DonRocks Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Looked to be closed tonight. Didn't get a good look at the sign in the window, but seemed to be an application to transfer the beer/wine license to something called Maggie's. It's not just any old Maggie's; it's *the* Maggie's - the legendary Tenleytown pizzeria that was there from 1950-1998. In 1964, Joe Trilling purchased the pizzeria from the original owner, Phil "Maggie" Magenello, and owned it for 34 years. Jeff Trilling, owner of the new Bethesda Maggie's, is Joe's son, so there is more than just a nominal link to the old institution. You stumbled across a noteworthy story, mnnchas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev29 Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 It's not just any old Maggie's; it's *the* Maggie's - the legendary Tenleytown pizzeria that was there from 1950-1998. In 1964, Joe Trilling purchased the pizzeria from the original owner, Phil "Maggie" Magenello, and owned it for 34 years. Jeff Trilling, owner of the new Bethesda Maggie's, is Joe's son, so there is more than just a nominal link to the old institution. You stumbled across a noteworthy story, mnnchas! And the teenagers who drank there in the 90s are now thirty and fortysomethings living in Bethesda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted July 9, 2012 Author Share Posted July 9, 2012 And the teenagers who drank there in the 90s are now thirty and fortysomethings living in Bethesda I can safely say that at this time yesterday, I couldn't have possibly imagined we'd have threads for V3 and Maggie's. Can't wait to see how much customer overlap these two places have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtureck Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Interesting...turns out it's really more of a Wing Hub/Maggie's hybrid."Wing Hub Reopening As Maggie's" by Carole Sugarman on bethesdamagazine.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lydia R Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 Interesting...turns out it's really more of a Wing Hub/Maggie's hybrid. "Wing Hub Reopening As Maggie's" by Carole Sugarman on bethesdamagazine.com Thanks, mtureck for linking to Carole Sugarman's article in Bethesda Magazine. I was catching up on the City Paper's Young & Hungry blog and found Stephanie Haven's take on the "rebranding" of Wing Hub. The switchover, first reported by Bethesda magazine, will mean more than a name change. Maggie's will remain a sports bar, just one that Trilling hopes will be more accessible to women. It will have the same wings as Wing Hub but several new additions, like New York-style pizza and a tiki bar on the patio. "So many girls I know wouldn't come in more than once or twice a month," says Trilling. "I asked them if they'd come in if I changed the restaurant name to Maggie's, and their instant reaction is, "˜Absolutely.'" The name is an homage to a Tenleytown pizzeria called Maggie's, first opened in the 1950s, that Trilling's father owned from 1964 to 1979. After he sold it, the original Maggie's continued to operate until 1998. "Playboy had them as the No. 1 one bar in the country for a ridiculous number of years," Trilling says. (Although he probably shouldn't tell that to the women he's trying to attract to the restaurant.) Here's Stephanie Haven's photo that accompanied her Y&H blog post: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe H Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 I first went to Maggie's in '63 as a junior in high school with a friend who was a freshman at A. U. We went a lot, sometimes with others and were never carded. Although I didn't like beer we thought we would impress girls-mostly from A. U.-who walked in and saw us drinking. The key was we would never let anyone take the mugs away. With four of us at the table and a couple of hours we could fill the entire table top. We thought we were cool. And macho. At some point on these trips we realized we needed "dinner" and Maggie's had pizza for $ .50. Yes, fifty cents. It was good, or at least it seemed so when we could buy two pies for a buck. Should I mention that a Mighty Mo was fifty five cents then? Maggie's was an institution in the '60's. My first job was at the Hot Shoppes at Wisconsin and Van Ness (Broadcast House today) with occasional trips with my A. U. friend after work. In truth I never liked beer but I did like their cheap pizza. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hersch Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 Maggie's was an institution in the '60's. My first job was at the Hot Shoppes at Wisconsin and Van Ness (Broadcast House today) with occasional trips with my A. U. friend after work. Wasn't that Hot Shoppes where McDonalds is now, next door to Broadcast House? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe H Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 Wasn't that Hot Shoppes where McDonalds is now, next door to Broadcast House? The Hot Shoppes and its parking lot were on the ground that Broadcast House is now on. I'm not sure exactly where the McDonald's is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hersch Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 The McDonalds sits in the middle of a parking lot that's on the southwest corner of Wisconsin and Van Ness. Broadcast House is its neighbor to the south. I'm pretty sure that before it was a McDonalds it was a Roy Rogers, another Marriott brand. It's too bad that it's not easy to look this kind of thing up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoramargolis Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 It was Roy Rogers when I first moved to DC in 1996. McDonald's was where ZBurger is now. After RR closed and McDonald's moved to that property, the space that currently houses ZBurger had a couple of different non-food businesses for a number of years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jandres374 Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Great, because what Bethesda really needs is another pizza place! Sigh. Wing Hubs wings took a dip in quality a while back...went from tasty small wings to bigger wings that weren't as good...but it was still nice to have them there. For what it's worth Maggie's is also now closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hm212 Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 They came and went and I never got there once. I would love to hear about something new and exciting in Bethesda but mediocrity seems to breed mediocrity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted March 17, 2015 Author Share Posted March 17, 2015 For what it's worth Maggie's is also now closed. They came and went and I never got there once. I would love to hear about something new and exciting in Bethesda but mediocrity seems to breed mediocrity. As most people probably know, 4914 Cordell Avenue (which was Wing Hub before it was Maggie's) is now Heckman's Delicatessen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr food Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 The original Maggies next to Armands (also gone but never forgotten) on Wisconsin served mediocre pizza but it was pretty cheap. However, Armands had their daily lunch buffet with all the salad and pizza one could consume so why bother with Maggies?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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