Playground Regulars, All Grown Up, Keep Macomb Memories Alive

But there he was, at the Macomb reunion, laughing with his childhood playmates, remembering a time when the playground was his world and when he prayed the sun would never set.

Still Jonesing for Barnaby's?

A reunion of a different sort is being planned by the regulars from Barnaby's, a saloon in Wheaton that Jim Perretta opened with his partner Geoff O'Neill in 1973 and owned until 1994.

Barnaby's had good sandwiches, cheap booze and the sort of decor -- Tiffany shades, old photographs, a penny farthing bicycle on the wall -- that the T.G.I. McApplebees of the world have since made us all sick of. It also had employees who say it was just about the best place they ever worked.

The new owner ran it until it closed last year. Now Jim's planning a reunion for the hard-core customers, the folks who remember things like the Barnaby's bell drink: When a bell rang at 5:30 p.m., you could get a refill of whatever you were drinking for the price matching that day's date. The second of the month? Your vodka tonic will be 2 cents, please.

If you were a Barnaby's regular and want info on the reunion, call Perretta at 301-598-0830 or former waitress Kathleen Combs at 301-622-4423.

High School Reunions

Here are a couple of corrections to last week's list of high school reunions: The Eleanor Roosevelt class reuniting Saturday is the Class of 1983, not 1988. And the James Madison High Class of 1968 is reuniting Sept. 27. Go to http://www.greatreunions.com for more information on both reunions.

A bunch more reunions have come flooding in. To see if your school is among them, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/johnkelly and click on "High School Reunions."

My e-mail: kellyj@washpost.com.