Growing Up in Southern Maryland

[BakeMyFish]

I read your blog about driving the cab. I was most likely one of your fares back in the day. I was 18 or 19 and didn't have a car. If I didn't have a ride I always called for a cab or caught it outside of Giant with my groceries. I remember the lady that took the calls and dispatched. I called so much, she knew my voice. It was convenient and pretty cheap back then.

S o, you grew up in Marlow Heights? And you now live in Southern Maryland?

 

[Dupontster]

I think the Beltway marks the border.

That makes Marlow Heights and Suitland area NOT part of SoMd....They are inside the beltway...Sorry...

You remember a club/dance hall in Tall Timbers?? Think I asked Ken King once about it but never caught a name. Used to come way the hell down there(from Glenn Dale area of PG) in the late 60s/early 70s to see a buddy of mine's band. Don't really remember alot about the place cept it seemed huge and overrun with swabbies that didn't really care for long hair on guys..

Think Ken King said it burnt down or was torn down.

It is still there...I think maybe it caught on fire one time but the building is still there...It is converted into a house now...Kind of a rustic looking building..Believe me the long hair guys didn't care too much for the swabbies either...There were fights there every weekend...

 

[BakeMyFish]

That makes Marlow Heights and Suitland area NOT part of SoMd....They are inside the beltway...Sorry...



It is still there...I think maybe it caught on fire one time but the building is still there...It is converted into a house now...Kind of a rustic looking building..Believe me the long hair guys didn't care too much for the swabbies either...There were fights there every weekend...

Please, please? We want to belong!! I'm offering teeth. Don't hate us because we're beautiful.

 

[JimW711]

I'm a little confused about Malfunction Junction. Where exactly is that? In Clinton or Brandywine?

Malfunction Junction was where Rte. 5 (Branch Ave.), Old Alexander Ferry Road, Kirby Road, and Old Branch Ave kinda all met. There was a bowling alley really close by.

 

[BakeMyFish]

Malfunction Junction was where Rte. 5 (Branch Ave.), Old Alexander Ferry Road, Kirby Road, and Old Branch Ave kinda all met. There was a bowling alley really close by.

I got you. I would consider that Southern MD. But, then again apparently it's not my call. What flag should I fly?

 

[OldHillcrestGuy]

Malfunction Junction was where Rte. 5 (Branch Ave.), Old Alexander Ferry Road, Kirby Road, and Old Branch Ave kinda all met. There was a bowling alley really close by.

Here you go this goes back a bit, but before the bowling alley you know what was on that lot?
Come on take a guess, also was a new car dearler actually a branch of one from Upper Marlboro. Jay Chevolet and there use to be a minature golf course and beside that a golf driving range.

 

[Dupontster]

Please, please? We want to belong!! I'm offering teeth. Don't hate us because we're beautiful.

OK, You can be part of SoMd...

Malfunction Junction was where Rte. 5 (Branch Ave.), Old Alexander Ferry Road, Kirby Road, and Old Branch Ave kinda all met. There was a bowling alley really close by.

Malfunction Junction was right where the Marlow Heights Shopping Center sign was...Intersection Rt 5 and St Barnabus Rd...

I got you. I would consider that Southern MD. But, then again apparently it's not my call. What flag should I fly?

Just fly a St Mary's County flag

 

[BakeMyFish]

Here you go this goes back a bit, but before the bowling alley you know what was on that lot?
Come on take a guess, also was a new car dearler actually a branch of one from Upper Marlboro. Jay Chevolet and there use to be a minature golf course and beside that a golf driving range.

Damn. You are an Old Phart.

 

[BakeMyFish]

OK, You can be part of SoMd...



Malfunction Junction was right where the Marlow Heights Shopping Center sign was...Intersection Rt 5 and St Barnabus Rd...



Just fly a St Mary's County flag

Thank you. I feel the love.

 

[jrmy1080]

half of pg county is southern md. to all of you people that think otherwise

 

[OldHillcrestGuy]

Malfunction Junction was right where the Marlow Heights Shopping Center sign was...Intersection Rt 5 and St Barnabus Rd...

Nope that wasn't Malfunction Junction, was a bad intersection but only had the 2 roads coming together, use to be a old Amoco gas staion (Coles) on the corner and St Barnabus was only single lane road then. But the intersection in Clinton was the one and only Malfuction Junction.

 

[Rael]

How bout a Charlie Bolton, lucia Nigra, Joan Von Cannon - I think is the name

Check your pm'er.

 

[JimW711]

Here you go this goes back a bit, but before the bowling alley you know what was on that lot?
Come on take a guess, also was a new car dearler actually a branch of one from Upper Marlboro. Jay Chevolet and there use to be a minature golf course and beside that a golf driving range.

1: Malfucntion Junction was where I said it was, and that can be backed up because it was listed as one of this country's worst intersections for years.

2: You want to show age? How many people can tell me what was at the corner of Acton Lane and Old Washington Avenue in Waldorf way, way before the WalMart was built? And no, it wasn't the bowling alley because that was on the opposite corner

 

[BakeMyFish]

half of pg county is southern md. to all of you people that think otherwise

^5, Man.

 

[BakeMyFish]

1: Malfucntion Junction was where I said it was, and that can be backed up because it was listed as one of this country's worst intersections for years.

2: You want to show age? How many people can tell me what was at the corner of Acton Lane and Old Washington Avenue in Waldorf way, way before the WalMart was built? And no, it wasn't the bowling alley because that was on the opposite corner

A bum selling candy canes?

 

[OldHillcrestGuy]

half of pg county is southern md. to all of you people that think otherwise

I agree with you, if you look at a map anything south of maybe Central Ave (Rt 214) should be SoMd. If that part of PG is not SoMd, then most of Calvert shouldn't be considered SoMd. either.

 

[OldHillcrestGuy]

1: Malfucntion Junction was where I said it was, and that can be backed up because it was listed as one of this country's worst intersections for years.

2: You want to show age? How many people can tell me what was at the corner of Acton Lane and Old Washington Avenue in Waldorf way, way before the WalMart was built? And no, it wasn't the bowling alley because that was on the opposite corner

Curly's Bowling alley and on the oppisite side from Curlys where the Walmart parking lot is, was a wooded lot that had a old house on it the was used one year or maybe several for a haunted house at Halloween.

 

[jrmy1080]

Towns and communities in Southern Maryland

Towns and places in Southern Maryland include:
Anne Arundel County:

* Deale
* Shady Side

Calvert County:

* Chesapeake Beach
* Dunkirk
* Huntingtown
* Lusby, Maryland
* North Beach
* Prince Frederick (county seat)
* Port Republic, Maryland
* St. Leonard, Maryland
* Solomons

Charles County:

* Bryans Road, Maryland
* Indian Head
* Hughesville, Maryland
* La Plata (county seat)
* Nanjemoy, Maryland
* Waldorf
* St. Charles

Prince George's County:

* Accokeek
* Brandywine
* Clinton
* Eagle Harbor
* Upper Marlboro (county seat)

St. Mary's County:

* California, Maryland
* Charlotte Hall, Maryland
* Hollywood, Maryland
* Leonardtown (county seat)
* Lexington Park
* Mechanicsville, Maryland
* St. Mary's City

 

[BakeMyFish]

I agree with you, if you look at a map anything south of maybe Central Ave (Rt 214) should be SoMd. If that part of PG is not SoMd, then most of Calvert shouldn't be considered SoMd. either.

I think we need to take it to court for a legal opinion. Then we can really confuse everyone.

 

[Otter]

Curly Bowling alley and on the oppisite side from Curlys where the Walmart parking lot is, was a wooded lot that had a old house on it the was used one year or maybe several for a haunted house at Halloween.

Curly's The most hated duckpin house in Maryland...