On the otherhand right down the block they did a bang up job on restoring the Lincoln Theatre.
posted by East Coast Rocker
The Lincoln is SEVEN blocks west and on a different street entirely – at 1215 U Street NW next to that ridiculously overrated heartburn hut Chili Bowl – not “right down the block” from that miserably neglected Howard Theatre. Sure & we all make mistakes but I’d like to think a real true native of Washington – which from the way the winds of change are blowing we’re about to be “endangered” ourselves – wouldn’t misstate the geographic facts of the case so badly. I was last inside that old wreck 30 summers ago & the place was in such a dilapidated state, the air redolent of decay, that I feared for my health breathing that in. It’s nice that they scraped off every last vestige of that crappy “remodel” but there sure ain’t no Original Façade hidden beneath – and with only 4½ months until the alleged grand reopening, there had better be a lot of restoration/construction work going on offsite somewhere, because old gal’s outside looks like it’ll take a year alone yet to finish. But their given timetable is their own business; I just care about the second-to-last remaining piece of Black Broadway rising from the ashes of needless and outrageous neglect before god-only-knows what would happen, historic designation or not, and eventually another Barfbucks would vomit forth upon the cityscape.
On the otherhand right down the block they did a bang up job on restoring the Lincoln Theatre.
posted by East Coast Rocker
The Lincoln is SEVEN blocks west and on a different street entirely – at 1215 U Street NW next to that ridiculously overrated heartburn hut Chili Bowl – not “right down the block” from that miserably neglected Howard Theatre. Sure & we all make mistakes but I’d like to think a real true native of Washington – which from the way the winds of change are blowing we’re about to be “endangered” ourselves – wouldn’t misstate the geographic facts of the case so badly. I was last inside that old wreck 30 summers ago & the place was in such a dilapidated state, the air redolent of decay, that I feared for my health breathing that in. It’s nice that they scraped off every last vestige of that crappy “remodel” but there sure ain’t no Original Façade hidden beneath – and with only 4½ months until the alleged grand reopening, there had better be a lot of restoration/construction work going on offsite somewhere, because old gal’s outside looks like it’ll take a year alone yet to finish. But their given timetable is their own business; I just care about the second-to-last remaining piece of Black Broadway rising from the ashes of needless and outrageous neglect before god-only-knows what would happen, historic designation or not, and eventually another Barfbucks would vomit forth upon the cityscape.