2900 block of M St.
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Not So Long Ago: 31st and M
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This week on Not So Long Ago, GM picks up the music store thread from a couple weeks ago and takes a look at M and 31st. Now the north side of this block of dominated by Urban Outfitters. In 1993, where Urban Outfitters is now, a Sam Goody stood.
Sam Goody was a national music retailer. GM remembers going to one up in Connecticut where he grew up. It was your typical over-priced bloated mall-based music store that was absolutely torpedoed by the .mp3. GM’s not sure when the Georgetown location closed, but he believes that Urban Outfitters was open as early as 1997.
Where Steve Madden now is, there appears to be a sign that begins with “EARI”. GM has no idea what that was. Anyone remember?
Another interesting piece of street furniture in the old pictures is the old trash bin. It wasn’t terribly attractive, and the new black cast iron ones are much better. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Matt Dunn.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Hardy has a new principal: Mary Stefanus.
- GM hasn’t been by to verify, but he hears that Serendipity finally opened this weekend. He took a peek through the windows on Friday. It looked like something out of Epcot Center. It probably won’t ever be a locals’ spot, but it’ll probably do gangbusters with the suburbanites and tourists (see: Georgetown Cupcake, business model of).
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Updates to Aren’t They Building
Photo by M.V. Jantzen
At the top of this page there’s a link to another page called “Aren’t They Building” where GM lists various proposed projects around town. He would love to keep it up to date, but he only gets around to it occasionally, like today. Today, however, there aren’t too many updates, but there are some.
Serendipity 3
GM predicted Summer 2010, then fall 2010, and then January 2011 (with a question mark). Well this week the store finally had a soft open, however, GM hears behind the scenes turmoil is still delaying a full-scale open. Notwithstanding this, it should finally be genuinely open next week or the week after, but you never know.
Sprinkles
GM last predicted it would open in February. They opened March 3. Close enough.
Brooks Brothers
GM predicted a most recently a fall 2011 opening. That still is the smart pick (and GM hasn’t checked it recently, but he thinks that’s what the signs on the building say).
Paul Bakery
GM first predicted November 2010, and then spring 2011. Obviously neither came true. A rep left a comment saying that they hope to open by late summer. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Tericee.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Smith Point in trouble, has to close down over Memorial Day for a couple days as punishment.
- Allen Iverson learned the crossover from a GU walk-on.
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New Restaurant Will Try to Import New York Slices and Water to Georgetown
Photo by Domesticat.
As briefly mentioned Tuesday, a new restaurant called “Fuhggetaboutit” is planning to open where the Philadelphia Cheesesteak Factory used to be (and where the Cellar Door was before that). The owner of the new restaurant chimed in with a comment explaining a bit more about the project. “Tony” explained his plans:
Fuhggetaboutit NY pizza(Faipizza.com) is not your typical pizza chain!
We will be serving unfailing goodness of real authentic NY style pizza that is handcrafted and baked in traditional style old school brick oven.We will be making stretching our own Fior Di Latte (Fresh mozzarella) in full view of our customers. Our obsession with traditional old world quality – locally sourced organic products (when available)-organic extra virgin olive oil from Tuscany Italy- homemade fresh dough, and NYinized water will make as an apart. Not to mentioned 18 years of Pizza Experience to perfect the recipe.
Yes, that’s right “NYinized” water. Tony later explained that this is water whose pH balance is adjusted to match NYC’s, which according to him is why you can’t get genuine NY-style pizza outside of NY. GM’s pretty skeptical, but at least one other restaurant uses the same technique/gimmick. We’ll see if the pizza turns out to be more authentic than the restaurant’s name. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo from Mei-N-Yu by ChrisGoldNY.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Video of a man being rescued from the Potomac at Georgetown.
- National Pinball Museum seeking donations and a new space.
- “They’re a total spoof on the whole Georgetown Cupcake nonsense.”
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