Young Evelyn Wadsworth was the daughter of the senator from New York and the granddaughter of John Hay, former personal secretary to Abraham Lincoln.
A rum squad MPD prohibition officer was arrested for drunk driving in 1930. Isn't it ironic? Don't you think?
Why would somebody name a subdivision Cuckold's Delight? We can't think of a more bizarre name considering what it means.
This great old photo shows the JCC at 16th and Q back when it opened in 1926.
This cool old photo shows the magazine rack at National Airport back the year it opened, in 1941. This is the terminal waiting area. Take a look at a few more old photos of National Airport, then read these three...
Check this out … what a fascinating old stereographic photo of the Old Executive Office Building, then known as the State, War, and Navy Building, adjacent to the White House. John DeFerrari posted a great history of the building on...
Terrific old photo of the Washington Monument being dedicated in 1885. Check out the amazing details.
Check out this amazing old photo of the Department of Agriculture Building at 13th and B St. SW.
We live in strange times. Nobody alive today has memories of the last public health crisis of this magnitude to hit Washington. That was back in 1918 when the Spanish Flu decimated cities and towns across the country and the...
These are amazing old photos of alley living in Washington in the 1940s.
