Questions about Glenmont, Silver Spring (Bethesda, Rockville: crimes, loan, to buy)

[emsgoof]

The trolley museum is still on Bonifant Rd. They're moving just up to the top of the hill due to the ICC, and their railroad will go from 1 1/2 miles to about 1 mile because of the move, but they'll get the new facilities they desperately need.

[peggydavis]

That rings a bell. We used to go "out in the country" to an ice cream place. Kensington, Rock Creek Park and Chevy Chase are other areas I want to look around. The trolley museum sounds great. We might have to spend 2 days in the area.

[montanamom]

I used to live on Dalewood Drive, right across from Wheaton High School. I could see the driving range at Wheaton High School from my bedroom window. When I was little , my mother use to push my little brother in a stroller and we would walk up down Randloph Road to Glenmont shopping center to the McDonalds there. The McDonalds had the Golden Arches, but was so small then, there was no "inside" place to eat. You just walked up to the window, knocked on it, and the burger flipper would slide the window open and take your order (they only had hamburgers, cheeseburgers, fries, coke, and milkshakes then). They were little benches to eat at outside. We also used to go to Wheaton Regional Park and I liked to put trash in the "Pig" character trash can that would suck your trash in like a vacuum. Anyone else remember that?

By the time I was in high school at Wheaton, the McDonalds was enlarged, and you could eat inside. You could get a burger, fries, and small drink for just $.95 cents ("Change back from your dollar" was their motto then at "Mickey Dee's). My friends and I liked to hang out at the "Stained Glass Pub" in Glenmont shopping center. There was a Grand Union grocery store and a Peoples' Drug Store where several of my friends worked after school.

The last time I was in Maryland, that SAME McDonalds is a double-decker Mcdonalds (two story) now! It's huge! I saw then that they were getting ready to tear down several of the small Glenmont village homes to make way for the expansion of Randolph Road.

Glad I've got my memories!

[Grasonville]

Originally Posted by montanamom

. We also used to go to Wheaton Regional Park and I liked to put trash in the "Pig" character trash can that would suck your trash in like a vacuum. Anyone else remember that?

It was a Billy Goat and he would also "say" "FEED ME" - it was located right by the snack bar area.

And I also remember the single "no inside" McDonalds - did you go to Bambinos Sub Shop or play pool at The Glenmont Cue Club??

[Moth]

It was a Billy Goat and he would also "say" "FEED ME" - it was located right by the snack bar area.

I remember that as well. Lots of fun back in the early 70s.

[montanamom]

Oh my gosh, you're right, it was a billy goat! Funny the little things we remember, isn't it? Right after I posted that I thought "oh geesh, that was stupid, no one's going to remember that..."! I don't remember the Bambino Sub Shop, but I do remember the original Jerry's Sub Shop in Wheaton. It was a hole-in-the-wall but had the best subs in town! It later became a chain. The Glenmont Cue Club sounds familiar, but I don't remember if I ever went. Wait, was it actually located in the Glenmont shopping center? Maybe I did... Yeah, great fun in that area back in the '70's. Like I said, glad I have my memories!

[J_Battle]

Im 20 and i didn't know people lived in glenmont in the 50's 60's or 70's... well I guess is not the same Glenmont it was back than, people around here get robbed outside at night...i remember hearing about gang activities by the metro station and near the shopping center...im not from Glenmont, im from White Oak, but my aunt and cousins live of GA ave and Hathaway

[peggydavis]

That's funny, J Battle. Neighborhoods do change and I would expect that Glenmont has changed a lot where I lived, since the houses built there were inexpensive to begin with. From the map, it looks like most of the houses are still standing, so that's something!

[Grasonville]

Originally Posted by montanamom

Oh my gosh, you're right, it was a billy goat! Funny the little things we remember, isn't it? Right after I posted that I thought "oh geesh, that was stupid, no one's going to remember that..."! I don't remember the Bambino Sub Shop, but I do remember the original Jerry's Sub Shop in Wheaton. It was a hole-in-the-wall but had the best subs in town! It later became a chain. The Glenmont Cue Club sounds familiar, but I don't remember if I ever went. Wait, was it actually located in the Glenmont shopping center? Maybe I did... Yeah, great fun in that area back in the '70's. Like I said, glad I have my memories!

The Glenmont Cue Club was down a flight of stairs (to the right of the only outside McDonalds) - there was Bambinos - a Dry Cleaners and the Pool Hall in a separate little strip behind what used to be Roy Rogers.

And Jerry's DID become the Jerry's of nationwide (or at least metro DC wide fame) I believe the original "Jerry" was Jerry Herson who then went on to open "Herson's Honda"

Now the ACTUAL Glenmont Shopping center (where the A&P and Peoples Drug store were) had Tuffy Lehman's Bowling Alley (also down a flight of stairs) Duck Pins AND Ten Pins

[Grasonville]

Originally Posted by J_Battle

Im 20 and i didn't know people lived in Glenmont in the 50's 60's or 70's...

LOL - I GRADUATED from John F Kennedy High School on Randolph Road in 1973 - 34 years ago