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Photo by Elsa Santoyo.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• A look at a photo GM has explored before.
• As-of-yet-unnamed French restaurant will replace Mortion’s.

3100 block of P St.

Volta Park has a bunch of great events coming up next month. The spring cocktail party returns on Friday June 15th at Georgetown Visitation. Tickets are available here. Then the next afternoon, Volta Park Day will be held from 2 to 5.

And also don’t forget that the first concert in the park will be held June 3rd in Volta Park.

Lots of great reasons to come on out and enjoy our fantastic park.

Photo by M.V. Jantzen.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Four people have been bitten by a possibly rabid raccoon in Georgetown! If you see a raccoon, keep away and call the cops immediately.
• Dolcezza finally confirms that they closed their Georgetown location. They say they are open to reopening on M St., but it doesn’t sound like something that will happen any time soon. Not really a great way to treat the neighborhood that supported the store through its first years to be honest…
• A brief look at the newish restaurant that took over the old Daily Grill space.

1600 block of 31st St.

On May 26th, Dumbarton House will be offering a walking tour focused on trees. The tour will be led by professional tour guide Dwayne Starlin, but GM will be there as a special guest to chime in with some wisdom he’s accrued from writing his Know Your Trees series.

Here’s the info:

Washington, D.C. has long been known as “The City of Trees.” But can you identify our trees by name & variety? Frederick Law Olmsted was good enough to label the ones that he had planted on the grounds of our Capitol but we don’t enjoy that luxury along our Georgetown streets and in our parks. Join Dwane Starlin, member of the Guild of Professional Tour Guides, and his guest speaker, Christopher “Topher” Matthews of the Georgetown Metropolitan, on a scenic stroll of one of D.C.’s truly green and well-shaded neighborhoods.
DETAILS:
•Meet at the corner of Q and 27th Streets, NW (by the east garden gates of the Dumbarton House and the tour is start at 12:00 pm sharp. It will take place rain or shine and will last 2 hours.
•You are encouraged to purchase tickets in advance. They are $20; cash or check only on the day of tour.
•Children 3 years or younger are free, but must be in a stroller. No pets please.
•Tour also ends at Q and 27th Streets, NW.

Purchase tickets here. Hope to see you there!

Photo by Dion Hinchcliff.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The Wawa is still going ahead.
• The Post’s food critic comes back to 1789 for a check in.

Potomac River

GM is back to the great collection of old photos of the Georgetown Branch. Rather than try to merge this one with a modern shot, he decided to treat it as a Time Machine post and present the whole picture as is.

This is the description from the collection’s description:

Switching the west end of Georgetown
2/23/1947
Here we see several covered hoppers being passed by the B&O Scale House (to the right, behind the cars). Note the brakemen standing next to the cars. In the foreground is a B&O Section House, complete with jigger tracks in front for the hand car. In the distance an S unit is seen as the power for this train. Also seen in the distance is the pedestrian foot bridge over the GB, with a telltale to protect brakemen atop cars. To the left are some of the local boat houses on the Potomac River. There are 2 missing, no doubt from a recent flood. And, if my eyes don’t deceive me, if you look real hard, you can see what appears to be smoke & a headlight from a waiting steam engine just to the right of the center steeple of the boathouse in the background. There’s definitely something smoking back there. View is West. Photo is taken from atop the Aqueduct Bridge.

GM can’t add anything to the discussion on trains, but he can provide a bit more about the boathouses.

The far boathouse is the Washington Canoe Club, which still exists (although the building is in bad shape and is partially condemned). The club was founded in 1904 and the building was built in 1905. Continue reading →

Photo by Dion Hinchcliffe.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• GU having a good spring sports season.
• Eater includes Church Hall on its list of Hottest DC Bars, what do you think?