What was DC like in the summer of 2000? I want some nostalgia

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Anonymous wrote:Graduated law school in 2000, and moved to DC.

Friday nights were usually firm happy hours, then hooking up with friends somewhere in Georgetown or Dupont Circle (Georgetown Billiards, Buffalo Billiards, Madame's Organ etc.)

Saturdays we'd start somewhere in Clarendon, like Whitlow's or 4 Courts, then maybe into DC (sometimes for something risque, like Entre Nous, if anyone here remembers that).

Sunday was brunch day, once we hauled our butts out of bed at noon.

If you're eating after noon, that's not brunch. That's lunch. Or late lunch. I noted before that DC had almost zero brunch options. If you wanted to find a place to get a nice omelet or eggs benedict in the city before 11, you had maybe 2 options across the whole city. I came from a brunch city, and it was madness here.

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Anonymous wrote:Graduated law school in 2000, and moved to DC.

Friday nights were usually firm happy hours, then hooking up with friends somewhere in Georgetown or Dupont Circle (Georgetown Billiards, Buffalo Billiards, Madame's Organ etc.)

Saturdays we'd start somewhere in Clarendon, like Whitlow's or 4 Courts, then maybe into DC (sometimes for something risque, like Entre Nous, if anyone here remembers that).

Sunday was brunch day, once we hauled our butts out of bed at noon.

If you're eating after noon, that's not brunch. That's lunch. Or late lunch. I noted before that DC had almost zero brunch options. If you wanted to find a place to get a nice omelet or eggs benedict in the city before 11, you had maybe 2 options across the whole city. I came from a brunch city, and it was madness here.

What? No way, brunch is between 11-4 on weekends. Anything before is breakfast, anything after is supper/dinner.

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Anonymous wrote:DC101 had Chilli CookOffs in May/June? Down by the Old Post Office Pavilion. I loved Georgia Browns at Tysons. It was great. I wore doc martens.

There was no GA Brown’s at Tyson’s. Typo?

Georgetown Cotton maybe?

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Julia’s Empanadas!

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Anonymous wrote:Used to party in SE before the stadium at buzz, tracks, edge

Yes! And don't forget about after hours at Red. I met my DH at Buzz in '99 and remember being so sad when Tracks closed.

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Anonymous wrote:Cocaine-fueled late nights in Adams Morgan, specifically at Madam's Organ.

Easy to park at night - for free - on U Street between 13th and 16th.

"Fuzzy math" vs. the "creation of the internet" for the White House.

Heady times, to be sure.

Cocaine-fueled nights that typically started at Childe Harold. Anyone remember the Godfather? Any who was that former Redskins player that was always completely blitzed at the bar?

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Anonymous wrote:Graduated law school in 2000, and moved to DC.

Friday nights were usually firm happy hours, then hooking up with friends somewhere in Georgetown or Dupont Circle (Georgetown Billiards, Buffalo Billiards, Madame's Organ etc.)

Saturdays we'd start somewhere in Clarendon, like Whitlow's or 4 Courts, then maybe into DC (sometimes for something risque, like Entre Nous, if anyone here remembers that).

Sunday was brunch day, once we hauled our butts out of bed at noon.

If you're eating after noon, that's not brunch. That's lunch. Or late lunch. I noted before that DC had almost zero brunch options. If you wanted to find a place to get a nice omelet or eggs benedict in the city before 11, you had maybe 2 options across the whole city. I came from a brunch city, and it was madness here.

What? No way, brunch is between 11-4 on weekends. Anything before is breakfast, anything after is supper/dinner.

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At least 2-3pm.

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Anonymous wrote:It was Pre-9/11 before all the security at the airports and you could literally arrive at the airport and basically walk straight to your plane and board--my husband (a consultant) used to cut it as close as possible. You can't imagine what a change it was to the country post-9/11. Threat levels and the loss of innocence. And the anthrax scare on the heals of 9/11 in 2001.

We also had just 'partied like it's 1999' and made it through Y2K unscathed.

Everything felt safe. No pandemics and mass shootings/school shootings were rare and not a daily occurrence like now.

The summer of 2000 was literally 14 months after Columbine. It was just a couple of years after Bill Clinton was impeached. There had already been a bombing at the World Trade Center and the USS Cole, so terrorism was enough of a concern that they had already closed Pennsylvania Avenue to traffic (when I first moved here in 1995, you could drive by the White House.) I think you may be looking at the time with some rose colored glasses.

No - there was a monumental shift after 9/11. It's all been downhill ever since.

How quickly you forget the Florida recount.

The Florida recount was definitely the end of innocence for me. That whole "hanging chad" business still gives me nightmares.

Maybe it was a big deal if you worked in government. It was all resolved in a month and no one stormed the Capitol. Chad, schmad.

Right, it was contentious, but the politicians involved (Bush, Gore) very much believed in the American system, and resolved it in the courts. Gore accepted the Supreme Court's decision, even though he didn't agree with it, and I have no doubt Bush would have done the same if the court had ruled against him.

I mean, we'd be better off as a country if our politicians used that recount as a model for resolving disputes.

Exactly. I didn't think democracy was doomed.

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Anonymous wrote:It was Pre-9/11 before all the security at the airports and you could literally arrive at the airport and basically walk straight to your plane and board--my husband (a consultant) used to cut it as close as possible. You can't imagine what a change it was to the country post-9/11. Threat levels and the loss of innocence. And the anthrax scare on the heals of 9/11 in 2001.

We also had just 'partied like it's 1999' and made it through Y2K unscathed.

Everything felt safe. No pandemics and mass shootings/school shootings were rare and not a daily occurrence like now.

The summer of 2000 was literally 14 months after Columbine. It was just a couple of years after Bill Clinton was impeached. There had already been a bombing at the World Trade Center and the USS Cole, so terrorism was enough of a concern that they had already closed Pennsylvania Avenue to traffic (when I first moved here in 1995, you could drive by the White House.) I think you may be looking at the time with some rose colored glasses.

No - there was a monumental shift after 9/11. It's all been downhill ever since.

How quickly you forget the Florida recount.

The Florida recount was definitely the end of innocence for me. That whole "hanging chad" business still gives me nightmares.

I don’t think the recount was until end of 2000 since election was in nov. I moved to the area at end of 1999 so that summer of 2000 I spent looking at houses and townhouses to buy thinking why are prices so high? I remember hitting golf balls at white flint golf range and renting videos from blockbuster.

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Anonymous wrote:The DC man running backwards down H Street NW while singing and wearing huge headphones. He ran among the cars. Was always happy to see him.

I wonder if it was the guy I used to work with at the CFTC (who was constantly asking me out and wouldn't take a hint). He would run backwards, while juggling, for fun. He ran several marathons doing this, and said he had the world record for it. This was the late 90s. Literally running backwards as exercise, often juggling. I swear I am not making this up.

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Russia House

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Anonymous wrote:What was the name of the Delirium Tremmens bar in Adams Morgan?

Brickskeller?

Brickskeller was on P street in Dupont (but also a great memory! I love this thread but now feeling so wistful...)

It was on 22nd. Close to P though.

It's still there! Now called Bier Baron.

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Anonymous wrote:Dean & Deluca for lunch and remembering Felicity (although it was filmed in D&D NY)

Yes!! I saw Counting Crows shopping there when they were in DC for a show!

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Anonymous wrote:My memory is blurry...might be confusing the early 90's with the 00's...

Chief Ike's Mambo room
Stella Neptune as a DJ at Chief Ike's
Heaven or Hell
Stetons
Perry's (sushi?)
The Crowbar
Jungle Bar
Madams Organ
The riot in Colombia Heights
The old 930 Club
The new 930 Club
WHFS festival at RFK

Dan's cafe
ESPN Zone
Rendezvous
ESL

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Anonymous wrote:What was the name of the Delirium Tremmens bar in Adams Morgan?

Cafe Lautrec. It was open later than most of the bars in Adams Morgan, and often had live jazz