glad Mom moved us there.

My high school was still surrounded by fields and cows. Now. it's surrounded my condos.

Seneca Valley (my HS) was in Germantown and not MV.

The area is now unrecognizable.

Pretty much a strip from DC to almost Frederick.

My hometown is New Orleans; everyone knows about that city, so I won't elaborate. I was reading about your hometown; flooded me with memories. I moved to Darnestown in 1984; lived on Mockingbird Drive off of Seneca. Lakeforest Mall was where I shopped. Both my children were born in MD; my daughter at Holy Cross, and my son at Shady Grove. They went to Darnestown Elem, but if we had stayed would have gone to the new HS (Northwest in Germantown, not Quince Orchard) I loved living there. I miss it, but I like it here, too. It has all come full circle because my daughter lives with some college sorority sisters in King Farm which really was a farm when we lived there; so I know what you are saying about buildup. What is really scary is my daughter has been to JJ Muldoons where my hub and I used to go! Who knows, you and I may know some of the same people.