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Millie and Al’s: 53 Years at 2440 18th Street NW
For 53 years, 2440 18th Street NW was Millie and Al’s. Al Shapiro bought Bobbie’s Restaurant in 1963, kept the name of his bartender girlfriend, and gave Adams Morgan Jell-o shots, a dancing skeleton, and its longest-running dive bar.
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The Big Chair in Anacostia: Lynn Arnold’s 42 Days in a Glass House
Charles Curtis had Bassett Furniture build a 19.5-foot mahogany chair outside his Anacostia showroom in 1959. A year later, model Lynn Arnold moved into a glass house on top of it for 42 days. The chair is still there.
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Hotel Lombardy: The 1929 Foggy Bottom Apartment That Became DC’s Old-World Boutique
Walk into Hotel Lombardy and you feel a hotel from another era. Chinoiserie panels, a bar Oyster once called ‘a British manor in colonial Shanghai,’ and an attendant-operated elevator that hung on until 2011. The Foggy Bottom landmark started as apartments in 1929.
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Meridian Mansions: Senators, a Czech Flag, and a Century at 2400 16th Street
The 1918 apartment hotel at 2400 16th Street NW housed ten senators, hosted embassies, and unfurled the first Czechoslovak flag. Today it is The Envoy.
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The Bishop Family Murders: A Bethesda Home, a Foggy Bottom Memo, and a 48-Year Manhunt
On March 1, 1976, a Foreign Service officer killed his family in their Carderock Springs home and vanished into a 48-year manhunt that is still open.
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How Stewart Udall Stopped Three 17-Story Towers From Rising Over Merrywood
On a 46-acre bluff over the Potomac in McLean, a developer paid $650,000 for Jackie Kennedy's childhood home and drew up three 17-story apartment towers, and then the Interior Secretary next door started making phone calls.
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July 4, 1926: How Washington Celebrated America’s 150th Birthday
A cast of 1,000 on the Capitol steps, 50,000 at the Monument fireworks, and a plea for DC voting rights. How Washington celebrated America's 150th birthday in 1926.
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