The sheer amount of wealth was disturbing. I do massage therapy for a living and gave my first massage session on a yacht at the Navy Yard about a year ago. The only nice cultural things about the area were the Odyssey and the wharf both of which are still there but to my DC native brain they look strange admist their new luxury yacht neighbors. Where the Safeway is now was called Waterside mall which had janky little shops and the water by the titanic statue was always filled with garbage. My feelings on the gentrification are complicated and all of southwest had a horrible reputation. It is still there and is now protected for being “historical” which makes me laugh because it was really just.the hood. James about 2 blocks from the Titanic statue. I was born and raised in DC and the first neighborhood my family lived in was called St.
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