My K-Mart is Closing, swallowed by Whale Mart

[Guest pshaw]

Re: Talvin - you mean Washington's OTHER monument.;-)

 

By "across the street" I mean across South Hayes Street. I remember paying $2 for day-parking on the dirt lot where Pentagon City Mall now stands, anchored by Macy's and Nordstroms. On the east side of S. Hayes Street (just south of the MCI Building) is a more downscale shopping center containing Costco (chock full of queens), Best Buy, Marshalls, Borders, one of those new CompUSA CoZones, and a handful of restaurants like Chevys. On the WEST side of PC Mall they have recently opened another small mall called Pentagon Row. Pentagon City has become a major destination for tourists and inner city youth. In downtown DC the only department store left is the 12th Street Hecht Co. - the 7th Street Hecht's still stands vacant. Woodies and Garfinckels are long gone.

 

 

>That's good to hear! 2 decades ago is just about when I

>moved away from there. At that time, Pentagon City was

>brand-spanking new. I used to live just up the hill on

>Columbia Pike and often walked to/from the Pentagon City

>metro station. It was a real ghost town on a Sunday.

>

>I'm trying to figure out where the heck they'd *put* a

>Costco "across the street" from Pentagon City. Need to visit

>again. Last time I was there, the only sightseeing I did was

>Talvin. }>

[+ deej]

>Re: Talvin - you mean Washington's OTHER monument.;-)

 

Yeah, but no stairs to climb. :9

 

>By "across the street" I mean across South Hayes Street. I

>remember paying $2 for day-parking on the dirt lot where

>Pentagon City Mall now stands, anchored by Macy's and

>Nordstroms.

 

That area sure has changed a lot over the years. When I was there for a job interview, much of Crystal City was basically a hole in the ground. When I came back to actually start the job, it was occupied buildings.

 

You know the history of that area right? In the WWI and WWII eras, that part of Arlington county was nothing but cheap bars and whorehouses serving visitors from DC. It's good to see commerce coming back into the area. LOL

[Guest pshaw]

Right out of college I moved to the Rosslyn neighborhood in the mid-70s (when you could still buy a townhouse in the Dupont Circle area for $50,000). There were still several "massage parlors" lining Wilson Boulevard (I remember the name "Miz Moon Massage" in particular). There was also a big old house that was still an active whorehouse without the massage parlor pretense. Now it is the land of $250,000+ high-rise condos.

[+ deej]

My first apartment in that area was actually a newly rehabbed condo I was renting from an investor. Still regret not buying it when it was offered to me for $60K but I just couldn't see paying that much for a 1BR apartment. FOUR YEARS LATER those same condos at Rt. 50 & Glebe Road were selling for $118K.

 

Ah, hindsight! :'(