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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.

[/quote]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.[/quote]

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! [/quote]

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