Anonymous wrote:Might've been considered Foggy Bottom but my best memories are from nights at the 21st Amendment

OMG - I completely forgot about that place!!

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Anonymous wrote:Cafe la Ruche!

I lived in Clarendon in 1991 and we used to walk there all the time. I thought it was so elegant.

Clarendon was basically a wasteland in 1991. My girlfriend lived there. We'd rent moves from Erols. There was not much else to do there.

Definitely, but an interesting one, in a grungy kind of way. I lived with my college boyfriend in an in-law suite in a house on N. Edgewood next to a car dealership on the main drag—Wilson. We signed the rental agreement without realizing our place would be bathed with security floodlights every night. We went to Whiteys, Pollo Rico, and Summers a lot and to a little French restaurant on Wilson that had a bird symbol. We missed Bardo’s and that whole scene by just a couple years.

How about Tramps, Pall Mall, Nathan’s, and Third Edition. I used to dance my butt off in those bars in the mid 70’s!

Anonymous wrote:Dean & DeLuca , Georgetown Cupcake and Clyde's

Dean and Deluca was where I sent my then husband to get me TWO sets of sushi after I finally gave birth and could eat it again. Don’t ask me why I wanted their sushi, I have no idea.

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Anonymous wrote:The Barnes and noble or borders or whatever with the nice 2nd floor cafe overlooking m street

Definitely a Barnes and Noble. I used to study there all the time.

It’s not there anymore? I used to work at the WB and we lived in Rosslyn so I would walk home and my then-DH would wait for me there and we would walk together from there on. He stopped meeting me there pretty soon though - didn’t want to walk across the bridge. I think I started taking the bus too, but I did walk to Georgetown.

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Anonymous wrote:Cafe la Ruche!

I lived in Clarendon in 1991 and we used to walk there all the time. I thought it was so elegant.

Clarendon was basically a wasteland in 1991. My girlfriend lived there. We'd rent moves from Erols. There was not much else to do there.

Anonymous wrote:Key Theater

I was wondering when I'd see the Key Theater pop up.

Music city roadhouse

Paper Moon in the late 80s.

Anonymous wrote:Up Against the Wall
Mr Smith’s
Conran’s
The Japanese hibachi place in Georgetown park
That silver jewelry & Knick nack store in Georgetown park where bill Clinton went Christmas shopping more than once
The guards
Betsy Johnson (bought a prom dress there)
Commander Salamander (bought doc martins there and then never felt edgy enough to wear them)
It’s recent but I actually miss being able to grab coffee at dean and DeLuca

Thank you! I got this far in the thread, still trying to think of what the “Mr. S something” bar was. Mr. Smith’s - yes! Ha, such an easy name, but hard to remember!

Potomac, the over-the-top restaurant in the G’town Harbor.

You’ll like this article, especially if you were a young twentysomething in the early 80s.

Like I was.

https://www.insidehook.com/article/washington-dc/revisiting-1980s-georgetowns-fabled-preppy-bars

Anonymous wrote:Cafe la Ruche!

I lived in Clarendon in 1991 and we used to walk there all the time. I thought it was so elegant.

Dean & DeLuca , Georgetown Cupcake and Clyde's

Might've been considered Foggy Bottom but my best memories are from nights at the 21st Amendment