The gay on was the hole in the wall on 17th street. A misty rain dampens the sidewalk in front of the Naples Cafe on New York Avenue NW near 13th Street. Mr. Henrys Georgetown catered to a gay crowd but never declared itself as such because of its dependence on the tourist crowd in Georgetown. Del Grande, sporting a high-and-tight haircut, said in confidential tones, "I'll tell you what. The customer wasnt charged, but he wasnt able to finish his meal, either. People bump into old friends, make new ones. Bars & Clubs. Mike will be selling and signing books from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Boss Shepherds, 1229 Pennsylvania Ave. NW; from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Southside 815, 815 S. Washington St., Alexandria; and as part of a dinner special Oct. 29 at Clydes of Georgetown. This bar created Georgetowns punk rock scene. [7], The Bayou was known for hosting benefits, including one for Toni Wilson, a singer who would frequent the club with her family. For example, did you know that restaurant workers love it when tiny women order big club sandwiches? Nathans, Tombs. Beer was king, specifically bottled beer. In 2014, The Third Edition became El Centro, an upscale Mexican restaurant. The article Revisiting the 1980s Heyday of Georgetowns Fabled Preppy Bars by Aaron Goldfarb was originally published on InsideHook. While Im sad to see eras end, Georgetown is due for another chapter, said Georgetown restaurant broker Bill Miller at the time. Remember in the 1980s, DC wasnt doing well, says Alana McGovern, a Georgetown alum who wrote about the neighborhoods bar scene over the years for a project entitled Booze to Bougie. Georgetown was getting overrun by high-end national retailers, movie theater chains, luxury hotels and cupcake shops, though a few bars had managed to hang on into this century. A one-square-mile neighborhood of cobble-stone streets and stately, federal-style homes centered around the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and M Street, Georgetown nonetheless boasted more than 115 liquor licenses in an approximately 10-block area. "This is like being at home almost, like your own neighborhood," said Gary Smithwick, a 25-year-old resident of Southeast Washington who said he comes to Georgetown almost every Saturday night. Mike Tramonte: The Bayou Just a couple doors north was E.F. Sly Clothing,where we used to buy our club wear clothes, including Nik-Nik shirts.As we were all 17 at the time,(!) We wear our boxer shorts and some say Oh, my God, who are these guys?. Bros in polos and hungry clubbers start the night with massive plates of Irish nachos before climbing the stairs to the hot and heavy dance floor, wrote one review. "He totally grossed her out," said Smith, with relish. If by the 1980s New York was going new wave and hip-hop, club kids and cokeheads, in Washington, DC, a melting pot of fledgling lawyers, bankers and politicos still enjoyed dressing up in boat shoes, blue blazers and Brooks Brothers button-downs to hit the town. "My dog's better'n that," replied Costner. If the Ivy League look had been around since the early 20th century, with a true scene emerging by mid-century, it would be mainstreamed into preppy culture by the start of the 1980s. The best was very comfortable. Tuesdays was Pendletons or Chadwicks, a K Street joint located under Whitehurst Freeway known for its hamburgers, cheap beers and late-night hours. A good percentage of the people you see here never even went to prep school.. And the location, perfect! Marines, who invade Georgetown on Saturday nights, also frequent Annie Oakley's, with its mirrored dance floor and patrons in cowboy hats. The bar was bought and converted into an upscale Belgium restaurant called The Sovereign. Nightlife. Eventually, Wilkerson convinced Flack to give pop music a try. She also began taking on voice students of her own. But when he asked how they liked the meal, the customers told him that the steaks seemed a little tough. Those were the days.Let me tell you. Storz said he spit beer. 11. That would be the Class of 1972 at Georgetown University, although, in the end, Mike wouldnt graduate with it. A portion of the discussion will be dedicated to remembering Jack Boyle, owner of the Cellar Door, who died last year. On M Street, in the recently opened disco called The Library, patrons from Potomac and other affluent suburbs gyrate under strobe lights and ignore the books lining the walls. October 7, 1980. Now, its location is filled in with Fine Retailer (whatever that means). The restaurants stayed open until sometime around 2000. For the two spines of Georgetown-M and Wisconsin-the era of college bars is now closed. I try to pick obscure ones, then they'll say, 'Really, what does she look like? There were lines of boat shoes out the door every Friday night. we found that we could get into clubs if we dressed up! I worked in a candy/gift store (Sharons Mom and Dad owned it) right across the street from Mr. Henrys,and I also worked just down M Street at Clothes Circuit, so Henrys was a very convenient destination. The Georgetown bar culture was filled with much more than loafers, gingham, pleats and shoulder pads, wrote McGovern. The Guards: This one was more popular with the post-collegiate set, particularly in W. Bushs Washington when the formerly scuzzy basement became the still scuzzy Gryphon Room. The entire team was very kind. Looks like Old Glory is the last one standing. This group is now the most populous . A rich tan (and were not talking about the Q.T. Bottles placed upside down into funnels feeding long tubing led to the downstairs bars. Free WiFi. A Louisville Howard Johnson during the 1960s. Everybody went there. Dave Was Paramount not one of the early Washington gay enlightened restaurants? ORileys Pub, opened in the late-1970s by two Georgetown alums one who owned an old warehouse, the other who simply had a catchy Irish name. The Bayou backed up to another famed D.C. music institution, Blues Alley, located down the alley behind the Bayou. Gunchers, Olde Mac;s, Winstons, Paul Mall, Apple Pie, Chadwicks, Third Edition, Guards. In the 1970s and 1980s, Georgetown had a diverse live music scene, and became known as a center for the early punk community. 4.5/5 Wonderful! Or order the book at meetmeatthebarimhungry.com. Crazy expensive and hard to get into, it set the standard for special-occasion dining in the era when butter and . Before the dawn reclaims the streets, there are myriad human sights and sounds, often in stark contrast. The chain went bankrupt in 2002. In 1970, the Homophile Social League met here as well as the Community Church organized by Rev. I enjoyed F Scotts on 36th and Prospect. It closed two years ago and became El Centro. That same year, WaPo was already pointing toward Georgetowns end days, and they werent even aware of the looming crack epidemic which would cripple the city and turn it into the nations murder capital. Georgetown Piano Bar View Map Address 3287 M St NW, Washington, DC 20007, USA Phone +1 202-827-3236 Web Visit website Gather around the cherry red piano and sing along at Georgetown Piano Bar on M Street, which offers music and live entertainment every night of the week. Sign up now for more from the Beltway. This establishment was a left over remanent of the 1970s disco scene. Before Il Pane, there was a very tasty Italian sandwich shop up on the second floor called Lucianos Cafe. Not to forget Crazy Horse, Desperados, the Down Under. Bros in polos and hungry clubbers start the night with massive plates of Irish nachos before climbing the stairs to the hot and heavy dance floor, wrote one review. In the late 1960s and early 1970s there were so many Georgetown undergrads streaming down the hill to work at the neighborhoods bars, nightclubs and eateries that Mike and his friends had another name for the elite Jesuit university: the Georgetown Restaurant School. Pingback: Neighborhood News Roundup: Your Receipt, Please Edition - City Desk. For one, its geographic location straddled the line between the prep schools and Ivy League institutions of the northeast, while also having a foot in the South with its fratty gentlemen and sorority belles. [3], The club included a balcony level, with tables and chairs, and two standing room only bars. Clarke-like bar/restaurant, a reference to Manhattans iconic preppy paradise. And then Bistro Francais on M, where everyone would show up at 3am and stay till dawn. This is news to me. It was rite of passage. Some places, I fit right in. A Classic. While Im sad to see eras end, Georgetown is due for another chapter, said Georgetown restaurant broker Bill Miller at the time. Night falls on Georgetown like a sable cape, lights begin to flicker and suddenly people are everywhere. Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. By the 21st century, Georgetown bar culture was dying as students began going out in the Adams Morgan neighborhood instead. We wear our boxer shorts and some say Oh, my God, who are these guys?. This location was first the Carriage House, a dining room frequented by many important social and political figures of the District. Espaol . "What a wonderful place. "It's okay for young people in their twenties. Then again, no one in Georgetown is these days either. Third Edition: This one was legendary among GU students for its lax entry policies. The event will also feature a film screening of The Bayou: DCs Killer Joint (30 min.). From 2000 to 2012, the population of 20-to-24-year-olds in Georgetown rose by nearly 40 percent, largely because of an increase in student enrollment at the university. Espaol . One of D.C.'s ultimate dive bars, The Raven has been tucked away in Mount Pleasant since 1935. While it may have "grill" in the name, diners won't find much more than Utz potato chips to go with the beer and rail drinks. From May 1- May 3, a series of large scale demonstrations were held in DC protesting the war. If you are talking the late 80s-early 90s, you forgot Winstons. A very civil place six nights a week according to a 1978 Hoya article, the only exception being thirsty Thursdays, when the preppies would invade en masse to Carolina shag a dance descendent of the jitterbug and drop trou, a supposed mating ritual endemic to an era when sexual harassment didnt exist. Revisiting the 1980s Heyday of Georgteown's Fabled Preppy Bars In the Washington Post, January 7, 1982, there is an account of the unfathomably named Richard Hamilton Herrud Houghton III.. Admittedly, the quiet Wendy Beamish (Mare Winningham) is the only real preppy in St. Elmos Fire (described as a sweet-faced, insecure preppy in the script) as Alec Newbury (Judd Nelson) has advanced into more of a mid-1980s yuppie with his slick hair and Gordon Gekko-esque contrast-collar dress shirts. [My friends] and I were pretty upset about it closing, noted one Georgetown junior in reference to Chadwicks, which shuttered before the new school year of 2014, by now famous for its cheap and unlimited champagne brunches, a preppy mecca until its final days. Winston's is part of the cluster of bars in the 3200 block of M Street, which includes Crazy Horse, Desperados, Beneath It All and Paul Mall. It is currently a Zara clothing store. Co-proprietor Hugh Kelly was relaxing after the kitchen had closed for the night only to be asked if he could cook up a pair of steaks for some late travelers. The abuse? Opened 1939 as Don Dickerman's Pirate's Den. I had many meals and drinks there. It then became a French bistro and then Five Guys and now &Pizza. My friends Craig and Ardith and I would go there several times a week for happy hour, for years approx 1974 to 1977-ish. Happy memories. . The customer had dared to adulterate Mikes creation with ketchup. It was closed in 2015 due to high rent and is now Club Monaco, a clothing store. So if finals haveyou feeling down, take a walk with 4E down memory lane and peer into the past with our Georgetown Bars Now and Then. Mr. Henrys was rollicking, but it was Mr. Henrys on Capitol Hill, Pennsylvania Ave., S.E., where Roberta Flack performed and from which she became a hit. There are many ways to recount Georgetowns history. Whats a Hoya with a fake ID to do these days? Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. And I'll go down the list and that gets them talking.". Equally lamentable was the disappearance of Philly Cheesesteak. An American Bar, according to its marquees subtitle, it opened in 1963 in a former motorcycle hangout as the first full-sized bar in the District since Prohibition. $66. 1. And awesome. Not sure how Scott (the manager) kept a lid on that zoo. [My friends] and I were pretty upset about it closing, noted one Georgetown junior in reference to Chadwicks, which shuttered before the new school year of 2014, by now famous for its cheap and unlimited champagne brunches, a preppy mecca until its final days. homestead high school staff. Free Cancellation. Nov 21, 2022 - Explore Sharon Clayton's board "Restaurants - from when I was growing up", followed by 176 people on Pinterest. Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. This rare footage of Washington DC from the 1960s gives you more of a look into the fascinating history of the city. This article was featured in the InsideHook DC newsletter. This location was first the Carriage House, a dining room frequented by many important social and political figures of the District. In its script, St. Elmos is described as a P.J. In 1970, the Old Ebbitt Grill was struggling financially and was bought by the owners of Clyde's of Georgetown. Performers included Count Basie and Woody Herman. He snatched the offending pieces of beef off the plates and slapped them on the bar top, Mike writes. Your email address will not be published. Started my bouncing career in that joint. In my now 60 years on earth I never felt more connected to my fellow brothers then during the Sunday afternoon/evening Broadway show tune sing-a-longs with the piano player at the Mr Henrys at 1225 Wisconsin Ave from say 1977 to 1980. The Georgetown bar culture was filled with much more than loafers, gingham, pleats and shoulder pads, wrote McGovern. "Now that's a babe," he said, pointing to a picture of a blond. Washingtons weird territorial placement in the American firmament also played a key role in the bar scene that emerged. Log In. There was a time when some bartenders kept pace with their customers, when some chefs carefully calibrated their liquor intake over the night, sweating out the alcohol over a hot grill. He looks back on his career in a new self-published memoir: Meet Me at the Bar, Im Hungry (Dog Ear Publishing; $16.95 paperback, $26.95 hardcover). "I've heard something about the problem ," he said, "but I understand it's a tradition since Georgetown has had nightclubs." That building is supposedly haunted. Not just Georgetown students, those spots were big draws for GW students in the 90s and 2000s (and before, too.) Every Friday night, he would head to The Day Lily, a red and gold velvet-walled Chinese restaurant, a seedy spot that would seem beneath his social class. I remember a Mr. Henrys in Georgetown at the same time as the American Cafe but that Mr. Henrys closed around 1980-81 (it started getting mostly straight customers when they hired a teenaged Tori Amos to play piano)and the American Cafe followed suit a few years later. There was definitely a Mr. Henrys at 1225. Three hustlers standing on the street . Georgetown is a multicultural and international hub now which I think is a positive thing., How Suburban Chicago Became the Unlikeliest Clubbing Scene of the 1980s, The Discreet Charm of the Old-School Preppy Bar, Bonfires, Ballrooms and Boris Johnson: Photos From the Last Days of the Old, Decadent Oxford. The interior, meanwhile, was more inspired by another preppy haven popular with college kids, an underground spot called The Tombs. 4 out of 5. There are out-of-town families trying to decide where to eat: "But I don't want steak" went the refrain recently outside Dino's Steakhouse. Since then the location has been a sandwich shop but currently remains for rent. Only In D.C. Facebook page for more. The price is $66 per night. Mike once banned a waitress from his kitchen after he heard her tell a customer that his stuffed calamari was made from testicles, instead of tentacles. From 1977 to 1991, the building at 7th and E Streets NW that currently houses a Starbucks was home to one of the area's. I wonder if Rocky Horror Picture Show is still playing at that little theater across from Henrys? "Space is the Place" was the soundtrack to radio spots for d.c. space. I remember waking by the side steps of The Cellar Door and John Denver was just sitting there, strumming his guitar, enjoying some sun. "Sometimes we take our pants off and it really bums people out," Smith said, with Storz at his side, doing exactly that. Currently the AMC Theatre, the Bayou was the go-to music scene from 1953 to 1998. She noted that by now the 100-plus bars in the neighborhood were starting to rankle the older, upper-crust residents with to their boisterous partying. ORileys Pub, opened in the late-1970s by two Georgetown alums one who owned an old warehouse, the other who simply had a catchy Irish name. By 1967 Flack had gained a healthy local following, and was singing five nights a week at a nightclub on K Street in Washington. One of the more lively approaches is to gather some persons of a certain age, whether those of the baby boom generation or not, and swap stories about the late night scenes along Wisconsin Avenue and M Street. acid jazz and electronica, following the establishment of a variety of bars and clubs in the area, most notably The Black Cat (which was co-founded by Dave Grohl, another native of the DC punk scene). By 1968 she was drawing such a crowd to the club that Yaffe opened a special room at his other location near Capitol Hill to showcase her talent. Outside Winston's rock 'n' roll cave, jean-clad youths wait impatiently to show identification to bouncer Wally Costner, whose 21 years of living are distributed through a 6-foot-5, 240-pound frame. Had no regard for my coworkers. It was a refuge for long-haired psychedelic groups as well as oddballs like Sun Country, a local garage act led by a female drummer. And yes, it was Dinos Paramount Steak House and yes it was very straight, not gay. Garretts: GM spent many hours at this bar in his early 20s. Drinks were different back then. Peak hours are 8 p.m. to 2 a.m., during which period the D.C. Department of Transportation estimates about 10,000 cars and 6,000 pedestrians travel through the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and M Street. Panelists include: It was the first bar in Georgetown that integrated music videos into the bar! And nobody mentions Mr. Smiths on M Street in the 60s-70s. While Chinese Disco had long since moved locations to Prospect Street NW, even it would close in 2018. Cerphe Colwell: musicplanetradio.com. Two recent college grads, Nicky Williams and Buff McDonald, asked The Day Lilys aging owner, Jim Chin, if they could start renting his restaurant for Friday night parties. Brett Kavanaughs infamous hand-scrawled calendar even detailed his goings-on during that crazy summer, when he was a year away from graduating from Georgetown Prep in nearby Bethesda. 1050 30th St. NW A very civil place six nights a week according to a 1978 Hoya article, the only exception being thirsty Thursdays, when the preppies would invade en masse to Carolina shag a dance descendent of the jitterbug and drop trou, a supposed mating ritual endemic to an era when sexual harassment didnt exist. Although many Georgetown merchants say this is the worst summer for business they have seen in years, one bartender in a popular nightclub said it can gross $10,000 on a Saturday night. This really does cap a disturbing trend in the Wisconsin/M area. However, the Federal-style townhouse playing host to all those hormones was built in the mid-1800s. A one-square-mile neighborhood of cobble-stone streets and stately, federal-style homes centered around the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and M Street, Georgetown nonetheless boasted more than 115 liquor licenses in an approximately 10-block area. Wasnt there a regular Britches a little further up Wisconsin, like around where Polo is now? said the women. We started DCs Fastest Bartender, and Monday night Mike Nardello spinning tunes during No Skin No Win naked dance contest Buddy Jenkins was Mgr. Would eat some nearly every lunch. "Wally, you can punch me in the face five times and I'd still look better than you," said a tall, lanky fellow as he pulled out his wallet. In 2014 it was forced to move from its M Street location to K Street, where it replaced longstanding bar Chadwicks due to rising rents. Worked at The Crazy Horse and The Cellar Door. "Now which one of y'all is going to tell me that's her?" Fourteen years in the making, "The Bayou" is a 90-minute documentary about the legendary Georgetown nightclub, which closed in 1998. I personally took comedians Redd Foxx and Richard Pryor to Brits. Comments? Friendships often begin in Georgetown bars. While Maryland raised its drinking age to 21 in 1982 and Virginia did the same in 1985, the District of Columbia held out, wrote Hunter Main for The Hoya Georgetown Universitys student newspaper in trying to explain the era. What about Chinese Disco? This bar (known primarily as a gay bar) was famous for being the place where Roberta Flack launched her career. Then it was taken over by the famous disco club Tramps, run by Washington Playboy Mike OHarro. For more discriminating tastes, there are establishments like the Pisces Club, F. Scott's, the Georgetown Club, Charlie's Georgetown, Chinoiserie and Blues Alley, which are protected from the masses by understated facades and locations off the well-trodden Wisconsin-and-M pathway. Popular attractions . The Washington, DC of the 1980s and '90s was a dramatically different place than the Washington, DC of 2017. By the aughts, now known simply as Richard H. Houghton III, he was serving as Acting Country Director of the International Republican Institute in Baghdad. Where: Find: Home / Spain / Montserrat, Valencian Community / Bar Poliesportiu De Monserrat; It was the spot to be on Sunday nights. I once met John Waters and Divine there. If Washingtonians mostly only drank at restaurants, hotels, social clubs and high-society parties previous to 1980, that was about to change, and quickly. USA Distributor of MCM Equipment georgetown bars 1970s However, if it was dead all week, on the weekends it would become The Chinese Disco, or Chidi, a packed spot where he would dance the shag to beach music and flirt with local coeds it was then the epicenter of Washington DCs preppy playground. Not a fan of Rhino, but its a shame to see rising rents continue to reduce Georgetowns diversity of storefronts. Go down the hill on Wisconsin, pass the Church, turn left and there it was. The announcement yesterday of the imminent closure of the Rhino Bar means that come March, there will be no more college bars left in the heart of Georgetown. There are a few prerequisites [for entry], wrote WaPo. I loved the Bayou (great bands, great dancing), and the club behind the Biography theater (a psychedelic scene) now a CVS. He then grabbed a nearby bar stool, flipped it over, and pounded the defenseless steaks vigorously with the flat seat top.. Vernon College girls in Pappagallo shoes, McMullen blouses, Villager skirts and Liberty sweaters; Georgetown Foreign Service School types in some of the first Gucci shoes and Paul Stuart suits seen in Washington: tousled Irish Catholic kids in jeans and tweed sportcoats, whose great regret in life was not being old enough to have gotten drunk with Dylan Thomas at the White Horse in Greenwich Village.. The announcement yesterday of the imminent closure of the Rhino Bar means that come March, there will be no more "college bars" left in the heart of Georgetown. Great music! He started as a busboy and dishwasher at Chadwicks in Georgetown. Yes, a locals place had a great time. There were family restaurants, jazz clubs, punk bars and average joe-type dives, many frequented by Marines from the nearby barracks. What started out as a trip to bid on a collection of antique beer steins at a tax auction for the oldest saloon in the city, resulted in Stuart and John becoming its new owners. I think that may have been replaced by American Cafe, which was very popular. The post Revisiting the 1980s Heyday of Georgetowns Fabled Preppy Bars appeared first on InsideHook. "We wear our boxer shorts and some say 'Oh, my God, who are these guys?' (202) 338-4833, Georgetown Media Group. By 1982, preppy partying in our nations capital was reaching a fever pitch, with limousines crawling down M Street and bars packed eight-deep as people queued up for drinks. It's free. Half of Mikes book is recipes, scaled down for household use, and half is behind-the-scenes reminiscences. Garretts Restaurant and Railroad Tavern shut its doors for the last time on a Monday in 1979. More than 100 businesses in the area serve liquor. There are two worlds in Georgetown. . There definitely was a Mr Henrys on Wisconsin avenue in the 80s. Jammed upstairs and down. This became the preppy list-restricted George-more popular with a slightly older 20-something crowd of transplant Southerners-which itself recently became Chinese Disco. The D.C. Public Library's Special Collections Archivist Ray Barker will lead a panel discussion of the histories, stories and insights around Georgetown's great venue spaces of the 1960s and 1970s. Our room was spacious, clean and quiet. In 1970, All Souls was the site of the Black Panthers' Peoples Revolutionary Constitutional Convention, an event staged with the strong support of DC's Gay Liberation Front. That didnt last long, and the old Champions returned for a little while longer before closing a few years ago. In the early days, all gentlemen had to wear a coat and necktie. The antique-lined bar at 75-year-old seafood restaurant Crisfield. Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. Great memories. That was redneck.. Just ten years ago, such an outcome would seem impossible, but after a few years of relentless closures, the inevitable has come about. I ran an escort service called the Stables and many of my models would meet there clients there. "I had this girl friend with me I couldn't stand," Smith said, "so I went up to Brian and asked him to get rid of her for me." The American Caf was next door down the street. 2. In 1985, The Third Edition exterior acted as the stand-in for the titular St. Elmos Fire bar in the Joel Schumacher film about recent Georgetown graduates. ", Not everyone in Mr. Henry's was as happy as the wide-eyed North Carolina visitor, though. The Cellar Door was a 163-seat music club located at 34th & M Street NW in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. from 1964 through January 7, 1982. Then again, no one in Georgetown is these days either. Milos Forman, R. Lee Ermey: More Than Movie Originals, Questions for Chloe: Positive Reinforcement for Better Sleep. Fish Tails Bar & Grill. . In the late 1960s and early 1970s there were so many Georgetown undergrads streaming down the hill to work at the neighborhood's bars, nightclubs and eateries that Mike and his friends had. We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. Closed down long ago. Best jazz clubs in DC. It wasnt cool to drink draft beer, Mike said. Its impossible to discuss 1225 Wisconsin without mentioning that it was the location of Mr. Henrys from 1967 to 1986. http://www.angelfire.com/art2/delacroix_berthier/meet_de_la_croix.%20part%203.htm. It was the spot to be on Sunday nights. The 1970s were a memorable time no matter where you livedbut here in Ohio it was extra groovy. Two recent college grads, Nicky Williams and Buff McDonald, asked The Day Lilys aging owner, Jim Chin, if they could start renting his restaurant for Friday night parties. The Third Edition was a Georgetown neighborhood staple, serving students, visitors and the neighborhood from 1969 to 2013. Have you wondered where these bars went? Blues Alley. In 1970, the former boarding house stand-around bar, Old Ebbitt Grill, stood one city block away from the White House. Modeled after turn-of-the-century Chicago taverns, it offered a 50-foot-long bar, gold-painted ceiling, solid oak floor and elevator doors repurposed from Manhattans Waldorf-Astoria. Likewise, if in the 1970s, Georgetown was mostly known for its thrift stores (such as Commander Salamander), record shops and even a disco bar called Tramps, that too was in flux. They used to sell canned Clydes chili. I was a waiter at tended bar at Winstons in 78-80 glory days. James Muggy (Mike) Smith, a self-proclaimed "filthy rich" Indiana University student from Arlington, and Brian Storz, a Tulane University student from Savannah, Ga., met in the Third Edition this summer. [5], The club was owned from 1953 to 1980 by the Tramonte family who designed it to have an intimate atmosphere like a family. This bar (known primarily as a gay bar) was famous for being the place where Roberta Flack launched her career. Tomorrow evening, April 17, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at the Georgetown Public Library at 3260 R St. NW, one of Georgetowns coolest times will be recalled with Last Call; The Bayou, Cellar Door and Georgetown Nightlife., The D.C. Public Librarys Special Collections Archivist Ray Barker will lead a panel discussion of thehistories, stories and insights around Georgetownsgreat venue spaces of the 1960s and 1970s.
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