Posted on 03/16/2024 7:12:22 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Visiting Washington, DC and looking for something to do that doesn’t involve politics, statues, monuments, or museums? Just want to relax, take a break, and have a drink? Explore some historic bars in DC that reflect the rich history of the Nation’s Capital. Are you ready to drink the history of DC?
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I’ve only been to The Old Ebbitt Grill. I will have to check out The Dubliner.
Have you seen pictures of Eleanor?!
feh, McSorley’s...
Most meetings of our founding fathers were to sample each other's whiskey and beer recipes. After a few, the ideas flowed with the spruce beer, molasses beer with citrus peel, sorghum and millet beer, tree bark beer, and of course whiskeys from anything they could try. Most needed quality ingredients were so sparse that alternatives were constantly experimented with.
The tavern was their social media chat room. It was their network news outlet. It was even a lending bank. It was even where the doctor would fix you up. Mostly because that was where he was based out of. It was their library. It was their search engine for ideas and expert analysis to questions.
I did McSorleys in 1987. Nice. The rest of the city you can keep. I used to work in Pleasantville, Valhalla, and Stamford. Art Carney used to hang out at the tavern in Pleasantville and Mt.Kisco. Nice man.
Do you get assaulted on the way in or way out?
cool, he was wounded on D-Day
Perhaps he was being over-dramatic. I don’t know. But I think I’ll play it safe, and just go to the bar up the street. The jukebox there has every Hank Williams, Jr. song ever released. That’s good enough for me.
A very unassuming quiet man. Warm natured and polite. Liked his perch.
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Ditto that!
But I sure do miss my Durkin’s on Diversey.
But I'm not sure I would even go into D.C. anymore.
I would take a right coming out of the door and walk 1/2 a block to the corner, the entrance to where I worked was around the corner. It was 15th & Pa. Ave.
If I took a left at the corner & crossed 15th street I would have walked in front of the White House, with Lafayette Park across the street on Pa. Ave. 16th street would have been the next numbered street.
If I continued walking straight after turning the corner I would come up to 14th street. If I took a left at that corner i would, in 1 block, come to the strip clubs that lined both sides of that block. I always thought it strange that these clubs would be so close to the White House.
I don't remember where it was, but it was within walking distance from work was a place called Frisco's that had the best Gyro's I have ever eaten in my life. My mouth waters when I think about it. That was the best thing about working at that location. Great restaurants all around close by. Once a week on Friday's we would foray to a new one as a group from work.
Seriously.
That filthy toilet is on par with Sodom and Gamorrah, and the article is referencing the ideal place to drink there?
Yea, that's gonna be a HECK NO from me.
Years ago, I would sometimes go to the bar in Georgetown where Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd would make waitress sandwiches in the back room.
LOL
Don’t matter - I’ll never be in DC or the East Coast for that matter.
do not go to Tony and Joe’s! Just don’t.
Up Rock Creek Park there was a fine watering hole called the Brickskeller. Had many kinds of beer, cheese boards. That was when DC was fun. I wonder if it still exists today?
“He said there were four cities you absolutely want to stay out of: NYC, Chicago, Baltimore, and DC.”
I have been to all four.
In any city there are gentrified areas where it is relatively safe—but often you can get in big trouble if you wander just a block away.
Baltimore is the worst imho.
NYC is so huge that the details matter—and it changes radically depending on who is mayor. When the Democrats are running the place stay away.
Chicago is two cities—the rich north shore and the rest of the city. From time to time the criminals get bored robbing poor people and show up on the north shore.
DC varies block to block and the time of day. Many of the boulevards are very wide which means you can usually spot trouble a long way away. Just stay away from narrow alleys.
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