Tag: Washington Post

This is a cool New Year's advertisement that we found in The Washington Post December 31st, 1949. Click on it for a larger version.

Hanukkah and Thanksgiving rarely overlap.  Among its 22 articles covering 2013's "Thanksgivukkah" holiday mashup, the Washington Post reports that the convergence of turkey and latkes...

The land on top of which McLean Gardens was built originally was the estate of John Roll McLean (i.e., McLean, VA).

Yesterday Tom shared a somewhat jarring photo of the Capitol dome -- colored red.  It wasn't something we had seen before, dating roughly to...

You can get lost in these old classified pages. This one is from the Washington Post on Saturday, October 5th, 1895. Turkish Baths anyone? Shampooer...

Maybe this is a little hyperbolic, but that was the ad for the National Clothing Company, at the corner of 7th and D St....

Our favorite officer and the patron saint of Ghosts of DC, Officer Sprinkle, took a trip up to New York City with a group...

GoDCer Ben sent along a great photo of the Washington Post baseball scoreboard circa 1912 (the same year the Titanic sank). It's remarkable how this...

About 5,500 weekends ago, Washingtonians woke up and lazily flipped through their newspapers.  It was Sunday, November, 11, 1906 and something bold and new...

I haven't done one of these in a while ... so, GoDCer Jon, this is for you. A quick Washington Post search uncovered an article...

Yowza! This is a crazy story that lives up to the title, albeit a brief story. I came across this in the Washington Post...

I was poking around the archives of both The Washington Post and The Washington Times to come across a gem of a story to share...

Rolling Stone just broke the sad news that Bee Gees co-founder Robin Gibb died today, succumbing to cancer. In the late 70s, the Bee Gees...

Here's an advertisement I found in the Washington Post. It's from the mid 1920s and row houses were being sold throughout Brookland. Check out...

Here's a cool ad for homes in Glover Park in the late 1920s. The sample home was at 3833 Beecher St. NW,...

It's been a little while since we've done a "Reader's Choice" post, so this one is for GoDCer Samantha, who tweeted the request to do...

In Washington, late into the evening of December 6th, reporters worked their normal, likely frantic, hours and submitted their articles in time to be...

This is another haunting discover, much like the advertisement I uncovered for the Titanic (also, read about the notable DC resident that went down...

Officer Sprinkle Here's a daily dose of DCPD badass Officer Sprinkle. Do not mess with this guy. He...

Petworth was not always full of hipsters that resemble Officer Sprinkle (J.L. Sprinkle was such a badass, he was a hipster before being a hipster...

Secretary of the Treasury Franklin MacVeagh was a man that appreciated beauty and the aesthetics of architecture. He was also a clear supporter of...