Vanishing Georgetown

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WOKE > your personal safety.

Imagine announcing to the world that you're terrified of going out in Georgetown. Georgetown!

You'd think that even if you were such a 10-ply coward, you'd at least have the awareness to hide the shameful fact instead of loudly declaring that a part of town where uptight helicopter parents send their tweens for their first shopping trip without mommy makes you crap your pants in fear.

Not to mention the absolute irony of someone who unironically uses "woke" as an epithet and surely derides the "blue haired liberal snowflakes" quaking in their boots at the thought of walking through a neighborhood those very "snowflakes" deride as being too safe, bland, and corporate. If you are too scared to go somewhere even the "snowflakes" find boring, what does that say about you?

[Anonymous]

Hibiscus Cafe in the 90s under K Street maybe not Georgetown but close.

[Anonymous]

Latham Hotel and Citronelle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What was the bar under the bridge that let 15/16 year old's in to drink?

Oh the 80's.

Fish market or Bayou

[Anonymous]

American Cafe
Pall Mall
Winston’s
Swenson’s
Biograph
River club
Nathan’s
Anastasia’s
Crazy horse
Mr smith’s

I’m old

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At the risk of sounding old, I thought I’d start a list of places I loved in Georgetown, but which have since disappeared.

Anyone remember (and can add to the list)

- Au Pied de Cochon?

Went on a date there a gazillion years ago when I lived in DC and was visiting DC for work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:American Cafe
Pall Mall
Winston’s
Swenson’s
Biograph
River club
Nathan’s
Anastasia’s
Crazy horse
Mr smith’s

I’m old

What about:

El Diablo
Half-Mast
Windy's Sitting Place
Exactamundo
Thrusters & Leaks
Cautious Cafe
Mopey's
The Doncaster

[Anonymous]

Commander Salamander

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:American Cafe
Pall Mall
Winston’s
Swenson’s
Biograph
River club
Nathan’s
Anastasia’s
Crazy horse
Mr smith’s

I’m old

Isn't Nathan's still there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:American Cafe
Pall Mall
Winston’s
Swenson’s
Biograph
River club
Nathan’s
Anastasia’s
Crazy horse
Mr smith’s

I’m old

Isn't Nathan's still there?

Yes, but we've lost Pig Haus, the Shut-Up Lounge, and Onesie’s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:American Cafe
Pall Mall
Winston’s
Swenson’s
Biograph
River club
Nathan’s
Anastasia’s
Crazy horse
Mr smith’s

I’m old

Isn't Nathan's still there?

Yes, but we've lost Pig Haus, the Shut-Up Lounge, and Onesie’s.

Nathan’s closed in 2009

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:American Cafe
Pall Mall
Winston’s
Swenson’s
Biograph
River club
Nathan’s
Anastasia’s
Crazy horse
Mr smith’s

I’m old

Isn't Nathan's still there?

Yes, but we've lost Pig Haus, the Shut-Up Lounge, and Onesie’s.

Nathan’s closed in 2009

Yes, I was confused by that confirmation. Isn't that space the weird Chase bank and coffee shop now?

[Anonymous]

Dean and Deluca and Barnes and Noble

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was a clothing store that closed in the early 90s. I can’t remember the name and it’s driving me crazy.

It’s similar to Up Against the Wall in that it was extremely hip, not just trendy. It’s not Commander Salamander. The name sounds like Boogie Nights, but it’s obviously not that.

Is there a way to see a list of stores from the early 90s?

You can do a search and add ca 1992 or something similar. You can also search guidebooks, tourist maps, and articles from local publications focused on shopping. Internet Archive might turn up something.

I know this one because the original store was very close to the neighborhood I grew up in. The Sports Zone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dean and Deluca and Barnes and Noble

Barnes and Noble is back!