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Brown's Honda
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Cowboy Cafe
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Glebe Radio
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The owner of Brown’s Arlington Honda started at Brown’s Pontiac on Columbia Pike back in the 1970’s. He purchased the building that is now Brown’s Honda in 1976 from an old Lincoln Mercury dealer.
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Cowboy Cafe was first known as the Clam House, and made a transition to a chill bar with a slight Southwestern vibe. In the mid-90s, the current owners remember it as kind of a smoky biker hangout, with a cigarette machine and kitchy decor like license plates on the walls.
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Glebe Radio and Appliances is owned by Dabney Wharton. Mr. Wharton’s half-brother started the business in 1946. The first location of Glebe Radio & Appliances was at Lee Highway and Glebe Rd.
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Heidelberg Bakery
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K & H Art Framing
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Lebanese Taverna
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Established in 1975, just down the street from their current location, Heidelberg Bakery was started by Wolfgang Buchler for one very simple reason. “It was for me,” he said, “In America, I could not find any good bread.”
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Kenny Hakimi and his family had just moved to Northern Virginia from New York City when KH Art and Framing was founded in 1986. The family had always been in the art business but had never ventured out to own their own business...
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Established in 1979, Lebanese Taverna has become a beloved local chain with 12 locations across the DC Metro area. But the business that has become familiar to many in Arlington began as a business with not only a borrowed space, but a borrowed name.
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Lyon Village
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Moore's Barber Shop
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Preston's Pharmacy
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The land that the Lyon Village Shopping Center sits on was originally part of the overall Lyon Village development that was built at the beginning of the 20th century. This leftover piece of land was the last one to be developed...
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Mr. James Moore, Sr., established Moore’s Barber Shop in Hall’s Hill in 1960. In 2002, the elder Mr. Moore retired and turned over the business to his son, James Moore, Jr. He had been working in the shop since he was seven years old...
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Bill Preston started Preston's Pharmacy in 1934. When Mr. Preston retired in 1985, he sold the business to another pharmacist. The second owner kept the store for one year before selling to John Eklund.
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Sam Torrey Shoe Service was opened in 1945 when Sam Torregrosa returned from World War II. Torrey opened his shop in the Cherrydale Firehouse, and it remained in Cherrydale until he moved the business to the corner of Lee Highway and North George Mason Drive in the early 1960's.
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Sterling Framing
Established in 1978, Sterling Framing has become a Lee Highway legacy business under the leadership of current owner Chuck Kipp. But when Sterling Picture Framing was founded, Chuck was like many who live in the DC Metro area; a government employee.
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