Before the building boom of the 1960s, Rosslyn was known for its pawn shops and used car dealers. During the Watergate scandal of the early 1970s, "Deep Throat (Watergate)Deep Throat" (W. Mark Felt) passed information to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in the middle of the night in an underground parking garage at 1401 Wilson Boulevard in Rosslyn. In 2003, the Virginia Baseball Stadium Authority attempted to attract the relocating Montréal Expos to Northern Virginia by proposing three Arlington County locations for a new baseball stadium. Two sites were in the urban village of Pentagon City, VirginiaPentagon City; the third was a site in the southeastern corner of Rosslyn that was already occupied by four apartment buildings which were the first high-rise towers in Arlington County, now known as River Place. Though polls appeared to show that a majority of Arlington residents supported locating the stadium in the county, the issue proved highly divisive, and Virginia's bid failed completely when governor Mark Warner ruled out state financing for stadium construction. The Expos eventually moved to D.C. after the 2004 season to become the Washington Nationals, with a stadium planned to be built in southeast Washington. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosslyn%2C_Virginia