The Arlington Historical Society will be hosting a program entitled Do You Remember? An Interactive Journey Through Arlington’s Commercial History on Thursday, March 15, 2012, 7:30pm at the Arlington Central Library. The program will be given by Charlie Clark, longtime contributor to the Arlington Historical Magazine, author of the “Our Man in Arlington” column for the weekly Falls Church News-Press, and senior correspondent for Government Executive magazine, a part of Atlantic Media. The program is free, but please RSVP here.

Do You Remember…

Herbert’s Youth Fashions?
The Blue-Gray Market?
McCrory’s Five and Dime?

These are just a few of the vanished businesses once familiar to thousands of Arlingtonians in decades past. Come hear local journalist Charlie Clark share some resurrected tidbits from Arlington’s commercial history. Be prepared to share your won recollections of our country’s once-beloved hardware stores, eateries, haberdasheries and more.

Charlie Clark first came to Arlington as a one-year-old in 1954, and attended Cherrydale and James Madison Elementary Schools, Williamsburg Junior High and Yorktown High. For the past 20 years, he has lived in the East Falls Church neighborhood.