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J V's Restaurant is a Falls Church and Fairfax County, Virginia institution that evolved from a strip mall eatery, founded in October 1947, into one of the Washington, D.C. region's premiere locations for live music, without losing its rustic atmosphere.Its slogan is "Ageless Charm Without Yuppie Bastardization". Located on Arlington Boulevard, Route 50, just west of Annandale Road, J V's has provided a venue for live music for well over four decades. In 2004, the Wammies, governed by the Washington Area Music Association, presented J V's with a special award, voted on by the participating Washington-region musicians, the Special Appreciation Award as their favorite live venue.

Founded in the immediate post-World War II years by brothers Louis and George Dross who, as a Greek resistance fighter against the German forces, was captured and held as a prisoner-of-war for 18 months, emigrated to the United States with his wife shortly after that conflict ...