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

[Anonymous]

I moved here in the summer of 2000 and I remember it being very hot and some very strong thunderstorms. We went out in Adana Morgan a lot.

That time blends with the next few years of 9-11 and the sniper. I don’t remember it being peaceful and blissful. I was young and scared and wondering if this was the right move for a long time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I moved to Dupont Circle in May 2000. Met DH in September 2000 a block off the circle. Yes to much of the above. It was such a sweltering summer. i remember Shania Twain Man i Feel Like a Woman playing a lot, and the Mazda Zoom Zoom kid on tv all the time....

I had moved from a larger city to DC, and mostly i remember thinking it was a backwoods armpit. I arrived to a group house and needed to buy towels, and no one could name a single store in the city where you could do this. Eventually, someone thought of sending me to Hechts downtown but I think it was closed on Sunday! And then we wanted to go chill in a coffee shop after work, and literally the only choice was XandO on the circle. Chicha lounge was beyond cool on "edgy" U street, but my friend warned me I might get stabbed going there. One time i went to see a favorite band play at 9:30 club, and literally took the metro from Dupont to U street (connecting down at Union station - it took like 40 minutes) because I couldn't afford a cab, and again, everyone told me i would get stabbed if I walked the 8 minutes from NE dupont to 9:30 club. Another time we walked over to 14th street for the brand new opening of the Studio Theater, and (A) wondered why they were opening this random store "Whole Foods" in the middle of a deserted wasteland and (B) there was a steel barrel with a fire lit in the middle of the day with a guy warming up over it - at what used to be the 7-11, then Caribou Coffee and now i forget what. In hindsight, the neighborhood was obviously gentrifying already, but i was a naive rich kid from another big (safer) city who thought it was nuts. Oh and there was literally no where in town but Trios and Georgia Brown to get brunch. It was seriously small town here.

Mostly I had a lot of fun that summer though. It was pre-internet so i blissfully ignored the news all summer. Even the election! Just throwing out some other places that i haven't heard mentioned that i spent a lot of time at.... the place in Adams Morgan with $2 drinks.

Yes!! ChiCha Lounge was the epitome of cool.

[Anonymous]

I spent every weekend at Dewey Beach.

[Anonymous]

Blackout drunk at - recessions
Karaoke and sushi and sake bombs at cafe japone
Getting lost in that maze of bars in Adams Morgan— spaghetti garden, monkeys something

[Anonymous]

the old sushi taro!


oh man, remember when the cabs were on the zone system?

i moved to DC in the summer of 2001 for college...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well I moved here in summer 2003 - when I graduated college. 20 years ago.

I liked Tom Toms (I think it was $10 for 4 beers and 4 shots on Thursday nights maybe - does anyone recall?), jumbo slice, Heaven and hell, Chief Ike’s, lucky bar, third edition.

Adams Morgan was cool and I didn’t care about other neighborhoods lol.

Yep!! Will add to this The Reef, Millie & Al’s, Toledo Lounge…good times.

[Anonymous]

The washington nationals didn't start playing at RFK until fall 2005.

[Anonymous]

I don’t remember. I had a one year old and a 3 year old. It was the year the one year old was hospitalized three times. The first time was 8 days with RSV. We nearly lost him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I moved here in the summer of 2000 and I remember it being very hot and some very strong thunderstorms. We went out in Adana Morgan a lot.

That time blends with the next few years of 9-11 and the sniper. I don’t remember it being peaceful and blissful. I was young and scared and wondering if this was the right move for a long time.

The sniper was later. Summer of 2000 was quiet. Pre 9/11. Clinton was still president.

[Anonymous]

I think some of us are mixing up 2000 with 2001. I had to look up when Aaliyah died that was Summer ‘01.

I remember we lost power in DC on New Years 2000 or atleast my neighborhood and the few near us did. Anyone remember that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Blackout drunk at - recessions
Karaoke and sushi and sake bombs at cafe japone
Getting lost in that maze of bars in Adams Morgan— spaghetti garden, monkeys something

Brass Monkey!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the old sushi taro!


oh man, remember when the cabs were on the zone system?

i moved to DC in the summer of 2001 for college...

Omg yes I remember the zone system!!!! That sucked.
I also liked sushi taro.

And yes to the PP on chi-Cha lounge!!!

[Anonymous]

Thank you, PP for mentioning the Reef. Loved that place. And Tryst.

Was in grad school also went to 18th Street Lounge, The Big Hunt, and The Front Page. Then, in the early 2000s the Kimpton properties sprung up and we were regulars at Topaz (on N St, I think) in the evenings and Firefly for brunch (on New Hampshire in Dupont.)

I lived in Bethesda and would go to dinner at Tara Thai, Parker's--it was good when it first opened, and The Montgomery Grille.

[Anonymous]

I loved drinking wine, smoking butts & eat paté at Au Pied de Cochon on weekends.

[Anonymous]

I took cabs everywhere. They were plentiful and easy to hail.