What Do You Think You're Looking At? #3

A fun illustrated series on the unexpected lives of commercial buildings

This one comes from the U.S. Route 1 strip, locally called Richmond Highway, south of Washington, D.C. (This area is southeast Fairfax County, but it’s known as Alexandria. The actual city of Alexandria is its own entity, but this suburban part of Alexandria is part of Fairfax County.)

I’ve come across the idea that this corridor was once envisioned as t…