Tag: Dupont Circle

Who tossed Washington's first pizza pie?  Was it "jumbo"?  Deep-dish?  Square?  Turns out, these are tough questions to answer.  Several attempts at D.C. historical...

Here's a great shot of Dupont Circle. You can clearly make out the Patterson House (now the Washington Club) in the background. What an...

I took a tour of the Dupont Underground yesterday, and I have to say, it's amazing. It's like to step back into 1955. If...

You may recognize this building, because it is still there. After reading an article in the Washington Post from 1908, I have a far different...

The slow demise of Brickskeller was sad to witness. The place was full of so many fond memories. I'm sure many of you remember...

This is a worthy story for a "From the Crazy Vault" post ... check it out. I came across the tale in the Washington...

This is a great advertisement from the early 1920s. The Connecticut Avenue Association was promoting retail up and down Connecticut Ave., near Dupont Circle,...

There were a couple of requests a short while back to do a post on The Cairo, the most famous residential building in the...

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...

This is not good. We're looking at a photo of a car accident on the northeast corner of Massachusetts and 21st St. NW. This...

WOW. This one is awesome. It's a colorized photograph from 1924 and it shows cars lined up outside the District National Bank, Dupont Circle...

I'm really excited about doing this one and I'm sure there are a few of you out there that are really going to enjoy...

Big Bear Cafe is a lovely coffee shop which has warmed up Bloomingdale residents since 2007. It's a favorite of many in the neighborhood...

I guess D.C. has always had bad drivers. This one is from December 7th, 1930. A dizzy clockwise circle of an automobile around Dupont Circle,...

Wow, this one is gold. Jimi Hendrix played the Washington Hilton on Connecticut Ave. NW -- the same one where Hinkley shot Reagan in...