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DC Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
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. Have neighborhood thoughts? Leave them in the comments! All Over DC – The Mayoral race is now in full effect. [TBD.com] Downtown – Wayback machine in effect…a look at Washington’s first sidewalk [...]
Tea Partiers Cometh, Declare Penn Quarter Safe
To our dear fellow Penn Quarter residents: You will be proud to know that the Penn Quarter has been declared a safe zone for Saturday’s Glenn Beck March on Washington. Also, one of our favorite Penn Quarter restaurant’s, Jaleo, is highlighted as nice (but pricey) restaurant that is also close to the National Mall. That’s [...]
DC’s National Aquarium – Don’t Go For the Fish
After our visit to DC’s National Aquarium we were set to tell our readers not to waste their money. But a little online research has us changing our tune, just a bit. We still wouldn’t recommend it as a major family outing, but it might be a worthwhile visit… just not for the obvious reasons. [...]
Everything Must Go!
A few weeks ago we walked by the once vacant address at 908 F Street NW to find tons of antiques and other things for sale – literally hundreds of items. This space is connected to the Ventana Condo building, and this particular retail address is still being shopped around by Douglas Corporation for an established [...]
Souvenir Row
Maybe that’s what Tour Guide meant in the comment section of our post a few weeks ago about Joe’s Souvenir shop closing. Tour Guide noted that we shouldn’t feel bad for Joe, he owns the other souvenir shops on what has become PQ’s souvenir row. Well we’re guessing Joe still owns this spot as well, [...]
Smoking In The Boy’s Room
It appears that the downtown destination for cigar smokers, Shelly’s Back Room (1331 F St NW) is expanding into the next door space that used to be occupied by Class Act Salon (also at 1331 F St NW). Class Act is now closed, and attached to their windows are both a building permit and ABA [...]
DC Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
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. Have neighborhood thoughts? Leave them in the comments! All Over DC – Our current poll in the upper right shows everyone loves a good swim during the summer. Where can you get [...]
Yesterday’s 15th and F Street NW Transformer Fire
An underground transformer fire on F Street almost at the corner of 15th Street NW on the south side caused billowing smoke and emptied the downtown Willard and W Hotels of people yesterday evening around 7:30 pm. The incident was finished by approximately 11 pm and the streets reopened by 11:30 pm. All the major [...]
Photo Of The Week: Ducks in Navy Memorial Fountain
After all of the rain we’ve been getting these past few days (and with more rain on the way this afternoon), we thought that spectreman’s photo of a duck in Penn Quarter’s Navy Memorial fountain was appropriate for a photo of the week. Check out spectrman’s photo stream for more pics of Penn Quarter.
No More $3 Sundaes On Mondays
Reader JU sent in this photo of an eviction notice which is now hanging on the front door of Gifford’s Ice Cream (555 11th St NW, entrance on E). A week or so ago we tried contracting both the Gifford’s manufacturing unit and the separately owned retail unit. The manufacturing side got back to us, [...]
