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To Do: Ben’s Chili Bowl’s 50th Anniversary Gala
This summer, one of DC’s most beloved historic landmarks turns the big 5-0. Ben’s Chili Bowl isn’t a monument or a museum, but it might as well be. Ben and Virginia Ali opened “the Bowl” as newlyweds on August 22, 1958. At the time, its U Street location was in the middle of DC’s “Black Broadway,” and jazz greats like Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, and Nat King Cole were known to stop by for one of Ben’s famous chili dogs.
- Saved By: Kimberley McKee
- Tags: washington dc , u street , 50th anniversary , ben s chili bowl , historic landmark , and ben and virginia ali
- Group: DC Happy Hours Fun Games.
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