Used to be a Hot Shoppes at corner of East-West Hwy and Wisc. ave in Bethesda Md........back in the 50's, favorite hangout for the car crowd through the 60's Marriott bought some cow pasture north of Bethesda, and built themselves a highrise office building in that campus surroundings, but what with the underground Railroad, Subway the kids today don't want to work there, requires a car to get to/from work, so they abandoning the location and building a huge complex in downtown Bethesda, near the subway stops, there was a Diner that been there for many decades, and they refused to sell the land, so the giant Marriott operation forced to compromise their new building and allow the Tastee Diner to occupy the same essential spot in middle of the town.....it's within walking distance of NIH/NLM, and Walter Reed Med Center/old Navy Med campus....an old friend just left the close by area and moved with some other friends to the Shenandoah Valley, so now I have no more friends in the town I got older in.....
over the last ~10 years that town has been taken over by high rises and overcrowding.....looks like NYC/Manhattan.......
on FB there is a group that remembers the old daze, called Bethesda Chevy Chase Back In The Day.......pix and thoughts abound.....
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