D.C. Seen From Space

Tragedy! I was tipped off by DCist that the Corcoran Gallery might be leaving the District for Alexandria?! Wow, that would be bad. Say it ain’t

Yet again, I find something to share on Shorpy. This one is gruesome, but too crazy not to post. This was a big story at

If you read this piece in the Washington Post on Wednesday morning, November 20th, 1963, you probably didn’t think much of it. President Kennedy was

Sorry our posts are so short. We spent the bulk of the holidays moving our site to better hosting (which hopefully you notice – faster

This is a great afternoon photo for you to lose yourself in. Click on it for a larger version. We found this gem on Shorpy

Check out this terrific high resolution photo from 1920. It shows an Oldsmobile just after crossing Boulder Bridge on Beach Drive. Source: Library of Congress

Plan of part of the city of Washington : on which is shewn the squares, lots, &c., divided between William Prout Esq'r and the Commissioners of the Federal Buildings, agreeably to the deed of trust / laid down from a scale of 200 feet pr. inch by N. King, 1800.

We wrote some posts about The Beatles a long time ago, like this one about their first concert and this one about them playing D.C.

Wow! What an amazing colorized photo. This shows a Wilkins Coffee truck being loaded on location, somewhere on the 500 block of Rhode Island Ave.

Check out this great old advertisement that we dug up in The Washington Times from September 7th, 1919. Source: Library of Congress

If you drive to work downtown and live somewhere up in Northwest D.C., you might be one of the thousands of people who drive down

We posted a cool old rural map of Tenleytown a short while back. Here’s a map from the same group, showing Anacostia back in 1892.