The Georgetown Metropolitan

Photo by Andrew Griffith.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Someone’s started a blog just to complain about gas leaks in Georgetown.
• Residents still trying to stop all the plane noise.

3100 block of P St.

GM is bringing back Now and a Long Time Ago for today. It seemed like a nice way of presenting another from the B & O Historical Society archive.

This particular photo isn’t actually of the B & O railroad. It is the Cabin John streetcar, which once ran westward from Georgetown. It is shown here just west of Prospect and 37th, where it was shifted from overhead power to the buried third rail it used in central DC. Continue reading →

Photo by Bob Shrader.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• New Indian joint, Bharati, is now open for dinner too.
• Reminder: Despite DC not really being a sailing town, Hoyas are surprisingly good sailors.

3200 block of Reservoir Rd.

It’s that time of year again, when people start to wonder what the hell are those giant grain brain-shaped fruit around Georgetown. As in past years, GM is ready with the answer, as reprinted below:

This time a year, if you wonder around Montrose or Volta Parks you’re bound to find on the ground weird softball-sized green fruit like the one above. People are often so struck by the sight of the fruit, they pick up one or two of them and bring them home. But what are they, you ask?

Despite their green color, they’re oranges. Osage oranges, to be specific. They are grown by Osage trees, which line the Parrot rope walk. These trees are prevalent in the Great Plains states, where they are often planted along hedgerows. Traditionally, the pliable but strong nature of this tree’s wood made it valuable for fence posts and archery bows. Continue reading →

Photo by Andrew Griffith.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• In the wake of the Kavanaugh hearings, Citypaper suggests re-reading its 2007 article on a similar culture that existed then in Georgetown.
• Georgetowners upset about possible gas leak.

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This week on Georgetown Time Machine, GM returns to the fabulous B & O Railroad archive maintained by Ben Sullivan. This particular shot demonstrates again the imposing scene that was once quite regular on K St. Continue reading →

Photo by Angela N.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• GM will get around to writing about this more at some point, but it should be said that while nimbyism isn’t the real reason that Georgetown didn’t get a Metro stop, the nimbys were happy to take credit for it.
• Honestly, that’s all GM can find. It is literally impossible to find news about Georgetown right now due to the Georgetown Prep issue.