Las Vegas. I hated every minute of the 5 days I was there. I felt like every nerve in my body was under constant assault the entire time.
I know that building! First floor had some retail areas, like a small shopping center at first, then just nail salons and liquor stores. It had more bars than the D.C. jail. It's gone now and I checked Google Maps, it's now called the East Capitol Urban Farm and there's a greenhouse there! UFB! I've got to go to D.C. sometime, so much has changed it's unbelievable!I worked for a company that did the plumbing on a new highrise that sits at East Capitol & Southern in 74/75. Five of us that lived in Md car pooled to the job in an old beat up milk truck because if you parked on the street around that job, your car was gonna get vandalized. Only good thing about that job was that it was govt scale and I was making $13.60 an hour(which was bank at the time)
Las Vegas. I hated every minute of the 5 days I was there. I felt like every nerve in my body was under constant assault the entire time.
Capitol Hill is like that. You have a row house that is the epitome of opulence, with 13 foot ceilings and Italian Crystal chandeliers and a postage stamp sized front lawn with a golf course looking grass. The next door, a bare light bulb hanging from a cord and not a single blade of grass, the epitome of desolation. F'ing weird!Yep, and DC was designed by L'Enfant to be a model of neo-classical seat of democracy. Yet we have Ward 8 just several miles (as the crow flies) from the marble columns and monuments.
Just pointing out that next to any nice touristy area can be a slum.
If one reads Dostoevsky (wehhh... too dark and dense), he describes horrible slums in St. P mere hundred years from its founding. Slum people will make anything slummy.
Capitol Hill is like that.
Yep..thats the one and I thought it had been torn down but wasn't sure. We had an office trailer on-site and my first job was to put bars on the trailer windows.I know that building! First floor had some retail areas, like a small shopping center at first, then just nail salons and liquor stores. It had more bars than the D.C. jail. It's gone now and I checked Google Maps, it's now called the East Capitol Urban Farm and there's a greenhouse there! UFB! I've got to go to D.C. sometime, so much has changed it's unbelievable!
I'm specifically talking about East Capitol from 3rd St to Lincoln Park which starts at 11th St. in the 80's and 90's.I found it was usually a couple of blocks over ..... like the further east you went away from Capitol Hill .... like past 12th st
[ this was 90 / 95 when I was doing plumbing work all over DC - mostly though North of the Mall and West of North Capitol St]
I'm specifically talking about East Capitol from 3rd St to Lincoln Park which starts at 11th St. in the 80's and 90's.
yeah I occasionally worked those streets in the 90's
Honest to God. I saw a BBW (Big Beautiful Woman) with both, white girl in a mini-skirt, with greasy hand prints on the back of her thighs. For the life of me I couldn't figure out what position she could have possibly been in to get hand prints in the angle that they were? This was late 80's before they cleaned up the 14th St NW corridor.Were you the one in the 6" FMPs and the blonde Dolly wig?
Their Donkeys look happy & satisfied??Juarez Mexico is hands down the worst place I've ever seen. I can't think of a single nice thing to say about that hell hole.
When I say camping, I mean camping - like in a tent.
Scout Master said the same about sharing a sleeping bag, but don't you believe it!Real Camping is sleeping on the ground NO Tent
Scout Master said the same about sharing a sleeping bag, but don't you believe it!
So you had your own personal sauna.it was the middle of summer. We were there for a solid week.