Day: October 10, 2012

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Dorchester House advertisement 1941

Dorchester House: Close to Everything That is Washington (1941)

What a great old advertisement for Dorchester House, the giant apartment building at 16th and Kalorama. The building opened in 1941 and one of its early residents was our 35th President, John F. Kennedy, then a 24-year-old, living with his

Longworth House Office Building (Architect of the Capitol)

Three Bits of Trivia About the Longworth House Office Building

The “Three Things…” post about Cannon was pretty popular, so we’re going to continue our Hill-oriented posts with another one on the Longworth House Office Building. We suspect that the building houses and equal to possibly larger number of GoDCers

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3459 Macomb St. NW

1925 Ad for Macomb Street Home in Cleveland Park

Half-length portrait of Charles Moran, baseball player for the American League Washington Senators, standing at South Side Park which was located at West 37th Street, South Princeton Avenue, West Pershing Road (formerly West 39th Street), and South Wentworth Avenue in the Armour Square community area of Chicago, Illinois.

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little Betty Amberger (Washington Post)

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Circa 1932. "United Food Stores." Whitman's Market at A and Sixth streets S.E. in Washington. National Photo Company safety film negative.

1932 Capitol Hill Corner Market

The Willard Hotel in 1904, view up 14th St. NW

The New Willard Hotel in 1904

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The Beatles in front of the Capitol

More 1964 Photos of The Beatles in Washington, D.C.

"Full size mockup of partial Metro station 1968" from Harry Weese Associates' 1994 book describing Metro's early plans.

Metro’s 17-Foot Long “Experimental Station” in 1968

Why Is It Named Trinidad?

Map of Washington Subdivisions in 1961

Au Pied de Cochon

Remember Au Pied de Cochon?

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Abraham Lincoln colorized (1865)

Abraham Lincoln in Color (1865)

Susan Ford gettin' down in the East Room with her date

Senior Prom at the White House

Anti-Saloon League slogan

Lips That Touch Liquor Shall Not Touch Ours

Murder Bay in 1855 (Smithsonian)

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