The Georgetown Metropolitan

1400 block of 35th St.

To toast the end of summer and the oncoming of fall, the Friends of Rose Park are holding another movie night this Saturday at 8:00. It’s actually a rescheduling of an earlier attempted movie night, so hopefully this time it’ll be more lucky with the weather.

So come on out and bring pop-corn!

Photo by Joe Flood.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Georgetown football player breaks five vertebrae.
• Update on that home that Curbed was making fun of for having too much art: it’s already under contract.

3100 block of M St.

This week in Old Georgetown in Color, GM brings some color to an old Hoya track star: Bob LeGendre. According to Wikipedia:

Robert “Bob” Lucien LeGendre (January 7, 1898 – January 21, 1931) was an Americantrack and field athlete. He competed in the pentathlon at the 1920 and1924 Summer Olympics and finished in fourth and third place, respectively. He failed to qualify for the 1924 Olympics in the long jump, yet at the 1924 Olympic pentathlon competition he set a world record in that event at 7.76 metres (25.5 ft).^[1][3] He won the pentathlon at the Inter-Allied Games in 1919, beating Eugene Vidal and Géo André.^[4]

While studying at the Georgetown University, LeGendre also played American football and baseball. He earned Ph.D. and D.D.S. degrees there and signed a Hollywood contract as a film actor. He abandoned the movie career and became a dentist in Washington.

Here he is in Paris setting the world record:

He died of bronchial pneumonia in 1931 at the young age of 33.

Photo by Ehpien.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• GU men, so hot right now.
• Too much artwork or nah?

Most people have a pretty clear idea of what Georgetown is, and what it was. But there are some weird things about Georgetown and its history that most people don’t know. Here they are ranked:

#5 – Take Me Home County Roads was written at 31st and Q:

In December 1970, John Denver was in the middle of a two week stint at the famous Cellar Door club (which now houses the Cappriotti’s sandwich shop). He was invited to a late night jam at the apartment of the club’s sound guy, Bill Danoff, at 31st and Q. Danoff and his girlfriend, Taffy Nivert, had a half-written song about driving about Maryland. Denver changed the lyrics to West Virginia and helped finish the song. He debuted it at the Cellar Door the next night and received the longest ovation in the club’s history.

Take Me Home, Country Roads, a song written by a Colorado-man about a state he never visited, while hanging out late night in Georgetown, DC.

#4 – During the Last Several Years of the 1800’s, Georgetown had a Cable Car

It’s true. From 1890-1899, the Washington and Georgetown Railroad ran a cable-car network through Georgetown. The Car Barn still has some remnants of that time on the Car Barn. In 1900 the company moved to electric power. Continue reading →

“After Georgetown Waterfront” – Smithsonian American Art Museum

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Inn coming to P St.
• The story behind the Cora apartment building that GM featured in yesterday’s photo.

1300 block of 33rd St.