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OMG!!! You did a great job! Dayum, If only I could turn back the clock! 
My Web Site About Marlow Heights 60s and 70s
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justin anemone said:Unbelievable trip down memory lane, Chuck!
My grandparents used to live on "23rd Parkway Court" (which was off of 23rd Parkway) right across the street from Iverson Towers. I remember watching them build it as a kid. There used to be a rumor that a guy fell off of one of the girders and died when they were building it and at night you could see his ghost walking around the unfinished floors.
We used to walk up to the shopping center and it's exactly as I remember it in your picture, right down to the missing "I" in the sign!
Too funny...
Red Barn always had great burgers, and the chain used to extend up into northwest PA where I lived later. I remember ordering the "Barnbuster", which we lovingly referred to as the "Gutbuster".
Talk about how safe it used to be, we used to hike to Oxen Hill to go to the movies when the Marlo Theater didn't have anything good. I remember seeing "Willard" there (for some odd reason).
Oh..and if you went to Hot Shoppes, you HAD to have the Hot Fudge Cake with hot chocolate sauce and whipped cream.
Thanks again.
Great JOB!
Justin,
I definitely remember Iverson Towers. And yes, I guess they are not replacing the missing "I" in the Marlow Heights Shopping Center sign for a reason. As for the "Barnbuster", I don't remember that, just the "Big Barney" burger. We used to call the Red Barn, the "Dead Barn". And if you saw "Willard" at the Marlow Theater, that was definitely a long time ago (early 70s). As for the Hot Fudge Cake with hot chocolate sauce and whipped cream, I think that was offered at the Hot Shoppes Cafeteria. At the Jr Hot Shoppes I worked at, we just had soft ice cream and I think a "fixins" bar for it in the dining room.
Working at the Jr Hot Shoppes back in the early 70s, we'd had a lot of Hippes there and bums. When I would work Sunday mornings, I would have to sweep the pot "roaches", syringes, and condoms off the bathroom floor from Saturday night before. Also, once I had to clean the women's room just right after we opened on a Sunday morning. I thought no one had come in yet. I was wrong! There was a huge woman sitting on the throne, with the Sunday Washington Post laid out.
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kwillia said:I was about 8 years old when we moved from the Forrestville apartments to St. Mary's County in the early-seventies... you website has brought back many memories of Marlo Heights... not many fond ones tho...
I'm glad that my web site brought back memories, but sorry to hear that not many were fond ones. What was wrong?
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Mostly , White...Babies on the forums. They know nothing different.cissp said:
FastCarsSpeed said:
Steak in a Sack RULES !!!!!!!
cissp said:
Can I say it again???
Steak in a Sack RULES!!!!
FastCarsSpeed
Come Play at BigWoodys
Yes twice is definately ok.. I had one last week before I started the crunch to lose these holiday lbs haha.. mmmmmvirgovictoria said:Can I say it again???
Steak in a Sack RULES!!!!
John Z
if you will
cissp said:
I grew up in Dayton Ohio, and we had a Red Barn burger place too.
Do you guys remember Little Tavern? It was a DC-area (as far as I know) place that served little burgers, ala White Castle. I don't know if they exist any more, but in the '90s I went to a couple (one in Laurel MD and one in Wheaton MD <I think>)
Perfect place for deathballs at 3am after everything else was closed. Visited the one in College Park quite a bit.
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Go Braves!
She's saying that alot of us are probably too young to know what you're talking. You'll have to ask her what she means by the white partcissp said:
I would have like to of known the Marlow Heights ya'll remember over the way I know it. My vision of MH isn't a pretty one at all. Unfortunately when you mention locations and street names I think of all the calls I've ran to those locations with the FD.
cissp
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I'm not trying to be naive. The purpose of my website is to recreate memories of what Marlow Heights WAS back then. It may be a "shiabox" as you term it now, but it wasn't always that way. I know you can't can't go back in time, but some people would like to remember what it was back then during the 60s and 70s. Remember, this is a retro web site, so we're not focusing on how things are now. Believe it or not, PG County had one of the top school systems in the nation back then. There was a lot of promise...hope. Let's not darken its appeal of how things are now, but how things were back then. Perhaps things didn't turn out for the area as we would have wanted (as evidenced by the significant migration of people from there to Southern Maryland), but that's development, demographics, and the natural decline of established neighborhoods.mainman said:
cissp
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Yes please, Mrs. Jones, I would gladly appreciate your photos for inclusion on my website. Also, if you have a chance to step inside and ask a few questions, I would appreciate some history of the Steak in a Sack. I live in Central Florida, so I don't have the luxury of doing this myself. That is, unless I relocate back up in the DC in a few years.Mrs. Jones said:It wouldn't be retro, but I could take one this week. I work just down the street.
