Anonymous wrote:I graduated from high school in June 2000 and it was BLISS.

My summer kicked off with HFSTival on Memorial Day weekend. Vertical Horizon, Stone Temple Pilots, Eve 6, Cypress Hill, Deftones, Third Eye Blind. I was with my gaggle of teen girlfriends, no cell phones, denim miniskirts, layered tank tops and old navy flip flops that matched one of the tank top colors.

I would give anything to go back.

Anonymous wrote:Russia House

Anonymous wrote:Front Page, Buffalo Billiards, Rumors (!), Madam's Organ, My Brother's Place, Lauriol Plaza, Fox & Hounds, Chief Ike's Mambo Room, Austin Grill (yum!), Brickskeller, Cafe Mozart, so many great spots! What was that horrid bar on the waterfront - Sequoia? I drunkenly wet my pants there! Tryst, Cafe Deluxe, WEENIE BEENIE, Stetson's, White Tiger for Indian...Tony Cheng's and Full Kee in Chinatown!

Butterfield 9! Oh and I cannot forget the weird baked potato restaurant on Wisconsin Ave!

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else remember those Missed Connections? What was the platform they were on? I can’t remember.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

I LOVE this post. I think we were living parallel lives, right down to the biglaw path and Arlington real estate purchases. And the cigarettes on the Adams Morgan balcony. Ahhhhh.

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Anonymous wrote:Violent and full of gangs and drugs

prostitutes on K Street.

Anonymous wrote: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.