worst/scariest bar in the district

[thirsty moore]

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.

[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.
 
 MindCage
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 Deep6 Productions

[redsock]

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.

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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.

[Sir HC]

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.
 
 MindCage
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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.

[Sir HC]

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.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Originally posted by Sir HC:
  [It was a dive on the south side by the old Terripin taco.  Starlight Inn was the name.  It has been razed.
 

I think the Starlight Inn was in Waldorf, and harkened back to a time when Waldorf was apparently a pretty wild town full of illegal gambling, brothels, and shoot-em-ups, and a stomping grounds for ne'er-do-wells on their way up and down the Crain Highway from Baltimore to Richmond.   I seem to remember it was burned to the ground in a suspicious fire several years ago that involved an appealingly complex story of murder, extortion, and organized crime.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by redsock:
  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.

The demise of The Common Share is a sad story.  It used to be my favorite bar around 2000-2002, when it was $2 everything and the clientele ranged from homeless dudes to bike messengers to college kids to suits.  And it was a genuinely integrated bar, which you don't come across very often in DC.  Just a great atmosphere.
 
 Then they sold the place, jacked up the prices, and now it's almost exclusively a Howard U bar. People stare at me when I walk in now, it's no fun anymore.

[Bombay Chutney]

Originally posted by Doctor Doom:
  I think the Starlight Inn was in Waldorf, and harkened back to a time when Waldorf was apparently a pretty wild town full of illegal gambling, brothels, and shoot-em-ups, and a stomping grounds for ne'er-do-wells on their way up and down the Crain Highway from Baltimore to Richmond.   I seem to remember it was burned to the ground in a suspicious fire several years ago that involved an appealingly complex story of murder, extortion, and organized crime.

That was the Stardust Inn.  Charles County had legal slot machines until the mid-60's I think. I never heard about the brothels and other stuff going on though.

[Sir HC]

Oh, and whatever that place is on New York avenue, south side of the street near Montana Avenue.  Looks like an old Roy Rogers that has been converted into something shady.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Originally posted by Sir HC:
   drive-through liquor sales

I love it!  Life around here has become too tame...

[thirsty moore]

Used to be a drive through liquor store in Laurel, MD when I was in highschool.  Then there was some other store called Tic Toc where they sold to underagers.  Apparently there was some house in Olney that Satanists sacrificed goats in or something.  Never made it out there, my friend's older sister did though.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Originally posted by econo:
  Apparently there was some house in Olney that Satanists sacrificed goats in or something.  Never made it out there, my friend's older sister did though.

that's why Blair Witch Project, which was filmed in suburban Maryland, was so spoooky...  Maryland is full of weird sh*t, so it seemed entirely credible...

[mustourdman]

Royal Palace is where there was the shootout 3-4 years ago during the NBA All Star Weekend... I remember walking by a few days later and seeing bullet holes near the door... but I don't think any of the possees involved in that were going to the club.
 
 Ever notice how the fireplace at The Fireplace reflects onto the glass wall of the bus stop on that corner? Coming out of the Brickskellar one night with a few too many in me, I could have sworn the people sitting at the stop were on fire.
 
 Some of the Ethiopian bars at 9th/T look a little scary... not all of them -- I've been to a few of the ones that are more of a restaurant atmosphere, and most of the rest look OK, but a few of them look like someone's crappy basement apartment turned into a hangout for disgruntled cabbies.

[markie]

Originally posted by mustourdman:
  Royal Palace is where there was the shootout 3-4 years ago during the NBA All Star Weekend... I remember walking by a few days later and seeing bullet holes near the door... but I don't think any of the possees involved in that were going to the club.
 
 

The people who got shot were leaving the club. They started hassling/ got hassled by some guys driving by in a limo. One guy in the back of the limo had a gun and blasted away. Fortunately he hit someone else who was in the back of the limo too.
 
 Always rely on Americans for some friendly fire.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by mustourdman:
  Royal Palace is where there was the shootout 3-4 years ago during the NBA All Star Weekend... I remember walking by a few days later and seeing bullet holes near the door... but I don't think any of the possees involved in that were going to the club.
 
 Ever notice how the fireplace at The Fireplace reflects onto the glass wall of the bus stop on that corner? Coming out of the Brickskellar one night with a few too many in me, I could have sworn the people sitting at the stop were on fire.
 
 Some of the Ethiopian bars at 9th/T look a little scary... not all of them -- I've been to a few of the ones that are more of a restaurant atmosphere, and most of the rest look OK, but a few of them look like someone's crappy basement apartment turned into a hangout for disgruntled cabbies.

i saw dr dre outside riggs on wisconsin/m that weekend. and ja rule too!!