The Georgetown Metropolitan

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• GU to return to standard grading this fall.
• WATER YOUR STREET TREES! It hasn’t rained substantial amounts in weeks.

This week on Georgetown Time Machine, GM visits the cheerful presence of a smiling nurse. The photo is from inside Georgetown University Hospital and was taken during Christmastime in 1954. It comes from the Daryl C. Crain, Jr. photo collection at the DCPL archives.

GM doesn’t have too much more to add about the scene, since sadly there’s no information as to who the nurse is. But he can tell you that the hat she is wearing is known as a nurse’s cap. It was the hat traditionally worn by members of her profession for centuries. At Georgetown, nurse students would receive their cap in a ceremony following their second year:

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The Sandlot added a plant-based burger truck.
• Pro-insurrection propaganda posters seen around the neighborhood.

A resident on P St. is apparently fed up with flower thieves and has the receipts.

At least that’s what appears to be the case based upon an amusing poster that was tied to a tree on the street. It reads:

When you were
stealing those
flowers,
Did you notice our
doorbell camera?

[winking emoji]

What to do with
the footage??

Us: [angry emoji][devil emoji]
You: [sweating emoji][sad emoji]

GM’s had his experience having things stolen from his porch and catching the thief in the act on camera. It even once made the New York Times. So he can sympathize with the flower-less resident. Posting the footage probably won’t lead to anyone getting caught, or even somewhat shamed. But you never know. Maybe it will also make its way to national news.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The Sovereign reopens this Wednesday.
• Eastbanc bring Aerie and Everlane to M St. later this year. (Both are women’s clothing stores)

Georgetowners no longer must suffer the pain of not having a lobster roll shack in their neighborhood: Masons Famous Lobster Rolls have opened.

The shop takes over 1078 Wisconsin Ave., which was previously occupied by Paul Bakery. That store closed early in the pandemic as part of a worldwide contraction.

From 2013 until last year, Luke’s Lobsters offered a buttery taste of Maine on Potomac St. The store was part of a nationwide chain, but it actually had a tie to the neighborhood. The eponymous Luke is a 2007 GU grad (and was a classmate with the founders of Sweetgreen.) GM was pretty bummed when it closed, as it was a nice little shop that catered to locals as much as tourists.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• More on the new canal boat.
• Descendants of the enslaved-people owned by GU are participating in an archeological dig of the Jesuit’s former plantation.