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This week for Know Your Trees, GM is visiting a gentle giant that you don’t find along sidewalks, but which can be found in Montrose Park: poplars.

Specifically it’s not true poplars you find around here, but rather tulip poplars. The tulip name comes from the tree’s distinctive flower. They are yellow and orange and look like this:

But poplars are often so large that it’s hard to see the flowers actually on the tree in the spring when they bloom. But you find them all over the ground around the feet of the trees. Continue reading →

Photo by Mike Maguire.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Exorcist-themed wedding shoot at the steps.
• The Georgetown cocktail on this list seems a bit much for GM’s taste, but you might like it.

Today is Halloween, and the perfect time for a ghost story. But say you don’t want to import your ghost stories from some distant land. Have no fear! Georgetown is full of ghost stories. And GM’s friend, Tim Krepp, has compiled them in his book the Ghosts of Georgetown. Pick up a copy! Continue reading →

Photo by Mike Maguire.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Be careful out there tonight! Lots of kiddies around! So if you are driving, go extra slow tonight.
• They’re still investigating that alleged rape at Bill Dean’s party from last year, why are they taking so long?

1600 block of Wisconsin Ave.

GM noticed this last month, but forgot about it until he walked by it again last weekend: But an unfortunate things has occurred to an historic M St. building. It’s been painted yellow.

It’s the building in the center of the photo. It is occupied by L’Occitane. Until last month the facade was completely unpainted brick, as it has been presumably since it was built in the 19th century. But now, perhaps to match the French soap maker’s brand, it has been painted a bright goldenrod color. Continue reading →

Photo by Mike Maguire.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The haunting of Halcyon House.
• Men accused of robbing CVS’s across DC, including one of Georgetown’s, were arrested.

1300 block of 30th St.

This week on Now and a Long Time Ago, GM visits the other end of the same block he visited last week, namely the 3300 block of M St.

This stretch is now home to the chic Cadey’s Alley, full over high priced furniture and homewares. But at the time the photo was taken, it was a far more down market stretch.

As for timing, the photo has no date, but based on the cars, GM places it in the mid to late 1950s. The white car at the center appears to be a 1954-56 Cadillac El Dorado.

As for noteworthy items consider the following. At the far left of the photo is an empty lot, which is now occupied for a late 20th century building containing Intermix. In the mid fifties it hosted Stohlman’s, a used car lot. Next door is a used furniture shop. It’s hard to pick out what the other shops are, but there appears to be a tailor and a general store. Continue reading →