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Article: Mount Pleasant: A Neighborhood That Lived Up to Its Name
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 25, 1988
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Elizabeth Slattery Clare is a local musician and writer. She and
her husband, William F. Clare, have three sons. Clare, who lives
near Chevy Chase Circle, has fond memories of growing up in Mount
Pleasant. The District Weekly welcomes such reminiscences.
When I was little, if you'd asked me what and where Mount
Pleasant was, I'd have said, "It's up the street, where we go to the
store and get the streetcar."
Our house at 3173 18th St. NW, was one block south of Mount
Pleasant Street. In the middle of the wide, tree-lined street that
gave the neighborhood its name ran deep-grooved metal streetcar
tracks.
When the Mount Pleasant streetcar arrived at Lamont Street, the
conductor called "end ...