This week, in honor of Barnes and Noble returning to Georgetown, Washingtonian put out a list of former Georgetown establishments they’d love to see come back. In honor of that desire, for Georgetown Time Machine this week I thought I’d skim through my old pile of photos from 1993 and pluck out those with some of the more dearly departed shops. Enjoy!
Georgetown Cafe: For a certain vintage of GU student, this was the spot for late, late night eats. It closed up sometime in the late 2000s, I believe.
Peoples Drug: This pharmacy chain pre-dated the introduction of CVS taking over the whole market. I don’t know if it was better per se, but it at least was local.
The French Market: This high end market can be seen on the right above. Georgetown foodies who were lucky enough to know it, still rave about it.
Pied au Conchon: I’ve written about this place plenty. It was fairly long in the tooth by the time I got to Georgetown 20 plus years ago, but it was still a big loss.
Olsson’s: This local book store chain was still in great shape when I got here in the late 90s. But between big box stores and Amazon (and Napster) its demise came quickly.
There are surely other stores that were around in 1993 that are dearly missed, but sadly they are not in my photo collection. If you could bring back just one store from Georgetown’s past, what would you choose?
The Georgetown Metropolitan 
Little Caledonia.
It had such a range of offerings from table lamps, china, wedding presents selections and Christmas cards – a bit of everything. I still miss it a lot.