Anonymous
Post 02/18/2025 23:17     Subject: Re:Reminisce about the old Dupont Circle with me
Anonymous wrote:What was the name of the coffee shop, I think around 17th and R, during the height of the AIDS crisis?


The Pop Stop! I loved that place, we used to go there in college. I also miss Zig Zag Cafe, on U street
Anonymous
Post 02/18/2025 23:16     Subject: Reminisce about the old Dupont Circle with me
Remember Il Radicchio? AYCE pasta from Roberto Donna

Anonymous
Post 02/18/2025 22:58     Subject: Re:Reminisce about the old Dupont Circle with me
What was the name of the coffee shop, I think around 17th and R, during the height of the AIDS crisis?
Anonymous
Post 10/06/2024 08:01     Subject: Reminisce about the old Dupont Circle with me
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Can someone please give me more reminders of muster days and dragonfly? I know I spent a lot of time at each, but can't get a mental picture formed.

Dragonfly's aesthetic was well-lit minimalist modern white. Think the movie Sleeper. When you walked in there was a square spiral staircase up to the left. The bar was after that along the left wall stretching almost to the back. Trumpet stem white barstools stuck out of the floor along the bar. Walking space was to the right of the barstools. About halfway toward the back there was a narrow set of steps leading rightward up to the DJ booth, which was set high up along the wall toward the back. It was a narrow crowded standing space between the barstools and DJ booth.

Upstairs was for private events. It was dimly lit with many small colored lamps in curved cubby holes along the right wall. The aesthetic was midcentury. Think hip Madmen. Along the left wall were low circular tables, widely separated. Each had a narrow leather bench against the wall and a few acrylic classroom chairs around them.

All in a pretty cool place. Downstairs bright loud and crowded. Upstairs dim quieter and sparse. Outside was a wide sidewalk, and a stone and glass storefront.


I always think of dragonfly as the first of the restaurants that foretold the DC that was coming. When I moved to dc in the late 90s, DuPont and Adam’s Morgan were small town podunk. It felt more like a slightly bigger version of a college town - dive bars, smaller chain restaurants, very generic and cheesy dance clubs, and almost nothing that bordered on “cool”. We were supposed to be excited about Tryst in AM and Chicha on U street - neither of which was really that cool. Dragonfly had a decidedly cool aesthetic. Within a few years, DuPont had moved east and we got tons of cooler more interesting restaurants and bars, and now dcs nightlife scene is decidedly forward thinking. I think dragonfly was the first!
Anonymous
Post 10/05/2024 23:43     Subject: Reminisce about the old Dupont Circle with me
This is making my 45-year-old self nostalgic. I lived there in the very early aughts, just out of college, and most of these places were around. What was the name of the bar, I think south of the circle on Connecticut, that had cheap pitchers of mojitos at happy hour? It was our go-to happy hour spot.
Anonymous
Post 10/05/2024 23:08     Subject: Reminisce about the old Dupont Circle with me
PP - meant the bead store
Anonymous
Post 10/05/2024 23:08     Subject: Reminisce about the old Dupont Circle with me
Anonymous wrote:
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.

I was going to say the Brad store. It might have been called beadazzled? In junior high I thought I was very cool to take the metro and go there and then get coffee at marvelous market. In college I had a crush on George stephanopolous and every once in a while would run into him as he lived above a shop on that same block of CT
Anonymous
Post 10/05/2024 22:57     Subject: Reminisce about the old Dupont Circle with me
Anonymous wrote:Can someone please give me more reminders of muster days and dragonfly? I know I spent a lot of time at each, but can't get a mental picture formed.

Dragonfly's aesthetic was well-lit minimalist modern white. Think the movie Sleeper. When you walked in there was a square spiral staircase up to the left. The bar was after that along the left wall stretching almost to the back. Trumpet stem white barstools stuck out of the floor along the bar. Walking space was to the right of the barstools. About halfway toward the back there was a narrow set of steps leading rightward up to the DJ booth, which was set high up along the wall toward the back. It was a narrow crowded standing space between the barstools and DJ booth.

Upstairs was for private events. It was dimly lit with many small colored lamps in curved cubby holes along the right wall. The aesthetic was midcentury. Think hip Madmen. Along the left wall were low circular tables, widely separated. Each had a narrow leather bench against the wall and a few acrylic classroom chairs around them.

All in a pretty cool place. Downstairs bright loud and crowded. Upstairs dim quieter and sparse. Outside was a wide sidewalk, and a stone and glass storefront.
Anonymous
Post 10/05/2024 21:41     Subject: Re:Reminisce about the old Dupont Circle with me
Cagney Dance night and Kramerbooks & Afterwords
suzu
Post 10/05/2024 21:17     Subject: Reminisce about the old Dupont Circle with me
Anonymous wrote:The foreign language newsstand.
The Compliment Man (although he was often in Adams Morgan)
The bead store
Zorba's
Teaism


yes, loved the bead store
blue mercury was a one off!
suzu
Post 10/05/2024 21:16     Subject: Reminisce about the old Dupont Circle with me
Anonymous wrote:Sunday brunch and browsing at Kramerbooks was one of my very favorite things ever.


this
then stroll over to the phillips
Anonymous
Post 10/05/2024 20:58     Subject: Reminisce about the old Dupont Circle with me
Anonymous wrote:Johnny’s half shell — I worked there in grad school. Johnny was a classic, and he hired only the best!

The improv

Big hunt

I actually miss books a million


BAM closed not that long ago. I remember buying a book there for my son in 2015.
Anonymous
Post 10/05/2024 20:57     Subject: Reminisce about the old Dupont Circle with me
Johnny’s half shell — I worked there in grad school. Johnny was a classic, and he hired only the best!

The improv

Big hunt

I actually miss books a million
Anonymous
Post 10/05/2024 20:55     Subject: Reminisce about the old Dupont Circle with me
Anonymous wrote:YES!!! Love these memories!!! Still miss Pesce


Had one of my favorite evenings with my now husband there.
Anonymous
Post 10/05/2024 20:52     Subject: Reminisce about the old Dupont Circle with me
Can someone please give me more reminders of muster days and dragonfly? I know I spent a lot of time at each, but can't get a mental picture formed.