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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, the one at the corner of 10th & F, and that he’s just cleaning it up to match the brighter, nicer stores he’s opened in the surrounding block.
See those slats on the back wall? Those look to us to be the telltale supports you see in all our cleaner neighborhood souvenir shops. So our guess is that 1000 F st NW will soon be brighter and nicer, and will sell the same goods that made Joe’s Souvenir a favorite of the tourist bus crowds.
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 beverage notice. It is that beverage notice that includes the Shelly’s contact information. The building permit only notes that it is for restaurant alteration and repair.
Shelly’s is certainly a popular spot and one of the few places that you can kick back with your Have-A-Tampa. It makes sense that they want to expand their operations, assuming we’re reading these notices correctly .
DC Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
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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 your swim on? This link will clue you in. [The Other 35 Percent]
Downtown – Clyde’s says they’re getting into the music biz at the soon-to-be-closed Border’s at 14th and F Streets NW and it will be within walking distance of the Penn Quarter. A 500 person venue by late 2011…rock on Garth! [WaPo: Click Track]
Penn Quarter/Chinatown – The Verizon Center jumps on the free Wi-Fi craze. [We Love DC]
Green Line – The Guardian Angels are pitching in to keep the peace on Metro. [NBC Washington]
Penn Quarter – The anonymous word is that Mike Isabella’s new restaurant will be on 6th Street between G and H Streets NW. Isabella was Zaytinya’s head chef. Any tipsters out there care to confirm to the PQL Mailbag? [PQL Intelligence Network]
Penn Quarter – A few observations on the reason for the now closed Manhattan Deli by the Navy Memorial and a “new” Exercise Man. [InShaw]
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 local news outlets were all over this incident within 30 minutes of its breaking. Most notable was TBD.com’s coverage which used some novel tricks to provide evolving coverage of the event including posting a geotagged Twitter link [today’s TBD tweet summary here] that let users see real time streaming of tweets near that location as well as information from WeLoveDC, part of the TBD Community Network. The Washington Post went with a blog post for breaking coverage and a news story today for the rest of the story (as Paul Harvey would say). Local news coverage is a changing!
One of our intrepid guest writers, LiveAndWorkInPQ, was on the scene and provided the photos for this post.