Georgetown closed stores

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Well you may not need the money, but you might care about your safety. With urban decay comes increased crime. It can already be sketchy in that one stretch of O street. Imagine that being all of getowhtown

What stretch of O Street is sketchy?

On Wisconsin and O

You have got to be kidding me.

Why? The empty stores and homeless people around CVS ARE sketchy!

Yeah, I remember that Roy's on O Street back in the day...learned a lot about surviving on the streets from the vagrants that used to hang out there. The big learn: when you shop at Roy's, always, and I mean always, raid the fixins bar for extra roughage.

I got the worst food poisoning of my life from that Roy Rogers. Was puking for 2-3 days. (This was in the early 80s.)

[Anonymous]

I miss...

- Commander Salamander
- Neems Market
- Sugars corner store
- Station Break arcade (so many hours spent there as a teenager)
- The fly fishing shop in the Foundry
- Swensens (blueberry cheesecake ice cream)
- Movie theaters - Key/Georgetown (plus the one in the Palisades, where the CVS is now)
- Second Story Books
- Sushi place in Georgetown Park Mall
- Au Pied de Cochon (French restaurant - remember the sublime bread and yummy, salty, soft butter)

- Not a shop, but the Saturday night break-dancers who'd set up in the Riggs Bank parking lot were amazing. Another long-gone 80s experience!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I miss...

- Commander Salamander
- Neems Market
- Sugars corner store
- Station Break arcade (so many hours spent there as a teenager)
- The fly fishing shop in the Foundry
- Swensens (blueberry cheesecake ice cream)
- Movie theaters - Key/Georgetown (plus the one in the Palisades, where the CVS is now)
- Second Story Books
- Sushi place in Georgetown Park Mall
- Au Pied de Cochon (French restaurant - remember the sublime bread and yummy, salty, soft butter)

- Not a shop, but the Saturday night break-dancers who'd set up in the Riggs Bank parking lot were amazing. Another long-gone 80s experience!

Two more:

- Britches
- Georgetown University Shop

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:
Well you may not need the money, but you might care about your safety. With urban decay comes increased crime. It can already be sketchy in that one stretch of O street. Imagine that being all of getowhtown

What stretch of O Street is sketchy?

On Wisconsin and O

You have got to be kidding me.

Why? The empty stores and homeless people around CVS ARE sketchy!

Yeah, I remember that Roy's on O Street back in the day...learned a lot about surviving on the streets from the vagrants that used to hang out there. The big learn: when you shop at Roy's, always, and I mean always, raid the fixins bar for extra roughage.

I got the worst food poisoning of my life from that Roy Rogers. Was puking for 2-3 days. (This was in the early 80s.)

Easily the most anarchic and messed up seeming Roy's I'd ever seen. And in the putative 'best' location, no less!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I miss...

- Commander Salamander
- Neems Market
- Sugars corner store
- Station Break arcade (so many hours spent there as a teenager)
- The fly fishing shop in the Foundry
- Swensens (blueberry cheesecake ice cream)
- Movie theaters - Key/Georgetown (plus the one in the Palisades, where the CVS is now)
- Second Story Books
- Sushi place in Georgetown Park Mall
- Au Pied de Cochon (French restaurant - remember the sublime bread and yummy, salty, soft butter)

- Not a shop, but the Saturday night break-dancers who'd set up in the Riggs Bank parking lot were amazing. Another long-gone 80s experience!

Two more:

- Britches
- Georgetown University Shop

-Japan Inn

[Anonymous]

I miss the Polo shop, they had the nice shit.

[Anonymous]

All these memories are nice...before Georgetown was ruined by the highway in the sky. It's gross now.

[Anonymous]

Does it matter? The uber rich people who live there don’t care about the bars or the normal people stores I wouldn’t think. They can just keep Dean and Deluca, enough cupcake stores for Instagram, and turn the rest into bigger Italian Cabinet showrooms or whatever. Aritisinal Housekeeper Uniforms Ateliers.

I do like Cusp though but I’d be fine if it moved somewhere else.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is nothing new. Stores go in and out of that stretch of Wisconsin all the time... especially further up.

Renovation Hardware *gasp* is going to become a Wawa.

I’d lived here more than 20 years and this is not usual. Serendipitu is empty, the sports store next to it is empty, Restoration Hardware is gone, and three or four more within those two blocks are empty and look terrible and deserted. Serendipity is right in the heart on M and Wisconsin and it is closed.

In 20 years, the sales moved from physical stores to online stores. I thought everyone has noticed this trend.

Georgetown is perfect for flagship stores, such as Amazon's and Nike's showcase stores. Why? Because the rent is super expensive! Even for restaurants...

There are also very good neighborhood stores. But they only survive if the residents like and support them. Example? Boulangerie Christophe. It has high prices, but it is always crowded.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All these memories are nice...before Georgetown was ruined by the highway in the sky. It's gross now.

Airplane noise in Georgetown? It doesn't bother anyone here. You are mixing up Gtown with VA neighborhoods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There was a Walden bookstore and a Hallmark store and a flower shop too in the bottom of Gtown Park. So sad.

I ran into Arnold Schwarzenegger at that Hallmark store and exchanged a few words with him over some funny card he was picking out for Maria. 0.o

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All these memories are nice...before Georgetown was ruined by the highway in the sky. It's gross now.

Airplane noise in Georgetown? It doesn't bother anyone here. You are mixing up Gtown with VA neighborhoods.

+1--Have you been in Georgetown lately?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was a Walden bookstore and a Hallmark store and a flower shop too in the bottom of Gtown Park. So sad.

I ran into Arnold Schwarzenegger at that Hallmark store and exchanged a few words with him over some funny card he was picking out for Maria. 0.o

To apologize for having sex with the maid and getting her pregnant? Must have been one helluva card.