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Article: Life's Pleasant for residents of the Mount: Culture diversity is at home in NW area.(Metropolitan Times)(Life Times)(Mount Pleasant)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- August 19, 1999
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Boys kick a soccer ball across the street's center plaza, endlessly chasing it as it rolls into traffic. Nearby, four men argue in Spanish over a dominoes game balanced on their laps. As salsa music surrounds them from hidden speakers, a woman walks past them with her Labrador retriever, swaying to the beat.
It is Sunday afternoon on Mount Pleasant Street NW, the main drag of the neighborhood of the same name, north of Adams Morgan. The locals come out today to run errands on the busy commercial strip, play ball or just hang out.
The smells, sounds and sights in this neighborhood are as varied as its residents, who come from scores of countries and ...