Who Is The Man in the Middle?
- Faces & Places of Yesterday
- April 10, 2015
Can any GoDCer help us identify the man in the middle? GoDCer Josh sent this in back in January and we’re now getting around to posting it (sorry it took so long Josh). Below is the email he sent with...
Mayor Barry Proposes Renaming Part of Mass. Ave. After Mandela
- Other Cool Stuff
- February 26, 2014
This is an interesting story from the 1980s. Mayor for life, and general embarrassment to the city of Washington, Marion Barry, proposed in 1985 to rename a portion of Massachusetts Ave. in front of the South African embassy after the...
How Post Photographer Got Picture of Mayor Barry’s Cocaine Bust
- From the Crazy Vault, Guest Posts
- February 10, 2014
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. But until an NPR ‘All Things...
Ghost Dog Fetches Three Stories About the Duke Ellington Bridge
- Three Things...
- January 28, 2013
Ghost Dog went on another walk this past weekend to seek out three more stories for the GoDC community. This time, she passed through Adams Morgan, en route to the Duke Ellington Bridge (formerly known as the Calvert Street Bridge)....