Red Cross Precursor to D.C. Food Trucks

Here’s a cool find from YouTube. The Senators lost the World Series to the Pirates, after having won the year before. Can you tell Ghosts of DC is getting excited for the 2014 baseball season?

How cool is this old map of Columbia Heights and 16th St. NW? Click on it for a much larger version and start exploring to

Ulysses Grant was arrested for directing by William West, an African-American metropolitan policeman. This is a great historical story.

I wish I could take credit for this discovery, but this came in from GoDCer Brian. In the background, you’ll see the Ebbitt House Hotel,

Happy Sunday, and welcome to map week! Starting now, going through the rest of the week, we’re posting a map each day, so get pumped.

This crazy old photos shows Georgetown’s flooding and the Potomac in 1918. Here’s another good piece about it at The Georgetown Metropolitan.

Here are two great old maps that we found showing Georgetown. We know how much GoDCers love maps (we do too), so here you go.

Now, I will quickly caveat this as being unconfirmed, but I am merely surfacing an interesting old story from the Baltimore Sun. This was printed

Exactly one year ago today, one of the most spectacular buildings in Washington was badly damaged by the earthquake that shook our city. So much

This is a photo fit for Cute Overload (if you’re into that stuff). This is the precursor to that scene in Lady and the Tramp.

This is a great old map of the area surrounding Brookland in 1903.

Check out this terrific 1874 map of Georgetown with the old street names. Source: Dig DC