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. ...
Guest Posts, Historical Events / 28.11.2013
Happy Thanksgivukkah, 1888
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 won't occur again for 77,798 years. How did D.C. media report on this calendar...
Why Is It Named...? / 16.10.2013
Why Is It Named McLean Gardens?
World War II broke out at the end of 1941, and by 1942, Washington was seeing a massive influx of people moving in for new government jobs to support the war effort. There was a major...
Yesterday Tom shared a somewhat jarring photo of the Capitol dome -- colored red. It wasn't something we had seen before, dating roughly to the late 1950s. Unfortunately, we just didn't have much information.
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 of...
Maybe this is a little hyperbolic, but that was the ad for the National Clothing Company, at the corner of 7th and D St. NW. Check out this page from the Washington Post classified pages on...
Our favorite officer and the patron saint of Ghosts of DC, Officer Sprinkle, took a trip up to New York City with a group of 21 contest winners from The Washington Post. Twenty-one winners in the...
Other Cool Stuff / 15.10.2012
Baseball Gameday Circa 1912
GoDCer Ben sent along a great photo of the Washington Post baseball scoreboard circa 1912 (the same year the Titanic sank). Washington Post sponsored "bulletin board" for the 1912 Boston AL vs. New...
Guest Posts, Other Cool Stuff / 22.08.2012
A Brief History of Brunch in D.C.
About 5,500 weekends ago, Washingtonians woke up and lazily flipped through their newspapers. It was Sunday, November, 11,...
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Yowza! This is a crazy story that lives up to the title, albeit a brief story. I came across this in the Washington Post on October 25th,...
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 and the one that caught my eye involved two Georgetown boatmen engaged...
Rolling Stone just broke the sad news that Bee Gees co-founder Robin Gibb died today, succumbing to cancer. In the late 70s,...
[/caption] Here's an advertisement I found in the Washington Post. It's from the mid 1920s and row houses were being sold throughout Brookland....