Old Glory by Kodamakitty.
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Today GM adds another entry to his occasional Circa series, wherein he looks back to a particular snap-shot of Georgetown in an earlier time. Up next: 1980.
On the eve of the 1980 election, all of Washington was on the edge of its seat following the close race between Carter and Reagan. However, at least a few were out in the streets looking for some booze. And not just any booze: Canadian Club Whiskey.
The reason they were out on the streets looking is that Canadian Club hid a case of its liquor somewhere in the District. Where was it?
Start at a place that was named for America’s most important city. See where a bark takes you. From there, go to what you can’t miss. When you have arrived, face in the direction of a past scandal that was uncovered and made public. Turn in the opposite direction and make tracks for a nearby Metro station. Ride three stops.
Come up and then find the way to a famous ending. Continue in the most obvious direction, when you know the time is right. Before it’s too late, head for the nearest bridge that can take you over water. If it becomes impossible to continue in a straight line, go toward a body of water and find a spot with three banks. From the highest bank, go in the direction of a bridge. When you’ve reach it, walk back 100 paces and you’ll be right over the hidden treasure: a whole case of Canadian Club.
It’s all yours if you’re first to find the person in charge and say, “C.C. please” with feeling.
So where was that case of Canadian Club? Continue reading
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The Georgetown Theater by Joseph A.
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This Saturday, appraisers from the downtown auction house Weschler’s
will be on hand at Dumbarton House to give you verbal auction-value estimates on furniture, decorative arts, silver, Asian works, paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture, rugs, jewelry, watches, U.S. coins and currency.
No, PBS won’t be there and you won’t end up on TV finding out that your throw rug is worth $500,000. But you might be surprised by the value you get nonetheless.
Each appraisal will cost you $10 and you’re limited to two, so choose wisely. The proceeds will benefit Dumbarton House and the wonderful events they host there. Reservations are required.
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Courtesy of WETA
This week WETA is broadcasting an excellent documentary on the history of Washington through the 1960’s. Given that this included the Kennedy era, unsurprisingly Georgetown is prominently featured.
Besides rhapsodizing briefly on the link between the Kennedy mystique and Georgetown, the documentary’s first specific Georgetown reference is to mention the late great Rive Gauche restaurant. The fancy French restaurant on the northwest corner of Wisconsin and M was the standard of fine cuisine in the city in its time. Washington native Maury Povich states in the documentary “We always thought when we were young that you had to have a lot of money to go to Rive Gauche. That was picking at High Cotton.”
The documentary also briefly mentions Clyde’s (which opened in 1963, inspired at least in part by a stray New Yorker left lying around a beatnik hang-out on 31st St.) and Blues Alley. Continue reading
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C&O canal by findfado.
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District law requires that every residential school in DC must periodically develop 10 year plans. These plans become essentially the framework of how each school interacts with its neighbors for the next ten years. No large school in the District has frictionless relations with its neighbors, but the Georgetown University and the Georgetown neighborhood are perhaps the second most contentious neighbors behind the infamous GW-Foggy Bottom pairing.
Georgetown’s last ten year plan is coming to end and the process to develop a new one is already under way. The effort was kicked off with a long and tedious bang last May when University reps met with the community.
Another series of meetings are now being held. Actually, the first one was last night (sorry about the late notice). Unlike the marathon first meeting, these meetings are split up by topic. But don’t worry, they’ll still be plenty long:
Tuesday, November 3, Off Campus Life/Housing/Enrollment
Wednesday, November 11, Off Campus Life/Housing/Enrollment,
McKenna Hall at Holy Trinity School, 1325 36th St, NW* (Note: This date is being held in the event additional time is needed after discussions on November 3.)
Thursday, November 12, Transportation
Monday, November 16, 1789 Block
Wednesday, November 18, Draft Full Plan Review
Thursday, November 19, Draft Full Plan ReviewExcept for November 11th , all meetings will be held at Georgetown Visitation, Heritage Room, 2nd floor, 1524 – 35th Street, NW, from 6:30 – 9pm.
GM would like to say he’s being the good civic minded journalist and is attending each and every one of these meetings, but unfortunately he simply does not have that sort of energy. He’ll leave it to Vox Populi to continue their excellent coverage.
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