Tuesday, October 28, 2008
The McLean Wayback Machine
Quick Note - I'll be out of town for a couple of days.....going to one of my favorite places - an Antique Show. This one happens to be in Charlotte, NC. I'll be back by the end of the week and will be thinking about where we'll go from here...I think the challenges will keep us busy for a while. I'm going to have to use my "Wayback Machine" and return to Salona Village circa 1965 to identify what businesses were there. And the first post that identifies what the "Wayback Machine" is will get an "Atta" (atta girl, atta boy) from me.
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I was actually a bigger fan of Winky Dink, but I think your Wayback Machine is probably from the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, right?
Hey Pete!! Yup!! Remember Mr. Peabody and Sherman?
Did you go to Cooper? My Mom was a math teacher there - Mrs. Parker, and students used to put messages on her blackboard in initials....the one I remember was MPLB......Mrs. Parker Loves Bullwinkle.
Glad to see you here - It was one of your messages on Classmates that got me started on this blog. As I said, I wanted to teach myself about blogging, but what better way than to talk about a place we loved growing up in?
Maybe everybody says it, but I truely believe that we grew up in a unique time - most of the class after us was different - they were more clean cut and yuppie. I've talked about this with folks that grew up in different parts of MD and VA and they agree and have noticed the same thing. We are more like the classes that came before, but I still think our class was the best years be to in school and graduate. We had the music, the cultural causes and choices, dreams and desires.
I loved growing up in McLean - my parents moved there when I was 2 and I started in school with some folks and went through all 12 years with them.
Maybe any place you grow up is great, but McLean is our place and that makes it special enough for me, and with some comments here, apparently others remember it as I do...with fondness for a youth not forgotten.
I hope we can grow this blog and have a fun place to talk about things we did and remember and chat with old friends and make new ones.
Thanks again for posting and I hope you come back!
Carol Parker Smith
And......Atta Boy Pete on the ID of the Wayback Machine!!
Maybe it will help you remember what was in the Salona Village shopping center!!
Hi, Carol,
I did go to Cooper - for 8th grade - after spending 7th grade at Longfellow. At Cooper, I had Ann Culton for Math, so I must have missed your Mom. Seems I missed a lot back then, or maybe I've just forgotten it.
I do have the most fond recollections of McLean, and think of it the same way you do, as a special place, and our time as a special time. McLean was growing as we were growing. They kept building new schools. I just got used to Franklin Sherman, and then they built Churchill road, and I went there. I missed having the slide for a fire escape, as Steve Heckel described in another post.
Then I went to Longfellow, till they built Cooper. I left Cooper for Marshall, until they built Langley, where I was part of the first graduating class (1967).
I kept having to leave friends behind, but, of course, there were always new friends to meet. Like half my Langley class was from Marshall and the other half was from McLean - it was fun.
I've added your blog to my favorites and plan to check it regularly, but don't wait for my entry in the Salona Village contest. The only store I remember that I haven't already seen mentioned is Chase & Collier.
Pete,
Thanks for checking in. As McLean is the only home I remember, I went through a lot there, too, but I never had to switch schools. I graduated LHS in 1970. Are you Jon's brother?
My older brother went, as I did, to Chesterbrook Elementary. But he was there through 7th grade and then would have gone straight to MHS, but I think the next year was Longfellow's first year and that he went there for 8th and to MHS as a Freshman, graduating in 65. There were a lot of schools being built then and a lot of kids being moved around.
I was trying to remember who I knew form LHS Class of 67. Did you know David Smith? He was my next door neighbor, had a sister Emily in the next class and a second sister who would have graduated in 71. Maybe Chip Worthington graduated then, too. I'm sure if I pull out my yearbooks I'd find others, but I grew up with the Smiths from before I started school - so they were always in my young life.
My Mom taught at Falls Church HS, Whittier and came to Cooper when it opened and stayed there until she retired.
Thanks for contributing so well to our blog...I think of it as a place to gather and chat and you're a great participant!!
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