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Anonymous wrote:Luckily the police defunding movement will ensure that the city will return to the good ol’ days of the 80’s within a decade or so.

Do people actually believe this? I'll make a deal with you. I'll make a contract to buy anybody's DC property in 10 years at 50% of the 2021 value. If you're so certain DC is going back to the 80s, that's a no-brainer. SFHs in the 80s were worth $120K in AU Park. Rowhouses in Shaw were under $50K. Clearly your property will be worthless is you truly believe DC is going back to the 80s, so step right up and make the deal!

Anonymous wrote:Luckily the police defunding movement will ensure that the city will return to the good ol’ days of the 80’s within a decade or so.

Anonymous wrote:Luckily the police defunding movement will ensure that the city will return to the good ol’ days of the 80’s within a decade or so.

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My friend if you the gradual decay of the circa-80's DC atmosphere is leaving you in despair you may want to seek some therapy because your overall problem is accepting the basic principle of the passage of time and until you come to grips with that realization you'll never be truly able to enjoy the present.

Anonymous wrote:I don't know about anyone else, but I despair at what I see in DC. I have lived here for 30 plus years. I find the gentrification is bringing things to DC I don't need or like and pushing things out I used to enjoy. I actually enjoyed the grittier, dirtier feel that I exisited when I arrived in 1984. Downtown was certainly much more alive, with a varietyof shops, four department stores, bookshops everywhere. Now, it's all cookie cutter chain stores. Locals who have lived here forever are being pushed out and have to fight with the gentrifiers who want to take away their parking for bike lanes or complain about homegrown art forms like loud go go music. I guess maybe I'm like my old New Yorker friend who liked the pre-Giluiani, pre-Disneyfied New York.

Last night I took a very long walk from Mt. Pleasant to downtown and noticed so many missing places. It was sad. And you still cannot get good pizza in this town.

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up here. OLD 930 club was a death trap if a fire broke out, city was geberally unsafe and most parts were beyond dull. Downtown was a ghoatown unless you were really jnto Lernees discount and 1/2 priced wig stores. This isnt old versus new Times Square. There is no "old" atimes Square in DC. Pls do not.romanticize. You want Fugazi? Start a band!

OMG, those wig shops! All over 7th St NW area.

This is what DC had going for it:
The record shop on Conn Avenue by Dupont
"Food for Thought"
Drinking Age--18
"the Compliment Guy"
Sunshine, hippie who rain the fruit stand by Dupont metro
Kramer Books (still there)
Old Georgetown Mall (better than new big box complex)
Tracks Nightclub
I'm racking my brain here...

Education was a morass, crime was high, downtown was a boring, almost physically depressing wasteland (yes, wig shops), no parks and rec though you could walk through cigarette littered traffic circles and get offered Boat as a pre-teen, MLK Library was skeevy, ....

There are plenty of gritty places OP can hit. I don't think OP realizes that gentrification was mostly driven by the gay + artists + small, locally owned business community in areas like Adams Morgan. They didn't push out a vibrant, black jazz scene or whatnot (I've hard this said). They actually revived it. 14th and 16th street looked like Beirut when I was a kid (not swinging Parisian Beirut, but mid Civil War). The winos on boarded up doorways. Oh my...! I always felt like I was walking the gauntlet to catch the bus. And one of my elementary school classmates was shot in the butt crossing Park Road on the way to school. Yeah, "the good old days"

Food for Thought! I remember that from my college days!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up here. OLD 930 club was a death trap if a fire broke out, city was geberally unsafe and most parts were beyond dull. Downtown was a ghoatown unless you were really jnto Lernees discount and 1/2 priced wig stores. This isnt old versus new Times Square. There is no "old" atimes Square in DC. Pls do not.romanticize. You want Fugazi? Start a band!

OMG, those wig shops! All over 7th St NW area.

This is what DC had going for it:
The record shop on Conn Avenue by Dupont
"Food for Thought"
Drinking Age--18
"the Compliment Guy"
Sunshine, hippie who rain the fruit stand by Dupont metro
Kramer Books (still there)
Old Georgetown Mall (better than new big box complex)
Tracks Nightclub
I'm racking my brain here...

Education was a morass, crime was high, downtown was a boring, almost physically depressing wasteland (yes, wig shops), no parks and rec though you could walk through cigarette littered traffic circles and get offered Boat as a pre-teen, MLK Library was skeevy, ....

There are plenty of gritty places OP can hit. I don't think OP realizes that gentrification was mostly driven by the gay + artists + small, locally owned business community in areas like Adams Morgan. They didn't push out a vibrant, black jazz scene or whatnot (I've hard this said). They actually revived it. 14th and 16th street looked like Beirut when I was a kid (not swinging Parisian Beirut, but mid Civil War). The winos on boarded up doorways. Oh my...! I always felt like I was walking the gauntlet to catch the bus. And one of my elementary school classmates was shot in the butt crossing Park Road on the way to school. Yeah, "the good old days"