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On Tue, 17 Oct 2017 08:28:48 -0400, John H
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On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 22:46:05 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 12:24:34 -0400, John H
wrote:

On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 11:45:36 -0400, wrote:

During OCS my wife lived in an apartment in Oxen Hill. It overlooked the flight path for National,
but I think the MGM place is where it used to be. This was in '67.

I am not sure where that would have been. I thought it was all single
family south west of Oxon Hill Rd and National Harbor was still woods
and marsh land. We used to hunt there. That whole area down there was
largely undeveloped. I did have friends who lived in apartments on
Overlook but that was up the hill from Bolling and NRL in DC.
(Red brick buildings built in the 40s)
Was it really more like Indian Head Highway? Dunno we are talking
about 50 years ago.

A bit east of Indian Head Highway, now that I look at a map. This was in a good sized apartment
building. She lived there and I had to stay in the barracks. We did get two weekends home during the
six months of OCS though, and we were allowed an hour of visitation in the dayroom every Wednesday
evening. Public dayroom, ergo no hanky panky.

Riverside Plaza? (Oxon Hill Rd a block east of Livingston?) I lived
there a while before I moved to Dennis Grove in 1969.
Riverside was set apart in those days by having one paneled wall in
the living room and a more sedate residency. Dennis Grove was full of
younger people with bigger apartments (2 br/2 bath), perfect for
"roomies".

I don't know the name of the place. Hell, I was only there to move her in, a couple weekends, and
moving her out. And, during the times I was there, I was not interested in the local geography or
apartment buildings!

In the 50s and 60s there were not that many apartments in Oxon Hill.
That is why I asked. It really went nuts after they finished the
beltway and housing patterns started to shift. Before that Oxon Hill
was just a few quiet little bedroom communities backed up to farm
land.
If you didn't go to work down South Capitol street, you probably went
to Andrews although that seemed pretty far away at the time.
The real divide was Oxon Hill Road. South of that was country and
north of it was more like SE DC.

The big draw of an apartment in Oxon Hill at that time was price and proximity to Ft. Belvoir. I was
making E-5 pay while in OCS, and she'd found a part-time secretary job. We were going to be in the
area for only six months.

Price and the ease of getting into DC was probably the only reason
anyone but a farmer would want to live there in the 50s and 60s.
Before the Wilson Bridge, Virginia was just a place you could see
across the river. At rush hour Alexandria was over an hour away. I
doubt I had been south of National more than once or twice in my whole
life but I could see the Masonic Temple from just about any tree in
the neighborhood.