Archive for January, 2010
DC Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
Photo Credit: M. V. Jantzen Follow PQ Living via Facebook here and Twitter here. Our Flickr tag is pqliving. Here’s what we were reading last week about neighborhood news in DC. Mount Vernon Triangle – An explanation and discussion of vault space rentals. This is not the kind of vault you’d find in a bank…if you own […]
Wayback: 6th & Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Ever wonder what used to reside on the land now occupied by the Newseum? The National Hotel, of course. A blogger in our neighborhood tracked down some wayback images of 6th & Pennsylvania Ave NW via the Historical Society of Washington, DC’s research website. Check out the full post!
Ready To Eat?
Yesterday we caught workers putting up signs for Pret A Manger, the London based salad & sandwich shop, at 1155 F St NW (corner of 11th & F). The first of these stores opened in DC in January of 2009, and just a year later it looks like PQ is about to get one too. […]
Son Of Platinum Nightclub?
One of our most commented on running story lines of 2008 was the now closed Platinum nightclub at 915 F St NW and the adverse impact the club had on downtown life. Although that building has hosted a nightclub since the late 1980s, most recently as Platinum and then as Club Bounce, many weekends in 2008 […]