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Article: HENRY MITCHELL Series Number: THE BLOOM IS OFF THE TOURISTS
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 31, 1989
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Welcome tourists, I say.
You can always tell when spring comes in Washington. The chief
sign is not, of course, the song of the mockingbird or the sighting
of a Camberwell Beauty fluttering through the garden, but the jammed
subway train.
Only yesterday morning there were people standing in a six-car
inbound train at 10:45; and sure enough most of them were tourists.
You can tell, not only by their windbreakers advertising a bar at
Clifton Springs, N.Y., but by their eyes.
They are innocent. Even if they come from some crime-ridden
hellhole they gaze about innocently in a capital new to them. They
do not, as a tribe, understand Dupont Circle and half of them also
think Gallery Place is ...