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Old 03-07-2020, 05:07 PM   #18
JayG
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Originally Posted by mikefocke View Post
Agree, for NOVA my 2 TIP Boxsters were great, and I had driven many stick cars but that was before the traffic got bad in NOVA, when my house in Oakton to Westpark Drive in Tysons was an 8 minute no lights dash down 66 to the beltway. When I left it was 50 minutes and still growing and that was 15 years and another half million people ago and I using back roads. I know from visits it is many times worse now. Why I moved away. And taxes, house prices, etc. I still read the Post and can hardly believe the Nationals...I go back to the Senators, street cars and Griffith Stadium futility.
Mike,

I grew up in Silver Spring and also remember the Senators, street cars and Griffith Stadium. I was at the stadium when Frank Howard hit the longest HR ever hit there. Hondo also lived around the corner from me. He was a gentle giant and always had time for the neighborhood kids
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