View from the bridge over Old Dominion Drive: the Methodist church for White
people (which is
still
there, but with a more diverse congregation) and to the far
right, the “new” Chesterbrook Market, which was actually an
old-fashioned market with a counter where you had to ask for what you
wanted. Or you could call in and have your week's groceries delivered in a
rickety pickup truck by a guy named Frank who was missing some fingers.
Sometimes local farmers or hunters would bring in animal carcasses to be
butchered and sold. To the left, turn-of-the-century houses; the one after
the one in the picture belonged to the elderly Sheriff, Carl McIntosh (Chief
of Police of Fairfax County). I remember going there sometimes to help his
wife, Jessie (Russell Hill's sister), shuck corn and break beans on the back
porch. The Sheriff would reward us by setting off fireworks he'd
confiscated. In the distance, wilderness. To the right, but not visible in
the photo, Frank Bray's Esso station, the only other business in the area,
which sponsored one of the Little League teams when when the league was
started in 1956 (
see a game).
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