Thanks to a tip from GoDCer John, we did some digging into the story of a soldier who disappeared from Ft. Myer in 1967. A few Google searches later and we came across the story of...
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...
Do you recognize this part of Arlington? You're looking down down N Courthouse Rd. From the cars in the photo, I'm guessing that this is sometime in the early 1990s. AERIAL VIEW OF...
Here's a cool photo sent in by one of our GoDC readers, Carol. Thanks for sharing this! I know of one former Tomb Guard who might be able to fill us in on why they were...
Sometimes the story behind the story is almost as sensational as the original news. Nearly everyone remembers when former Mayor Marion Barry was arrested for possession and use of crack cocaine back in 1990. ...
Sportscaster Steve Buckhantz is best known as the long-time TV play-by-play voice for the Washington Wizards. But in early 1993, when he was sports director at WTTG-TV (Channel 5), he scored one of Washington's most stunning sports scoops, breaking the...
Here's a shot that's probably impossible to get today -- unless you're flying on Marine One. Source: Library of Congress...
Welcome to Groundhog Day! We've been through this before and it didn't work out well for one of the sides. Plus, they even based an episode of the West Wing on what happened. Who plays Ted...
If you don't remember or know who Rayful Edmond was, you need to watch this full-length movie. He was the king of the crack-fueled, drug-dealing days of the 1980s. If you don't have time for the whole...
We were unaware. This is pretty cool, and it would be so cool to check it out. Have any GoDCers been lucky enough to visit the basement of the Lincoln Memorial? Basement below...
Source: Library of Congress The "Grande Dame of Washington" has seen so much history that it's difficult to do a post listing just three bit of trivia. Nevertheless, the building that...
What an awesome candid shot of Bill and Hillary Clinton throwing a baseball in the Rose Garden on April 3rd, 1994. They're practicing for the Opening Day ceremonies they were going to participate in that year.
If you have an iPhone, iPad or any other Apple product, chances are, you've set foot in an Apple Store ...
These are old, but not really that old. They are from 1993 (but I still find it hard to believe that 1993 was 20 years ago!).