Check out this great old advertisement from The Evening Star back in 1904. It shows a number of great properties for sale in then-new Columbia Heights, which was booming with development. Evening Star - May...
Old Ads & Classifieds / 16.03.2018
Awesome Piggly Wiggly Advertisement
Piggly Wiggly is a seriously southern brand, which no longer exists in Washington. But here's a cool old advertisement showing the Pig back in 1922. Source: Library of Congress...
We love sharing old real estate advertisements from the area. Check this one out, showing a home in Chevy Chase, published on January 6th, 1923. Source:...
You could hand your own piece of Wisconsin Avenue real estate for only $50 down back in 1908. Not a bad deal!Source: Library of Congress...
This cool old advertisement shows a competition for flying innovation in the early 20th century. Click on it to read more and see that William Randolph Hearst was offering $50,000 for a successful flight across the...
How cool is this find? We dug up this great old menu for the Willard Hotel's room service at Discover DC History. Click on them for more details. This appears to be from the 1960s? Maybe...
Old Ads & Classifieds / 05.05.2016
Cool 1904 Ad for Capitol Hill Homes
This cool old advertisement from 1904 shows some homes at 11th and D St. NE for sale. It looks like each building sold for $5,200 and could get rent of about $540 per year!
This great old advertisement from The Washington Times was printed in 1913. Click on it for some great details and read through the copy. Source: Library of...
We love digging up old ads from the papers like this one showing some great old real estate in Chevy Chase. You could get a great home in upper northwest back then for $6,500. Using the...
Here's an old advertisement that we found in The Washington Times from Saturday, June 4th, 1910. It shows a row of homes on Clifton St. in Columbia Heights, recently finished, and for sale at $7,750.
What an amazing old baseball find here. This is a scorecard marked up for a game on August 18th, 1886. Also, check out the great advertisements around the scorecard. The Nats, by the way, finished 28-92...
Old Ads & Classifieds / 17.04.2015
America Online Commercial From 1995
This is great. It's an old commercial for America Online. Sometimes we forget the Internet of the 1990s, but this is a great example of what life was like 20 years ago. Brings back some great...
Old Ads & Classifieds / 09.04.2015
1906 Coca-Cola Advertisement
We love old ads here at Ghosts of DC and this is a great one from The Evening Star, printed on June 24th, 1906. Source: Library of Congress Three weeks later, Alfred...
Can you find these homes today? I did some sleuthing and the best I could come up with was E Walnut St between Little St. and Mt. Vernon Ave. The directions in the advertisement seem to...