Exterior, Shaw Metro PCS
This file appears in: Exploring DC’s Go-Go and Punk Music Scenes Tour: Metro PCS, Shaw: The cellphone store doubles as one of the last places in DC to buy live go-go performance CDs.
Current photograph of the Metro PCS store in Shaw. The store's owner uses a large speaker outside of the building to attract customers to the store, but also because it is one of the last go-go CD stores in the city.
This file appears in: Exploring DC’s Go-Go and Punk Music Scenes Tour: Metro PCS, Shaw: The cellphone store doubles as one of the last places in DC to buy live go-go performance CDs.
Exploring DC’s Go-Go and Punk Music Scenes Tour: Metro PCS, Shaw: The cellphone store doubles as one of the last places in DC to buy live go-go performance CDs.
Despite the tense relationship between go-go music and city officials throughout the 1980s and 1990s, fans kept the genre alive and well. Private businesses and venues continued to provide a home for…