worst/scariest bar in the district

hmmmmmmmmmmmm, had to think on this one; so many to choose from. put if i had to put the finger down, it would have to be that one time i was with friends, sloppy drunk and walking nighttime strolls in some section, near pennsylvania and 23th, nw, and somehow we walked by this place that had a fireplace outside in the wall. i thought that was pretty cool, so we went in. i don't even know the real name of it; i call it the firepit. the place is a gay hangout, but that is besides the point, because i have been to swanky gay bars that put classy hetero ones to shame. this place was twins peaks fire walk with me, scary. i think they even had a liquor bottle that only had an x as the label. upstairs and down, with sad, sad music playing. slaughterhouse five, one the scale of one to five, meat market that leveled on the field of los desperalos.

anybody got anything worse?

lulu's (nothing but drunk military and the cheap girls that love them)
rumor's (where the desperately lonely go in search of that 'special someone" for the night)
cities (when i use to go there, you would catch multiple men blantantly slipping off their wedding rings and shoving them in their pocket. hence going to cities was a short lived event.)

yeah Lulus is fucking awful. I went there one time to check it out, its just dumbass GW kids, of which there are many.

"Some section" would be Dupont Circle. You may want to consult your Time Out DC next time you go out.

Originally posted by walkonby:
hmmmmmmmmmmmm, had to think on this one; so many to choose from. put if i had to put the finger down, it would have to be that one time i was with friends, sloppy drunk and walking nighttime strolls in some section, near pennsylvania and 23th, nw, and somehow we walked by this place that had a fireplace outside in the wall. i thought that was pretty cool, so we went in. i don't even know the real name of it; i call it the firepit. the place is a gay hangout, but that is besides the point, because i have been to swanky gay bars that put classy hetero ones to shame. this place was twins peaks fire walk with me, scary. i think they even had a liquor bottle that only had an x as the label. upstairs and down, with sad, sad music playing. slaughterhouse five, one the scale of one to five, meat market that leveled on the field of los desperalos.

anybody got anything worse?

and the bar in question is the fireplace, which has been on that corner for years.

Originally posted by econo:
"Some section" would be Dupont Circle. You may want to consult your Time Out DC next time you go out.

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Scary for me takes many meanings…
scary clientele:
Rhino's in Georgetown
scary how much I end up drinking when I'm there:
The Fox, of course
scary how much it ends up costing:
Brickskeller
scary how many military types (and their corn-fed girlfriends) are there:
Hawk and Dove on weekends.
scary that i've actually used the women's room there:
Dan's Cafe
scary that they have a detox room:
Dream
scary how often I nearly get in fights there:
Lucky Bar
scary that someone would actually go there:
Coyote Ugly
scary that their margaritas taste like slurpees but always get me disturbingly drunk:
Rosa Mexicana

and the list goes on….

Well it wasn't in DC but College Park. Forget the name, but it was a strip club/bar on Rte 1. Students never went there for fear of being beaten up. I would drive by on occasion at night and often you would see cops in the parking lot surrounding one car. 2 or 3 people got killed in it. Hard to top that in this area that I know of.

scary because of a disturbing sense that something not entirely kosher is going on there:

that place between 14th and 15th on L Street (not the Post Pub).

Originally posted by Doctor Doom:
scary because of a disturbing sense that something not entirely kosher is going on there:

that place between 14th and 15th on L Street (not the Post Pub).

You mean the bar next to the Post that had a gang-related fight that involved a shooting this fall? When a bar makes the nightly news, that's a good sign something ungood is up there…

Ollie's Trolley?! You mean they're making more than burgers?

Originally posted by Doctor Doom:
scary because of a disturbing sense that something not entirely kosher is going on there:

that place between 14th and 15th on L Street (not the Post Pub).

Originally posted by econo:
Ollie's Trolley?! You mean they're making more than burgers?

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they're making burgers… with a "special" sauce.

Originally posted by walkonby:
walking nighttime strolls in some section, near pennsylvania and 23th, nw, and somehow we walked by this place that had a fireplace outside in the wall. i thought that was pretty cool, so we went in. i don't even know the real name of it; i call it the firepit. the place is a gay hangout

It is Twin Peaks scary, and one of my most renowned stories took place there. People call it the Fireplace, it's at 22nd and P at Dupont.

Originally posted by Bags:

Originally posted by walkonby:
walking nighttime strolls in some section, near pennsylvania and 23th, nw, and somehow we walked by this place that had a fireplace outside in the wall. i thought that was pretty cool, so we went in. i don't even know the real name of it; i call it the firepit. the place is a gay hangout

It is Twin Peaks scary, and one of my most renowned stories took place there. People call it the Fireplace, it's at 22nd and P at Dupont.

I love that place, and not because I've ever been in it, but because the smell of alcochol leaks out of it all day and night. And all the nice guys whistle at me as I go by. I've also seen someone run out from the fireplace, jump in an illegaly parked car, blow some dude, and run back into the fireplace. I guess at that point you know you've been sitting at Soho for too long.

Originally posted by Sir HC:
Well it wasn't in DC but College Park. Forget the name, but it was a strip club/bar on Rte 1. Students never went there for fear of being beaten up. I would drive by on occasion at night and often you would see cops in the parking lot surrounding one car. 2 or 3 people got killed in it. Hard to top that in this area that I know of.

There is a strip club in College Park?

Well a couple of people were killed outside of the Royal Palace (Restaurant and nightclub) in dupont a couple of years back. I would love to see the inside of that place, because from the outside it looks sketchy as fuck.

Jay's in Arlington is pretty scary, but for different reasons than the point of this thread.

Nexus Gold club is scary outside. Or so I've been told. The Common Share has always scared me for some reason.

For years I thought it was a Chinese restaurant until I walked by it. Let's be honest here Deepak, you really just want to see the dancers with C-section scars.

Originally posted by Deepak Chopra:
Well a couple of people were killed outside of the Royal Palace (Restaurant and nightclub) in dupont a couple of years back. I would love to see the inside of that place, because from the outside it looks sketchy as fuck.

Originally posted by Sir HC:
Well it wasn't in DC but College Park. Forget the name, but it was a strip club/bar on Rte 1. Students never went there for fear of being beaten up. I would drive by on occasion at night and often you would see cops in the parking lot surrounding one car. 2 or 3 people got killed in it. Hard to top that in this area that I know of.

Actually, it's in Beltsville and no longer there. I use to drive by it everyday going to work. I forget the name, but it was the place next to Remington's right? Either that or I'm not familiar with any stripclub/bar that's actually in College Park.

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Originally posted by econo:
For years I thought it was a Chinese restaurant until I walked by it. Let's be honest here Deepak, you really just want to see the dancers with C-section scars.

Originally posted by Deepak Chopra:
Well a couple of people were killed outside of the Royal Palace (Restaurant and nightclub) in dupont a couple of years back. I would love to see the inside of that place, because from the outside it looks sketchy as fuck.

Thanks for reminding me. The Royal Palace is the nastiest bar in DC. Felt so nasty coming out of there the times I've been, and not just cause of the strippers with C-section scars.

Originally posted by MindCage:

Originally posted by Sir HC:
Well it wasn't in DC but College Park. Forget the name, but it was a strip club/bar on Rte 1. Students never went there for fear of being beaten up. I would drive by on occasion at night and often you would see cops in the parking lot surrounding one car. 2 or 3 people got killed in it. Hard to top that in this area that I know of.

Actually, it's in Beltsville and no longer there. I use to drive by it everyday going to work. I forget the name, but it was the place next to Remington's right? Either that or I'm not familiar with any stripclub/bar that's actually in College Park.

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No, this was in College Park, rte. 1 inside the beltway, inside from 193 even. It was a dive on the south side by the old Terripin taco. Starlight Inn was the name. It has been razed.

I went to high school with a girl who used to dance at Remmingtons. She was a true work.

And thanks to google:

According to unofficial town historian Jerry Anzulovic, the Starlight Inn was built in the early 1920s, opening as a diner specializing in crabcakes and named for the ceiling lights that resembled stars. In the 1930s, the diner evolved into a respected country-western nightclub, or dude ranch as they were called after World War II.

"It was the poor man's dude ranch," Anzulovic said. "If you couldn't get into the main club or if you weren't dressed nice enough, you went to the Starlight."

The '60s and '70s saw the Starlight develop into a rowdy bar with topless dancers and drive-through liquor sales. The club was the site of at least one murder, frequent bar brawls and drug transactions. District 1 Councilman and long-time resident Donald Byrd said the problem was the local crowd that patronized it each Friday and Saturday night.

"I'm glad to see the building go," Byrd said. "I think it's a disgrace."

Many residents agree. Over 1,000 citizens submitted a petition to the city council asking them to restrict the topless dancing in 1983, and in 1986, former College Park Mayor Alvin Kushner signed a similar letter.

"Obviously the clientele was a rough bunch," Kushner said. "But the city liked it because they had a liquor license and did a lot of business."

Kushner said he remembers a friend getting robbed in the Starlight parking lot, but said it was hard to enforce rules against the dancing.

The strip club business eventually petered out, however, and the building was abandoned.

"You could go there and get drunk or go there and look at naked women, but eventually that's going to get boring, I guess," Anzulovic, who is also president of the Berwyn Heights Civic Association.