Every year I do a tally of places I have been. The two ways for a location to qualify — I had a meal there (non-fast food) or spent the night there. Sometimes, I make exceptions that rule though, like for apple-picking.
Alexandria, Va.Arlington, Va.Falls Church, Va.Great Falls, Va.McLean, Va.Purcellville, Va.Reston, Va.Vienna, Va.Washington, D.C.Newark, Del.Ellicot City, [...]
Vienna Inn prepares to turn 50 – The Fairfax TimesThe beloved Vienna Inn is approaching 50 years in business. This is just a fairly standard article about the history of my hometown bar, but I quibble with this statement:
The walls, saturated with the smell and color of smoke…
Hardly — at least compared to what it [...]
Three consecutive presidents, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton all visited my high school. For all I know, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy visited it too. However, with barely a week left in his term, George W. Bush has not been to James Madison High School in [...]
I used the same criteria as previous years — I have to had a meal or spent the night there. Fast food does not count either.
Alexandria, Va.Arlington, Va.Bluemont, Va.McLean, Va.Vienna, Va.Virginia Beach, Va.Washington, D.C.Columbia, Md.Avalon, N.J.Sea Isle City, N.JStone Harbor, N.J.Bronx, N.Y.New York, N.Y.Allentown, Pa.Belleville, Pa.Harrisburg, Pa.Hershey, Pa.Lewisberry, Pa.Lewistown, Pa.Manada Hill, Pa.Mechanicsburg, Pa.Reedsville, Pa.State College, [...]
Police: Vienna Employee Injured in Malicious Attack – WJLAAn employee got stabbed at the Vienna Inn early this morning:
Police say they received the 911 call from the victim himself, who said he had been attacked. Police responded to the 100 block of Maple Avenue in the town of Vienna shortly before 3 a.m. Officers say [...]
VIENNA, Va. — Remember when I recently debunked The Post’s claim that the last working phone booth in the area was gone? Back in April they claimed the one in Clarendon was the last hold out, but I proved otherwise about a month and a half ago when I discovered a functional phone booth in [...]
VIENNA, Va. — Despite claims to the contrary, an opearational phone booth has been found in the D.C. metro area. This Verizon phone booth is located several paces from the Vienna Inn, 120 E. Maple Ave. (VA 123). I noticed it after a recent lunch over there. I popped inside the booth and verified there [...]
VIENNA, Va. — We had the annual La Coupe Hauxer season-end trophy presentation on Sunday at the Vienna Inn. Brad, representing the NJ Devils, won La Coupe Hauxer for the third consecutive time. He has gotten so nonchalant about the whole thing that he did not wear a Devils sweater. At least he didn’t put [...]
Northern Virginia’s Times Community Papers has a new and improved Web site for its Fairfax County weeklies — fairfaxtimes.com. I’m not sure how long ago this new site debuted, because I rarely went the previous, zwire powered Web site because it was awful. I’m glad that when I click on my hometown of Vienna/Oakton (which [...]
Yesterday, in a post titled Grass = artificial grass , blogger dl004d made an obvsersation about the word usage of “turf” in The Post aritcle, For Schools, Artificial Turf Fields Grow in Popularity:
I know saying artificial turf is a mouthful, but shortening it to just turf conveys the opposite meaning.
Turf means grass. Unfortunately, it also [...]
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