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.

Uh. We didn’t have terrorism, but we still had to worry a lot about crime in DC. Anyone who felt totally safe in DC was delusional.

I’m guessing you lived in the suburbs.

DP

I was in SE or SW DC in the "bad" neighborhoods and never shot. I worked in SW for a while and also went to Tracks to dance.

The drug leaders kept that shi-- in certain areas. They weren't carjacking people all over the place when you went to the grocery store. People weren't shot dead at the mall every other month. Mass shooting were rare.

There were kidnappings around 14th Street, though. You had to be aware. And there were the guys who would want $20 to "watch your car" on F Street NW.

I went to Baltimore a lot, too. The drug gangs stayed mostly within certain areas and didn't shoot up those not involved.

Compliment Man

The DC man running backwards down H Street NW while singing and wearing huge headphones. He ran among the cars. Was always happy to see him.

Anonymous wrote:2000 was a bad year. The whole stock market and internet bubble occurred and layoffs

I think 1999 was last good year ever

I thought it was more like 2001. My startup was still killing it in 2000.

2000 was a bad year. The whole stock market and internet bubble occurred and layoffs

I think 1999 was last good year ever

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Violent and full of gangs and drugs

prostitutes on K Street.

In 2000? No.

at night, yes.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of “dead” zones. Lulus was of the only stops on a pub crawl between DuPont and Georgetown.

Tons of bars around there. Mad Hatter, Sign of the Whale, the place with Rally in the Alley – Mr. Days maybe?, so many more.

The Cellar was prob long closed by 2000, but could have been on that same bar crawl 😀

Anonymous wrote:Dean & Deluca for lunch and remembering Felicity (although it was filmed in D&D NY)

I used to eat lunch regularly at the one under the Warner Theatre. I’d frequently get polenta and salad with a hazelnut cookie.

I moved here that summer. I worked at the Watergate so I actually remember media doing interviews on the steps the following summer about Chandra Levy. It wasn't long before I regretted moving here, though the feeling has since abated. I went from taking the train to work and easily flying out wherever I wanted to go and feeling excited about getting my first place to, within a matter of a couple years, experiencing weeklong blackouts after a derecho and other extreme weather events, the sniper, 9/11 and the attack on the Pentagon, fears about public transportation and getting my sneakers inspected before flying, and loading up a closet with plastic tarps and extra water in case we were attacked again. My parents, who lived in a small town, desperately wanted me to move back home. I'm still here though. I barely remember what that pre-everything time of innocence felt like. My own kids never got to experience it. That makes me sad. I think they've been most impacted by the gun violence and the callousness with which adults treat one another.

I enjoyed hanging out at Buffalo Billiards, and Rumors for dancing. And I LOVED LuLu’s. Remember how all the bars downtown would get together to hold a giant bar crawl once or twice a year? You would have like 18 places to visit, and they all served drinks with Captain Morgan’s, which was sponsoring.

Loved Ha Penny Lion, Mr. Days, Third Edition, Polly Esthers; would catch up with old friends from AU at all of these places. There was a bar in Georgetown that had peanut shells all over the floor…I can’t remember its name. Fifth Column played weird techno music.

The Red Sea in Adams Morgan had the best Ethiopiian food in the city. Saigonais for Vietnamese and I Matti for Italian. Adams Morgan was a very sketchy area, though. East of 16th was considered unsafe. A newlywed young woman I was friends with was pistol whipped by an intruder in her own home only a half block east of 16th. Closer to home was Cactus Cantina near the cathedral and Maggies and Guapos in Tenleytown. And the Dancing Crab!

I left my policy consulting job at the end of July that summer so that I could have a few weeks off before starting law school at Georgetown. I had to give up the beautiful, 820 square foot 1-bedroom apartment I was renting in Glover Park for only $775 per month, because the owner needed to sell. I could have bought that apartment for only $95,000, but I wanted a place near Metro for getting to school (and I knew nothing about real estate) — so I passed on that opportunity and moved to Arlington. Sure wish I had managed to hold onto it, it would have nade a great investment property.

It was a very hot summer and I loved the peacefulness of it, especially at night. Every night I’d go outside and smoke two — and only two — cigarettes, and smell the woods and think about how lucky I was to live there. And then I moved to Arlington. Sigh. But it was okay there too, just never the same withbthe business of law school, followed by marriage and Biglaw. I will always treasure those single years in DC in my early 20s.

To this day, I still refer to Whole Foods as “Fresh Fields” half the time.

Anonymous wrote:Lots of “dead” zones. Lulus was of the only stops on a pub crawl between DuPont and Georgetown.

Tons of bars around there. Mad Hatter, Sign of the Whale, the place with Rally in the Alley – Mr. Days maybe?, so many more.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Violent and full of gangs and drugs

prostitutes on K Street.

In 2000? No.

People used to be helpful

Lol was that when Marion Barry was busted with the prostitute? When summertime drive by shootings were common? Ah the good ole days.

Dean & Deluca for lunch and remembering Felicity (although it was filmed in D&D NY)