Michael "Dog3" wrote:

> blake murphy >
> : in rec.food.cooking
>
> >
> > well, that was blinky, not blake.
>
> Well hell. I got my "B" men mixed up. Sorry.
>
> >
> > i remember the *fireplace*, on p st near p st beach and dupont circle,
> > but when i was going (early seventies) it was live music, not male
> > strippers like it is now, i think. if there was a drag queen scene
> > there, i missed it.
>
> IIRC it was a piano type place when I would frequent it. I was almost
> always in DC on business so I didn't get to the bar all that often. It
> might have had live bands on other nights. I don't think there was drag
> there at all. It was a pretty quiet joint when I was there. I liked it.
>


It has a nice corner location and windows you can see out of...so it's good
for people - watching. That little stretch of *** bars on (or that used to
be on) P Street there was SO seedy, rather incongruous because Embassy Row
and fancy hotels are mere steps away.


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Best
Greg