Photo by Jzimbabwe.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- GU eyeing Rosslyn condo for grad housing.
- Chance to meet Copperthite-descendants and those who once worked in the family’s famous Georgetown pie factory, this Saturday.
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Photo by Andrew Broyles.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Restoration of O and P streets wins preservation award.
- Run away car near Wisey’s.
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Now and a Long Time Ago: Wisconsin and K St.
This week on Now and a Long Time Ago, GM visits in with the great flood of 1972. The old photo comes courtesy of the fantastic Old Time DC Facebook page.
The photo is of lower Wisconsin Ave. after Hurricane Agnes blew through. This spring hurricane was the costliest hurricane in history until Hurricane Frederick passed it in 1979.
From the photo, you can see that the Potomac flooded right up to the bottom of Wisconsin. By comparison, as heavy as Sandy was, the Potomac water levels remained several feet below cresting the waterfront, let alone lapping up to Wisconsin.
As for the built environment, you can see a couple changes. The Whitehurst looks mostly the same, although historic lamps were added at some point. The incinerator that would eventually be torn down and turned into the Four Seasons/movie theater was still there.
Additionally, it looks like Wisconsin Avenue was concrete, not asphalt (curiously Reservoir Rd. east of Wisconsin still is concrete, does anyone know why?)
Finally, on one of the old lamp posts on the right, you can see the old street light signs that used to adorn Georgetown’s lamp posts:
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Photo by Jacquesofalltrades.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Malmaison finally getting close to opening (although it seems they’ve been close to opening for months). Apparently they plan to largely consider the restaurant an event space (which it is already operating as).
- From Cumberland to Georgetown: the story of a couple, the canal, and their home-made boat.
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This Sounds Awfully Familiar
Photo by Flying Lester.
Stop GM if you’ve heard this before: A venerable boathouse, which has stood for decades on a river in an American city, providing boat rentals to generations of residents and visitors, suddenly loses is lease with the government, and has weeks to get out.
Sounds like Jack’s Boathouse, no? Close, but in this case, the river is the Charles and the city is Boston.
From the Boston Globe:
For decades, Charles River Canoe and Kayak has been moored to the state’s historic boathouse in Newton, offering paddling classes and renting equipment to scores of area families and boaters. But change is ahead…The company has been at the boathouse…for 40 years. “We built it to what it is today.”
The five-year permit to operate out of the boathouse went instead to Boston Outdoor Recreation, an 11-year-old company run by Michael Aghajanian.
Recognize that last name? That’s the exact same vendor that is taking over Jack’s space. Continue reading
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Photo by jpellgen.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- The new Rye Bar: Splurge.
- Despite opening on M St. soon, Ri Ra is closing up its Bethesda location.
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