The Lee Highway Drive-In opened August 26, 1954 with a capacity for 1,000 cars. One entrance was on Lee Highway and the other on Gallows Road. This drive-in later had a capacity for 1,350 cars. The Lee Highway Drive-In closed in 1984 and was replaced by a multiplex theater.
Lee Highway Drive-in
This calendar from 1927 was produced by the Groveton Dairy Farm. Groveton is located near the Beacon Hill Shopping Center off Richmond Highway just south of Alexandria VA.
Groveton Dairy Farm 1927
This image from July 5th, 1925 depicts Babe Ruth knocked unconscious at Griffith Stadium.
He ran into a wall.
Babe Ruth knocked unconscious by running into wall
Hollowell's Esso Station was a Bailey's Crossroad landmark on Leesburg Pike in the 1950's. Compare how it looked then to a street view of the station as it appears today.
Hollowell Esso as it looks today (2013)Hollowell's Esso Station. Leesburg Pike at Bailey's Crossroads 1950's
If you love history, you'll love living in Northern Virginia. Around every corner you'll find American History from the colonial era in Old Town Alexandria to the Revolutionary War to the Civil War. Perhaps the most famous battles in the Civil War were fought in Manassas near the creek called Bull Run. This picture shows Centreville in 1862.
Centreville 1862 just prior to the battle of BULL run.
