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elleng

(131,159 posts) Wed Dec 19, 2012, 10:57 PM Dec 2012

Checking Checking. Movies at Union Station NO LONGER???

Please confirm!
Thx

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Checking Checking. Movies at Union Station NO LONGER??? (Original Post) elleng Dec 2012 OP

Since about 2009, I think? Recursion Dec 2012 #1

I recall Johnny Rockets, but DON'T recall that the movies were also gone! elleng Dec 2012 #2

Yeah, now that I think of it the JR was there; they just closed up the movie theater Recursion Dec 2012 #3

DARN! elleng Dec 2012 #4

It's very different from even a couple of years ago Recursion Dec 2012 #5

REALLY, wth IS NoMa??? elleng Dec 2012 #7

Yeah, it was meant to remind people of NoHo and SoHo. Have you seen the water tower? Recursion Dec 2012 #8

Mumbai! elleng Dec 2012 #10

Being a foreign service spouse Recursion Dec 2012 #11

Good. Enjoy, elleng Dec 2012 #12

I'll make sure to let you know when they're up on Etsy Recursion Dec 2012 #13

VERY neat! elleng Dec 2012 #14

Oh, here's a cool DCist article about it Recursion Dec 2012 #6

'The church must now find a new home, which stinks for them.' elleng Dec 2012 #9

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

1. Since about 2009, I think?

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Wed Dec 19, 2012, 11:00 PM

Dec 2012

It's a Johnny Rockets now.

elleng

(131,159 posts)

2. I recall Johnny Rockets, but DON'T recall that the movies were also gone!

Reply to Recursion (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 19, 2012, 11:04 PM

Dec 2012

Darn, what's a Senior to do???

Recursion

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3. Yeah, now that I think of it the JR was there; they just closed up the movie theater

Reply to elleng (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 19, 2012, 11:06 PM

Dec 2012

Have you seen the upstairs of Union Station lately? Potbelly, Chipotle, one of those conveyor belt sushi places.

Supposedly NoMa will be getting a movie theater Real Soon Now; until then the closest one to the eastern half of the city is E Street.

Mostly I do the Uptown in Cleveland Park.

DuPont's theater is gone, Pentagon City's is gone, Visions is gone... everything is the big 100-screen stuff out in the burbs

elleng

(131,159 posts)

4. DARN!

Reply to Recursion (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 19, 2012, 11:16 PM

Dec 2012

Did see Very Best Marigold ... on E.Street, and go to Avalon when I can.DuPont's is gone too??? Obviously have to get back into walking around town. DARN retirement!

Wanted to take a friend to Uno's upstairs, and to see the train downstairs, hence my question about movies.

Recursion

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5. It's very different from even a couple of years ago

Reply to elleng (Reply #4)

Wed Dec 19, 2012, 11:22 PM

Dec 2012

It's sort of the southern capstone of the NoMa development project (can we please beat whoever came up with that name? The neighborhood already had a name, Swampoodle, and it was a cool name).

Plus just a few blocks north there are some nice-ish restaurants between Mass Ave and NY Ave on 2nd St.

elleng

(131,159 posts)

7. REALLY, wth IS NoMa???

Reply to Recursion (Reply #5)

Wed Dec 19, 2012, 11:29 PM

Dec 2012

like SoHo? etc???
Was in a 2d St. restaurant a few years ago, but worked at 12/Constitution and then 8th/Penn, so knew restaurants around there. AND VERY sad when French ? place at 12th/Penn closed, but that was too long ago!!! Great steak/frites!

Recursion

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8. Yeah, it was meant to remind people of NoHo and SoHo. Have you seen the water tower?

Reply to elleng (Reply #7)

Wed Dec 19, 2012, 11:31 PM

Dec 2012

There's a big water tower by the Greyhound station that says "NoMa". And the former NY Ave/Gallaudet metro stop is now just "NoMa". Sigh.

(That reminds me... my favorite brunch place in NYC is actually on Houston, so I call that area @Ho.)

The city's changing... I'm going to miss it, since I'm moving to Mumbai in the fall.

elleng

(131,159 posts)

10. Mumbai!

Reply to Recursion (Reply #8)

Wed Dec 19, 2012, 11:33 PM

Dec 2012

VERY cool (I hope) for you! Doing what?
Friend I wanted to take to movie (and Uno's) is from Pakistan.

Recursion

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11. Being a foreign service spouse

Reply to elleng (Reply #10)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 12:00 AM

Dec 2012

I'll mostly be working on my novel and making kites I sell on Etsy, I guess, since we don't have a reciprocal work agreement with India.

elleng

(131,159 posts)

12. Good. Enjoy,

Reply to Recursion (Reply #11)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 12:07 AM

Dec 2012

and let us buy your kites!

Recursion

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13. I'll make sure to let you know when they're up on Etsy

Reply to elleng (Reply #12)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 12:10 AM

Dec 2012

Currently I'm "Capital City Kiteworks", but I found a better name for my next line from India, "Bandrami Kites". The Bengali word for monkey is "bandar", so "bandrami" is the Bengali word for "stuff a monkey does", or more colloquially "monkey business". I'll be sourcing natural materials from the subcontinent and hand-sewing everything.