Slugger Corey Pickelsimer, of Woodbridge, Va., waits outside the Auditors Building near the intersection of 14th Street and Independence Avenue, SW for a ride to Virginia on Wednesday, May 18, 2016. “It’s an easy way to get to work - it’s faster than Metro it doesn’t cost anything,” said David Stiles, 54, a 30-year slugger who was commuting from Bob’s to Independence Avenue and 14th Street SW on a recent morning.
The name, Bob’s, has stuck even as its namesake, Bob’s Big Boy, has ceased to exist. What has remained for decades is the crush of federal employees, policy wonks and military workers who gather every weekday morning at the lot off Interstate 395, the region’s oldest slug line, to share rides into the nation’s capital. Now, the Fairfax County resident and former Metro rider has joined the legion of casual car-poolers who line up daily for rides from Northern Virginia into the District and back.Ī lot has changed at Bob’s since Valentine, 29, was in middle school: The old Circuit City has been razed a rotating cast of restaurants - Chi-Chi’s, Long John Silver’s, Shoney’s - has come and gone pickup and drop-off points have been relocated. Peering out at the line of commuters from Old Keene Mill Road, Valentine recalls asking his mother, “What are these people doing out there?”
As a kid, Billy Valentine used to pass Bob’s Slug Line every morning on his way to St.
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