I remember when the only place you could buy a dress was at Harvest in South Lakes Shopping Center. At least without having to drive all the way to Tysons Corner or Fair Oaks.
-chadsey (webmaster@restonweb.com)

i just returned for a visit (moved to herndon/reston area in 1976; to northern california 1998). i was very happy to see that at least the trees along weihle avenue remain, since all the rest, it seems, have been cut down for all the precious housing.
-bboop25

I remember when Lake Anne had a Super Fresh grocery store. Lake Anne use to be one of the only shopping centers
-Courtney

I have lerned how special growing up in Reston was, I was a kid there from first to sixth grade and I used to walk everywhere..By myself it was great..I have a very special place in my heart for reston...
-Bill Bathurst (bbathurst@hotmail.com)

I grew up in Reston, first on Golf Course Drive and then on Inlet Court. My parents still live in Reston; I now live just south of Herndon, near Frying Pan Park. My parents and I used to walk everywhere and go sledding on the golf course. In the summer, friends and I would sell lemonade on the golf course. From Inlet Court, we walked or canoed down to Lake Anne Center to go to the book store or get ice cream. Back when we lived on Golf Course, I remember lots of trips to the Baskin Robbins at Hunters Woods. I remember flea market/craft shows and holiday events at Hunters Woods. I remember the Toll Road being built and the Wiehle Avenue bridge over the Access/Toll Roads. I even remember (barely) splashing in the pool/fountain at Hunters Woods, before it was filled in with dirt. I remember when the Reston Community Center was built and the time capsule put in. My whole family was horrified when the old Hunters Woods was razed for a strip mall with no shade. Town Center is nice looking and we love the fountain and the holiday events there, but that whole development has nothing to do with the Reston I grew up in. The new stuff is pretty but mostly sterile and is way overpriced. And what's the deal with cutting down all the trees? My whole childhood, Reston was paths and trees. Someone got greedy :-
-Arielle Masters (restonweb@imstumped.com)

I remember when Twin Branches did NOT connect Lawyers Road and South Lakes Drive.
-Jack

We lived in Reston from 1967 until 1972. There were less than 3,000 people there then. I have so many memories, some good and some bad. The bad were the first murder, a teenage girl, Gwen Ames, the mystery was never solved but it was really a big thing as everyone knew her and her family, and they were much loved. The second bad thing was that a small girl, think she was about 3 fell through the ice in Lake Anne and drowned. I still remember the sound of the drilling through the lake all winter trying to find the body. The day in the Spring when they finally found her her brother was at our house practicing in a band with our son, Michael. Band was Underground Current I think, they were very popular at the time. It was a very sad winter. We were among the first residents of Golf Course Island, had a great condo. 4 bedroom, 4 bath, 4 level, was on house tour several times and was also written up in Washington Post because we had moved there from Paris and had all French antiques so was different from a modern house with modern furniture. We use to volunteer at the Common Ground, Embry Rucker's coffeehouse so knew all the young people. Again it was very good time and very bad as Reston was one of the drug capitals of the Washington area so saw lots of good kids going bad. Thank God our kids all survived and are doing great. We went to the Methodist Church where Rev. Regan was Minister, that was one of the good things, the other good things was that it was a brand new town and drew lots of publicty, pictures, etc. from all over the country. I had better quit now, will write more later, hope to hear more about people from my era.
-Rozetta Mariotte (RMariotte@AOL.com)

Rozetta, I certainly remember every event you wrote about. My mother was on the other side of lake anne from me when the drowning occured at first no one knew exactly what had happened everyone rushed around to connect kids and parents, after that, we ice skated just over the road in a swampy little area that froze over. My Dad wad on the committee that built the original church there in the town center. He was an Episicpol, so the church ended up being on of the only methodists churches with kneelers in the pews Like and episcipol church!

My mom was the official reston lady and worked at the welcome center, she greeted everyone who visited reston and was in ads and commericals my whole family was in one commericial that was shown at every space launch.


-Bill Bathurst (bbathurst@hotmail.com)

Me again. Just remembered Michael's band was Underground Cable, not Underground Current.

Glad to read your letter, Bill. Hope we hear from a lot of other people from that era. It was a wonderful place to live, lots of open space, could walk anyplace, great people, Will keep checking Memory spot.
Rozetta (RMariotte@AOL.com
-Rozetta (RMAriotte@AOL.com)

I lived in Reston briefly in 1981-82, at the Sycamores. The old distillery then was a working business. Now I'm back more permanently, see the one remaing building daily, and can't remember the name of the place. Can anyone jog my memory? I wasn't here long enough to have a lot of great memories, but still find Lake Anne a comfortalble place to just lounge and enjoy.
-Ron Neal (missing-man1@home.com)

WOW, I'm overwhelmed with memories, I don't know where to start. Ron, it was the Bowman Distillery, still in busines, they've just moved. Remember when Reston Ave. (yes, Ave., not Blvd. or whatever it is now) was only one bridge over the Dulles Access Road and just after crossing it(North?) went down to what seemed like one lane, through the trees, coming out near the old distillery? I was only 5 or 6 at the time, so I hope I have that right. And Wheilhe ave. didn't cross the Dulless Access roads. And is it part of Lawyers or Fox Mill that wasn't paved all the way??? And the only Lake was Lake Anne. Remember the Burger Chef (Burger Choke as we called it) near the International Center? The Jack-n-the-box at Hunters Woods, and all the gas stations where Gulf+Western or something like that. And you knew about half the names and faces in the Reston phone book? I was in RHOA day camp for a couple of years in the 70's. We would go camping in the woods near Cameron Run Park (?), where the old church is/was across form Lake Anne. Now it's houses. I lost a hair brush over there in what is now somebodies back yard... There was no MemCo/Bradlee's/Hechinger/? much less Reston Town Centre, and we watched fire works at the Pet-a-pet farm on the bicentennial 4th of July. I'm not against the progress, God speed, but I think it's cool to have seen a place from near the beginning and see what it is now.
-Brian (t_brian_lassiter@yahoo.com)

My in-laws lived in Reston two separate times over a period of ten years. Both times, they lived within walking distance of Lake Anne. God is great! We would visit them six times a year. We would ride the W & OD trail most every day that we were there. Then they moved to another town in another state and wonder why we don't visit them as much.

I played golf last Labor Day at the golf course near South Lakes. Pretty good course.

My wife and I had frequently discussed relocating from Charlotte to Reston. But Charlotte is darn nice also.
-Michael McLaurin (mclaurin_1@msn.com)

I lived in Reston/Herndon from 1972-1987. There was absolutely nowhere better to grow up. I remember walking everywhere by myself and always surrounded by the glorious trees. I remember crossing the bridge over the end of Lake Anne and always waving to the "Flower Lady" that sat at her window overlooking the path. I remember playing in the fountain on the plaza and buying candy for 1 cent from Larry at the drug store. But best of all I remember sledding down the hills at Vantage Hill apartments and all the great "forts" we had in the woods. I remember getting a Gold Medal at the "Olympics" when we lived at Chatham Colony and swimming back and forth across the lake all summer long. I remember when the "teams" at Lake Anne elementary were letters and then boat names and who will ever forget Jimbo dressed as the "Fonz"?

The memories are definitely precious as were all the great kids I grew up with. I have moved far away but I really enjoy sharing these memories with my child now.

p.s. I remember when the grocery store at Lake Anne was a Safeway.
-Susan Brooks Valenta (uschikns@bellatlantic.net)

I have lived in Reston for the past ten years, I don't have all those cool memories, I wish I did thoght, and I wish all the trees weren't disappearing

-Katie

I moved to Reston in the summer of 1967; I had just turned 9 years old. We lived on Hounds Lane in Hunters Woods, which was still full of houses in varying stages of being built. (I probably "visited" every empty, being-built house.)

My life for the next three years was spent endlessly exploring the woods and fields around Hunters Woods. I recall one summer day where my best friend, Cheryl Davis, and I walked endlessly from the stables to a dark, deep pond. I believe it is probably now called Lake Thoreau. Can you imagine? I also remember pulling a pretty little plant from the earth and taking it to my mom. She identified it as a "wild orchid" and by her excited request, retraced our steps to the pond with her - she undoubtably hoped to find other such plants. I don't recall if we found any.

Cheryl and I walked the sewage pipeline when it was dug, swam it when rains flooded it. Reston in those days was woods and more woods between Hunters Woods and Lake Anne. I also recall walking down to the farm off Colts Neck and sitting and watching the cows. The main road from Hunters Woods to Lake Anne - oh yes, there were very old cabins near the bridge. I often wondered about them and who had lived there. Once while on my school bus, I watched a chain gang walk along the bridge. The distillery was in full operation.

I remember going to the Steeplechase races which took place in the fields by route 7, I think, and one year cheered on a Hunters Woods Stables horse, "Circle O," who took 3rd place in one race. Oh yes, my husband's father built the stables and they would come on a regular basis to the stables to get horse manure for their garden.

Lake Anne was so "new" and bohemian then and seemed to be populated by exotic, "different type folks." I recall going to a party given by one of my classmates, Patricia McClane, whose mother was so beautiful; she lived in one of the condos on Lake Anne.

We used to fish at Lake Anne, climb on the sculpture by the dock; I remember the fountain flowing. I remember taking a acting (dancing?) class at Lake Anne from an actress; I wish I could remember her name. I remember going to see a production of Dracula in Reston somewhere, and this actress was in it and she ate flies and was wonderful. My class did Alice in Wonderland at the United Church of something in Reston - across from Lake Anne.

I remember Lake Anne Elementary School. Before it opened, we had to bus to school somewhere and our classrooms were portable buildings (can you imagine?). I remember distinctly my 5th grade teacher, Mrs. Maddox. She was so smart and I appreciate the loving and strict guidance she gave us! One of my most endearing memories of that 5th grade year (1968), was of a classmate, Michael Gaver, who adored the Kennedys. He actually campaigned for Bobby! I remember that he did not come to school the day after Bobby had been shot.

The swimming pool in Hunters Woods was the ulimate destination each summer. I remember the walk from my house on Hounds Lane, which wound down through the woods to the pool as if it were yesterday. We played, as a rule, "Shark." Kitty Coffey would probably come down to the pool with her hot dog cart. We could probably hear the neigh of horses from the stables across the street. Summers were wonderful fun.

Reston was young when I lived there; my family was one of the first. That Reston that I lived in is long gone; but there might still be walk-ways there, still possible glimpses of a long-lost childhood. Reston today, perhaps could recapture more of it's infancy if it tried to make it's "dream" return - go back to the glamour and community of early days. Let's walk through the woods of early Reston; where can it take us?
-Janice (Kriegel) Zinnecker (janicezinnecker@icfconsulting.com)

I have read all the memories from the various people who responded here and I am glad that there is an atmosphere of small town life here in reston. I am a college student who will be relocating to reston in the fall with my sister and coming from a small town in upstate ny I was aprehensive about city living but reading these memories reston now seems a little more like home and I am ready to make some memories of my own here
-Garret Gabriel (Garret828@aol.com)

I grew up in Vienna on Clarks Crossing Rd., not far from Wolf Trap. My family had horses, and as a young boy, back in the 60s, I rode with the Fairfax County Hunt--fox hunting on horseback. We would meet at Lake Fairfax, where the hounds were kept. The hunting "grounds" were all of the old farms where Reston now exists. On Thanksgiving and Christmas, the hunt would gather at Bowman's Distillery (maker of Virginia Gentleman whiskey), in what use to be called Sunset Hills. I remember my first glimpse of Reston, not as a real place, but as a scale model under a dome of plexiglas in the developer's trailer at Lake Fairfax. It was hard for me to believe this model would replace all of the beautiful fields and woods in that area.


-Mark A. Meschter1 (meschter@mindspring.com)

Just a little more . . . despite it's effect on my fox hunting career, Reston has always been a wonderful place. Way more memories than I can put here. But it is very very special for another reason: it is home of the Liz of My Life, the love of my life. She made the most incredible memories for me of my time in Reston. She is the most wonderful woman I have ever known. She and Reston will always have a very special place in my heart. Long live MALMAS!
-Mark A. Meschter (meschter@mindspring.com)

I remember attending Lake Anne Nursery Kindergarden (LANK) around 1968 when it was located in Washington Plaza (Lake Anne Plaza). Mrs. Sheffer (sp?) was my wonderful teacher. I remember making a little indian costume in school. I also remember the big, wide set of stairs in the classroom that led to the rooftop play area with a huge sandbox.

My mom would pick me up in the afternoons and take my little brother and I to the water fountain on hot days and let us get all wet. The three of us would also spend time walking around Lake Anne Plaza playing in and on the cement fort, the sunken boat and climbing the steep and scary steps to the observation platform overlooking the lake - we were on top of the world! We also enjoyed the paddle boats, the art center and getting ice cream at the drug store.

I was raised in Sterling, but have been living in Reston (Hillcrest Cluster on Saffold Way) for over 8 years and never want to move. I have wonderful neighbors and old growth trees - life is great!
-Diane Janda (djanda@jandova.net)

Moved to Reston from Rochester, N.Y. in 1978- what a bright and fresh place it was- the Long and Foster office in Lake Anne Shopping Center, changing buses to go downtown on the Dulles Ramps- remember they used to have your ticket punched for the bus ride? The Memco (later Bradlee's, Hechinger, and now Home Depot) used to be a combination of a K-Mart, but also had a nice supermarket section, that routed you through the other merchandise on the way out. Also remember the dilapitated barn that stood now where the Town Center was built. The Lawyer's Road "bridge" over Difficult Run was more like a covered culvert- flooded out big time in heavy rains. At Hunters Woods Shopping Center, they had a nice restaurant (precursor to Clydes') that I forgot the name of- one of the only nice restaurants in Reston at the time. Also, remember the many years of the baseball carnival near the Sheraton- used to take the kids every year to that, especially on one price ticket nights- it was a sure sign of Spring.
-Larrry W

Hey Larry, Fritzbe's is the name of the restaurant you are looking for. Thanks for reminding me of the baseball carnival, I had forgotten all about it.
-Brian (t_brian_lassiter@yahoo.com)

I remember back in 1852 when Reston didnt exist.....Or else I think it didnt.....Just jokin, I think that all the people moving in now and making all the trees in Reston dissapear should leave.
-Alex

I remember back in 1852 when Reston didnt exist.....Or else I think it didnt.....Just jokin, I think that all the people moving in now and making all the trees in Reston dissapear should leave.
It was nice when I was little, now it is beginning to look like any other big city.
-Alex

I Remember when it was <b>the people</b> who made Reston special.

I remember:

Embry(?) Rucker
Patricia Ames
Jack Gaver
John & Linda Molsberry
Tom Bartelt (Tech Director at Reston Warner Cable)
Larry Conn (? - Lake Anne Pharmacy)
Pachuli Joe Hoover
Robert Garcia
George Pittaway
Mitch Powell
The Worsam family

I remember

Lake Anne Inn,
RHOA Talent show

I remember playing at the Reston Spring Festival, the Red Caboose and the Villa Roma

I remember playing volleyball in the summers on N. Shore.

I remember the Gulf station at Lake Anne.

I remember when the only flower shop was a van in the parking lot outside the bank.

I remember being able to walk across Lake Anne in the winter.

I remember when 606 (Baron Cameron) as a 2-ln. road and there were no traffic lights on Rt. 7 between Reston and Tysons Corner.

Yes, I remember when Reston was small and special - and I loved it.





-Xarlos (Carl D.) (fish@fishbro.com)

We moved here from LA when I was 3 into a wonderful townhouse in Deepwood, that seemed huge back then. When I was 8, we moved onto Bugle Lane by Hunters Woods school. I remember hanging out at Hunters Woods shopping center, going to Just Like Mom's Bakery, and Fritzbe's (to get their wonderful mozzerella sticks with the rasberry sauce!!!) Also the library there was neat. Summer swim team was great, as well as spending every bit of daylight at the pool. The North Side of reston only took 7 minutes to get to on a bad day. What is now Home Depot, was Hechingers, Bradlees, Memco, and whatever it was before then. I remember exploring the paths and creeks in Reston. Since then, I have bought that old townhouse I first lived in when we moved to Reston, and have started a family of my own.
-Jennifer Dawson (Williams)

Random memories of Reston from the late 60s/early 70s...

My brother Mike and I were fishing one day in Lake Anne (bass and bluegill) using hot dogs for bait. A real dog happened along and nabbed one of the hot dogs, which had been put on a hook but not yet cast into the water. Stung by the hook, the dog tried to run. We gave chase, finally catching the poor dog and removing the hook. But in the meantime, a woman pushing a baby stroller had stopped to help, and she parked her stroller on the grassy embankment leading down to a four foot or so drop to the lake. The stroller rolled, flipped, and went in. We dove into the water, looking for the baby, but only came up with groceries! Finally she was able to make us understand that there was no baby; she had been using the stroller to cart her groceries home from the Safeway on the Plaza.

I remember the Boy Scouts selling Christmas trees in the Plaza parking lot, and local kids' TV star Ranger Hal coming around. I remember watching Dark Shadows in Katja's 13th floor apartment in the high rise by the Lake. I remember building makeshift rafts in the summer, and learning to sail, on Lake Anne, and trying to skate on it in winter. I remember being able to get from Golf Course Island to the Plaza by foot or bike, day or night. Watching fireflies at the playground with Caroline. Like everyone else, I remember trees everywhere.
-Jeff Mariotte (jmariotte@aol.com)

I too have some very fond memories of Reston. I spent my childhood there - attended Sunrise Valley Elem, Langston Hughes and South Lakes. Swam for Glade East and later Glade in the summertime. Rode mopeds on the trails from one side of town to the next. Played softball for the Cubs. Had lemondade stands at the top of my street on Glade drive. My school bus was hit by a Hertz truck at the intersection of Glade and Soapstone. We used to walk to Highs to get slurpees. Shopped at Harvest in South Lakes Shopping Center - Paul used to drive the ice cream truck around town in the summer, and my friends and I used to hop rides with him to the pools on the other side of town. I used to go out to eat with my family at Fritzbies and the Chinese Restaurant (can't remember the name) by the Sheraton. There were Pizza Hut parties after swim meets either at the Pizza Hut on Wiehlie or Hunters Woods. I remember when the toll road was being built, and being there for the ribbon cutting with my parents. Years later, when I was in high school in Kansas, our family bought a dog that we named Reston. When I returned 2 years ago for a wedding, I didn't even recognize the place. The house where I grew up still stood, however - and so do all the trees and the woods surrounding it that brought me so much happiness.
-Meredith Sheahon

I remember living at the Sycamores, then buying a Condo at Chestnut Grove, and then moving to my current house.
I remember countless soccer games with my son and daughter.
I remember The Reston Swim Team at Lake Thoreau.

I remember getting the call that my daughter Tori hung herself, while in custody of Fairfax County JDC. I remeber this well and all the good memories are just a blur behind the tears.
No thanks to the staff at the JDC...my world is gone.
Everywhere I go, every landmark in Reston reminds me my daughter is dead.
The pain is awful. I hate Reston now. The memories are harsh.
I want to move, and hopefully build new memories.

And so it goes as the tears fall from now until eternity.

In Loving memory of Tori
4/5/83-8/27/98
died by hanging--where were the "counselors that were in charge?"
-Fallen Angel

I have a lot of good memories of Reston:
*I remember when Dogwood had PE shows in the gym, we did square dancing, building pyramids, a dance to the Twix song..
*I remember when Dogwood had the "Creative Playground"
*I remember when Paul the ice cream man came to the neighborhood in the summertime.
*I remember Joyce the crossing guard at Dogwood.
*I remember when my freshman class won the float competition at SLHS for the first time in school history.
*I remember when the the SLHS softball team went to SC for a Spring Break Tourney and we all got big red bites from sand bugs.
*I remember when the cheerleaders had to do the Macarena at pep rallies.
*I remember we use to walk to 7-Eleven to get slurpees, subway, Roy Rogers and CVS before basketball/football games.
*I remember when the power went out at graduation.
*I remember I cried at graduaion :o(
*I miss people I went to school with :o(

**I will always remember the SLHS Class of 1998**
-Taki Lee

I remember when Reston was Gulf-Western's city of the future, and the only thing truely built was Lake Anne and the nearby townhouses and apts. I saw Walt Disney (the man himself) the day he came to visit. During that time period you could walk or ride the paths and be safe. It was a great place to be a kid.
-Don

I lived in Reston all my life and have plenty of memories.
*Being picked up from LANK by my granmother, they would call my name "Niki ROOOOOTHS"
*The Forest Edge Field Day.. it was the begining of many years of running track.
*When the first newest playground (the orange and brown one) was first built at Forest Edge.
*The Forest Edge Talent Shows (I still remember the dance)
*Reinacting a civil war battle with water balloons
*Camp GoodTimes at Hunters Woods and Dogwood.
*The ice cream lady that rang her loud bell.
*Sledding on King Kong Mountain.
*The old pool at Lake Fairfax.
*Going to the grocery store at lake anne plaza, (I can't remember the name).
*Being one of the few bus patrol captains at Forest Edge.
*When there was no town center but a bunch of trees and the library
*When there was nothing but a fenced area where plaza america is now
*When Kaiser Permenente was off of North Shore near Lake Anne Plaza.
*When there was nothing but the farm off of Baron Cameron and the "old" Fort Pumpkin.
*When you could walk anywhere and be safe.
*Swimming for Lake Anne when there use to be a Uplands Pool.
*Playing Years of Reston Youth Soccer,First the black team , Gilberts Grapes, and U-19 blue/silver (undefeated).
*When South Lakes had a black out and we had to go to the stadium, school was let out early and there was a rush to get out.
*Playing on the undefeated Powder Puff team (class of 99).
*The time the SLHS track team went to Penn Relays.
*Graduating from SLHS and having my name miss pronounced! yeah im still mad about that.
*Missing that good class of 1999!!!!!

-Nicole Rooths (curiousniki_2000@hotmail.com)

I remember taking all-day bike rides, on the W&OD and its connecting paths, to Alexandria, Georgetown, and even to Mount Vernon. A remarkably well-connected system of bike paths, with just the right spacing of 7-11 Big Gulps along the way. More than a few gnats in the face coming back around dusk, but the W&OD sure was a Good Ride.

-Dave

Wow... reading all these memories sure brings back a few for me. I was 4yrs. old in 1970 when we moved to Reston. I grew up on Saffold Way for a few years, then moved to Thanlet Ln. off of Ring Rd. I used to love to go sleigh riding on that big hill behind Forest Edge Elementary. My friends and I would walk down to Lake Anne to get candy at a small drug store, around the corner from the old Safeway. We used to race our bikes around Ring Rd. and play at Lake Fairfax in the summer. I live in Florida now, since `83. It`s nice to see other peaple have such fond memories of this town also. I can`t wait until I can get back up there to visit. I still have family there around the South Lakes area.
PatrickJr.
-Patrick Satterfield Jr. (psatterfield@cfl.rr.com)

I just had one more thing to add. While growing up on Thanlet Ln. in my early teens I had girlfriend named Laurie Cox. I think of her alot and wonder what she`s doing. If anybody knows her please give her my e-mail address. Thanks!
Patrick
-Patrick (psatterfield@cfl.rr.com)

i can honestly say that growing up in reston was a blessing. i am now in college in the south (a totally eye opening experience) and being away from northern virginia and reston has honestly been rough. my favorite memeories of growing up in reston include:
-fort pumpkin and the reston farmers market
-all of the pools in reston association (formerly rhoa)- especially hunters woods, my neighborhood pool
-going to school with the same people year after year
-all of the wonderful wooded pathways,playgrounds, streams, creeks and fields
-and finally the people... i have found that no matter who i have encountered in reston i feel as though i have some connection with them, our special place called restson.
-restons true love

The flood of memories reading this is amazing. I moved to Reston in '68 as a 3 year old. Growing up in Vantage Hill, walking or riding my bike to Lake Ann, Swiming in the lake (imagine kids swiming in there now!). I left the area for years while I was in the Navy and love being back. Seeing Larry at the Lakeside Pharm and the other familure faces brings back so many wonderful memories.

-Dan Deakin (dandeakin@yahoo.com)

*LANK, LANK Fair
*RHOA Day Camp
*Golf Course Island & Pool
*Brown's Chappel
*THE BUNNY MAN"S HOUSE
*Burger Chef (before it was Roy Rogers)
*TCBY - South Lakes Village Center
*Mount Reston
*Terraset (ms. krawl's class)
*Running up the "Pyramid" @ Terraset
*Battle of the bands at Reston Community Center
*Drving to Thelmas in Great Falls with my family
*Playing Kick the Can in Golf Course Island
*Riding big wheels
*Sleding on the golf course
*Comming home from college and going to the town center to drink
*The 10 mile per hour speed limit on Soapstone with the cop & radar gun on the way to Matt/Kam/Brad's houses

-Josh Krasnegor (joshk@fusionstorm.com)

Reston has sure changed alot since My dad and I arrived in 1975. Reston Avenue was a 2 lane road from Route 7 to Lawyers Road. Wiehle Avenue did not yet connect to Sunrise Valley Road. You could smell the mash from the A. Smith Bowman distillery when they were brewing their whiskey and bourbon. T W & OD bike path was unpaved. Where the Reston Town Center is now, there used to be houses that people lived in. There was a Safeway at Lake Anne that I remember it as very tiny. Every weekend during the summer at Lake Anne Plaza, the late Nancy Newell held her Open Air Market.
Thats all for now. :)
-David lepkowski (davelep@juno.com)

I remember that before the Movie Theater at the Reston Town Center openen up about 12 years ago, You had to go to the Movie theatre at the Reston International Center (Where Chijlis is now).
-dave Lepkowski (Davelep@juno.com)

I moved to Reston from Pittsburgh in 1977 and it seemed a dream. From gray skies, my parent's divorce, and a downward spiral of self-destruction, I was delivered to Reston, freshly 14 years old, already world-weary and ready to remake myself.

That first year, Reston was initially so full of blue skies, tall trees and Sunday bluegrass, it was easy to feel that there was hope and that a person could change. Of course,there was also some underlying philosophical hope of a quasi-utopian suburb, but as time has shown us, that's oxymoronic at best.

I became an only child (as siblings were all back in Pburgh), I got to do yoga all the time, and Reston gave me space to get outside. I loved walking the paths from Fairway to Lake Anne every day, watching the pigeons rest on the dock, and getting tuna sandwiches at that little sandwich shoppe where they put shredded lettuce on big hoagies. The place seemed like a big country club filled with progressives, some of whom were willing to take on a somewhat daft protege of sorts, doling out reading lists that consisted of books like Small is Beautiful, Dick Gregory, Laurel's Kitchen, and other radical idealists.
This indeed was new.

At last I would meet friends at Herndon High (not everyone got to go to South Lakes then). Herndon still reflected its rural Virginian heritage, with Future Farmers of America clubs and other holdbacks from a dying age. I loved that character and was aware that it was quickly disappearing. The older teachers at Herndon all had accents, the new ones didn't. The old ones taught using traditional methods, the new ones were progressive (like ALP!) but far more engaging in some ways.

The Reston Farm Market was also a fond memory. The owner, Hall, was another fabulous progressive. I worked there one summer and can say that in my 20 odd years of experience, I've ever met anyone quite so generous and unique. He was a great businessman, but kind and not cut-throat.

Of course there was a downside and that was all the rich kids on dope. Bored to tears, driven to crime by their apathy, unable to find meaning in their lives. You could always find them sitting there on the wall down at Lake Anne. While I knew most of them, I knew I wasn't that far gone. In Pittsburgh I'd seen too closely the particular grain that lies on the bottom that barrel and I knew I would never go back.

Another downside was the drowning of a classmate there, Tim, in about 1979. A wonderful soul, clear and thoughtful, loving and creative.

Although my mom went broke there and we were nearly out on the street regularly, we could get help from FISH and the Unitarian Church up on the hill at the end of Fairway. Somehow I think being in Reston took the edge off of near destitution. Not having money there and then was difficult, but manageable.

Revisited Reston recently and was completely disoriented. Perhaps because it was so long ago. But I could find some of the old places. Still it was clear that the 'small' town atmosphere, which was already one foot out the door in 1978 had left the building completely.

I am glad I've moved on.

-Reston resident 1977-1980

-Mimi-miminva@aol.com
-Hi, (When I moved to Reston in 1983 from Alexandria where I had grown up my friends use to call it Planet Reston. I returned home to Alexandria 7 years later. I have fond memories of Reston. I loved the Farm Market and worked at Seneca Falls Greenhouse parttime. I was actually searching online today to see if the Pet Farm is still there to take my sisters kids...Pleast tell me it's not a parking lot...)

I like to see a team of dogs runing.
-Jessica (02.yahoo.com)

I like to play with and go for a last of walks.
-jackie (@ yahoo.com)

I got a heck of a memory, for some things!
Moved to Reston from Falls Church in time for fifth grade at Lake Ann Elementry. Lived in Coalsun Cluster up from Vantage hill just at the edge on the hill the Meizenheimers lived two doors down.
Give me a break here, my spelling and memory of names may leave something to be desired.
The snow drifts! Walking thru the golf course in winter with my dog!
My friend Pat Watts from Vantage Hill that was a long term buddy I loved dearly. Moveing to Lake Anne Plaza to a Condo looking over the lake near the Church. Playing hookey and then getting into a strip poker game with Vince Short and friends. Leaning over too far on the railing near the drug store where my glasses fell into the water and Stuart Schurlock dove in to find them to same my ass getting chewed out. Getting pushed into the lake in October with an old army jacket on, then getting fished out, very funny guys. Hilary Sumner and brother who lived in Heron House. Hey Hilary, where is my white sweater? It never turned up after your last visit! Andy Bowers and Friends throwing pebbles at my window to get me to come out. Yelling a kids trying to steal my mom and step dad's Mercedes Benz stars
-Patricia McLain Rasmussen (Siegfried Jr.) -Patti (chif@ptd.net)

I got a heck of a memory, for some things!
Moved to Reston from Falls Church in time for fifth grade at Lake Ann Elementry. Lived in Coalsun Cluster up from Vantage hill just at the edge on the hill the Meizenheimers lived two doors down.
Give me a break here, my spelling and memory of names may leave something to be desired.
The snow drifts! Walking thru the golf course in winter with my dog!
My friend Pat Watts from Vantage Hill that was a long term buddy I loved dearly. Moveing to Lake Anne Plaza to a Condo looking over the lake near the Church. Playing hookey and then getting into a strip poker game with Vince Short and friends. Leaning over too far on the railing near the drug store where my glasses fell into the water and Stuart Schurlock dove in to find them to same my ass getting chewed out. Getting pushed into the lake in October with an old army jacket on, then getting fished out, very funny guys. Hilary Sumner and brother who lived in Heron House. Hey Hilary, where is my white sweater? It never turned up after your last visit! Andy Bowers and Friends throwing pebbles at my window to get me to come out. Yelling a kids trying to steal my mom and step dad's Mercedes Benz stars off their cars. Drinking Boon's farm wine behind the church. Steve Leonard and that Blonde Hayes boy and doing too many party "favors". Loosing my virginity. Rain on the Plaza when no one else would be around and I could dance in the rain to hearts delight. The Art Gallery, and wondering around in love with all the new pieces specially that white painted bike on wood. The FESTIVALS on the Plaza! That horrible night lovely Gwen Ames died. The funeral, the viewing. It was awful, I worshipped her as the most desirable girl in history. I have never been to another viewing since, not even my dad's. Skating on the shallow part of the Lake in front of the Worsam's house. Getting my period for the first time that day. The day the little girl fell through the ice. The man who gave his life to scuba under to look for her.
The RESTON TIMES NEWS. Moved to Gold Course Island and played with Ginny and Linda and the Goodells. Pete Siler and Chris Golembe where hotties then. There were a family of Ramos there too. And a Beautiful girl named Caroline who I knew would turn out to be something special one day. I hope she did. Andy lived down the road from there and his dopey little brother set fire to part of a field once.
Moved to Golf Course near Hunters Woods. Hung out with Kris Zinsmeister and Tammy Haynes. and lots of others. Some super stud had our house there before us.
Dated Frankie Hunt then. He later got killed in a car accident by Bruno (my buddie Terry's big bro. who worked in a record store in Tyson's Corner)
Moved to Hickory Cluster. Was driving by then, a white 1970 Camaro. Dated Jim Zader. Hung with Kris and Lyn Quillen who dated Malcolm Norcom. (Who turned out great!)
The times I've been back, Larry at the Pharmacy at Lake Ann recognizes me even what is her name? Evelyn at the front counter? I worked in there at the food counter awhile. Along with Colleen Auckenback, remember she went with Allen Hayes?
Anyone remember that pretty Italian girl who had the broken leg and went with a pretty blonde boy? She was friends with Hilary Sumner but I think older, I've a bone to pick with her.
I loved growing up in Reston and going to Elem. school there. Loved Herndon Intermediate and Herndon High, Graduated in 1975. I only have the 1972 yearbook, all others were lost when 1st husband drowned and I left all to his dad.
Hey remember Scott Shurlock? Sister Susan? Daddy a Reverend? Poor guy turned into a bankrobber. But he had a woonderful time before he ended his life.
I remember most of all,,, jumping into the lake with short shorts on and a button down snap cowboy shirt on when it wass really hot one day. That's the day my husband decide he was gonna marry me. (this one) ...What the hell was I thinking!! Ack still here, in the mountains of PA. My mom divorced my step dad (Silvia and Jon Rasmussen) after he molested me. Tho not soon enough. Poor guy was really wacked. Life goes on. Mother did well for herself, came out of it and married more money.
Me.. I had a great childhood. Someday I'll have a reunion of all the kids who hung out at Lake Anne Plaza. Anyone remember the Rathskeller? Love to all.
Where the heck is the spellcheck!!
-Patricia McLain Rasmussen (Siegfried Jr.) -Patti (chif@ptd.net)

I moved to Reston when I was only 8. It was 1980 so please don't do the math I know I'm old. Anyways, there was a really big patch of land where me and my friends used to play soccer in. We'd run long the woods until we came to the creek. We'd jump into it and get ourself soaking wet and play soccer until we dried off. That big splotch of land is now probably one of the hideous buildings along the road. It was hidden by trees and was so relaxing. In the winter we'd have snowball fights there. In the fall we'd build big leaf piles and jump in them. In the spring we'd play soccer and baseball. In the summer we'd climb the trees and get sap all over our hands. It's amazing how time can change everything. Sometimes I go back to that spot where now it's an office. I just sit down in the flower beds and look at one of the remaining trees. I have faded memories of me and my best friend Claire climbing so high that the tree started to sway at the top. I love that area and I always will no matter what's on it.
-Alexandra

Hello Janice (Kriegel) Zinnecker,
So nice to be remembered by you.
I feel immortal.
Thankyou
-Patricia McLain Rasmussen (Siegfried Jr.) -Patti

Hi everyone I have grown up in Reston all of my life and I am still here. I am married now . I am married to Jonathan Daugherty anyone know him he grew up in Herndon. My brother was born in wash. d.c. but we lived in Reston and that was in 1973. We moved here in 1972 I think. I went to Dogwood , Terraset , Langston hughes and South lakes. My mom Liz Knapp works at south lakes. I adore Reston and I cannot seem to move away but I am looking with my husband maybe Herndon or Sterling. I remember the Lank Fair and I went to Lank. My teacher was Mrs. Potts I called her Pots and Pans. I remember all of my teachers and guess what I am a teacher at the Reston Children's Center. I remember the old Hunters Woods. I remember when they built South Lakes Shopping Center. I loved Harvest. I remember sledding on the golf course with my brother and then going home and having hot cocoa . I remember alot of snow storms. I remember when the plane crashed into a house on Indian Ridge and we lived 5 houses down from that house. I remember when the sheraton caught on Fire. Does anyone remember a child about 4 years old falling out of a 2 story window? If so that child is me. I am alive. I remember Embry Rucker and I went to his funeral. I have learned that you can have alot of memories and they are precious. Heather Elizabeth Knapp Daugherty. htherknapp@aol.com
-Heather Knapp Daugherty (HtherKnapp@aol.com)

Who was the Bunny Man of Reston? Does anybody know his whole story?
-Bunny Man

I lived in Reston between 1972 & 1975 as a kid (4th - 7th grade). I saw Reston Warner cable mentioned here: I used to "work" there helping out with a community channel kids program called SKEEZ. Did anyone here ever see & remember that? Reston was probably my favorite place to live as a kid. I visited in 1985 and thingslooked very different; I'm visiting again this year, and it sounds like I may not recognize it all!
-Frank B (fjbii@hotmail.com)

I remember when going to the movies meant Tysons Corner or Fair Oaks. When the International Center was the biggest building in town and going to school. When Reston "Parkway" was an avenue and sharing SLHS with the middle school while it was being built.
-Bari

2 of my firends that I rememer from the old days was Embry Rucker & pricilla Ames.
-Dave lepkowski

Back in the Mid 70's, the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Bike Trail was not yet paved with asphalt.
-Dave lepkowski

I grew up on West Ox Road and remember driving with my family up lawyers road to see the bulldozers cut down the first trees for what would be called "The 60 Foot Road"
Lawyers was wide and just trees all the way to Rt. 7.
Then the the weekend sightings of "The Reston Ghost."
I was at Lake Anne the night Gwen Ames was murdered. I was playing in a band at the center. The center was packed for a big event going on. Later we heard someone was strangled under the little bridge on the path along the center back where townhouses surround the lake.
It shocked everyone.

I was in science class at Herndon High school when a guy in the class was asked to go to the office only to find out later that his sister drowned on the lake and they took him out of class to tell him.

Hunter Mill shopping Center...anyone remember the great place in there behind Drug Fair called "Big Daddy's?"
Great hot dog place.

Remember Gulf Reston and the big scam, warehouses filled with stolen property etc.? I was working for them that summer and my boss at the time had me and another friend going into D.C. and getting truckloads of appliances and delivering them to all him buddies houses. We caught on late.
Used to be able to swim at Lake Anne at the far end on that big concrete drain. Boy was that great.
My grandmother worked at Bowman's distillery when she was a child...putting on bottle caps.

Ah Reston "the planned community" that was the saying. The ideal place where wealthy, moderate and low income families would live side by side in harmony. It seemed to work for a couple decades but in my opinion (and The Fairfax County Police)it failed the test of time...in some respects.

Was the fast food place there at The Sheraton originally a Gino's Rest?
Yeah and just down the road from the Hotel remember when that plane came screming through the clouds just missing the 12 story building and crashing into a row of townhouses? Near old friends of mine The Browman's.
-Gary Cox (garycox2001@hotmail.com)

Reston was my home. I am welling up with so much emotion right now from reading all of these messages about Reston. I grew up there. I learned most of my important life lessons there in that wonderful little town. Every time I leaft Reston I was always pulled back there. I have not been back there since I visited in the year of 1990. I think back now knowing that I am on the other side of the country in Oregon wondering if I will ever see that little town again. I was a little girl that couldn't wait to skip down those black paths, with all of those trees around me and those big sunflowers off to the right of me at hickory cluster. Knowing that just ahead was the underpass with the pool up above and the kids screaming and having such fun yelling marco polo. Than came the creek with the wooden bridge just ahead where I stood often looking out upon lake anne and seeing all of the ducks and knowing that I was so close. Just alittle bit farther and there was the tower and also where the would even drag the lake avery five to ten years to clean it. My thoughts and excitement would than speed up as though on a special yong childs high of I am almost there. Than around the corner there it was no more thoughts of any problems like in a whole other world. The wonderful sounds of the plaza; the pattle boats, the laughter, the hi how are you, the smell of the food and the band playing in the cafe, the fine dining restaurant, which many kids were not aloud in unless there parents were in there. That was my lesson. The joy and excitement I had of Reston which I shall never forget. The way it makes me feel now even at 39 years old. I was in a little place called heaven. Arrived in 1968 and in my heart have never left.
-Amy Schmid (schm786@aol.com)

We moved to Reston in 1965. Our family was featured in the LOOK magazine article on the "New town called Reston" also
in 1965. I remember the 66' blizzard and dad and a couple other fellas having to walk to Herndon (A&P)to get some groceries. I remember ice hockey on Lake Anne almost every winter. I remember bobsledding on Mt. Reston and the skiers
using the rope tow ski lift. I remember going to Nachman's
in Herndon to get clothes and PF Flyers shoes. I remember living at the pools during the summers 66' thru 79'. I remember Gwen Ames murder too as well as the little girl who fell thru the ice. I remember going to Lake Elsa (Thoreau) and shooting guns with my dad.I remember the air pocket underneath
the tower at Lake Anne. You could dive in, hold your breath long enough to climb under the tower and into the air pocket. I remember Saturday morning reel to reel cartoons at
the Lake Anne Community Center. I remember running thru the water fountain at Lake Anne Plaza. I remember harassing the
concrete artist doing his work underneath the North shore overpass. I remember trees, forests, blacktop paths, streams
stars at night, rock fights around the pond, tree forts.
Fond childhood memories, Herndon High School was a blur!

-Perry Jackman (jackmanp@hhmi.org)

I remember....

Fishing in the ponds behind the Bowman Distillery....
Temporary road when it was closer to the Sycamores...
South Lakes Shopping Center being built.....
Town Center being built... and running around in the under construction buildings...
Memco, then Bradlees, Hechengers, and now Home Depot...
Treking through the woods which be came north point....
Sinking a canoe at RHOA summer camp under the fountain at Lake Anne...
Reston Ave being Reston Ave, and two lanes from Fox Mill Road to Sunrise, Then two lanes from Barron Cameron to Rt 7...
The house that was where the commuter parking lot @ fox mill rd and reston parkway, and the abandoned car behind it.

Riding all over town with my best friends(Jorma Huhtala, Sean Griggs, Paul Nabti) on our bikes during the summer, eating gummy bears out of the bulk section of Giant, Swimming off private docks :) Hanging out in the woods where the condos are now on Lake Audobon. Swimming in the hunters woods pool at 3am..

Matthew R. Potter (South Lakes Class of 1995)

In Loving memory of
F-16 Pilot 1st Lt. Jorma D. Huhtala USAF (4/23/77-10/25/2002)
Killed during training while piloting his F-16 in Utah, Living his dream.


-Matthew R. Potter (mpotter@atpco.com)

When the 7-11 on soapstone was called "Highs",

When Rite-Aid was called Drugfair.

Just like Moms pie shop in Hunters Woods

The Book Alocove @ Hunters Woods(great store!)

Waxie-Maxies Record store at South Lakes shopping center


-Matthew R Potter (mpotter@atpco.com)

I was lucky enough to grow up in Reston from 1973-1986. lived on Greenmont Court and Aldenham Lane and went to Foerest Edge Elemantary, Herndon Intermediate and finally Herndon High.

Here are a few of my memories:

The bike paths and the freedom to grow and explore safely
The creek behind my house filled with slamanders, crayfish, and turtles.
Building forts in the woods around the Forest Edge Cluster association.
Lake Anne - fishing along the dam, ice skating in the winter, the plaza and sitting on the water fountain during a summer concert when it was turned on at the end. Swimming in the lake - during the day as a kid, at night as a teen.
Lake Fairfax and the back way there along the creek bhind Forest Edge school. The big pool, the fireworks, the campground.
The farmers market at the corner of rt606 and rt7 and the fresh pressed apple cider.
Baron Cameron park and the soccer and baseball fields - at least these are still around.
The swimming pools and tennis courts, particularly Uplands. They used to show movies outside in the summer next to the tennis courts.
Having late night hot tub excursions until the police caught on.
Working at the Reston Country Club and golfing on Mondays.
Working at DCA/DISA at the corner of Whiele Ave and the Dulles Access Road. The building has been replaced by a parking lot.
Pizza Sanditos at the 7-11 at Tall Oaks at 3am.
The Reston / Herndon high school rivalry.
Finding sassifras in the woods of Reston.
Laughing now at how I thought the South Side was over developed in the early 80's.

My mom still lives on Greenmont and so do many of my neighbors. I go back every so often but I don't like what I see as it does not feel like the Reston where I grew up.

I could not imagine a better place to be a kid then Reston when I was there. It was open and safe enough that you could do and see so much. I also liked the diversity as I had friends from all walks of life. I will always treasure my Reston expereience.
-Steve Boycan (bwolivedun@aol.com)

My family moved to reston when I was 7 in 1976. We had been living in Africa before that, and Reston was a BIG letdown from all the freedom and community of West Africa. But now as an adult I realize that as far as places to live in the united states, reston was pretty safe.i have the same wonderful memories of walking everywhere with my friends.
Does anybody remember the wonderful teacher at Forest Edge named Mr. Bromley? He was so fabulous. I would love to see my old friends from before I moved to L.A.
chuck bradley
charles smith
adrian yacub
michelle cung
lord
lesly
lauren and heather montgomery
ingrid and alice murphy
My old break dance buddy Angela, when we used to call ourselves the icebreakettes. Remember how we thought David Davila was soooo cute.
Anyway, reston was nice when people had values and they tried to live them. As wife and mother now, I try to live in places where people have some sense of community and shared values. Of course it's not utopia, but it's a far cry from being crammed together and feeling isolated. any old friends or aquaintances, get in touch.
yasmina (formerly Watts)a.k.a yazz, jazzy, sporty and kid fresh
-yasmina naima porter honicky (yazandrj@hotmail.com)

i gave the wrong contact email before.
-yasmina (watts) (yazandrj@yahoo.com)

BACK IN THE LATE 60'S MYSELF (BILL EISELE), AND TWO FRIENDS JAMES RUSK, AND CARL PEARSON HITCHING A RIDE TO THE DANCE TO SEE THE "VILLIAGE SQUIRES" AT LAKE ANN ON ROUTE 7 FROM HERNDON TO RESTON AND SAW THE "RESTON GHOST", FAR OUT MAN
-BILL EISELE

As some of you mentioned I also remember when Gwen Ames was murdered. There is so little information on her murder and I am wondering if there is anyone out there that knows the year she was killed. I know where she is buried in the columbarium across the road from Herndon High School but would prefer not to have to go there to look.
-Doris H (stchrisaa@aol.com)

I moved to Reston in April 1969 when I had just turned 11, and was in Ms. Maddox's 5th grade class at Lake Anne Elementary. I lived in Hunters Woods, but Hunters Woods Elem. school wasn't built until I started 6th grade in Mr. Charlet's (sp?) class. I remember the summers at Hunters Woods and Glade pools, and watching as they were building Hunters Woods Center, which was my hangout during my crazy teenage years. I loved getting a half smoke at Drug Fair, or pizza and hot dog at Big Daddy's, playing their pinball machines until we got kicked out. Whatever happened to the ol' Hunters Woods gang? Some of my old friends were Cory Dunn, P.J. Dunn, Carl Thompson, Mick Mooney, Miguel Aylas, Mike Johnson, Drew Boutwell, Mike Dotson, Ron Simmers (AKA "The Bone"), Mike Healy, Larry Conner, Jeff Knox... and I'll always remember my friend Paul Schultz, an 18-year-old "rebel without a cause" who was killed in July 1974 in a car crash on Hunter Station Road. I have fond memories of the pool parties with live bands, and dances at the Common Ground with bands like Dragon Soup (Andy Ludwig singing). Yep, those were the days!
-Marc Pederson (gmusl2001@yahoo.com)

Wow! Reading all the memories truly brings back all kinds of memories of Reston while growing up there!! Our family moved to Reston in the 60's. (Ok my age is showing now!) I remember as a small child going to Lake Anne Elementary first and the Hunters Woods Elem. was built and I finished elem. there! Teachers there were special people,I believe if I remember right-Mrs.Usack,Mr.Wills, Mrs.Morris, Ms Gaskins, Mr. Rustig (?) Mr. Mack (?) and so many others!! I remember being a safety patrol officer-Oh my god! We walked to school past the H.W. Pool. Summer time movies at the pool. Our postman-Earl-who was just the best!! The icecream man, being able to walk without fear just about everywhere, the paths, the building of the Reston International Center, Hunters Woods Plaza, Drug Fair, going in and to the soda counter! Baskin Robbins, the library there, all kinds of stores etc. So much to mention. I remember Father Findley from St. Thomas a Becket and when they held church in an office building off of whiele ave across from where the mcdonalds is now. The familys of the church and the kids. Saturday night church held at Hunters Woods ELem. cafeteria. Sitting in the back and giggling.
I remember how groups of kids from the different streets would hang together. Quorn Lane was where I grew up, numerous familys there and the different ages, some folks comming and going, Brubakers, Luche, Keagy, Lindberg, Meyer, Markham, Jones, Smith, Feraca, Ryder, Cross, Lamar, Hubley, Bell, Short, etc etc! So many!! I think everybody pretty much knew everybodys dogs names too as well as what animal belonged to what family! Quorn lane had Major (a black Chow that I was so afraid of) Fritz, Puppy, Lad, Piper, Sam, and more! I cant believe I remember that much! I even remember how the old reston avenue road traveled. The distillary, going to the creeks and catching crayfish, minnows or whatever else we could get our hands on. Playing softball with the Panthers!
Actually winning against the Red Devils! Cox's Farm, the Reston Stables and taking my first riding lessons there. The hunters woods pool where we played many a "Shark" game and Marco Polo as well as tetherball. Sleding behind the Hunters woods elementary school on that lovely hill. Probly alot smaller now than what I remember. There was also a pony barn down from the school a bit. Lake Elsa, and the transformation of Lake Elsa into Lake Audobon and Lake Thoreou. I remember partying on the damn and swimming and having the police come and chase us off. Oh so many memories! Lake Anne. The festivals, swimming, ducks, iceskating. I could go on forever. There are even folks I remember who I wonder about how they are even though we didnt hang. Nancy Puccini, Tico Fuller, Lisa Thompson, Patty Thomas, I dont know why these folks stand out in my mind. I hope they are all well. Condolences to the Erdmin Family who just recently lost David. I remember David from elementary school and car pools that the parents had. He and my brother fought quite a bit. Memories of summer when we stayed out late. The guys played basketball and then the racing on reston avenue when it was a two lane road.
Going to Herndon Intermediate and then to Herndon High. Other kids I sometimes wonder about, Susie and Sheri Guest, Elaine Grefenstet (I "KNOW" I spelled that wrong!)
Over the years watching Dulles Airport grow and change. I moved to California for a few years and when I returned a girlfriend of mine needed to drive me to my parents house-I had no idea how to get there!!! I live an hour west of Reston now but come back often since my parents and sister are still living there. I am so glad to have grown up in Reston. I remember the Reston sign on Route 7 with the backwards or upside down S on it. The pet-a-pet farm, Farmers market and going to Wolf trap. Reston was the best and still is! Reading the other messages in this has made me realize how good we had it. I know there were some bad times and I wont forget those but the good times outweighed the bad mostly. Those were the days definately!!
-Pamela (Preusser) Thompson (Thompson1027@aol.com)

Seems like most of the things I remember have been covered already. I moved to Reston in 1966, less than a year old. I have just bought my second house in Reston, and plan on growing old here. My parents bought their house in 1965, and still live there. My mother was the one whose shopping cart full of groceries went into the lake. I remember waiting to be old enough to be allowed to jump off of the high dive at North Shore pool. Mostly I remember it being safe to run and go wherever we wanted (except we were scared to walk by the hippies at Lake Anne). It seemed like everyone knew who you were. I stepped on glass while playing in the fountain one day, and a woman ran into the pharmacy to buy band aids. She cleaned me up and sent me home. Later in life I remember writing a check at the pharmacy w/o an ID. The person behind me in line said it was ok, he could vouch for me, and they accepted it.
I remember helping my mom pour sodas when she volunteered at Common Ground. I remember walking to pre-school at LANK. I remember Saturday morning movies. I remember Dockside and Scoops. My sister & I broke a bottle of wine at Calverts when they had a wine section, and were devistated when the next time we went in they had posted a "no children allowed" sign.
While Reston has changed significantly, we have to remember that the changes were all part of the original master plan. Trees may have been torn down, but there are still more being saved here than anywhere else around. I still love Reston, and it will always be home to me.
-Jennifer Stowers Loveranes (jlove@earthlink.net)

I moved to Reston in 1971. I lived directly across the street from Forest Edge Elementary and had plenty of woods in my backyard to make a young boy happy. I spent the vast majority of my pre-adolescence fishing and exploring the woods.
I remember when it was no big deal to fish the circumference of Lake Anne without having the homeowners yell at you to exit their property. In fact, I knew the majority of those families back then. I remember playing tag on and around the drain before it was covered in concrete and jagged rocks. I remember summer nights of skinny dipping off the floating docks and having fun like kids do. I remember toboganing down Mt Reston with five or six aboard and occassionaly ending up in the creek. The bonfires were always a blast and the crowds were always large.
I remember the vast majority of Restonians back then and still remain good friends with many of them. I remember Embry Rucker and the Common Ground. I remember "Baldy" the Good Humor driver who would gladly accept coins from your coin collection in exchange for a strawberry ice cream cone. I remember the Reston Festivals and how eagerly I anticipated their arrival. I remember diving off the tower on the plaza and swimming up underneath to its hidden shelf. Mostly, I remember how much fun it was to just hang out at the plaza with your friends and stop and talk with your parents friends as they took their strolls around the lake.
My folks still live a few blocks from Lake Anne so I get to visit from time to time. Thank God the plaza hasn't changed much since I first lived there. I still bump into old time Restonians after all of these years away. It's a nice feeling.
The "Clown Center" just isn't my cup of tea, sorry.
PS-I liked reading your memories Jen. I'm glad we have remained friends. You are a true Restonian!
-Jack De Cou

Many of the previous entries have already captured the great moments and places in Reston. I have a few to share as well. My family moved to Greenmont Court in 1968. I remember little about that neighborhood except that my playmates were Sondra Slater and Gregg Gormley and a feww others that have escaped my memory. We then moved to Hickory Cluster (block 2)in 1971. I can recall basically living at the pool during the summer months. At night we would break in! On Sundays my family would picnic at Colvin Run Mill and then go to Thelma's for ice-cream. That was a real treat.
I really miss the big red barn that used to sit on the corner of rt. 7 and 606. It was a sad day when it fell.
Whatever happened to the huge RESTON sign that used to guide travelers to our wonderful world?
I miss being dragged by my dad to the hardware store that used to be in Hunters Woods and then going to the lumber mill in Herndon.
I remember after weekend getaways when you would be coming back home you were getting close when you could see the Sheraton sign on what used to be the tallest building in Reston.
Burger Chef was my favorite place to go when I was a kid. It seemed to take forever for McDonalds to come into our area.
Going to Tysons Corner was a treat. I can recall riding the metro many times to spend an afternoon of shopping and eating a slice of pizza from Orange Bowl.
My allowance used to be spent on "Hello Kitty" stuff from the Hallmark that used to be next door to the Safeway at Lake Ann.
I would also blow my money on the open air markets that would be every Sat. morning on the plaza. What ever happened to the little asian lady that would sell the bbq beef or chicken on a stick? That was another favorite!
Back to School shopping was fun at Zippers. That was the place to get your jeans. It is now a Trader Joes in Tysons/Falls Church.
Enough for now, more to come.
KJw/aG




-Kathy Johnson-Gilman (Kathy.Gilman@lcsj.org)

I was 17 when my parents, sister Jennifer and I moved to Reston from Australia in 1969. Dad had a three year posting at the Australian Embassy in Washington DC and we lived at Reston for that entire time. I finished off my last year of high school by correspondence but Jen went to Herndon High. I was always a bit jealous that I did not get to experience an American school, just like we had seen on the movies etc. Things like American football, baseball, McDonalds were new to us.

After I finished correspondence school at the end of 1969, I went to work at the Embassy with Dad and we took the Reston bus to DC every weekday. It used to take about an hour as I remember. It was pretty social on the evening bus back to Reston, particularly those down the back of the bus. Does anyone remember those days?

Back then Reston was pretty new. We lived at South Shore Road and I remember walking along the walking paths along Lake Anne to the shopping Plaza. It was just fantastic. I had occasion to visit DC for a day about two years ago. I caught a train and bus to Reston. It dropped me off at the Plaza, and I have to say it did not look too different to thirty years ago! It was around the middle of the day and I walked along that same path to South Shore Road to our house, which was at the Plaza end of South Shore Road. (Because I did not have a car this is all I saw so I did not see the growth which has happened over the last 30 years). The day was in the middle of summer and in fact DC had been having a heat wave, with radios issuing warnings etc. I was carrying a pack with a video camera and SLR on my back. Anyway, when I got to the house, I saw that renovations were going on, with scaffolding outside. I knocked on the door and one of the tradesmen called the male owner and I explained to him that my family had lived there years ago and if was not too much trouble I would love to take some photos and video inside. He gladly obliged, and I have to say it was good of him because I must have looked a bit of wreck by the time I got to the house. This experience gave me a good feeling as my recollections of Reston folk all those years ago was that they were pretty friendly.

The house we were renting was apparently designed by an architect (I think it was Kent Armstrong or something similar) and featured on the front page of the 'Living" supplement of the Washington Post some time in the second half of 1969. In fact, I was in one of the photos that featured. I had a spare copy so I sent it over to the current owner of our house, and I received a nice thank you letter from his wife.

One of my main memories of Reston was the weather (although not unique to Reston!). In Australia, there are no suburban areas that get snow. I was amazed by the contrast between the hot summer and and the snow in winter. We used to love toboganning down a hill straight on to Lake Anne and we'd go over the ice for ages. (I don't recall hearing about the drowning referred to by another poster).

The last thing I would like to say is that Mum and Dad made very good friends in Reston. In fact, I would say there would have been very few days when they did not visit our next door neighbours (who fronted Lake Anne) for a drink before dinner. They have stayed in touch ever since and each couple has visited their respective countries.

I loved living in Reston for those years. Good luck to all that live there now.

-Mike Backhouse

I remember when I moved into Reston in 1974 Whiele Avenue ended at the Dulles Access Road--there was no bridge then. The International Center was the tallest building in Reston. We had a movie theater and an oriental resturant in the International Center back then.

The original Hunters Woods shopping center was a busy place, with a Safeway store and a Fairfax County Library located there. Lake Anne also had a Safeway store. Reston development stopped at Baron Cameron Avenue. North Point was still a forest.

Hidden Creek Country Club was known as the Reston Golf and Country Club and we became members automatically when we bought our house. Trees were the hallmark of our community and our pathways led through woods lit by the green glow of filtered sunlight. Our walking music was the sound of the myriad varieties of birds and our entertainment was watching the various woodland creatures as we ambled along.

Vera Hannigan

-Vera Hannigan (vhannigan@aol.com)

I guess I made it to Reston in 1971 when I was 3... started out in Fairway, then became the 2nd owners of the corner house by the Japanese bridge on Lake Anne Canal (Waterview Cluster).
Recently, I went fishing with my 4 yr old daughter on the Potomac, and when she asked how I knew fish like American cheese, I thought, Lake Anne... had to be there, trying to catch bass.
Nothing can beat having grown up in Reston in the 70s. So much made the experience special: The Stowers family 2 doors up from me, playing Planet Of The Apes on our street, hearing the bells of the Good Humor truck while swimming at Northshore Pool, walking (and sometimes galloping) to Lake Anne Elementary, buying barbie outfits at Lake Anne Center's flea markets, floating endlessly on our Sunfish (with no sail or rudder) fitting 3 bodies spread out for sun bathing, iceskating with my boom box playing Genesis, never having the guts to dive down to the under water tunnel of the Lake Anne tower, building forts in the woods bordering Waterview, hearing the geese honking in the morning, in the winter watching the white ducks try to keep open a hole of water while the lake froze, watching Pippi Longstocking at the Common Ground,
riding my banana seat bike around the lake... a lot of good stuff. I wouldn't trade any of it. :)

-Robin Schmid (robins@iprimus.com)

i have learn that lie is full of things to do. and then there are thing s in life you wish you never had to do.my life has been full of pain and fear of ever little thing but i have grown from those days to the person i am now . a girl that knows what andwho she wants to be and where in live i belong now. but to those that are still looking for the light dont wear its there an soon some day it will hit u like nothing has ever hit u before .
lov nj ;ashly
-ashly (xojerseygrl69ox@aol.com)

What a great board! We moved to Deepwood when I was 8 (1976) and then to Paddock Lane in 1978. Our neighborhood was a big family. We all went to the pool in the evenings where they used to show movies. Great memories of Hunters Woods Elementary, hanging out at Hunters Woods Shopping Center, being in the first classes to attend South Lakes, then Langston Hughes, roaming the bike paths to get around. I didn't hate leaving there, but looking back, I sure miss it. If you grew up in Reston in the 70s, it is true that you can never really go home.
-Scott Harwood Jr (scottjr@harwoodinsurance.com)

Hey all!

OK..wow..I see a couple names I recognize..Jenny Stowers and (I think) Jack DeCou (did u used to be Jacques? LOL).

My Reston history..we moved there in 1970 I think it was, to Inlet Cluster. Moved from Inlet when my mom got divorced in 1973-ish to Northgate Square. Then Colson (Coleson?) Cluster off Wainwright Drive 1977-79 or so.

Many memories...like Jenny I remember Dockside at Lake Ann(e?) Center..what a cool store. We bought the funky glass balls hanging from Macrame..lol! Wasn't there a sporting goods store at Lake Anne Center too, for a while? Bought my first basketball there.

Lakeside Pharmacy...the docks at Inlet and Moorings Clusters..walking on the bike trails and seeing the cool graffiti on the tunnels on the way to the Center.

Forest Edge Elementary..with its...er, craters, instead of rooms..lol! Is it still like that, I wonder?

Being bused to Herndon Intermediate..hmm it did seem like a ways to go to school! Who could forget "Temporary" Rd ..the Smith/Bowman mansion -- home of Virginia Gentleman booze.

Many of my friends moved away so I don't remember who was left..I would have been class of 1983 at Herndon but graduated from high school outside of Philly, where we moved in 1980.

Oh as a somewhat funny aside, I didn't return to Reston for years...but then in 1988 I got a job with a little company called Quantum Computer Services, which became America Online in 1992. It was weird to go back to the Tysons Corner/Rte 7 artea and see how much it had changed! Check out my web site for aol memorabilia at www.aolmemorabilia.com.

Hi to everyone!

Julia Wilkinson Gallagher

-Julia Wilkinson Gallagher (juliawilk@aol.com)

Omigosh..I just had to post again bec. I just read the post from Frank who remembered the "SKEEZ" Reston Cable program..my mom, Judy Wilkinson, produced that program, and I actually acted in a couple episodes (yes she must have been desperate if I was acting..LOL!).

She named it "SKEEZ" because at that time it was a slang word kids used when something bad or embarrassing happened to another person, or if they fooled you somehow. (Nice, huh?) That and the fabled "burn on you!"

And speaking of Reston Cable, anyone remember the reeeal early cable .."Star Channel"? Where it was like..woo-hoo...all Planet of the Apes movies, all the time!

Julia
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I lived in Reston between 1972 & 1975 as a kid (4th - 7th grade). I saw Reston Warner cable mentioned here: I used to "work" there helping out with a community channel kids program called SKEEZ. Did anyone here ever see & remember that? Reston was probably my favorite place to live as a kid. I visited in 1985 and thingslooked very different; I'm visiting again this year, and it sounds like I may not recognize it all!
-Frank B (fjbii@hotmail.com)



-Julia Wilkinson Gallagher (juliawilk@aol.com)

I forgot about Star Channel - they used to show one movie per day, five or six times a day. And the movies were usually a couple of years old - like from the Pink Panther series. I remember when HBO first came around, we were amazed that a channel would show movies 24/7!!

Good question from above - what DID happen to that huge "<-RESTON" billboard that was up on Route 7 for so long?

Hey, anyone else remember going skating on Friday nights at Dominion Skate Rink in Sterling? I rmember that it used to be quite the party for us 7th and 8th graders!!
-Scott Harwood Jr (scottjr@harwoodinsurance.com)

Oops! Had to chime in on emore time. On my 30th birthday (10/3/1998), I took my wife to Reston and we parked at Hunters Woods Pool and hit the bike paths. I know that Reston is completely overgorwn and overdeveloped now, and most of the people are gone, but it amazed me that the neighborhoods and paths looked pretty much the same. I wonder if the new occupants of our old houses are as neighborly as I remember everyone being. I do remember when we came upon the site where Hunters Woods Plaza used to be, I had the wind knocked out of me. How sad that it is gone. I'd love to see what my old 5th and 6th grade classes are up to now (Hunters Wood Elementary, Class of 1980). Reston was a great idea and I can only assume that it has grown cold and impersonal. But then we can hope that the old lady is alive and well.
-Scott Harwood Jr (scottjr@harwoodinsurance.com)

I remember first moving here to Hickory Cluster in 1966. my parents still live in the same house.

I remember going down to the Lake Anne coffee house every Saturday to watch a movie with my friends, then going to the Carter Glass library where my mother worked and getting all the books I could read. Also taking piano lessons and dance lessons there. I rembember the Safeway and shopping there almost every day. I guess I am old, because I still remember Reston Parkway as being a two lane road and having to slow down to go over the train tracks in a car.

Now all the soccer fields I used to play on are covered with houses and shopping centers. Too bad Reston has lost too much of the open spaces, and I call it "the big city" now.
-Amy

I have very fond memories of Reston, despite having only lived there for a year. My family and I moved to Hickory Cluster in 1977/78. I was 5 or 6 years old.

- I remember Lake Anne Elementary.

- I remember playing soccer and riding a bigwheel on the large patio/garage cover of Hickory Cluster, the one with the hexagonal concrete tiles, that I hear has recently been torn down.

- I remember our neighbor, Jackie, a sculptor for whom I posed once (if I recall, she added horns to my head and made me an imp of some sort). She had seen a UFO and had drawings of it on her fridge.

- I remember being completely swept away by the Star Wars craze and a great big local Star Wars party where people dressed up as the characters of the movie and had flashlight light sabres. I remember checking out the paperback novel of the movie (already very worn at that point) at the library next to Lake Anne because I liked the picture on the cover, but was far too young to read it.

- I remember RHOA Day Camp, paddling around Lake Anne, and being bitten on the butt by an ant when I sat on a tree stump.

- I remember all the trees and the uphill path to school. One morning on my way to school I stepped on one of the many gypsy moth caterpillars that were littering the path. I cried for the rest of the day because I felt sorry for it.

- I remember a clown/acrobat who would balance on the rail next to the stream that led to Lake Anne. As kids we were amazed and scared when he would act like he was falling in before he would catch himself on the rail.

It was a magical place and a magical time to be a kid. :)
-Pelle (psterud@hotmail.com)

I remember:

- sledding on the golf course
- Day Camp at Terraset in 1983, and in later years climbing up the pyramid at Terraset and having a few teenage cocktails in the playground
- the yearly Reston festivals at Lake Anne and how that one little play area in front of Super Fresh always smelled like pee
-the scores of joggers that were out en masse year round.
- The funny RHOA and RHOA Plus cards.
- G.R.A.C.E
- The building of South Lakes Shopping Center and later on hanging out on the benches outside of Subway, ducking the police.
- Jam for Man "benefit" concerts with local bands charging a can of food for admission.
- "The Reston Channel" with all it's glorious low-quality, wacky programming, coverage of the festivals, graduations, concerts, that lady that did the yoga, and the weird messages that were always on there; what was Rang-a-Rang?
- The Reston triathalon (including the sad year that one of my classmates died swimming in it)
- Buying "mias" and patchy Guess jean jackets from Harvest.
- Selling cleaned golf balls and lemonade at our stand in my best friend's backyard which was on the golf course.
- "Mark Mosely's Travel" which would often host Redskins autograph sessions.
- That weird house on Hunters Station which was supposed to be haunted.
- Virginia Gentlemen
- Sitting in the ultra-unsafe "jacuzzi" in Lake Thoreau, which you got to from swimming under the chains and up into the dam.
- The person who fell off "the jacuzzi" and ended up in Lake Audobon
- "Mom" & "Geraldo" (the "narcs" at South Lakes)
- The skate competition on the basketball courts between South Lakes and Langston Hughes, probably around 87 or 88.
- "The Hill" @ Stone Gate, and when it was plowed down.
- Birthday parties in the "Party Room" at the ROLLER skating rink behind McDonald's where "CELEBRATE" was always played.
- "Couples Only" skate, "Shoot the Moon", and requesting "Sexual Healing" to the DJ in the box.
- Baseball carnivals

aye...i could go on an on and on...



-Former Restonite

Oh and that NASTY summer that the cicadas were around. Ugh there was a constant "buzz"
-Former Restonite

My family moved to Reston in 1969 from Chicago. My memories of Reston are of learning how to swim at the age of 2 at the huge swimming pool across from our house, the ONE day it snowed, Thelmas Ice Cream-I can still recall the smell of fresh ice cream and thick country air, Chris and Julia Brady, Mary Beth Donaho, the Keils-Doug, Paula, Carolyn and Melissa and Kathy-Jane, and having my life saved by Chris Circus-we actually ran into one another when I was bartending at the Hyatt in Chicago around 8 years ago. I was giving him my usual "bar quiz" where 'ya from, etc. And we both stated connecting stories about Reston. As I was telling the story about a boy saving my life (I put our station wagon in gear and it started rolling backwards down our driveway)he said; "That was me!"
Chris if you read this I hope you are well, Thanks!!

-Evan P. Bossieux Coleman (evan@evancoleman.com)

I Remember...
Avail, Transilience, L.D.K.,Psychotic Symptoms, Asphyxia(my old Band) Deceased playing in Oakton house.
Slo Mo spray painted on South Lakes wall
Highs being run into buy a car
Cicadas Screeech!!!!!!
The hill at stonegate.
Stonegate and laurel glade not fun living right next to.
Being a small white boy being chased by 20 black kids.
Andy Wells senseless death
Kurt Silveys drowing at the Reston triathalon
Mary Nethery's suicide
LSD TV
The Town center being built.
Working at fritzbes
Partying behind Fritzbes
Grant Hill
Jam for Man
Youth for a better world
Avail doing "we got The Beat"
D.J's Freestyle rap show at Karaokee
I too remember Mom @ Gerlado Restonite!!
The tunnel.
Playing LAVA TAG at Terraset Playground (no playground comes close to that one!!!
Dr Clark R.I.P.
You could not catch one of us kids on those bike paths Mr Policeman.
The Hoodlums!! Dealing with them.
R.K.L.& Chili Pepper worship.
Reston hardcore, Reston Metal RHC
Leaving south lakes forever!! (now I wish I was back)
I moved to Reston From New York in 1986
I moved back to New yawk in 1994.
I am fond of my time there...
Another former Restonite..
Back to being a New yorker.
Stop hating New Yorkers, southerners!!!




-Nick Teta (Greyland666@hotmail.com)

I recognize a few names here. What a place, and what a time it was. I lived in Reston from 1970-83. I remember hanging out with my friends at Inlet cluster and at Lake Ann Plaza. We walked the paths so many times, we could walk them blind folded. The underpasses and overpasses. The paths and forts we made in the woods. Weekend Festivals at the plaza. Playing game tag in Cameron Crescent at around the "Round House". Browns Chappel. The Safeway, Working at the Reston Gulf Station. Yes, I worked there when we went through the Gas Crisis while in High School. Lines for miles. The Reston Roller Rink. Larry at the Lake Ann Pharmacy. He still works there.
Swimming off the docs at the plaza. Swimming at Inlet Cluster. My neighbors John and Linda Molsberry. She sold flowers from her van at the plaza. The North Shore Pool. Walking to Forest Edge Elementary. Fishing for Bass and sunfish. Ice Skating all day and night on the lake. Pet-A-Pet farm. Concerts at Lake Fairfax. Catching the bus to Tysons on weekends.
Sliding down the snow at Mt Reston in about anything we could find and warming by the fire at the top.
It seemed like those days would never end. Sadly they have.

Julia, I remember the Star channel, and I've lost count of how many times I use to use the words Burn and Skeez.

Nice to see that we all shared the same memories. Hello to all..


-John DuVal (jtduval@yahoo.com)

What about the Reston rapist, remember that wierd situation, geeez.
I have lived alot of places since Reston, and never have they owned thier own rapist.

I lived in Reston from Kindergarden, until I went to college,
I lived on the Golf Course for the First Half and then I moved to Lake Anne.
When I was but wee lad, me and my Pop use to go 4x4ing in the area they call South Lakes,
There use to be the most gigantic half pipe out there in the woods,
it was the first time I ever saw kids skating and riding bikes on a half pipe,
that was in like 1976-78.

There was a summer when my Mom drove the RIBS bus, you cant get more Reston that that.

Remember how long Misty Beetoveen played at the Reston cinema at Town Center (The First Town Center)
Who was going to watch that wierd soft porn late night up there?????
I glad I dont know.

When I was young I hung at the Common Ground, and played in the fountain.
Remember how cold the water fountain was at the Ice Cream Shop at the Plaza? Wow!
When I was medium I Skated evrywhere all the time, Reston was a great place to skateboard.
When I was older I learned about junkies from the old junkies that use to sit on the steps at Washington Plaza.
yes, I experimented prescription cough syrups and Herion in Reston.
I smoked Pot in Reston, I ate acid in Reston,
I watched my Good Buddy Ted, flip a canoe full of cops into Lake Anne in Reston, ha ha.
I drank Sun Country Wine Coolers in Reston Two Litre Stylee.

Fred use to run the Sweet Tooth, he loved Quarters.
I like to think of him as a video arcade pioneer.
I have friends that live in Reston, I have friends that have died in Reston.
I have returned to Reston more then once for a funeral,

I saw Robin Schmid's name on the list,
I remember when she walked in to my home room for the first time,
I thought I had never seen a more beautiful face.
Thats a good Reston memory.

I had sex for the first time in Reston,
I fell in love for the first time in Reston.
I had my heart broken for the first time in Reston.

Two places at Tall Oaks will always be cool to me "The Cave" & "The Red Caboose"

When I was way young, I had one of the largest paper routes in reston,
Scotty Campbell gave me Charter Oak and His Half of Golf Course Island,
combined with me having most of Tall Oaks and the Other Half of CGI, I was a rich little bitch.

I rode my Bike in Reston, everywhere, BLACK PATHS RULE!!!

I won alot of Blue Ribbons in Reston Swimming,
I won a few Championship Soccer Matches in Reston,
two teams Giants and the Choppers (Choppers where better),
I jumped off the tower in to Lake Anne,
I learned to Snowboard in Reston.
I use to throw crabapples at cars in Reston.

I experimented with Fire in Reston...
Once I stole some Hydrogen form the Ebola Labs at Issac Newton Sq,
and Filled Balloons up with it and lit them on Fire,
man o man you have never seen an explosion until you light a Hydrogen Ballon on fire.

The Pools of Reston, I would like to say I have swam in everyone of them,
but I might have missed a few, we had a lot of big pools in Reston.

Man I could talk about Reston forever,
but even though I dont live anywhere near Reston anymore,
I work with a guy from Herndon, Garth B. and I showed him what I had writen so far,
and he said "you're a sign of failure",
I know he is just jealous,
beacuse I work on the quite side of the office,
and I get to goof off,
but I really should get back to work.

Lake Anne Rules!!!
The rest of it was just put there to make money.

eidentity




-eidentity (eidentity@yahoo.com)

Actually, I do remember Misty Beethovan playing at the Reston theatre forever! I remember seeing Star Trek II and Karate Kid there too!
Speaking of half-pipes, remember the RDR trail behind the Memco?
-Scott Harwood Jr (scottjr@harwoodinsurance.com)

I moved to Reston from New York in 1985 and lived there until 1990 when I moved to Northern California. (I now live in Seattle, and it has the trees etc. that I remember from Reston) We lived in Mallard's Landing right on Lake Audubon. I went to SLHS and graduated in 1989. When I moved to CA. I couldn't wait to get out of "boring" Reston. Little did I know at the time that Reston wasn't nearly as bad as I had thought! (Northern California, now that's bad!) I worked all through high school at the Subway at South Lakes Shopping Center (a major teenager hangout), lifeguarded in the summers at Dogwood Pool and used to hang out at Lake Audubon every day of the summer and a lot of the winter too! Before I got my license I rode my bike all over using the hundreds of miles of bike trails (how I wish were I live now had bike trails!) I realize now how lucky I was, having the lake right behind my house, shopping centers withing walking distance and a bike trail to anywhere I wanted to go. I made great lifelong friends in Reston whom I still keep in touch with today. I haven't been back in over 5 years so I don't know what it's like now but the last time I was there it had grown so much and had lost much of it's charm. As an adult, I now wish I could find somewhere to live that is like old Reston!
-Robyn Goodwin Foster (angeldoxie@hotmail.com)

I moved to Reston when I was 5 years old, to Ivy Oak Sq., moved several different times, 25 years later, ended up married and living back in Ivy Oak Sq. There are still neighbors who live here, that remember when my brother, Patrick was born at home, or when we could set up our Tipi and have camp outs with the all the kids, no mtter what age. I remember when they built the gym at Lake Anne Elm. and now my son will start kindergarten there in the fall. I graduated in 1990, and thought our 10 yr reunuion was forever away. Now here I am, about have to have my 3rd child, wondering where the time went...
I remember,
~Reston Festival at Lake Anne, so crowded, you couldnt move.
~Lake Anne frozen enough to skate on.
~The Sweet Tooth
~The parade that started at Lake Anne Elem, and ended at Lake Anne Plaza
~The Baseball carnival
~Jam 4 Man concerts
~The Secret Sausage
~Maby's
~The V bridge
~All night Grad party
~Fritzbe's(mozz sticks w/rassberry suace)
~Walking the golf course at night (what were we thinking)
~Harvest
And the Andy Wells tribute on the drain in Lake Thoreau
There are so many memories that people have already mentioned, it's nice to read about old times. Maybe my children can add to this site one day.
-Shannon Pinkman DiBacco (Mommabearof2@comcast.net)

i remember
MY FRIEND SHANNON
L.D.K.
KNOTHEAD
REMISSION
AVAIL
WHEN NICK GOT CHASED THROUGH THE TUNNELL

-chris (tattoodtrash@hotmail.com)

I REMEMBER CHRIS GOODWIN'S RED CONVERTABLE MUSTANG AND NOBODY WAS ALLOWED TO TOUCH IT.
-CHRIS CARPENTER

I remember you too stranger : )
-Shannon

It was a poppy red Mustang and who the heck said no one could touch it? I wish I had that car back. I really miss it and Reston too(never thought I would say that).
-Chris Goodwin (topherteach@hotmail.com)

By the way...I am M. Chris Goodwin...not W. Chris Goodwin.
-Chris Goodwin

As I read other enteries I keep remembering things. I remember my brother Chris' poppy red mustang and begging for rides to school in it. I remember the time we almost had an accident crossing South Lakes Drive in it when we barely missed hitting one car going one way and had to floor it to miss another car going the other way. I remember the guy who had the same unique color mustang and his wife thinking he was having an affair because I rode in the car with my brother so often. I remember when we parked in the lower lot at SLHS (by the Auto Shop) and Mr. Comeford blocked us in so when we decided to leave for lunch we drove over the median and left Mr. Comeford blocking an empty spot. I remember parties at Terri's house (when Heather got lost in the "woods") and parties at our house when Shane wanted to get a moon tan. I remember cruising around in Terri's yellow Honda and singing Bon Jovi songs at the top of our lungs. Hey Terri, what was the name of the road where it was real curvy and we would go drive fast over that one part where we would catch air? I remember the 4th of July at Lake Fairfax. Swimming across Lake Audubon with Teak to the Lake Audubon pool. Swimming at 3am with Teak. I remember learning how to drive on South Lakes Drive. I remember drinking 2 liter bottles of wine coolers (thank god for the grandfather clause in D.C.). I remember Teak's Kiwi camper van and it being T.P.'d. I remember the Wah-Wah's at South Lake Center Subway. I remember Teak and Terri and Christine and Hally and Missy and Lewis and Wanda and so many others! Oh what memories, fun and good times!
-Robyn Goodwin Foster (angeldoxie@hotmail.com)

There was Spirit in Reston. For the walking, or not, I suppose. Perhaps just the understanding that we had something going on was enough for some. For others, we had to live it out. I am blessed in the circles evolved and their forward motion. Reston has followed me, for almost three decades. There are no coincidences. Life's a trip for sure.
-Jen Drake (jenniferdrake8@yahoo.com)

I remember:

~when Terraset opened and getting off the bus with all the TV crews there.
~Moved to Lake Anne... and I agree it is the best the rest is there to make money.
~Memco.. you had to sneak in if you couldn't get your moms pass
~Bradlees... and the snack bar
~Sweet Tooth and Pac-man
~Dockside... candy with edible paper
~The grocery store at lake anne
~Vantage Hill pool was still part of RHOA
~My pool pass that would get all chewed on the edge
~Riding my bike with Brooke Freeman to Lake Anne AT LEAST three times a day... to get a sub at Calverts
~The mean old lady that worked the counter at Lakeside... yes Larry is still there!
~Lake Anne Elementry... GO CLIPPERS! Mr. Smith, Mrs. England & Mr. Stuart
~Field trip to Williamsburg
~Kickball
~Swim Team... North Shore Sharks!
~Blue ribbons and swimming on Sarah Ryans relay team
~Spinning the swing bench at the end of lake anne and letting it go.

Still live here right on the lake and still think it's the best place to be... could live without all the traffic and without Reston Town Center.... it's just a mall!

Support your local resturants! Eat at Lake Anne...

Heidi
-Heidi M (heidi.marggraf@comcast.net)

I am looking for Erich Scheeler, Carl or Lisa Scheeler, Mary McDonald (Tryon), Andy or Walter Ludwig, Mark Luddington and "Keith" of Ivy Oak Square, and Lisa Abramson. Found Linda Berkman and Dan McGehee AKA Keenan Dakota.
Jen Drake, House of Dragon
-Jen Drake (jenofdrago@yahoo.com)

I am interested in putting together a retrospective including personal memories as well as interesting perspectives (yours, subjective!) re: the "movers and shakers" of early Reston.
Jen Drake, House of Dragon
-Jen Drake (jenofdrago@yahoo.com)

Anyone know where I can find any info about Walt Disney visiting Reston when it first opened? It was supposedly the realization of his first idea of an EPCOT. Anyway, can someone give a link about the visit?
-Scott Harwood Jr (scottjr@kinex.net)

doing too many drugs
smoking too much
drinking too much
sa-than a.k.a. than and his exploding citation
gwamper a.k.a. justin (i think that's how he spelled it)
the twins
that hearst that someone drove (going to south lakes)
mom & geraldo (oh the days of cat and mouse)
smoking down the main hall of sought lakes (during school hours)
sitting in circles smoking at lunch
that one show at south lakes highschool that was filmed for restons channel
subway for lunch
learning how to pocket a lit cigg
learning how to palm my money when getting a shake down by the black kids
south lakes hardcore
jam 4 man
the drummer for crunchy water playing a long drum solo at langston hughes middle school
buying my first pair of oxblood docs in georgetown and some guy getting shot right out side the door
learning how to drive in one of southlakes big green boats
learning my freind steve was killed in a drunk driving accident
i remember all those bands
parties at the lake near mikes house (across the street from south lakes)
ryan and listening to the dead milkman
and a fearful meeting of another ryan on the path by southlakes, he had put his hood up and wass trying to look all big one night while i was walking by and i was doing the samething, then when we got close we were releived at who it was..(probably had to be there)
andy and his possesed beetle (it was an auto stick too - weird)
brandon and his red flat top - turned into a mullet
jennifer and her cobra head hair style
karen and her sisters
sneaking into the boarded up bathrooms to smoke at south lakes
going to subway for lunch everyday
hanging out at hunterswoods
hanging out on the bike paths
getting maced on the bike path one day (that sucked)
shoulder tapping at highs
should tapping at hunterswoods
partying all over that town
hanging out at south lakes shopping center
having a little too much fun videotapping our autopsy of the fetal pig in biology
summer school
hanging out at the movie theater
using the golf course as a short cut to everywhere
that kid that died in the lake swimming across it
mary's suicide
hooking up with some south lakes girls on the german exchange student field trip to va beach
hearing about mikes mom dying of cancer after i moved away
loosing track of everyone i knew

maybe if i hadn't done the first few things i might remember more...


-jon (vr6stress@hotmail.com)

AS for the "bunny man"...It is actually somewhere else in Fairfax County. He was an escapee from an insane asylum while the place was moving. He was never found except for multilated bunnies in the area..there is actually a bunny man bridge where secruity keeps track of things. people have been killed in this area, by hanging and other weird events. The one survivor lived in a house near the bridge and the house was supposely haunted. All this was on a Fox TV show...called "real ghost stories" SO if ur looking for the actual story that where u can find it and they actually took kids in there to the bridge and say "bunny man" three times....Im sorry but im a 23 yrd old and i still will not say "bunny man" on any of the paths in reston even though the actual place isnt in Reston...
-Nicole (curiousniki_2000@hotmail.com)

i learned that lake ann sucks

-john (johndad)

I remember going to the Safeway at Hunter's Woods with my friend Mark, on the last day it was open (before the renovation) and trying to be the last customer, but we couldn't wait for this 90 year old woman to finish, we went and saw "Angels in the Outfield" with a couple of girls at Reston Town Center, I think the tickets were like $5.50 then. I remember the Book Alcove at Hunter's Woods and the Baskin Robbins that used to be there, and of course the Reston Community Center, I almost worked in the snack bar there one summer, can't remember why I didn't. Reston Rocks!
-Harold (harold1977@comcast.net)

Our family lived in the apartments on the hill behind the Gulf station. The name escapes me because it was back in 67-68 timeframe. We sleded and skied the hill,rode our bikes all over reston on paths and roads,built ramps and jumped our bikes "hundreds" of feet and crashed to impress the girls(and ourselves).Swam in the lake, stole styrofoam and plywood from the construction sites and built ships to sail the reaches of lake Anne.Dove off the tower near the fountian. We took paintcan hobo stoves across Baron Cameron Ave.to the steplechase woods and camped out in our forts.Went to the drug store in the center and had honeybuns cooked on the griddle in butter with a cherry coke.Still make those everynow and then to this day. Danced my first dance at the common ground after practicing with my best friend Mike in the bathroom...We both thought we sucked and laughed our asses off then went and did it with real girls with a live band!Many good memories of that time and some bad ones to. My parents were getting divorced,The murder,the little girl in the lake...didnt a rescue worker die looking for her to? I drive there sometimes and think about the time where all that mattered it seemed was what we were going to do next to have fun.I still thinklike that but alas, the toys have gotten way more expensive!If anyone sees Mandy,tell her I had a huge crush on her.LOL
-Dave Hodgson (pdrh@cox.net)

Monkey Houses bad. Ebola Reston Bad. Monkeys bad. Period.
-Joey (rttuttle@aol.com)

I grew up on Clarks Crossing Road in Vienna by WolfTrap. My brother Mark and I used to fox hunt with the Fairfax Hounds as little kids and we used to watch the hunt races at the race course in Sunset Hills; all the kids ran around all day at the huntcourse without any adult supervision; there were thousands of spectators, but it was always safe, no one ever thought of kidnapping or anything like that. We galloped our ponies on the Dulles Access Highway when it was dirt, before the concrete was poured. The whole Reston area was woods and fields and the hunt used to meet at the Virginia Gentleman's distillery-where we would have a blessing of the hounds on TG and XMas. There were thousands of birds that ate all the left over grain bits from the distilling process. When Reston was proposed as a "planned community" no one could believe such nonsense and no one thought Reston would ever succeed. Some stupid arsonist burned down our huntclub, which was just a small, ancient log cabin in Sunset Hills. We used to go swimming and hang out at Lake Fairfax in the summers. Our mothers would sun bathe and read and us kids would scream and run around all day, swimming, diving off the boards and sliding down the water slide and eating ice creams. It was really hot and humid, and most houses did not have AC, so us kids wanted to be at the lake/pool from early am until closing. We all had great tans, no one knew what sunscreen was, we used to mix up olive oil and iodine to acclerate our tans. Also, every pool had a diving board, often a high dive, and us kids would dive about a thousand times a day. No one ever got hurt.
-Carol Meschter (carol_meschter@compbio.com)

I loved growing up in Reston. I loved going to day camp and having the swimming pool right across the street from my house. I loved walking on the blackpaths and playing in the stream that fed Lake Audobon. I liked going to such a neat elementary school - where we could play on the roof (Terraset) before they built the fancy wood playground. I remember when Lawyers road was a dirt road with the one lane bridge that would flood and the cars would get swept off. And if you wanted Indian food you had to drive all the way into D.C.

Now I commute in to work in Reston and it seems really different to me from what I remember growing up. But I still think it would be a nice place to raise kids....


-Alison Kiernan (Alison_Dishman@hotmail.com)

I remember the Reston Children's Center when it was still in the big white house, and we could explore for hours in the woods behind it, and sometimes have sleep overs, and the counselors Gordon and Gary and Sarah, and Donna Kessler.
I remember walking to Tall Oaks when I was tiny, and it was perfectly safe, and climbing on the big wouldn't structure there.
I remember the TV show "You've Got to Have Art."
Sledding on the Big Hill right behind our house, and going to Lake Anne Elementary with Mr. Coussoulus (sp?!) and Mr. Hill was the P. E. teacher.
And the amazing concrete art in the underpass on the way to Lake Anne, and the paddle boats, and the little used book store at Lake Anne Plaza where I was allowed to sit and read for hours.
And the Reston Community Center that always smelled so clean, where I took acting classes and swam and played Pac-Man for the first time.
And the drug store at Hunter's Woods that had a lunch counter, and then later had a soda machine that for years was broken so you could get a soda for 35 cents.
I remember walking to Highs every day on the black paths, and then later smoking at The Tunnel by South Lakes.
I was in Reston from '71 till the mid-80s... I guess it's hard to appreciate things when you don't know how different they are from everywhere else.

-Sarah (smoakes777@yahoo.com)

We are hanging out at Susanne's in New Orleans. In the morning we are drinking and going to the parades. We remember partying on the golf course. Maby's Biridge. The Reston Twin Movies. I worked there. Roy Roger's parking lot. Smoking in the bathroom at school. Lots of crime. We did it. Young juveniles. Stealing beer. Car bumper tag. Driving cars on the paths with Kenny Anderson and all his wild shindigs. Big fight at Roys, jocks versus punks. Why can't we all just get along. Being sorry now for things I did then. I apologize. Mr. Tripp. He was so cool. Mr. Jenkins and al those wacky hats. Trailers at Langston Hughes. Before Langston Hughes was built. Violent Femmes at 4th of July. Terry Marquez just left with his wife. Carly is smoking out front. McCracken is sleeping on the couch. See ya later, until next time. Much Love, Than and Susanne.
-Than Hvizdos and Susanne Richardson (nathanielhvizdos@yahoo.com)

The newspaper machines at South Lakes Center being dumped in the lake. Fun with rubber cement and matches. Smoking cigs before there was a smoking age. Stealing them or bumming a buck twenty five to buy them. The guy from Harvest harrassing us kids. Jack the owner of South Lakes Subway taking cocaine breaks. Totally effective law enforcement of kids trying to have fun. Kinderfodder. Mrs. Dunn. Mrs. Joyner. Mom, Geraldo, and Hunnsburger. Mount Reston at first snow. Oh yeah, bands in DC. "Fall Brawl" at the WST music hall. My house show where Hostile Environment and LDK played when the walls got bashed in. Susan Medville's show the week before. Magnum PI in the afternoon, everyday at four. "Pass the Dutchy on the Left Hand Side". Football games jeeuh! Driving around aimlessly. That party off of Hiddenbrook, Lawyers, in Fox Mill estates. You know those ones we could never find. Garage crew. Inschool. Straight up taggin. Bob Grauman, "you'rre life isn't worth my job." Thanks Dick! Naquin. Mrs. D photo lab. Double burrito day and Taco Salad day. "We didn't do it," just in general. Peace.
-Than Hvizdos and Terry Marquez (nathanielhvizdos@yahoo.com)

I have great memories of growing up in Reston. My family moved there in July of 1980. South Lakes High School was just recently built. I 'm not sure it even had a Senior class yet. I was in the group of kids that went to 8th grade at South Lakes H.S. because Langston Hughes wasn't built yet. We didn't get out of school until around 5 pm!
-Chris (chrisruhge@hotmail.com)

Just wanted to add one more thing... I remember playing on the area that is now Lake Audubon, before anyone even thought of making it a lake. I also remember that a kid drown during the Reston Triathalon in that lake. I don't remember what year that was but I think in the 1980's.
-Chris (chrisruhge@hotmail.com)

I remember when the Reston Festival was the best thing around. Break Dance battles, DOug E. Fresh, Unity Band. I remember when swimming in Lake Anne was the best thing since Kings Dominion. I remember when Sweet Tooth was flooded with kids and Reston was like Mayberry. Sweet tooth had the best Ice Cream too by the way. Teen Fest, Grant Hill and Joey Beard. Herndon vs. South Lakes High School was once as hot as the Cowboys vs. Redskins. Dexter Manley lived right down the street from me (North Shore). If I go way back I can remember the Bunny man and "The Ninjas". The Ninjas were around before The Hill Boys and the Reston Reckin Crew....lol. Old School. I`ve been here too long..


-Pookie (mahdymahd26@yahoo.com)

Forgot to add...been in Reston since 1976-
-Pookie (mahdymahd26@yahoo.com)

Former Restonite-
You remember some of the things that i remember about Reston, especially the Hill @ Stonegate and those dam narcs at South Lakes, they got on my nerves, but i also remember Cagney & Lacey(naarcs) too. Are they the same azzholes?
-Another Former Restonian - sometimes still am!

Dang Pookie,
you have been around for a looong time, as well as i have. Because i can quite remember the Ninjas, yes they were practically around before the Hill boys...LOL...I remember Dexter Manley use to live across from Lake Ann Elem. Does anyone remember the boy who killed his sister? Can't quite remember his name. His name could have been Phil or Frank or somethng like that. I graduated from S. Lakes in '89, back then, i thought Reston was like the end of the world. But now its not too bad. My kids are now hanging in Reston. I read a memory from Nick above, that is so funny, who told your azz to go through the tunnel before you got chased by the black kids?? LOL
And the Unity Band?? yea i remember them
I can remember when Grant Hill use to go with the girl named Suzie, who was like 5 feet shorter than him with braces. And yes I do remember BoB Grauman's favorite phrase...that jerk. Those narcs use to chase me everyday through school, because i like to skip classes and let them chase, and they could never catch me, until they called the police on me one day.
Hey! what about the real little, skinny lady who was a gym teacher(forgot her name)i seen her like 2 weeks ago, joggin in Sterling. its funny how one of my teachers back at the S. Lakes days was actually one of my son's teacher in Herndon at Hutchinson elem a long time ago. I hated his wife at S. lakes. That school was a story to talk about, I would walk in one door when i got off the bus and walk out the other door and head to Highs(now 7-11) to feed my "munchies". Then come back to school and find a class to sleep in. I know they couldn't wait to get me out of there. But I made it out, on time too!! I could go & on about the memories of Reston.
-Another Former Restonian - sometimes still am

I remember when that guy Perrynoid did a fake radio show from Herndon High School in 1988 and the cops were called in when he began having sex with a Herndon High bus drvier on stage while circus midgets filmed..
WWW.Perrynoid.com It's a fake radio show- Go listen while you surf for porn!
RESTON SUCKS !
Long Live FALLS CHURCH
-HERNDON CLASS OF 88 (HHSC@yahoo.com)

I was at that show!! Perrynoid SIMULATED sex. He did not really bang the bus driver. The cops WERE called... and the K-9
unit was brought in due to some dope that was being smoked by the circus midgets in the ladies room.

No charges were filed but Perrynoid was banned from Herndon High School and later was arrested at South Lakes High when he beat up the prom queen after she accidently unplugged his guitar durring the prom.
She later married Perry and the 2 of them moved to Mars were they cashed in on fake air.
Listen to Perrynoid's Fake Radio Show at www.Perrynoid.com
THE COSMIC CIRCUS WILL SET RESTON FREE.
VOTE BUSH OUT in 2004~

-Albert Groth (www.perrynoid.com)

This COsmic Circus is obscene. The only reason it is on the internet at www.perrynoid.com is because WE the FCC have banned it from "real" radio.
Not because it offends, ...just because it sucks.

dont listen. it's filth and potty humor.
only not funny. sad, pathetic and clueless.
much like perrynoid.
www.perrynoid.com
-The FCC (TheCOsmicCIrcus@yahoo.com)

does anyone remember luanne cameron and cyndi noble or mike freelander brad smith
-woodstock newyork

I remember:

Getting my first pair of nikes (the ones from the 1st terminator) at Bradless where Home Depot is now..

Cats going up to the skating rink to have break dance battles

When the hill was bulldoozed down, but the Hillboys remained

When Jeff Agee was killed

Fresh Values down at Lake Anne

Pool Hopping @ all the pools ( was a young playa)

When there was a Roy Rogers @ South Lakes S.C.

Finding keys to a car in the green subschool, waiting until night to find out which car it was, driving it and getting busted by punk as Mr. Hoy. What was he doing at school at nine at night?

Seeing EU and other go-go bands at S.L.H.S.

Mike Beale smaking the ish out the congos

Playing ball up at post oak and dunking on all yall

Going over to this old couples house in sycamore that would give out candy and food

Meeting all my crazy ass friends at Christian Fellowship

The first time i saw somebody high off smoking boat

Creeping late night sneaking in basements

Having to drive to md or dc to get some alcohol. why did we used to drive all the way to 51's????

Mr. Daltons punk ass

Hanging out in the McDonalds parking lot waiting to find out where the party was.

Going to school with G. Hill, Rob Robinson, Mike Ellison, Mike Taylor.....

Going down to states a couple of times

Scott Warner- all yall that were on probation know him

going to Quigleys
-Bruce Tarr (bblacc@yahoo.com)

Bruce Tarr, I remember EVERYTHING that you mentioned... except for that Scott Warner dude
I remember when we use to break into the cars in the Auto shop at South Lakes
at Langston Hughes,TLC was my second home, what did TLC mean anyway? it dam sure wasn't Tender Loving Care-But Ms. Miller was so cool
Jeff Agee being killed...can't forget him, I can remember as if it was yesterday
Popeyes across from Hunters Woods Center, now McDonalds(or is it) they had the best nuggets
The sidewalk being built on Reston Parkway,use to be Reston Ave.?
Mike Beale and them congos, what was their band name, or did they really have one?
Mr. Jenkins at South Lakes, ass kisser..."I'm just trying to help you for the future" yea right!
Hanging out at Stacey D.'s house and eating up all her food :)
Aca-metric(sp?) hair cuts, even the white girls started wearing them, well the cool white girls
Coca-cola shirts
Lottos, where you can change the logos to any color you wanted
Go-go bands at the Southgate room
Going to carnival at the International Center to find or watch a fight
Festivals at Lake Anne
Ms. Fife and Ms. Taylor at Hunters Wood Elem
Trying to break into the bakery at Hunters Wood
Hanging out in the tunnel and on the path
My friends sleeping on the golf course
Watching them how they acted being on the "Love" boat... LOL







-Too long ago

One more thing.. I remember going to Hunters Wood Elem and our class went to Camp Highroads!! and Ms. McCracken was our chaperone, son named Brian. They had a stinch that would never go away. Sorry, but had to bring that one up. With all due respect.
-Too long ago

Been in Reston since "77
I remember.....
when 7-11 on soapstone was high's
jam for man
the old crossing guard at Hunters Woods
watching fights at the baseball carnival
drinking on the golf coarse on the weekends
Dance class with Ms. Terry at the RCC
all the hot guys worked for RHOA
Jim of the woods
the box at South Lakes
dancing in te halls at SL
Mr. Ruffin and Mr. Matey
Nancy Reagan came to the opening ceremony at South Lakes Village Center and you could take an elephant ride.
Pizza Inn at Hunters Woods
The hill boys
hanging out behind safeway at SL
borrowing golf carts or party boats
the lit basketball court
the DOME
parties at McCracken's

-Alyssa (a269@msn.com)

Whats up with all the talking but afraid to leave your e-dress. I wish yall had more neck. As for me, I was in Reston over the weekend. I think it is cool today, better than ever before. If I could change one thing it would be to have fewer speed traps. I wonder, are the cops still breaking into houses forcefully