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In his retelling of the story of the Exorcist Steps, GM described 36th St. prior to the steps’ construction as “flowing over” a steep rocky hillside running from Prospect down to M St. A reader wrote in an corrected GM. 36th St. was on maps but it wasn’t really much of a true road.

The photo above from 1865 shows 36th St. (which at the time was called Gay St.) as it tumbles down to M St. (which was itself known as Falls St. at this time). It’s a stretch to call it a street. Yes you could probably scramble up the slope to get to Prospect St., but it would be even harder than it is to sprint up the Exorcist Steps today. Continue reading →

Photo by DoD News Features.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Keep the Halloween season alive with a nightly ghost tour.
• GM left too early to do a proper write-up of Monday’s ANC meeting. Here’s a good one.

Volta Park

Photo by Mike Maguire.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• GM was asked for the best first date location in Georgetown, and he suggested Chez Billy Sud. Any other suggestions?
• GM finally got around to reading Ghost of Georgetown. As much as it’s obviously about ghosts, it’s also a fabulous history of actual Georgetown. Pick it up and read it sometime!

Yesterday the new Georgetown Olive Oil Co. opened at 1524 Wisconsin Ave. The store offers offers over 65 different varieties of olive oil and aged balsamic vinegars. GM stopped by for a tasting last night and sampled from about a dozen different varieties, including straight (and relatively mild) olive oil from Chile, to a much more peppery one from South Africa. The vinegars provided a huge range of flavors, from sweet fig, and smooth chocolate, to bitter orange, and fiery chipotle. Continue reading →

2900 block of M St.

For no particular reason at all, a couple local DC publications decidedly recently to revisit the insane plans from the 1960s to criss-cross the city with freeways. Due to the heroic efforts of activists across the city, the plan was defeated and dozens of neighborhoods (most of which are currently thriving) were saved from demolition.

In Georgetown itself, the plans actually were not too much more dramatic than what we currently have. A proposal to create a new bridge upstream of Key Bridge by the Three Sisters Islands would have brought highway traffic straight from Spout Run in Arlington. The traffic would feed directly into the Whitehurst and flow to an expanded K St. in Foggy Bottom. Continue reading →

Photo by Mike Maguire.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The Georgetown King of hair extensions.
• At last night’s ANC meeting, Lieutenant Hoyle announced that crime was pretty much nonexistent in Georgetown for Halloween, except of course for those four robberies.

1500 block of 33rd St.