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18th Street
North West in Washington DC, capital of the United States, is one of the most
colorful and most visited street in this city, and US in general. Extremely
long street flows through several spirits and passes from one type of style and
ambiance to another. The entire street is filled by the houses and buildings dyed
in all colors of the spectrum. One after another aligned are yellow, blue, red,
ocher, brown and white buildings. The upper parts of the street are residential,
later parts are dedicated to hundreds of smaller commercial buildings, bars,
restaurants and discos that are spread over 2 or 3 floors, then again begin the
residential buildings and diplomatic missions villas as well as the
headquarters of various associations, and the street transforms into the concrete and metal and finally the winner
is the famous "White House". All away the street different styles
take their word: Art Deco, Victorian, Queen Anne, Edwardian ...
The street
begins in the parts of the city that bear the name of Mount Pleasant and Lanier
Heights. Naming it Mount Pleasant? Yes, with adequate reason. These two parts
of the city represent the most comfortable place for living on this planet earth.
As the Washington DC is headquarters of the American aristocracy and the place
where this, we can say, civilization has developed, within this area filled
with beautiful homes and buildings from the 19th and 20th century in the Edwardian
and Art Deco style, the population that lives here boasts the highest average level
of education and a solid high levels of income in the US. All this contributes
to the feeling of being in some place like a paradise. But the old fashioned housing paradise, not in
the modern, luxurious one that was brought to us at the end of the 20th
century. The streets are full of trees, tree lines. Around each building there
is a garden, or walled terraces with benches, flowers, and shrubs that act as
randomly scattered, but in fact they are very well maintained. Iron gates,
stone and marble staircases, smallish parks on the corners reserved for trees
planted long, long time ago, which to be honest gained already significant
height, all that adds its value in the pleasant sensation you have why
strolling around . In autumn, when the leaves cover almost every inch of the side-walks,
one can enjoy that famous reddish-yellow color of North America. Buildings of
interesting facades are often not noticed behind the crowd of the trees.
Building accesses are maintained with great care and which gives the impression
that every building is some kind of residence. In fact, only a few of them
really are. The others are not so small estates in which there live a not so
small number of people.
Further the street
runs through the part of the town called Adams Morgan
(https://www.google.fr/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=isbn:0738542830). In this
section, the street is known as the site of gathering of young people. In the
evenings here you can find fun and hang out in the numerous bars with different
themes and atmosphere. The neighborhood is known by a large number of places
where one can listen to music, talk to the others, meet people in a good mood.
The are attracts visitors mostly on Friday and Saturday nights and then it is flooded
with young people who go to a predetermined bar or simply enjoy the diverse
offer and taking advantage of bar-hopping. People who are looking for more fun
wait neatly in not so big queued lines, in order to grab a bit more from the
rich nightlife scenes. For the Lovers of good exchanges with cheerful company,
no bar will be the wrong choice. And there are various:
In many bars
there is live music, a high quality performance. Speaking of quality of the
music we must primarly emphasize the club named "Madams organ" (http://www.madamsorgan.com/).
The club name matches the name of the area, except the M letter shifted from
the second to the first word, and the logo of the club matches the name of the
club. Besides the interesting interior decorations and object pieces of
American wildlife culture, as well as numerous stuffed animals from North
American continent, this bar offers an excellent musical program where every
night is reserved for a different musical genre. Carefully selected musicians
and bands, artists of clean and good music, offer a daily amount or blues,
jazz, country or rock in general. Great atmosphere and subdued lighting is
accompanied always with regular customers, friends of the musicians and of the
bar, and all them perfectly blend with welcomed newcomers and irregulars. The
atmosphere is like at home but a bit more warmed up. It is interesting to state
that this bar, even to the surprise of the owners and the people who run this
bar, is ranked among the top 15 bars of America according to the
"Playboy" magazine, and many believe that the bar is number one place
to go out in DC. Regular guests who do not choose the night by the kind music,
dress themselves in plaid shirts and feather jackets for the evening of country music, and for the evening
of blues they just grab whatever comes to their hands. Most visitors dance as
they enter in, others speak, while all of them drink beer. As you maybe know,
drinking the beer, especially by the girls, is Washington DC’s fashion and
trademark. In “Madams organ” club it may happen that musician celebrating the
birthday offers a cake to everyone in the cafe, though perhaps some of the
guests will never again set their foot
into this bar again, but still in that moment they already have several friends
whom they met that night over there.
The "Rumba
Cafe" will present you masters of the guitar, percussion and Latin American
music and a benevolent and hospitable landlord would speak to you. Earlier, he
made sure to had chosen some interesting pictures of South American artists which
he put hanging on the walls. The pieces of art bear love and religious motives.
The pictures and totems of different ethnic groups bring to the bar a mix and
heat of Christian and Native American civilizations that is flourishing in this
areas. Guests will be delighted jumping and dancing to the sounds of Latin
music in an atmosphere that is complemented by friendly reception of the right
and left hands of cafe's owner. More about the cafe: http://www.rumbacafe.com/ and on popular ranking
and advisory websites.
"Jack
rose" is also a popular bar (http://jackrosediningsaloon.com/). This bar
is always full of elegant people; some would say "classy". It’s a bar
of lovers of good whiskey and a solid crowd. The library covers all the walls,
but the shelves are not filled with books, but with whiskey bottles.
Opposite to him is
situated a bar "L'enfant", at least famous by the Eiffel tower on the
roof. This bar looks like if there is always a party going on in it.
There are also
other numerous bars, pubs, discos, stores, restaurants and massage studios in
which the all the “criminals” that usually return to the crime scene, go back
and grabs back the force the next day. Here, in this part of town, one can find
a place to stay, a hostel. If someone means it is important not to go far away
from the spot where he hangs out, and if he likes to meet interesting and
intelligent people who come to this city for a project or work, sleeping in the
hostel not at all luxurious but simple and neat, the "Washington
International Student Center" may by itself be an adequate experience.
As in America
you can eat in every bar, these places are not only a source of good drinks,
laughter, music and entertainment, but many of them serve the portions to satisfy
your hunger. In addition to the bars and clubs there are restaurants of
different cuisines and different concept. Fans of cheaper snacks and fast food
can satisfy their hunger within the fast food restaurants of the big chains,
but the small owners as well. There is a jumbo-sized pizza shop, a falafel shop,
where everyone puts the amount of salad by his choice and as much he likes, there
are numerous kebab and doughnut sellers, bakeries, pastry shops with and
without the cup-cake's, coffee shops, ice cream shops and so on. Imagine the
part of the world and most likely you will find a representative who offers
specialties of that region of the planet here in this part of the street. The
most numerous are, of course, the Indian restaurants, but as everyone wanted to
find a place in Adams Morgan they are not
so numerous, as the owners originally from Ethiopia, China, Turkey, Greece,
Argentina, Italy, Spain, Mexico, France
il America also wanted their place here... Most of the restaurants cannot bear
the title of being luxurious, but in most of them you can eat an extremely
tasty morsel. For example, in the already mentioned above bar with decorated inside
full of details of various ethnic groups of South America, the "Rumba
Cafe", there is offered a great snack that everyone warmly recommend, bit
spicy and rich of flavors of South America food.
Image of the
upper part of the street on a Saturday night is significantly different from
that one on Sunday morning or afternoon. On Sundays, the street is almost empty
and cafes host only regular guests and those rare who have the strength to pull
out of the houses.
On the left and
on the right of the 18th street you will find streets and places that look
like a paradise for living. Flowers and
trees decorate the approaches of the buildings and the houses, rows of trees stand
on each side of the street. Also the fact that the 18th street is close, makes this area popular and flats within the
houses very demanded. Sometimes a single house is owned by a wealthy owner, but
most of them are now divided into a
number of smaller apartments and attract young people, people who yearn for
beauty and a life in a good corner. On the street you can see a large number of
modern cars parked, the old timers, convertibles and coupes of younger and
older generations. The windows and the stairs are carefully decorated with pots,
creepers, benches, and the general impression is that they live here with the
nature.
Later down along
the street there are mainly restaurants and beautiful houses with landscaped
gardens and fences spread. As houses are oriented towards the street and are not
surrounded by high fences, through the window of the apartments on the ground
floor you can take a quick look and see the interior decoration that certain
owners can certainly be proud of. In this part, which is more enjoyable and low-tempo,
a lot of different restaurants have settled in order to support the enjoyment
of Saturday and Sunday afternoons and of early evening hours. And most people
here are in a cool mood.
The middle part
of the street belongs to the neighborhood around Dupont Circle, one of the
central squares in the city and one of the most beautiful places in
Washington. This part of town is called
Strivers' Section Historic District . Once it was settled by a higher-middle
class and the aristocracy of mainly Afro-American origin . Today, in this area you
can find embassies of many countries as well as the headquarters of companies
and associations. Extremely beautiful houses and buildings are only home for
the diplomatic corps, but also for the more affluent city residents who live in
seemingly nice homes and buildings of Edwardian style, or in more modern compounds.
The streets in this neighborhood are filled with rows of trees, and in front of
every house or building there is a neatly organized garden, colorful or just
green. It is a place where you have a contact with nature, human creativity,
politics, society, and aesthetics. At the corner of the Church Street is the
"St. Thomas 'Parish' which was destroyed by fire in 1970. There remains a parish house that was
converted into a space for gathering and prayer, and a church base, converted
into a park with a labyrinth for meditation.
Vivid part is a
corner of the 18th street and Connecticut avenue. With lof of bars
on the right and the left side of the street, this corner represents a No1
place to go out in the evening. Strip clubs, pubs, bars, discos, they are all
settled here. The Dupont circle area and the corner of the 18th and
the Connecticut avenue is a place when most of the DC stories happen. There is
dozens of bars and you can check why they are so popular. Lets name some of
them: “Citron bar», «The Madhatter“, “The Gryphon“, “The Big Hunt“, “The
Camelot“, “Dirty Martiny“, “Midtown Loft“, “Mpire“ , “Public Bar”.....
All the others deserve their place in this chapter, but as they were not
visited by the author of the page, they should just b ". One that we are
going to stress is a place with good atmosphere with people of positive mood,
different ethnic and social backgrounds, people who have no prejudice and know
how to have fun and share the moments with each other, the warmest
recommendations go to "18th Street Lounge" bar. If you read the
reviews you will see why. Simple and good. Music - a mix of funky, drive, house
and other styles familiar to the fans of modern sound. Every song forces you to
dance, dance in pairs, in a circle, for yourself. In any case, you are
supported by the environment, so let you impress the others and get what you
want. If it is important to stress, then to point out that the decor in the
house is as from the beginning of the 20th century. This contributes to the
feeling of as being at the home parties. This bar is actually not located in
Connecticut Avenue, but it is right next to it. During weekends there is a row.
It is a place to be. You should respect some dressing code, but not too much
and the owner and DJ will make it worth. It should not be skipped.
http://www.eighteenthstreetlounge.com
Furthermore, the street continues towards the city center, the Downtown,
and passes near the Farragut Square and Edward R Murrow Park. The buildings in
this part of the street are mostly large buildings of big business. Metal and
glass dominate and often entire block represents one building. At night the
streets are mostly empty. Some club or a restaurant breaks the vacancy of the
area. This part of the street is completely different from that at the top, the
alive and populated one. here you cannot find residential facilities.
At the end the street continues until its final yard passing in parallel
with the White House garden and finally reaches the Constitution Avenue NW and
arrives at Constitution Gardens park, which is part of the National Mall complex of national most visited monuments and museums including:
