This week in Not So Long Ago, GM takes a look the corner of Prospect and Wisconsin. Nowadays it’s a Restoration Hardware. In 1993, it was a Roy Rogers of all things.
This is the first of several fast food restaurants in GM’s pile of old photos. In many ways this is Exhibit A in terms of arguing that a lot of people look at Georgetown’s recent past with some rose colored glasses. It wasn’t all Olsson’s and Neames.
Here’s a static version of those shots: Continue reading
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Photo by Pablo Cocito Photography.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
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A little while back, GM wondered whether it wouldn’t be a good idea to bring an ice rink to Georgetown. Well the city has taken him up on that idea. Just not exactly the way he imagined.
You see, while the city has plans to sell the Hurt Home to Argos Group to be converted into condos, it still owns the property. And ever since we started getting snow and ice storms a few weeks ago, the sidewalk outside the Hurt Home has been a solid slab of pure ice. Continue reading
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Photo by Lau_Chan.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
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Pizzeria Paradiso Pizza by Joe Beone.
So, GM asked this question a long, long time ago, and he got some advice at the time, but he’s got more readers these days, and he needs some reassurances: Is it totally rude to carry a pizza on the bus?
See, GM has a Thursday night ritual. On the way home from work, he calls and orders a pizza from Pizzeria Paradiso in Dupont. He picks it up when he gets out of the Metro and catches a bus home.
So for about five minutes GM is sitting on a relatively (or sometimes completely) full bus holding a hot pizza. It’s never anything elaborate, just a plain margherita. But it’s still a hot pizza and it can probably be smelled by anyone within a few feet.
Is this rude? Should GM just suck it up and walk the mile home?
OK, and if pizza’s ok, what’s not?
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Photo by BoopBoopBoopBoop.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
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Photo by Sean Dreilinger.
Yesterday GM wrote about the increase in Georgetown children attending Hyde-Addison Elementary School and chalked up the growth to a Georgetown baby boom. It’s a topic GM has briefly mentioned a few times, but a reader asked him expand a little on the phenomenon and GM is happy to oblige.
GM bases his conclusions primarily on Census data. Unfortunately these data only go back to 1990. But the growth has been sharp even since then:
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