Washington Post readers share their favorite memories of Dulles International Airport as it celebrated its 60th anniversary.
Once derided as a “white elephant” and nicknamed “Lonesome Acres,” Dulles International has grown into
in November, we asked readers to share their most memorable moments of Dulles through the years. Here are some of their stories.They say you can find love in the most unlikely of places. Andrew Barker of Darnestown, Md. found it in a Transportation Security Administration line at Dulles.It was 2006. Barker was headed to Seattle on a business trip. He had recently moved to the D.C. region and didn’t know Dulles well.
Every so often, when they find themselves at Dulles, they go back to that spot where they met: right around the corner from the United Airlines counter, near a set of water fountains and a restroom. “I remember him driving my brothers and I to the site where Dulles was built, telling us about the vision for this new modern airport,” she recalled.
Instead of being tagged for IAD, they were inadvertently tagged for IDA, the code for Idaho Falls Regional Airport, some 2,000 miles away. Her bags were delivered the next day.Stephi Jackson, 70, remembers the day her parents piled her sisters and a friend in the car to see the new airport that had sprouted in the middle of a Virginia field.
Unlike other celebrities he’s driven, she didn’t immediately move to the back to sit by herself. She sat by him, peppering him with questions about one of Dulles’ most talked-about features.
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