Another one of those old country-style stores that are slowly slipping away into the past from the DC area… Pangle’s has been around longer than I can remember. Back when we were out cruising around the backroads of Fairfax County and beyond in the late 1970s and early 1980s — Pangle’s was there — we’d stop in for sodas and junk food. You can buy coffee, soda, bottled water, all the normal convenience store/small grocery store wares, plus — they still sell nightcrawlers and minnows for bait fishing! I stopped here this morning on a whim, a stroll down memory lane. The place is hard to get into — there is not much in the way of parking, and the pull off on the opposite side of Gum Spring Road — which is where folks used to park — was badly eroded by that last massive rain event we had — to the point that the side of the road is now a gully! I got myself a strong cup O’ Joe — and I was going to buy a hot sausage, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwich — but for some strange reason — at 9:00 am all they had were cheeseburgers and chicken sandwiches.
