Half-Century Advertisement Celebrating Washington Post (1950)
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.
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...
Why Is It Named McLean Gardens?
The land on top of which McLean Gardens was built originally was the estate of John Roll McLean (i.e., McLean, VA).
More About That Mysterious Photo of the Capitol “Painted” Red
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....
October 5th, 1895: For Sale, Rent and Exchange
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 twenty-two years’ experience. How can you turn that...
March 29th, 1879: Witness the Dawn of a New Era
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...
Officer Sprinkle Parties at the Waldorf-Astoria
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...
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). It’s remarkable how this low-tech scoreboard resembles our current day ESPN Gameday and...
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, 1906 and something bold and new was described for the first time in The Post: New...