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Originally Posted by wburg
I was an utterly nerdy high school kid in those days, about as far from Marc Almond as physically possible. I would take the bus (and after 1986, light rail) downtown to visit Comics & Comix and other downtown comic & book shops (like World's Best and House of Monkey) and the record stores on K Street (Records on K, Tower Records and Makoto Records all on the same block!) While I was there I'd often admire the amazingly beautiful girls in cat-eye glasses and faux leopard-print jackets hanging out at Espresso Metro or Java City but didn't have the guts to actually talk to them.
Here's a picture taken inside the Maydestone, pre-rehab (and no, I am not in the photo):
The building in your photo above is the Ruhstaller Building, which was the taproom and office building for the Ruhstaller Brewery on 12th and H. Recently a couple of guys (JE Paino and Peter Hoey) brought back the "Ruhstaller Beer" name--wouldn't this be a perfect place for a new Ruhstaller taproom? It's a couple of doors down from that new seafood place, Blackbird, that will have live DJs spinning while people dine. |
What an awesome photo. Those chicks look really edgy, in their black, hanging out by the bay window. I love it.
It's a shame that some really cool spaces sit there as vacant office space, instead of art studios/apartments. Midtown sort of has that going on, but downtown J street doesn't, and that makes me sad.
A few months ago I had a dream, and I vividly remember this dream because it was so cool.
I got this off google maps so it's kinda lowsy, but you know this little mini mart on K street with the open neon sign?
I had a dream that I lived there. Like, if you walked by all you would see if my living room... Couch, tv, coffee table, etc etc etc. And I remember looking out the front window and seeing my 'view', which was a bunch of people walking down k street. And then I woke up and was like " whoah, that was a hella cool dream. I wish I really lived there."
and every time I pass that mini mart, I just think about that dream.