Category Archives: History
Bayou Documentary Looking Towards Finish Line
As described in yesterday’s Current, a small group of dedicated filmmakers have been working on a documentary of the legendary Bayou club that once stood on K St., where the Loews Theater is now. According to the Current: For the … Continue reading
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Georgetown’s Fire Insurance Marks
Scattered around on the front of many Georgetown homes, you’ll see plaques like the one above. What they are are fire insurance marks. They worked basically like a big heavy insurance card. The reason you needed such a prominent proof … Continue reading
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Georgetown University: 1977
Courtesy of Hoyafootball.com. GM came across an interesting website last week that documents the various home fields of Georgetown University’s football team since 1889. The site has photos of each field and the one above particularly caught GM’s attention. It’s … Continue reading
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Georgetown’s Vintage Wall Advertisements
It was recently suggested to GM that he go out and document the vintage wall advertisements that are scattered around Georgetown. (A topic that has attracted plenty of attention in other cities). GM could only find three still around Georgetown, … Continue reading
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Georgetown Through the Eyes of a Forty-Three Year Old Kids Book
Being a proud District resident and a new father*, GM recently picked up a copy of the classic “This is Washington, D.C.” by M. Sasek. Browsing the book, GM saw that Georgetown gets a couple pages, and it’s pretty funny: … Continue reading
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Landlord Invokes Herring Hill Past in Decision to Evict Storeowner
The long standing Georgetown shop P St. Pictures is closing. As related in this article last summer, the shopkeeper, Judy Schlosser, has been told to vacate the shop-space that she has occupied for 28 years. Losing a shop like this … Continue reading
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Georgetown Skyline: 1910
As the debate over the future of the West Heating Plant continued over here, the discussion turned instead to the past. Reader Walter directed our attention to a photo at the Library of Congress from 1910 (or thereabouts) taken from … Continue reading
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Georgetown Bootlegger Honored By Ken Burns
The other night, during part II of Ken Burns fantastic documentary on Prohibition, the camera turns to M St. and the story of Paul Ward, a bootlegger. The clip shows a photo of the Thomas Sims Lee corner at 30th … Continue reading
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One Last Remnant of Washington’s Cable Cars Lives on in Georgetown
At the far western end of M St. stands the massive Car Barn. Built in 1895, the Car Barn served as a depot for the streetcars until they stopped running in 1962. After changing hands a couple times, the building … Continue reading
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Crews Begin to Remove Streetcar Tracks Today
Right now, the city is undergoing a long, long project to rehab the streetcar tracks on O and P Streets. They will pull up all the cobblestones (well, technically they’re Belgian blocks, but everyone just calls them cobblestones) and pull … Continue reading
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