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2 comments:
Makes me very sad. We were there say times - 80's and 90's. Used to live on Church St. across from JR's.
'hood has really changed, and not for the better necessarily. 14th street was hookers and thugs, Scott Circle was no man's land.
Like most places, the gay community has basically disappeared as gays assimilated into society. Yeah, I'd go back if I could....
The change on 14th Street during the last 5 - 10 years has been amazing. When I first moved to Dupont Circle, in 1987, the walk home from Studio Theater or the Source was always a little scary. What was then a bleak dead zone has turned into one of the most vibrant areas in the District, full of good restaurants with outdoor seating, which gives the area the feeling of a big, open-air party, even in chilly weather.
The key moment in the change was probably the opening of a Whole Foods on P Street. Since then, the area has seen a huge amount of new condo construction and a big population change.
If you haven't lived here since the 90s, you would not recognize parts of DC. The city's population is increasing, and the national housing market collapse barely touched us. Places that you might never have considered visiting--14th Street, H Street NE, Columbia Heights--have blossomed into Scenes.
The previous commenter has a good point: Assimilation has dispersed the gay ghetto. Unlike him, I wouldn't go back.
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