Area Safety?

[Jaguär]

Look for some of us up front and center.  

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Originally posted by mjnova:
   

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  I got mugged in Takoma Park, so really you can get mugged anywhere. Nowhere is truly safe. Try to travel with others, or latch onto (walk behind) other people who are coming or going. Find a nice boy to escort you to the show if you are a girl. Carry mace and wear some good running shoes. Don't make Kentucky Fried Chicken jokes until you get west of 16th Street.

Of coures, if you want good farts, there's always Ben's Chili Bowl. [/b]

[myuman]

If you do get lost you can always look for that 700 foot tower sticking out the top of the roof... what is that thing anyway?

[twangirl]

'that thing' is an actual radio tower. This building was the original home of WUST-AM, a gospel station. They used to broadcast from here and held many events over the years. Now, it makes a good landmark.

[mjnova]

Originally posted by twangirl:
  'that thing' is an actual radio tower. This building was the original home of WUST-AM, a gospel station. They used to broadcast from here and held many events over the years. Now, it makes a good landmark.

I think Chuck Brown had mentioned doing a broadcast from the building many years ago.

[posthuman]

so yeah, I survived last night, so yay    What a great show too - and the venue is fantastic too! Great sound. Shame about the area... was kind of scary   :eek:  makes Brixton look like a walk in the park..
 
 Just gone and booked some tickets for some more shows... my credit card is hurting now...
 
 American drinking laws suck, too.

[Fiona]

It's not that bad an area. I been there several times  by myself and I felt perfectly safe. They are always plenty of people around. It's not SE Washington, the area around Nation. Now, that's a scary neighborhood.

[mjnova]

Originally posted by Fiona:
  It's not that bad an area. I been there several times  by myself and I felt perfectly safe. They are always plenty of people around. It's not SE Washington, the area around Nation. Now, that's a scary neighborhood.

I've never seen folks accosted (not asaulted, but just repeatedly pestered/followed) by panhandlers around the U St area in the probably 100 times I've been to 930/Black Cat.  The one time I went to Nations I saw it as we tried to get a cab.  I feel very safe walking around U St.

[kosmo vinyl]

all this talk about the area around the 9:30 club indicates to me that suburanites really need to spend less time in their strip malls, guady "outlet malls", and in Ocean City.  Blight is nothing unique to DC. It can be found in many US cities and small towns, where there been an economic down turn.  Decay is everywhere people need to open their eyes and stopping moving in to huge house built on either farmland or woodlands farther and farther from the urban areas.  Of course there is no drug problem in the vast reaches of suburbia either.

[Bags]

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  all this talk about the area around the 9:30 club indicates to me that suburanites really need to spend less time in their strip malls, guady "outlet malls", and in Ocean City.  Blight is nothing unique to DC. It can be found in many US cities and small towns, where there been an economic down turn.  Decay is everywhere people need to open their eyes and stopping moving in to huge house built on either farmland or woodlands farther and farther from the urban areas.  Of course there is no drug problem in the vast reaches of suburbia either.

Yeah, but Kosmo, the drug problems in McMansions is *prescription* drugs.  Oh yeah, and teenagers with lots of cash doing all the same drugs as the city folk......

[kosmo vinyl]

i was being sarcastic... at one point even lilywhite greenbelt had a bit of a drug trade problem in the town centre.

[mjnova]

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  i was being sarcastic... at one point even lilywhite greenbelt had a bit of a drug trade problem in the town centre.

but greenbelt is next to college park, land of excess.

[Bags]

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  i was being sarcastic... at one point even lilywhite greenbelt had a bit of a drug trade problem in the town centre.

I know you were being sarcastic -- as was I!  McMansion land is as riddled with problems, though perhaps less violence because they have the $$ for their habits.  And they can get doctors to write them prescriptions....