Photo by Nakeva.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- One block of the O & P St. construction is done and open.
- Milk was once processed in a factory on N St.
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John Kelly’s column on DC dairies was delightful. Is anyone able to identify place where all the milk wagons were lined up in the accompanying photo? With respect to “N” Street in Georgetown, in the mid 1960s, Sealtest maintained a huge garage and maintenance facility that ran from Prospect Street through to “N,” just west of Wisconsin Avenue: big trucks, lifts, grease pits — a heavy-duty facility that seemed to be working day and night. There are shops and apartments on that site now. Sealtest didn’t run the only “motor pool” Georgetown at the time: the Sheridan Garage on “Q” Street housed dozens of C&P (Verizon) trucks during the era when the telephone company took care of all your needs quickly, cheaply, and courteously. How times have changed! Also, I believe Washington Gas (or maybe Pepco) had another truck garage and service facility on the present site of the Four Seasons. There remain plenty of stories to be told about the industrial past of Georgetown below M Street, for instance, the garage and spring works where trucks that carried “raw materials” to the Hopfenmaier Rendering Plant were serviced. With respect to the Chestnut Farms Dairy, I remember a big building bearing the Chestnut Farms name at 26th and Pennsylvania NW, just across the bridge into the “City,” but it looked abandoned at the time, whereas the Sealtest Garage was definitely thriving. On that site at present, the Patton-Boggs building faces M Street, while there is a condo fronting Pennsylvania Avenue and 26th Street.