Faces & Places of Yesterday

I came across an interesting video from 1968 while checking out this YouTube channel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4OjyyXxID0 The quote that is the most powerful is when a teacher...

This one's cool ... not as cool as Abe Lincoln, but pretty cool. Thanks Shorpy! This is a photograph (colorized) of Jessie Hoover of the Department...

This one is a little spooky with the way he's looking at you. This is a photo of Harlan Randall of the Washington Opera and...

This is an amazing old photograph of the White House taken by John Plumbe, Jr. in 1846. The 11th President of the United States...

You probably didn't know this, but Washington did not have an official flag until the middle of the 20th century. Many locals really wanted...

This is an amazing old color photo that I came across on the Library of Congress' website. It was taken by John Collier in...

How did Columbia Heights get its street names? This history goes back to the early 1900s when street names came into alignment with the rest of the District.

After The Dead and The Police, I'm on a little bit of a concert kick and this one is pretty sweet. Janis...

I had heard that Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland (aka, The Police) had played in Adams Morgan and wanted to do a little...

Here's a great photo from Shorpy. This is the inside of Weller's Pharmacy, located at 755 8th St. SE. Franklin Pierce Weller...

Petworth was not always full of hipsters that resemble Officer Sprinkle (J.L. Sprinkle was such a badass, he was a hipster before being a hipster...

We are a great nation and Americans in the 1880s were proud of their rapidly growing and dominant country. But how can you truly...

I love baseball -- my first post ever was baseball-related -- and baseball is back! Opening Day has passed (go Nats!) and the home opener...

If you’re the kind of person that thinks walking home from Wonderland is sketchy, needs bars on your windows in Eckington or believes Petworth is a “fringe” neighborhood, you wouldn’t stand a chance in Murder Bay.

I was researching a couple of stories and I came across an article that was so sad that I had to share it with...

I came across so many wonderful old photos of the Smithsonian Castle while poking around different archives online. Here's a sample of some of...

Old school Bullets fans will remember this post-Bel Biv Devoe jam from the '94-'95 season ... You Da Man! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhqs1ZLbw78 The Bullets were 21-61 that year....

This is awesome and appears to be the latest minor D.C. Internet meme. Well, I love baseball and I love D.C., so I want...

Here's a great color photo courtesy the D.C. Public Library Flickr photostream. It was taken, just at the turn of the century. The house was...

Here is a nice photograph from 1922. You're looking at the Washington Monument from within the Lincoln Memorial, which has just opened. The memorial...

These ladies look like they're having a great time hanging out at the old Tidal Basin bathing beach. That would be an absolutely nasty...