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H Street, NE, was the route of one of Washington's oldest Streetcar lines, and ridership peaked at 3.3 million riders a month. H Street was also the location of the first Sears Roebuck store in Washington. Businesses in the corridor were severely damaged during the 1968 Riots and the region has never fully recovered. However, in the 2000s, H Street has begun to revitalize as a nightlife district. The Atlas Theater , a Moderne -style 1930s movie theater that has languished since the 1968 Riots , has been refurbished as a dance studio and performance space, and is now the anchor of what is now being called the Atlas district. H Street NE has also recently become home to the H Street Playhouse , a black-box theater; and live music venues such as the Red and the Black and the Rock & Roll Hotel ; and restaurants and bars, such as the Argonaut, Showbar Presents the Palace of Wonders, the Pug, and H Street Martini Lounge . Washington entrepeneur Joe Englert, who also owns other bars and restaurants around the city, owns a number of the establishments, including The Red and the Black, the Rock & Roll Hotel, the Argonaut, and the Palace of Wonders. More such establishments are planned for the future. The most recent restaurant, Dr Granville Moore's, had it's soft opening on August 4, 2007. Each year the area retailers participate in the H Street Festival . It's a chance to see all of the neighborhood at its most liveliest. In Northwest , H Street is the main street in Chinatown and one of the major east-west streets downtown. When Pennsylvania Avenue was closed to vehicular traffic in front of the White House , the crosstown traffic that had formerly used Pennsylvania Avenue was rerouted to H and I streets. EXTERNAL LINKS
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