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When I moved to Mt. Airy, MD there was a Roy Rogers in the corner of the shopping center lot. Then Hardees bought them and that's what it became. Then after a while they switched it back to Roy Rogers. My friend who worked for a sign company said between Roy's Hardees and all the bank buy-outs that were going on, it made his boss a rich man. Anyway, Roy Rogers closed up and now it's a Starbucks. I thought RR and Hardees went out of business but I see them other places.

I don't know if Mt. Airy is a test market town or not, but I've watched it go through growing pains. We had a Radio Shack and Subway when I moved here in the '80s. We are about the midpoint on I-70 between Baltimore and Frederick, MD, which is the hub city for the region. So we are where things thin out between, but also the hub for a large rural area as well as small old towns with no real businesses. The shopping center was expanded to bring Walmart . That's when Radio Shack and Subway came back. Too bad about Radio Shack, though. Bob's Big Boy came to town and left as well. Tore that down, built a Chevy Chase Bank (local). Capital One Bailout Bank bought them out, ran it awhile, then shut it down, now sits empty like a lot of other former Chevy Chase/now Capital One Bailout Bank.