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I stumbled upon this matchbox in some old boxes of mine. I remember visiting this place from the 70s to 90s and maybe beyond? It had a Les Halles kinda feel but the food was more basic.
Had a brief moment in the limelight during the Cold War. Vitaly Yurchenko defected from the Soviet Union to the US. He chose to defect back to the USSR here, where he simply left his US handlers and went to the Soviet Embassy up the street on Wisconsin Avenue.
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u/Basic_Camera_7095 — 9 days ago