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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Press Secretary gets confronted at the Georgetown Apple Store.
• Lots of the most expensive homes sold in DC last month were in Georgetown.

1500 block of 34th St.

There is supposedly a snow storm bearing down on us. GM figures the best way to jinx the storm and get no snow is to show a bunch of pictures of when we did get hit with a lot of snow. Surely that will do it!

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Photo by Zach Stern.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Shop House is really, truly, shutting down this time. No word on what will replace it. It seems unlikely to be converted to a Chipotle, since there’s already one in Georgetown. Some articles suggest that they are simply selling all the leases.
• Always lots to do in Georgetown.

3500 block of Prospect St.

Photo by Mararie.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• GM couldn’t make it to the meeting on the new plans for the West Heating Plant last night, but Urban Turf had it covered.
• Speaking of Urban Turf, they are also reporting that a raze application has been filed on the gas station at Pennsylvania Ave. and M St.

Montrose Park

Today at Now and a Long Time Ago, GM is switching it up to be Now and Thankfully Never. That’s because he overlaying on today an image that never came to be and hopefully never will: Three Sisters Bridge

This proposed (and partially built) bridge was to connect Spout Run in Arlington with a new freeway running along Canal Rd. that would merge into the Whitehurst. It was part of an ambitious and misguided effort to cut through DC with a whole network of highways. Thanks to heroic efforts of civic activists from across the city, the project was halted before it could come to complete fruition. (We still ended up with I-295 through southwest DC and the stub center leg freeway, both of with destroyed several neighborhoods). Continue reading →

Photo by Victoria Pickering.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The architecture behind the new Aesop fragrance shop.
• When GU went co-ed.

1300 block of 31st St.