GU at sunset by Ehpien.
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The other day, Shorpy.com–the wonderful blog of historic photos–featured a great shot of Wisconsin Ave. showing a truck from W.T. Weaver & Sons hardware. For those that don’t know, Weaver Hardware is still around at the same address on Wisconsin. These days the fourth generation-owned shop provides high-end decorative bath hardware.
From this great photo you can make out so much great stuff still around:
Right near the center of the photo you can see the tower of 1238 Wisconsin Ave:
That tower now houses Zara:
The facades on the east side of Wisconsin are barely changed as well: Continue reading
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Frozen Potomac by Martin Kalfatovic.
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Photo by M.V. Jantzen.
Up at the top of this page, you’ll see a link to a page that GM tries to keep relatively up to date: Aren’t They Building…
GM doesn’t always do a great job keeping it right up to date, so he occasionally has to clean it up. Like today. So with that, here’s are some changes:
What GM had:
Serendipity 3
-No announced date
-GM prediction: Summer 2010Fall 2010
What’s new:
Obviously they didn’t hit the fall 2010 mark. In GM’s defense, there’s been about zero reliable information about this project and it seems like it’s plagued with delays.
What GM had:
Sprinkles Cupcakes
-No announced date
-GM prediction: Summer 2010fall 2010 Continue reading
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Photo by Spectreman.
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Last December, an event happened that GM has been waiting for for years: the release of the five year estimates from American Community Survey. Sounds terribly dry, yes, but what it means is that data on a host of questions and categories has been released at the census tract level.
With this data, we can start to get an idea of what Georgetowners actually look like, and act like, and live like, etc. Before this release, the most current source of this information was the 2000 census.
Yes, those familiar with this data set be quick to point out that the margins of error on some of these statistics is huge. So you should take them with a grain of salt. But they’re certainly good enough to start the discussion, and they’re certainly the best we’ve got. (Also, it’s really important to keep in mind that these numbers are meant to be averages over the last five years, not a snapshot of today).
So that said, on to some of the first numbers! Continue reading
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Inside Moreso by Jim Malone.
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