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

Yes!! ChiCha Lounge was the epitome of cool.[/quote]

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