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After a nearly 50-year ride, Papillon Cycles on Columbia Pike shuttered on Tuesday. The bike shop, founded by Ted Decapiteau in 1976 and later acquired by Bailey Garfield in 1989, shared a heartfelt goodbye on its Facebook page yesterday. April fool's 1976-Halloween 2023. It's been a long strange trip, and Awesome! Thanks Customers Friends Family, Papillon Cycles, a Columbia Pike mainstay since 1984, has shuttered its doors nearly five decades after its initial opening in Arlington.
Pi Day was a very busy day for Acme Pie on Columbia Pike.
“At the moment, we are trying to restock,” Sol Schott, owner of the seven-year-old pie company, said over the phone Monday morning. “I was expecting it to be somewhat busy, but not expecting it to be almost-Thanksgiving busy.”
Pi Day is an annual celebration on March 14 of the mathematical mystery that is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. The day also, of course, presents a great excuse to eat pie.
Schott said he made 98 large pies, 70 small pies, and had a “whole heck of alot of slices” and nearly sold out of all of it.