Posts Tagged ‘AVERAGE SPRAWLING RETIREMENT HOME/COMPLEX’

Why Won’t This Movie Just Die?

Fliers posted around the Armed Forces Retirement Home promote special movie screenings in the house theater to commemorate Black History Month.
There's no film today. But tomorrow's feature will be "Remember the Titans."
Don't even get me started on "Remember the Titans."

Stupid Fish Tricks

 

Joseph Doyle volunteers most days at the Scott Library at the Armed Forces Retirement Home, where he lives.
He loves the quality of life there, in no small part because of the library.
"I bet it's the only library in Washington, DC, that's open 24 hours a day and 365 days a year," says Doyle, 76. "I [...]

Carving Out an Existence

 
 

Robert Stone runs the wood shop at the Armed Forces Retirement Home with his pal, fellow tenant and fellow Navy man Jim Webster.
"This place keeps me going," says Stone, who's lived at AFRH for two years. "I'm not well. I've been through the cancer."
I tell him he looks fine and fit, and mean it.
"My insides [...]

Improved Drinkability at the Armed Forces Retirement Home

Among the perks available to residents of the Armed Forces Retirement Home: beer machines.
In the canteen, at the golf course and at various spots in hallways throughout the compound, you'll find vending machines that dispense cold beer.
Any time, day or night, folks with a thirst and some spare change can grab a Miller, Miller Lite, [...]

Getting in the Swing

Frank McCabe says his life at the Armed Forces Retirement Home is pretty regimented.
"Get up at 6, do PT til 7 o'clock, eat breakfast and hit the golf course," says McCabe.
Yes, there's a golf course inside the huge fenced-in government complex in Petworth.
A nine-hole, 2517-yard par 35 jobber, in fact. Access is free to residents, [...]