Can someone please give me more reminders of muster days and dragonfly? I know I spent a lot of time at each, but can't get a mental picture formed.
|
Had one of my favorite evenings with my now husband there. |
Johnny’s half shell — I worked there in grad school. Johnny was a classic, and he hired only the best!
The improv Big hunt I actually miss books a million |
BAM closed not that long ago. I remember buying a book there for my son in 2015. |
this then stroll over to the phillips |
yes, loved the bead store blue mercury was a one off! |
Cagney Dance night and Kramerbooks & Afterwords |
Dragonfly's aesthetic was well-lit minimalist modern white. Think the movie Sleeper. When you walked in there was a square spiral staircase up to the left. The bar was after that along the left wall stretching almost to the back. Trumpet stem white barstools stuck out of the floor along the bar. Walking space was to the right of the barstools. About halfway toward the back there was a narrow set of steps leading rightward up to the DJ booth, which was set high up along the wall toward the back. It was a narrow crowded standing space between the barstools and DJ booth. Upstairs was for private events. It was dimly lit with many small colored lamps in curved cubby holes along the right wall. The aesthetic was midcentury. Think hip Madmen. Along the left wall were low circular tables, widely separated. Each had a narrow leather bench against the wall and a few acrylic classroom chairs around them. All in a pretty cool place. Downstairs bright loud and crowded. Upstairs dim quieter and sparse. Outside was a wide sidewalk, and a stone and glass storefront. |
I was going to say the Brad store. It might have been called beadazzled? In junior high I thought I was very cool to take the metro and go there and then get coffee at marvelous market. In college I had a crush on George stephanopolous and every once in a while would run into him as he lived above a shop on that same block of CT |
PP - meant the bead store |
This is making my 45-year-old self nostalgic. I lived there in the very early aughts, just out of college, and most of these places were around. What was the name of the bar, I think south of the circle on Connecticut, that had cheap pitchers of mojitos at happy hour? It was our go-to happy hour spot. |
I always think of dragonfly as the first of the restaurants that foretold the DC that was coming. When I moved to dc in the late 90s, DuPont and Adam’s Morgan were small town podunk. It felt more like a slightly bigger version of a college town - dive bars, smaller chain restaurants, very generic and cheesy dance clubs, and almost nothing that bordered on “cool”. We were supposed to be excited about Tryst in AM and Chicha on U street - neither of which was really that cool. Dragonfly had a decidedly cool aesthetic. Within a few years, DuPont had moved east and we got tons of cooler more interesting restaurants and bars, and now dcs nightlife scene is decidedly forward thinking. I think dragonfly was the first! |
What was the name of the coffee shop, I think around 17th and R, during the height of the AIDS crisis? |
Remember Il Radicchio? AYCE pasta from Roberto Donna
|
The Pop Stop! I loved that place, we used to go there in college. I also miss Zig Zag Cafe, on U street |