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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I moved to Alexandria and the Foxchase shopping center was super shady. Had an adult movie theater and a Magrudgers.

I remember the adult movie theater because it also showed art house movies. So basically you risked sitting in a seat where men had masturbated if you wanted to see the latest indie film or flick from France or whatever.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

What was the name of that cover band that uses to play at Mr. Days?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

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

Lol, if you were smart you knew all the zones. So you could get out x blocks early and pay fewer zones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Lol, if you were smart you knew all the zones. So you could get out x blocks early and pay fewer zones.

No, I feel like I always got screwed. If the cabbie was honest then I felt I had to tip more hahaha.

[Anonymous]

I had a 2 bedroom (small) right off Dupont Circle for $1600 but I had to be really aggrressive to get it. The rental market was crazy. (I showed up an hour early to that showing and walked in and said I'll take it, here's my check, before I'd looked at it.)

I think Lauriol Plaza had just moved to its new big location for its sweet old one.

The Whole Foods was either just opening, or everyone was talking about it opening. That was a HUGE shift.

There was still the great big old hardware store in Dupont Circcle where you could get all sorts of stuff. It was packed with stuff and I was so sad when it went out of business.

This is embarassing but I don't know whether that Y that was on Rhode Island just east of Dupont is still open. That closed, right? That was great -- so convenient. I think it's a hotel now.

I honestly don't feel like there were so many differences.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

I was more of a 2004 DC baby, so post-911, but it was still super fun and different than it its now.

Adams Morgan was where the nightlife was at. TomTom for Group Therapy, Heaven and Hell, Dan's Cafe, Madam's Organ. Mad dashes for the taxis when the lights went up, and you'd ask them to drop you off right on the zone line and stumble home a few blocks to save $2.50.

If you went to Georgetown it was Rhino, Third Edition, and Smith Point (for me, to make fun of Republican youth).

Dancing on tables at Cafe Citron and feeling "mature" at ESL.

Trivia at Stetsons and hookah at ChiCha and the Local 16 rooftop.

U Street was just starting to be a thing, and we'd venture over to some smaller places there sometimes. There was one with pool tables? And Tabaq had that huge fancy rooftop.

Sometimes we went to Clarendon Grill for bands, which was pretty fun and so far away. We met a band at Spring Break in college that played there sometimes so we felt very special when they came to town.

I wasn't that into the brunch scene but had plenty of dates at MieNYu (that coed bathroom!) and similar restaurants downtown.

How has no one mentioned WAKA Kickball? I played on Monday nights and we went to smaller AdMo bars afterwards. On a Monday! And then to work the next day. Unbelievable.

What a time to be alive!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

We were still wandering in the dark after Y2K.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Lol, if you were smart you knew all the zones. So you could get out x blocks early and pay fewer zones.

+1

And the Alexandria cabs always tried to add unnecessary extra fees from the airport. I called them out on it every time.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I remember it all. The recount was important, but nothing like all of the crap that followed.

9/11 started a monumental shift.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cheap margaritas at Guapos in Tenleytown.

Huge tumblers of booze - mix it yourself - at Fox & Hounds.

Brunch at Georgia Brown's!

Mixtec after a late night in Adams' Morgan.

14th Street was still kind of sketchy.

I remember going with my boyfriend (now DH) to a super fancy dinner at I Ricchi and seeing Kay Graham!

Good ones!!! I spent a lot of time drinking too much wine and smoking cigarettes at Au Pied du Cochon.