The Georgetown Metropolitan

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• While you’re renting the runway, you can now score some cheap samples.
• While two other Cooke’s Row homes had some trouble being sold, this one sold right away. (Maybe sharing a party wall with Bob Woodward helped?)

Potomac River

There’s a beautiful new mural on P St. It’s on the side of the Just Paper & Tea at 3232 P St. It appears to be a woman drinking tea with a giant pencil on her back (presumably in keeping with the store’s wares).

GM noticed the artist spray painting the mural Sunday night, but was rushing to a birthday party and couldn’t inquire about it. It looks like the work of Aniekan Udofia but that’s just a guess. Continue reading →

Photo by Mike Maguire.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Vegetarian smoothy place, Postmodern Foods, coming to M St.
• Bank of Georgetown sells out.
• Georgetown’s 7-11 locations sold.

Montrose Park

In the process of researching the Exorcist steps two weeks ago, GM came across a fact that he was surprised to find: despite its impression of permanence, the Car Barn has changed quite a bit over the years.

The photo above shows the top of the Car Barn as it exists today. But that is already a lot different from how it appeared in 1966:

Notice that there are not buildings on the roof in 1966 as there is today. Also, there’s no clock, which is really surprising, because you’d think that a tower like that would have always had a clock on it. Interestingly, when Roy O. Chalk–the owner of the streetcar system before it was closed down–died in 1996, the Post describes the Georgetown car barn as having a “Romanesque clock tower [that rears] up from the District-side of the Key Bridge.” It is a tower. And it does have a clock on it, but that’s a relatively recent development. Continue reading →

Photo by Daniel Lobo.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Madda Fella, another southern clothing store, is holding a pop-up in the old Capitol Prague space. (GM is counting this as yet another example of clothing stores taking over former restaurant space on M St., even if it is just temporary.)
• Have a Night out with Georgetown authors Nov. 19th.

3300 block of N St.

Photo by DoD News Features.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

•  Why Wisconsin Ave. looks different between Q and R these days.
• GM always assumed this building was just a garage. Guess not.

Potomac River