Some of you who will read this list will know these things because you lived them with me or you were also in the city in those days. I've missed a lot, but these were the things that popped readily into my head. Do you remember some of these things?(this list is in no particular order)
- a friend swimming in the Dupont Circle fountain
- a rat running across our feet walking down the street
- blow out parties at the California Street apartment
- our first apartment at the Chaselton
- seeing the Clintons coming out of church on Sundays as their church was around the corner from one of my old apartments
- the Obama inauguration - freezing my behind off but in a crowd of so many people and so much awe and love
- shopping at the Soviet Safeway back when $20 went quite a long way
- G&Ts at Fox & Hound on the patio then pizza at Trios
- the peeping tom (and the crazy building managers) at one apartment building in Arlington
- running the marine corps marathon
- Mr. Eagan's happy hours - pitchers of beer, popcorn, darts and stealing the glasses with Mr. Eagan's portrait
- Seeing a free Captain & Tennille concert at the Washington monument one evening - that was hysterical
- Seeing Ella Fitzgerald perform one sunny afternoon at Wolftrap - that was amazing
- working at the Gap on Connecticut Avenue (old location was right near Lucky Bar) so long ago...when there were no restaurants on the street except for a nasty Roy Rogers
- being mugged at gun point outside of my apartment on California Street (Embassy District - supposedly safe) at around 2 am
- dancing at Kilimanjaro, not soon after I had moved to DC from Nairobi
- going to the old 930 club with an old friend who worked there and then going to dance across the street at the Vault
- the riots in Columbia Heights
- the hookers on 14th street
- U street before it had restaurants and shops and condos and crazy nightlife and Adams Morgan before it became the way it is now
- Hell, when they first opened and there were no signs and only the locals knew (it was there before Heaven)
- 18th street lounge at the beginning, before it became crowded and trendy - it was so awesome when it first started
- great farewell parties and New Year's Eve celebrations at Stetsons, back when it was a really fun, neighborhood bar
- Kemp Mill Records
- DC before Starbucks
- the homeless Vietnam vet who used to hang out by the Dupont Circle metro, circa 1989-1990
- the singing homeless woman from Connecticut Avenue (made famous in the "She's Homeless" dance club song)
- Going to Trax, wearing overalls and not much else, and dancing all night long in a sea of gay men
- temping at a law firm back when people smoked at their desks (1989)
- Restaurant Club and Hike Club and Book Club
- George Peppard feeling up my backless dress at the American Cancer Society Ball
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