This week, instead of a Not So Long Ago post, GM is following up on yesterday’s post of This Is Washington, D.C., and showing how similar the canal towpath looks today to how it looked in a children’s book in 1969.
Not much to be said here. Either the paint jobs have been changed over the years, or M. Sasek just came up with his own colors. Pretty scenic in either depiction…
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
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Being a proud District resident and a new father*, GM recently picked up a copy of the classic “This is Washington, D.C.” by M. Sasek. Browsing the book, GM saw that Georgetown gets a couple pages, and it’s pretty funny:
Georgetown is the oldest part of Washington, a district of beautiful old houses as well as of cozy small taverns and bookshops; an exclusive residential area and also an artists’ quarter. Georgetown used to be a port. It is the eastern terminus of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canel. By the way, it is named for George II, the British king, not George Washington, the American president.
Some of this was true and still is, some was true and isn’t anymore, and some may never have been true (historians can’t decide whether Georgetown was named after George II or George Beale or George Gordon, or all three). There still are some “cozy taverns” but there are probably fewer than there used to be. We all know the sad state of Georgetown bookshops…
It’s the “artists’ quarter” that caught GM’s eye. GM went into this a bit a while back when he wrote about the infamous Hamilton Arms:
According to written accounts, in its salad days the property contained the Hamilton Arms Coffee House. The coffee shop was built in 1939 by Milo Brinkley, Mary’s father. He wanted to recreate a European-style village and thought it needed a gathering place. The community and the coffee shop eventually attracted early beatniks. And speaking of salad, the coffee shop was supposedly the site of the first salad bar in the District.
Oh, and in the 1950′s it was supposedly the location of Georgetown’s first pot-party. Continue reading
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Photo by Rock Creek.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
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3200 block of R St. (click it for a better view)
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Over GM’s brief paternity leave from posting, the Washington Post snuck up and did his job for him. Namely, the Post published two blog pieces discussing the state of Georgetown real estate.
The writer, Pat Kennedy, was sharp enough not to simply rely on a marketwide average. A sale like Evermay’s $22 million throws off an average wildly, without necessarily telling you anything worthwhile about the other houses sold. Thus herhis chart depicts, high/low sales, averages, medians, and averages taking highs and lows out:
It’s an interesting chart, but for all the thought put into using different measures, the scale of the chart is so high that you can’t really make much use out of the bottom four lines. But in GM’s opinion, this is really the whole point. The top u-shaped line represents the highest sale price per year since 2007. It took big dive right when the overall market did, while most of the market was far below and just sort of puttered along. Continue reading
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Good morning Georgetown. GM’s still basking in his new world of diapers and short sleep, but is ready to get the Georgetown Metropolitan back in gear. He can’t guarantee that the posts will be as consistent as they have been, but he’ll promise the old college try. So without further ado, here’s the latest:
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
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The Georgetown Metropolitan 
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