This is an advertisement from The Washington Post, printed on Wednesday, October 23rd, 1963 — exactly 50 years ago today. It’s so sad that developers destroyed basically all of southwest to “modernize it” with these brutalist, Soviet-looking buildings.
![Capitol Park Townhouses advertisement](https://ghostsofdc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2013/10/Screenshot-2013-10-20-at-10.12.36-AM.png)