I grew up here and I remember .....

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the roundtable!

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Elementary school- coming home and playing outside with friends for hours, but without our parents worried we'd get snatched.

Airplane crashing into 14th street bridge and Howard stern getting disciplined for making "shockingly" rude comments about the crash on DC 101.

Redskins were actually well-liked. "Hail to the Redskins" frequently played on radio.

Legally drinking beer on mall during 4th of July festivities.

Parade on constitution avenue for soldiers returning from desert shield/desert storm.

Electromax IDs in Georgetown. Still can't believe they worked!!!

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Anonymous wrote:5th column, Tracks, Poseurs, Little Tavern at 3am, Commander Salamander, Bayou, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Perry's, Fishmarket. Later on in the late 80s early 90s..the Fox and the Hound in Adams Morgan had the cheapest drinks. Red Sea for Ethiopian.

Does anyone else remember when Abercrombie and Finch in Georgetown Park used to be ultra conservative..sort of a faux english safari meets LLBean style? My parents liked it and used to buy us preppy looking wool sweaters.

. I do! Wasn't banana republic all safari too?

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rehoboth wrote:Okay, who remembers,

"Nobody bodders me!"
"Nobody bodders me either!" *big wink*

??

"Joon rhee (sp?) means Fight for Life!"

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Anonymous wrote:5th column, Tracks, Poseurs, Little Tavern at 3am, Commander Salamander, Bayou, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Perry's, Fishmarket. Later on in the late 80s early 90s..the Fox and the Hound in Adams Morgan had the cheapest drinks. Red Sea for Ethiopian.

Does anyone else remember when Abercrombie and Finch in Georgetown Park used to be ultra conservative..sort of a faux english safari meets LLBean style? My parents liked it and used to buy us preppy looking wool sweaters.

Fox and Hounds still has the cheapest drinks. For a mixed drink, they give you a tumbler full of liquor, and a small body of your mixer on the side. It's crazy. Left there totally blotto last weekend.

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oops... not body, bottle... I swear I'm not blotto now...

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Chat lines - you would call a weird number and listen (or participate) in a bnuch of on-going conversations.
We used to crank call all the time - does anyone still do that???

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What a great thread (if I'm repeating -- sorry):


Ha Penny Lion
Mike Bakers
Mr. Days
Grog and Tankard
Memco (Rockville)
American Cafe
The Raindancer (Rockville)

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Oh crank calling was the best!!!! I also remember frequently calling Q107 and WAVA's "request and dedication" lines to ask them to play favorite songs. Then record the songs by holding a tape recorder up to the radio. Good times!!!

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"I cruise without booze" bumper stickers

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The Biltmore ballroom

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When Best Buy was Sears and we parked on the roof.

Hot Diggety Dog in Georgetown.

Nicky's.

The Thai Room (first Thai restaurant)

The Zeb (the Zebra Room)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:5th column, Tracks, Poseurs, Little Tavern at 3am, Commander Salamander, Bayou, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Perry's, Fishmarket. Later on in the late 80s early 90s..the Fox and the Hound in Adams Morgan had the cheapest drinks. Red Sea for Ethiopian.

Does anyone else remember when Abercrombie and Finch in Georgetown Park used to be ultra conservative..sort of a faux english safari meets LLBean style? My parents liked it and used to buy us preppy looking wool sweaters.

Fox and Hounds still has the cheapest drinks. For a mixed drink, they give you a tumbler full of liquor, and a small body of your mixer on the side. It's crazy. Left there totally blotto last weekend.

Some of the things mentioned here are such a teeny, tiny slice of a pattern of socializing--yet many of us were repeating the same loops passing each at different steps or phases of life, having many of the same experiences and having similar reactions positive or negative. Yet DC suffers such an intense identity crisis. It has no unique cuisine, music, sport team, no distinct unifying theme. There is a general disdain for all things distinctly DC outside of DC. Yet, the memories here are being recalled with such fondness.

I wonder why there is no palpable pride about being from DC--rather just a derision of all local processes that are uniquely local?

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Anonymous wrote:The drug bust at Whitman where the police dressed up as painters and hung out on the hill and then arrested all the kids.

omg. Did this really happen? Confirmation by other Whitman alums here? What year was this?

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Anonymous wrote:*Winstons, Pall Mall and the Tombs in Georgetown - because they didn't card
*The floating band shell on the river by the steps below the Lincoln Memorial
*The Blackhawks
*Psyche Deli
*Bethesda Surf Shop
*The KB Movie Theatre
*Little Feat

Smells like 70's Teen Spirit to me!