RSS FeedWayback: Chinatown’s Friendship Arch…1992
We fired up the Wayback time machine this morning to see where in time we could go. Dialing in 1992 led us to this eastward look down H Street NW towards Chinatown’s then six year old Friendship Arch with 7th Street NW in the foreground. A few clues? The Metro escalators on the far right empty into the open air and the ground floor tenant of the building at the northeast corner of 7th and H Streets NW is the Asia Culture Center. The style of the cars is telling also. Clicking on the photo will get you a closer look.
Photo source: Library of Congress (key in DC-668 in the Search box and look for the link labelled “L’Enfant-McMillan Plan…”)
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seeing this photo made me wonder where the next underappreciated hot spot of development could be. the candidate that came to mind immediately is H Street NE (the part beyond the NoMa BID…2nd Street to Maryland Ave).
Nobody got shot in Chinatown back then. You had the O Street crew and the dealers that worked Sursum Corda, but Chinatown in the early ’90s was quiet. When the 930 Club and Insect Club and DC Space got out, everybody went back to the suburbs. There wasn’t anything to go TO in Chinatown back then at 3am.
True, but in the mid-late 80s, when we would sneak downtown to 930 Club, we used to have to leave a friend at home to let your parents know where you went in case you never came back. The streets were rough and rather scary — our cars lost a few windows, but we were always unscathed. Now I live on the same streets and can’t believe the changes.
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Notice how nearly empty the streets were? It was like that ALL THE TIME.