Did you know that selling balloons on the streets of D.C. was made illegal back in 1934? There was quite a booming industry of balloon vendors trolling the streets, getting parents to buy balloon for eager...
Before the days of Booz Allen, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing, the term 'Beltway Bandit' was applied to the nefarious behavior of a common area criminal -- a true bandit if you will. Application of the term...
We love this old photo showing Union Station back in 1914. You're looking at a familiar line of taxis waiting for passengers. Source: Library of Congress...
We posted a cool old property map of Columbia Heights the other day. Today, we're showing you something that we dug up showing an alternate view of what Meridian Hill could have looked like, starting back...
Check out this great find from Flickr. This shows a series of Pullman autos in front of 445 G St. NW in 1912. Pullman autos are extremely rare. They were mass produced between...
As you all know, D.C. is one of the only cities (if not the lone city) without an interstate highway cutting through the heart of it. I-395 makes its way all the way to New York...
Where were the police and fire stations located in Washington back in 1880? Check out this great old map. Source: Library of Congress This was done by...
This is clearly a headline that we wouldn't see today. Sasha and Malia wouldn't wander off the White House grounds the way young Quentin Roosevelt did, scaring his family...
We wrote a while ago about the history behind Constitution Avenue. Doing a little more digging, we have come up with a great addendum to that post,...
What a cool map. We posted one last week showing the area around Tenleytown as it looked on an 1892 map. The area covered in the map includes today's Columbia Heights, Park View, and a little...
Wow, this is beautiful. Any idea where this house is? This looks like it could be Dupont, or maybe Columbia Heights? Source: vintage everyday UPDATE: A reader tweeted the following. @GhostsofDC @UrbanTurf_DC looks like...
This is a terrific old postcard we found in our GoDC buddy John's Flickr photostream. Source: Flickr user StreetsOfWashington If you were look down this...
What an awesome old photograph of Great Falls from 1864. Source: Library of Congress...
What an amazing photograph from the 1860s. Thanks again to the Library of Congress for this one. Source: Library of Congress...