Tag: World War II

I saw this photo and I had to share it. This is a photo from June 21st, 1942. We were in the early days of...

Between 1936 and 1943 the Work Projects Administration (WPA), about 2,000 posters were designed to promote the arts, community activities, and used for education....

Now this is an interesting old film we found on YouTube. It's a bit long, but if you're from Alexandria, you'll find it entertaining...

On this date, 50 years ago, The Washington Post printed a story about the government of Austria owing the District back taxes on their embassy...

This is definitely (hopefully) something you would not see today. It's a large parade of tanks heading from the Capitol Building towards the White...

Americans love France, but we hate the French. Okay, maybe hate is a strong word, but we do have a very bizarre relationship with...

Back from lunch? Check this cool photo out from World War II. This is a great photo of some schoolboys going door to door on...

I wonder what happened to this couple. It's possible that this photo was staged for the war effort. Also, take a look at the...

An athletic-themed statue outside of the State Department is marked with few words -- but it has an interesting history. Discobolus is a bronze copy of...

We're sharing a ton of great old photos this week and this is a great moment, frozen in time from 1943. It's a shot of...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq_K3pwevmA This is a tremendously obscure YouTube video, but for any baseball nuts in the GoDC community, you'll dig this. The video features Buddy Lewis, former...

The popular "Three Things..." post about Dulles Airport prompted me to give equal treatment to our other local, older and much more convenient airport:...

This is a far more charming photo of Washington in 1943 than the mock execution being held on the grounds of Woodrow Wilson High...

This is a guest post by Aaron. Newspapers called it a "New Deal Boom."  The Great Depression was coming to an end.  The District's peacetime...

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 an amazing old color photo that I came across on the Library of Congress' website. It was taken by John Collier in...

Continuing the Anglo-American theme of today, here is a second video of a British Prime Minister in Washington. Winston Churchill took a steamship through German...

Love it. Hate it. It has some of the most confusing terminology for out-of-towners. Inner loop of what? Outer loop? But there's...

Here's an interesting story from the end of World War II. Near the end of the war, the Crowned Prince of Iraq, Abdul Ilah was...

This is a shocking photo. Look at this picture of two children playing with fake guns. Kids emulate what they see and this was taken...

My last post went way back to the 1920s. This one is a couple of decades after that, but well before the Washington Capitals...