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View From Your Window: The Willow is Gone

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A very smart senior policy advisor to one of the three extant presidential campaigns just sent in this picture of Larry's Lounge, a dive on the corner of 17th and R Streets in Dupont Circle. I used to hang out there until they spruced up the place and got plastic menus.

I sat there once when during a bad storm the branch of a huge weeping willow tree broke off and came through the bar's window. They trimmed the tree back and made it look respectable, but even that has now been removed in favor of a salmon pink patio.

Metaphorically, this picture and the history of this bar represent a lot about my own misgivings about the elevation of veneer over substance. I'll miss that willow tree.

-- Steve Clemons

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Posted by PissedOffAmerican, Apr 27 2008, 6:28PM - Link

Now theres a nightmare.

Good God, our infatuation with those damned plastic chairs, alone, could keep the Chinese economy going.

Posted by hillary clinton, Apr 28 2008, 12:05AM - Link

I had it nuked.....

Posted by Joe, Apr 28 2008, 5:29PM - Link

Maybe the tree was rotting and threatening to fall. Willows are short lived.

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Posted by Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi, Apr 29 2008, 1:09AM - Link

The poor willows symbolising the changing pulchritude of nature, and also leaving the message to the dividing humanity of today to do something postive to render this moratl life as immortal.

Posted by Roger, Apr 29 2008, 9:51PM - Link

Definitely not green...

Posted by Larry's ex-employee, Sep 04 2008, 8:58AM - Link

The tree was actually blown over by some strong winds when we had that storm blow through earlier this spring. Once the tree was down the owners decided to finally do something about the mosquito problem and pave that patch of mud.

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