The Georgetown Metropolitan

1500 block of 35th St.

As GM reported last month, the lottery to enter Hyde-Addison Elementary School wraps up March 2, just a week and a half away. And also remember, next year Hyde will be enrolling three year olds for the first time. As GM explained, this may complicate your planning a bit:

Hyde will be offering one Pre-K3 class and one Pre-K4 class. This creates a bit of a dilemma for parents of three year olds (like GM). If you do not enter for or win a slot for Pre-K3, unless something changes the following year, you will have a very slim chance of getting a slot at Pre-K4 for the Fall of 2016. Most of the slots for the Pre-K4 classroom for the Fall 2016 would be taken up by the Pre-K3 kids rising a level.

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Photo by Carole Lewis Anderson.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Yarrow Mammout and the importance of preserving Georgetown’s African American history.
• Speaking of which, did you ever know that before the Williams sisters, two Georgetown siblings were world famous tennis players? GM suggested to the Friends of Rose Park that they name the Rose Park tennis courts (where they were taught the sport) after the girls, Margaret and Mathilda Peters. Let’s hope it can be done.

Georgetown University

Photo by Iain Ding.

The focus of Under Armour’s connection to Georgetown recently has been on the company’s plans to open a store in the old Nathan’s building. But GM realized that starting last year, the company has been putting out a subtle tribute to the company’s Georgetown roots.

It comes in the form of the store’s “lifestyle” non-athletic brand “35th and O”. This isn’t a testament to Under Armour’s founder’s love of Saxby’s but rather a reference to his grandmother’s house. He explained to the Post last year:

[W]e bootstrapped, and my first year in business, we did $17,000 in sales out of a little townhouse on the corner of 35th and O Street in Georgetown…It was three floors. I was living upstairs, and the kitchen was up there. I had a sales office on the ground floor, which was essentially the dining room and living room. In the basement, we kept inventory. And in the corner of the sales office, we kept “The Price is Right” on the television.

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Photo by Mike Maguire.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Some nerds debate the Georgetown gondola. Nerd at the end wins argument.
• Too bad this was fiction.

1800 block of Wisconsin Ave.

Photo by John M.

As we mourn/celebrate (depending on your age) the passing of the Rhino Bar, you have a chance to own a piece of it. Like many closed bars before it, Rhino Bar is auctioning off pretty much everything. Here’s the link.

While most of the items are things you probably don’t want, like old tvs or a conveyor pizza oven, you may find some charm in these items:

• 10542.

  BAR MEMORABILIA TITLED WINSTONS, WOOD, APPROXIMATELY 9 FOOT WIDE, FROM ORIGINAL WINSTONS BAR IN GEORGETOWN WASHINGTON D.C.

• 10446.

  RHINO HEAD 31D X 22H, MOUNTED FLOOR 1

• 10465.

  SPORTS MEMORABILIA FRAMED, SIGNED JOE NAMETH JERSEY, 34W X 42.5H, BLACK WOOD FRAME, BEHIND GLASS

• 10541.

  BAR MEMORABILIA TITLED THE SHAMROCK, APPROXIMATELY 12 FOOT LONG, METAL, MOUNTED, FROM ORIGINAL SHAMROCK BAR IN WASHINGTON D.C.

GM once had a co-worker win a stained glass window from the auction after LuLu’s closed. So it can be done. You just better be ready to come and take the stuff away fast.

Happy bidding!

Photo by Mike Maguire.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• New building on Doggett’s parking lot is going to look a lot better than the first proposal would’ve been.
• Orange Anchor now open, half priced today.

1700 block of 32nd St.