My Web Site About Marlow Heights 60s and 70s

[cissp]

I just created a web site that is about Marlow Heights in the 60s and 70s. The web site address is:

www.marlowheights60sand70s.com

Please excuse the crude appearance, but I've spent the last few days working on the site, and admittedly my web building skills aren't up to par yet. But I hope everyone enjoys visiting the site, and gets into the spirit of it, which is remembering Marlow Heights during the 60s and 70s. I plan for the site to be constantly evolving, and I will appreciate everyone's feedback to make the site that much better. Eventually I would like to add a message board too, but one thing at a time.

Thanks,

Chuck

 

[mainman]

I just created a web site that is about Marlow Heights in the 60s and 70s. The web site address is:

www.marlowheights60sand70s.com

Please excuse the crude appearance, but I've spent the last few days working on the site, and admittedly my web building skills aren't up to par yet. But I hope everyone enjoys visiting the site, and gets into the spirit of it, which is remembering Marlow Heights during the 60s and 70s. I plan for the site to be constantly evolving, and I will appreciate everyone's feedback to make the site that much better. Eventually I would like to add a message board too, but one thing at a time.

Thanks,

Chuck

:grit: Don't forget the tube socks that you pulled up to your neck...

 

[geminigrl]

Very interesting, you did a good job

 

[RoseRed]

I am not from here, but I do remember a Red Barn hamgurger chain in CA that we would go to. Same place?

 

[czygvtwkr]

I liked your "Grit" section. Although I find it hard to believe anyone that wore clothes like that was intimidating. Looks more like the "nerd gone bad" look to me.

 

[CMC122]

I knew quite a few people who were upset when that Hot Shoppes closed

 

[CableChick]

I remember going to the Red Barn to country dance!!! It was the happening place you know! Friends got shot at in the parking lot one night. Brings back memories of when me and my hubby were courting!

 

[jazz lady]

I just created a web site that is about Marlow Heights in the 60s and 70s.

I only remember going to the shopping areas in the late 60s through the 70s and the early 80s. The pictures of the stores really brought back memories as did the sounds from WPGC (Where People Get Cash)!

Good job and I'm looking forward to seeing the progress as you flesh out the site.

 

[cattitude]

hamgurger chain

Californians....always gotta be different.

 

[cattitude]

I liked your "Grit" section. Although I find it hard to believe anyone that wore clothes like that was intimidating. Looks more like the "nerd gone bad" look to me.

I was block. Teased hair, Peters jacket, deck shoes, mulligans. I desperately wanted a leather jacket (had to be Cabretta leather) but my parents said no.

 

[jazz lady]

I desperately wanted a leather jacket (had to be Cabretta leather) but my parents said no.

You were scarred for life. Rotten parents.

 

[cissp]

Not exactly the run of the mill tube socks, as I remember. They were the more sturdier, basketball or hockey type. But yes, definitely cuffed up for full effect.

Chuck

 

[cissp]

I am not from here, but I do remember a Red Barn hamgurger chain in CA that we would go to. Same place?

Depends. Does the picture on my home page resemble what you're talking about? I think the Red Barn chain went out of business sometime in the 80s. Their "big" burger was the "Big Barney". They also had fried chicken.

Chuck

 

[cissp]

I liked your "Grit" section. Although I find it hard to believe anyone that wore clothes like that was intimidating. Looks more like the "nerd gone bad" look to me.

Believe me, being both a former Grit and a reformed Grit, those dudes were some real bad a**es!. Yeah, looking at it now their style of dress seems silly but they were common in PG County back then (and other, outlying areas). I wonder what they are doing now--putting up drywall? Running gas stations? VPs at Microsoft?

Chuck

 

[vraiblonde]

Not being from Maryland, I had never heard the term "grit" until our middle daughter came walking in with a tight t-shirt, a thick chain necklace and a chain from her pocket to her belt loop with a leather thing attached. Larry said she looked like a grit girl.

Cute site.

 

[mainman]

Not exactly the run of the mill tube socks, as I remember. They were the more sturdier, basketball or hockey type. But yes, definitely cuffed up for full effect.

Chuck

I remember.... (the older folks anyways)

 

[virgovictoria]

What about Steak in a Sack????

And Woolworth's?

Or did I miss one or both?

Cool Site!

 

[Frozenpl]

The Red Barn that held the dances was a bar located in Morningside about a mile from Andrews AFB. Your website brings back the good old days where you could walk to mall with no worries.

 

[fttrsbeerwench]

I think the site is nice Chuck!! My mom grew up in the southern D.C area in the mid sixties, she tells me funny stories about living in District Heights . I love it.

 

[911Carrera]

Nice site, Chuck! Those were the days.

I didn't grow up here, but we used the term "Grit" in the midwest, too. In the early 60's the Bad a$$ dudes dressed like Fonzie on Happy Days and were called "Hoods."

Grits, greasers,townies, rednecks.....

You left out the chapter about partying and muscle cars (when they cost $1000 for a nice one in good shape) in the 70's though. Those were the Days!