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Favored Quarter Adjacent sounds about right. The residential neighborhoods north of Wilson Blvd. did not decline as the Wilson Blvd. commercial strip did. Going back at least to my father's childhood in the 40s and 50s, the residential neighborhoods in North Arlington have always been very desirable (and more expensive than otherwise similar neighborhoods in South Arlington).

I hadn't thought about Parkington in a while. The only photo I could find via Google Image search was this one, which looks like a pre-construction artist's rendering (http://www.wakefieldclassof1970.com/uploads/Parkington.JPG). Wikipedia indicates they claimed to have the world's largest parking lot at that time. It was a near ghost-town at the time of the groundbreaking for its replacement (Ballston Common).

by c5karl on Oct 23, 2008 2:46 pm • link • report

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