Reminisce about the old Dupont Circle with me

[Anonymous]

Did any of you go to Numbers?

[Anonymous]

Wasn’t there a Condomania there, too?

[Anonymous]

We used to enjoy the Big Hunt and the Brickskellar.

[Anonymous]

Moved to dc in 1987 and lived at 17th and P. I miss Anna Maria’s, childe Harold, food for thought, when Kramerbooks was a novelty open all night, and the like five movie theaters on Conn ave.

Time marches on I guess.

[Anonymous]

Such great memories!

[Anonymous]

I remember going to the Dupont Circle area for the bookstores. I could spend hours in Olsson’s Books and Records. Shopping at Toast and Strawberries was another neighborhood treat. I spent the most time, though, at the Guitar Shop, where I took lessons. The shop looked like it had been there — almost untouched— for decades. The owner liked to debate — and hanging out downstairs allowed me to slide into some great conversations.

[Anonymous]

Brickskellar!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Aw! Childe Harold and Zorbas! I lived in DuPont Circle for a few years after grad school. I’d never lived right in a city before, and it was SO cool to me that I got to do so. Spent my weekends at Second Story Books, Kramer Books and Afterwards (those are still there, fortunately) and Books A Million.

The streets are overrun with homeless camps now.

Your "never lived in a city before" is showing. There are about 3 tents north of the circle and 3 to 5 homeless people sleeping on the Mass and CT side. I wouldn't call it "overrun" with camps compared to what we are seeing in other parts of the city, though we are working on finding them housing.

/Dupont resident of 20 years

Don't act like 17th Street wasn't out of control during the height of the pandemic. I've lived in dupont since 1999.

NP here. I lived in DuPont from 2001 to 2008. Half a block from 17th. Walking from Q to CVS I always ran across at least four or five homeless people. When you went into CVS or Safeway or McDs there’d always be a homeless person or two at the door asking you to buy something. Did that change for a while to fewer homeless? Or were there even more homeless people in 2020 and beyond?

I lived between DuPont and Adams Morgan starting in 1998. The camps today do not hold a candle to the “aggressive panhandling” of the 1990s. Asking you to buy something at Safeway was one thing, but those parking space watchers were fierce.

[Anonymous]

The foreign language newsstand.
The Compliment Man (although he was often in Adams Morgan)
The bead store
Zorba's
Teaism

[Anonymous]

The 90s? That was yesterday. Let's talk the 80s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We used to enjoy the Big Hunt and the Brickskellar.

I COMPLETELY forgot about this place. I loved it. When did it go out of business?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The foreign language newsstand.
The Compliment Man (although he was often in Adams Morgan)
The bead store
Zorba's
Teaism

Ah yes, the Compliment Man. He was a fixture in Adams Morgan in the early 90's.

Also I can't remember the name, but there was a karaoke bar in a Japanese restaurant on one the side streets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The foreign language newsstand.
The Compliment Man (although he was often in Adams Morgan)
The bead store
Zorba's
Teaism

Ah yes, the Compliment Man. He was a fixture in Adams Morgan in the early 90's.

Also I can't remember the name, but there was a karaoke bar in a Japanese restaurant on one the side streets.

Café Japone on p street

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The foreign language newsstand.
The Compliment Man (although he was often in Adams Morgan)
The bead store
Zorba's
Teaism

I bought the beads at that bed store to make a wedding hair piece when I got married in 2004! Forgot about that place.

[Anonymous]

If I recall I really loved the brownie at marvelous market. If I really recall….. I once paid a small fortune to have one of those Marvelous market brownies delivered to my house by “cosmos.com” in the summer of 2000.