How life was in Columbia Pike:
-Arlington population in 1920 was 16040 inhabitants
-Columbia Pike was chartered as Columbia Turnpike by the State Government
-Skinny dipping in Four Mile was a popular pastime among people
-Around 1918 Columbia Pike was still unpaved, but a few years later the State of Virginia did made concrete Columbia Pike
-Arlington Hall was founded as a junior college for women, but it was taken by the Signal Corps in 1942. Now it is a military post
-Washington Lee High School was opened in 1924, so a lot of people that lived around Columbia Pike went to that High School.
-A person could see the three steel towers of the Naval Station from the streets of Columbia Pike and Courthouse Road. The towers were later razed in 1941 by orders of the government
-The Navy Annex was built in the 1930s
-Columbia Pike Library became a branch and moved next to the Career Center, former site of Patrick Henry Elementary School and Thomas Jefferson Junior High School.
Sources:
-Arlington History Magazine 6 No. 1
Chester M. Brasse 1977
pg. 39
-Sarah J. Colins and Ruth W. Stewart
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