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Wayback VI: Downtown DC 1912 Style
Today’s Wayback Machine brings you an aerial shot of downtown Washington taken from the Washington Monument by the Haines Photo Company in the winter of 1912. This photo is just one portion of a panoramic shot taken looking directly east from the Washington Monument. It isn’t as high resolution as the photos at Shorpy, the [...]
Downtown Apple Store Rumors Persist
Neither Crazy Eddie (“His prices are insaaaaane!”) nor Luskin’s (“The cheapest guy in town!”) are still in business but if we were kicking it old school and those now defunct electronics retailers were going concerns, there’s no doubt they’d be hawking Apple iPhones and they’d be looking at doing it in downtown DC. (We’ve reported [...]
DC Public Library Brings Digital Goods Downtown
The DC Public Library is bringing its digital bookmobile, an “immersive download experience inside a high-tech tractor-trailer,” to the Old Convention Center site located at 10th and H streets NW on September 3rd and 4th between 9 am and 6 pm each day. Readers of all ages are invited to engage in digital downloading through [...]
Penn Quarter Building Permit Update (Gallery Tower, Vapiano, Printing Co)
The new Gallery Tower project gets a green light (it used to be named Gallery Square) 08/20/2008 675 h ST NW Building Construction New Building GALLERY TOWER, LLC NEW TEN (10) STORY OFFICE AND RETAIL BUILDING TO INCLUDE PARTIAL PRESERVATION OF EXISTING HISTORIC STRUCTURES. Douglas Development renovating the old printing company building 08/15/2008 707 6TH [...]
DC Food Finder
The August 20th edition of Street Sense (purchased from our regular vendor, Orin, at 11th & G) has an interesting article on a recently released website called DC Food Finder. This free service lets you enter a DC address, ward, or other location information and search for “healthy affordable food.” To test this database we [...]
Smithsonian Installs New Outdoor Sculpture At 9th & F St Today! *pics*
This morning, officials at the Smithsonian American Art Museum will be receiving and installing the Roy Lichtenstein Sculpture which used to sit 1 block away from the World Trade Center in Battery Park City (NYC). The sculpture, named Modern Head, will be installed (pdf) on the grounds of the museum’s main building at the corner [...]
There’s Something About An Aqua Velva Man?
At Penn Quarter Living, we’re not ashamed to say we enjoy a little pampering. We’re secure enough to pick up a salt scrub at L’Occitane, or even a spa treatment at PR at Partners. That’s why we were so excited to see that The Art of Shaving will be soon be opening in Union Station. Good shaving [...]
Artists Back On F Street By Sept 5 (923 F St NW)
Another piece of the F Street streetscape puzzle will snap into place on September 5 when the artists displaced by the Carroll Square redevelopment officially return to studio space at 923 F St, NW, in the same block they occupied before most of that half of the block was knocked down and rebuilt. PQ Living [...]
Metro Center Chop’t…There Is A Free Lunch (Tomorrow)
The Metro Center Chop’t will be opening sooner than we thought. Tomorrow, in fact, and they’ll be giving out free lunch salads from 11 am to 2 pm (or until the lettuce runs out) at their fourth location in DC at 618 12th Street, NW as a part of their pre-opening training day. They open [...]
DC MUD: BZA Approval for Armenian Museum (615 14th St NW)
From the good folks at DC Metro Urban Diary (MUD), we learned that the old Bank of Washington building we reported on at 14th and G Streets, NW, recently received Board of Zoning Adjustment approval for it’s renovation into the Armenian Genocide Museum of America. The whole building will be renovated, inside and out, and [...]
