If I recall I really loved the brownie at marvelous market. If I really recall….. I once paid a small fortune to have one of those Marvelous market brownies delivered to my house by “cosmos.com” in the summer of 2000.

Anonymous wrote:The foreign language newsstand.
The Compliment Man (although he was often in Adams Morgan)
The bead store
Zorba's
Teaism

I bought the beads at that bed store to make a wedding hair piece when I got married in 2004! Forgot about that place.

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Anonymous wrote:The foreign language newsstand.
The Compliment Man (although he was often in Adams Morgan)
The bead store
Zorba's
Teaism

Ah yes, the Compliment Man. He was a fixture in Adams Morgan in the early 90's.

Also I can't remember the name, but there was a karaoke bar in a Japanese restaurant on one the side streets.

Café Japone on p street

Anonymous wrote:The foreign language newsstand.
The Compliment Man (although he was often in Adams Morgan)
The bead store
Zorba's
Teaism

Ah yes, the Compliment Man. He was a fixture in Adams Morgan in the early 90's.

Also I can't remember the name, but there was a karaoke bar in a Japanese restaurant on one the side streets.

Anonymous wrote:We used to enjoy the Big Hunt and the Brickskellar.

I COMPLETELY forgot about this place. I loved it. When did it go out of business?

The 90s? That was yesterday. Let's talk the 80s.

The foreign language newsstand.
The Compliment Man (although he was often in Adams Morgan)
The bead store
Zorba's
Teaism

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Anonymous wrote:Aw! Childe Harold and Zorbas! I lived in DuPont Circle for a few years after grad school. I’d never lived right in a city before, and it was SO cool to me that I got to do so. Spent my weekends at Second Story Books, Kramer Books and Afterwards (those are still there, fortunately) and Books A Million.

The streets are overrun with homeless camps now.

Your "never lived in a city before" is showing. There are about 3 tents north of the circle and 3 to 5 homeless people sleeping on the Mass and CT side. I wouldn't call it "overrun" with camps compared to what we are seeing in other parts of the city, though we are working on finding them housing.

/Dupont resident of 20 years

Don't act like 17th Street wasn't out of control during the height of the pandemic. I've lived in dupont since 1999.

NP here. I lived in DuPont from 2001 to 2008. Half a block from 17th. Walking from Q to CVS I always ran across at least four or five homeless people. When you went into CVS or Safeway or McDs there’d always be a homeless person or two at the door asking you to buy something. Did that change for a while to fewer homeless? Or were there even more homeless people in 2020 and beyond?

I lived between DuPont and Adams Morgan starting in 1998. The camps today do not hold a candle to the “aggressive panhandling” of the 1990s. Asking you to buy something at Safeway was one thing, but those parking space watchers were fierce.

Brickskellar!!

I remember going to the Dupont Circle area for the bookstores. I could spend hours in Olsson’s Books and Records. Shopping at Toast and Strawberries was another neighborhood treat. I spent the most time, though, at the Guitar Shop, where I took lessons. The shop looked like it had been there — almost untouched— for decades. The owner liked to debate — and hanging out downstairs allowed me to slide into some great conversations.

Such great memories!

Moved to dc in 1987 and lived at 17th and P. I miss Anna Maria’s, childe Harold, food for thought, when Kramerbooks was a novelty open all night, and the like five movie theaters on Conn ave.

Time marches on I guess.

We used to enjoy the Big Hunt and the Brickskellar.

Wasn’t there a Condomania there, too?

Did any of you go to Numbers?