This is a great old article that we dug up in The Washington Post from May 14th, 1900. We see this same ignorance or protectionist tendencies to this day. Look at taxis versus Uber and Lyft, or...
This lovely painting shows Georgetown in the distance as it looked in 1855. Source: Library of Congress...
No more foreign cars! They're an abomination and a detriment to our economy ...
This lovely old image shows the site of the National Archives early in the construction process. It was taken on July 1st, 1932....
This lovely old photo was taken in 1941. You're looking at the old terminal (then the only terminal) at National Airport in Arlington, Virginia....
Okay GoDCers! This is a photo shared by a fellow reader Eric. He sent it in quite a while ago, so I'm a bit late on sharing this with the group. But, I promised to crowd-source...
![Map of Naval Hospital Washington, D.C. Showing Conditions on June 30, 1927. [includes hand-drawn "Proposed Extension of New York Avenue" and "Future Building Line"]. [map, Potomac Annex].Printed map, hand-colored with emendations. Marked "H.O. Misc. No. 7219" and "PW 2469". print 11x17 color. Navy Medicine Historical Files Collection - Facilities. [The New York Avenue extension was never built. Instead the North side of the base was cut off by an extension of Viginia Avenue, and the South side was truncated by the Institute of Peace.]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/ghostsofdc/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/27124019/14662497702_f69e69d69d_o.jpg)
