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1. anyone remember when Friendship Heights was just a little piss smelling octagon pavillion?
Sun May 8, 2022, 10:11 PM
May 2022

...for the D.C Transit bus?

Mom would take us to the small deli there after shopping at Hecht Co. and Woodward and Lothrop downtown and get us a fried kosher hotdog on a poppy seed bun with a kosher pickle and a birch beer.

I think she just liked to flaunt herself walking around the stores after desegregation which came very late to those department stores, despite the law.

When it changed to a Metro subway stop (no more pissy pavillion), I found myself commuting though there once, and strolled away from the crowd I was with from the train who were waiting for the bus I took to work and got a doughnut and a coffee from the same deli and sauntered back and ate and drank the last of the two just as the bus pulled up. The looks!

Did that several more times over the next months, always to the same effect.

Kicking...

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