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  Ml> From: mf@access1.digex.net (Michael)

  > When I was growing up in DC, we used to frequent Weile's in Hyattsville
  > (I think) and Gifford's, on Wisconsin Ave. in Bethesda... both now gone
  > *sniff*.  Finally we had to make do with Swensen's.
  > 
  Ml> Gifford's has reopened in Bethesda in a much smaller shop in the
  Ml> Woodmont Triangle area. (The building faces Wisconsin Avenue, but the
  Ml> shop is in the basement rear, facing the parking lot.) You'll see the
  Ml> line.

Someone else bought the Gifford's name around ten years ago, and they've opened
up some Baskin-Robbin wannabe stores.  The ice cream is not as good and the
atmosphere stinks.