Just in case you think "GMTA" is just an expression, and there is no telepathy
Then you're just like us, EXCEPT..........
My wife is a brilliant chef, but once a week or so, she just says, ah what the hell, let's order something. As she is a brilliant magician in the kitchen, I am only too willing to grant her every wish in this regard whenever she wants it. But tonight, she suggested something we NEVER do. I mean as in the last quarter century. She said, "let's order a pizza." We NEVER order pizza. I said sure, but ask if they'll make up a custom order, as they have a fixed menu, and there's always either something I don't like on there, or something missing that I DO like. They were cool with it, though, so we ordered pizza with garlic, artichoke hearts and mushrooms. For us, this happens about as often as you see an Eskimo at a luau.
It is SO atypical for us that my wife took a picture of the pizza as proof and texted it (she knows how to do this kind of thing) to our two daughters, one here in the Taunus Hills, outside of Frankfurt, and the other, six hours behind us in downtown Manhattan. It was 6 PM here in Germany, noon in New York.
First, our younger daughter texted back from Königstein/Taunus. She and her crew had decided to order pizza, too, from an Italian place in their small town. Then came the text in from New York City. For lunch, our elder daughter and her husband had decided to order--pizza from some Italian place. In New York City, Italian places are like spiders and Starbucks--you are never more than 8 feet from one. So, at the same time, in three different cities on two different continents for two different mealtimes, our whole family decided, at the same moment to have pizza. I'm sure some people have pizza three times a day. For us, it's more like three times a year, and we NEVER order it to go. EVER.
What are the chances? Or maybe karma just aligned the stars for us.............
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It had paved runways. At least, it did at the end. An aerial view from 1949 shows unpaved runways.
The 1970-1971 Virginia State Airport Directory featured a sketch of the airport that shows the location of both the 42' tall movie screen across Route 7 from the 17/35 runway as well as the 50' tall power line, also on the opposite side of the road
© 2002, © 2020 by Paul Freeman. Revised 2/9/20.
Crossroads Airport / Washington-Virginia Airport, Bailey's Crossroads, VA
38.845, -77.121 (Southwest of Washington, DC)
The earliest photo that has been located of Washington Virginia Airport was a 4/9/49 aerial view.
It depicted the field as having 2 unpaved runways, with hangars on the northeast & southwest sides of the field.
A total of 28 aircraft were visible parked on the northeast side.
leaves me with the impression that it had unpaved runways that late as well. It seems that 1966 was the magic year.
A 1965 photo taken by Robert Morris with his Polaroid Swinger camera approaching Washington Virginia Airport.
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In 1966, the state provided $22,000 to relocate & improve Washington-Virginia Airport's east/west runway
provided that the north/south runway (which barely cleared Route 7) was closed.
Here's the Burke & Herbert Bank:
There is today, a Burke & Herbert Bank on Seminary Road right next to a Shell station
that is at the corner of Seminary & Carling Springs Roads.
It turns out that there are 2 sets of 2 marker light on the bank building!
The lamps are long since dead, but the red glass beacons are still there today.
I personally remember these beacons working when the airfield was in operation
as they marked this little building that sat at just outside the airfield property at the end of Runway 11/29!"
A 2004 photo by Darren Fox of the Burke & Herbert Bank building at Seminary Road & Gorham Street,
which still has 2 sets of former airfield marker lights on the roof.
The 2 towers of the Skyline apartment complex (which were built on the site of the airport) are in the background.
