Ever think about what our region was like 50 years ago?Or what it will be like 50 years from now?In 1957, Washington, D. C. was a sleepy southern city. Sparse bedroom communities had just started to spring up in the Maryland and Virginia suburbs. The Beltway did not exist. Metro did not exist (remember the old D.C. Transit and AB&W bus lines?).Dulles Airport hadn’t been built. The Lake Barcroft community was home to only about 400 families, and houses there were selling for about $25,000.A general aviation airport occupied the space where Skyline is now, and Woodward & Lothrop had just opened at Seven Corners Shopping Center.
