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vegmom

Bookseller Lady
onebdzee said:
Muppets on Friday at 7:30

Disney on Sunday after Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins
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The Muppet Show was my show as a kid. Have a few of the Time-Life DVDs as well as the Complete Season 1 and 2 DVDs.

The first movie I ever saw in a theater was The Muppet Movie at the Marlow Heights shopping center.

I remember birthday parties at Farrells Ice Cream and Shakey's Pizza. The Woolworth's in Landover Mall had a lunch counter.

I remember when Forestville Mall was built. I remember being sent to 7-11 for a gallon of milk when I was 8 years old. When we first got cable tv in our neighborhood MTV was brand spankin new and Nickelodeon's symbol was a flying metal ball. I can tell my daughter about the origins of that infamous Green Slime.
 
Kyle

Kyle

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Milk, cream, butter, eggs and Ice Cream all delivered to your door.

The little metal boxes with Thompsons Dairy or Green Spring Dairy printed on the front.
 
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vegmom

Bookseller Lady
RadioPatrol said:
I remember the Red Barn on St Barnabas .... Oxon Hill had Safeway, A&P, Giant and Acme Groceries Stores all in one area .... Dart Drug and Drug Fair .... on and the Huge Oxon Hill Movie Theater .... I can remember Jaws and Star Wars Played there ....

by 1984 there were still 4 drive ins; ABC and Super Chief on Rt 210 Indian Head Hwy, Ranch Drive-In Clinton, and where staples / Old Country Buffet is in Waldorf the 301 Drive-In .... before all the build up and malls in the mid to late 80s .....
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My grandmother worked at Dart Drug in Forestville until it closed (as Fantles). You would always see a Dart, Trak Auto, and Crown Books stores next to each other. Remember Dart Home Centers? We bought alot of stuff for our house from the ones on Central Ave or Silver Hill Rd since she could use her employee discount.
 
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toppick08

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Kyle said:
Milk, cream, butter, eggs and Ice Cream all delivered to your door.

The little metal boxes with Thompsons Dairy or Green Spring Dairy printed on the front.
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Leonardtown Dairy.
 
bohman

bohman

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DoWhat said:
Riding our bikes to the grocery store, buying toilet paper and shaving cream.
And the check out clerk, just shaking her head.
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Or 3 dozen eggs.... :whistle:

I remember our first remote control; had to put a separate box on top of the big wood cabinet Zenith. I think the remote may have had 4 buttons on it. Still had to get up to adjust volume.

I remember riding in my dad's '72 Beetle, and learning to shift left-handed so he could drink his coffee. We got to be quite a team. I'd watch for his left foot to hit the clutch and shifted to the next gear he wanted, and he didn't have to say a word.
 
bohman

bohman

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Merlin99 said:
Something like these?
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We have tons of stuff like that, my dad managed a McDonalds when I was little.

And since this is a memories thread - Some of my favorite ones were going in to the store to play on Thanksgiving mornings, since that and Christmas morning were the only 2 days a year it was closed. We had the run of the place; pretending to cook food and take orders.

And I can remember playground equipment (at McDs and the school) that would make a lawyer today drool. Metal sliding boards that felt 50' high, and no rubber mats or other padding below you. If you got hurt, well, you should have watched where you were running.
 
belvak

belvak

Happy Camper
bohman said:
And I can remember playground equipment (at McDs and the school) that would make a lawyer today drool. Metal sliding boards that felt 50' high, and no rubber mats or other padding below you. If you got hurt, well, you should have watched where you were running.
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How about Clinton Park (Cosca). Anyone remember the Rocket Slide and Cinderella's Coach? How about the Indian Village and Tepees? Oh, and there was no lake! Also, Wonderama with Bob McAllister.
 
desertrat

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Running around with a slingshot (homemade), a bag of marbles (not for the slingshot), and a pea shooter and peas in my pockets.
 
Toxick

Toxick

Splat
I don't know if someone mentioned this one or not but....


There was no Noggin, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, or Disney Channel when I was a kid.

We got cartoons for 3 or 4 hours on Saturday morning and that was IT. Every once in a while, you could catch Tom & Jerry on Channel 5 after school, but anything resembling a SpongeBob or Fairly Oddparents Marathon was strictly a thing of fantasy.


And there was no such thing as Velcro fastened shoes. You had laces on your shoes. Period.
 
Tomcat

Tomcat

Anytime
jazz lady said:
Yes, that's where it was. Where BW&B is was a Rustler Steakhouse. I remember when St. Mary's Square - billed as our first "mall" opened to great fanfare - Grand Union supermarket, King's Department store, Carvel ice cream.

Making Jiffy Pop as a special treat for watching the greatly anticipated annual showing of "The Wizard of Oz" and huddling around the TV in our PJs.

Watching them make the pizza at Shakey's and the player piano music drowning everybody out.

Anxiously waiting for the mail everyday for the Sears Christmas catalog to arrive, then fighting my brother and sister for first rights to it, poring over it for hours, and carefully making our Christmas wish lists to Santa.

Walking EVERYWHERE around Lexington Park and never feeling afraid.

The drive-in on 235. Smock tops and peasant blouses. Levis jeans for $9.99 at The Hub. Macrame belts. Farrah Fawcett hair, consisting of rolling your hair for an hour and tons of hair spray. The Happy Hamburger. Bambino's pizza. Grant's department store behind there which then became K-Mart. The Elephant's Trunk. Route 235 being only 2 lanes all the way and running through Hollywood past Toot's and Dew Drop.

So many memories... :smile:
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Rt235 / Rt5 being 2 lanes from Waldorf to Point Lookout. About the only thing on Great Mills Road past Bambino's was Auldridge Ford. (no StMarys Square)
 
bohman

bohman

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Toxick said:
We got cartoons for 3 or 4 hours on Saturday morning and that was IT. Every once in a while, you could catch Tom & Jerry on Channel 5 after school, but anything resembling a SpongeBob or Fairly Oddparents Marathon was strictly a thing of fantasy.
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Yes, I never slept in on a Saturday. Had to be up early to make sure I didn't miss a single cartoon.
 
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