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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I remember 14th St. used to be empty (above about R).  It was a place you largely avoided on foot if you could.[/quote]
+1 And 14th was a sort of line of demarcation (similar to 96th Street in Manhattan around the same time) and you didn’t go east of there unless you lived in the neighborhood. Lots of places that burned or were otherwise abandoned after 1968 that hadn’t changed at all.
I grew up going out in Georgetown, DuPont, Adams Morgan. Now everyone in their early 20s goes to places like the Wharf, which didn’t exist then, or H Street which might as well not have. I have a friend who bought a place near Gallaudet in the mid-late 90s - it had bullet holes in the facade and the second floor was completely rotted. He couldn’t get pizza delivered there and cabs refused to take him home. I had another friend who moved just north and east of Logan around that same time - I went to grab smokes at the 7-11 (it’s now a coffee place) around the corner one night and a guy came in who had been stabbed and he was bleeding all over the floor.[/quote]

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