RSS FeedFord’s Theatre Is Opening This Week!
Three cheers for the fact that Ford’s Theatre (511 10th Street NW) is reopening this week! To celebrate, they are hosting a grand opening tomorrow Wednesday night (by invitation only…don’t try to show up if you don’t have an invitation) and two open house events – one on February 12 and the other on February 16 (the general public can show up to the open house events but you need a ticket to gain entry). We assembled a few details from the press releases about each event below including how you can get tickets for the open houses.
Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
Southwest/Ballpark District – Drag Queens to Inaugurate Southwest Venue. We couldn’t have titled it better. [SWDC Blog]
Columbia Heights – The Obamas visit a DC public charter school on 15th Street. [New Columbia Heights]
Eckington – A new deli and pizza & mussels place open in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Fireams (ATF) retail building in the Eckington portion of NoMa. Pizza and mussels? OK! [eckington (way better than spotsylvania)]
U Street – A cab crashed into Solly’s at the corner of 11th and U Streets NW over the weekend. How does the popular tavern handle it? Well, let’s just say that your after lunch soda *will* come out of your nose when you follow this link. (I know both DCist and DC Blogs linked it too but it’s just too good to pass up!) [U Street Girl]
Still A Chance For A PQ Apple Store
The Examiner has an opinion piece that summarizes the latest news of Apple trying to open a store in downtown DC. For those who haven’t been keeping track of things, Apple has been trying to get plans approved to build a store on Wisconsin Ave in Georgetown (they would raze the existing building). This past week, the Old Georgetown Board rejected the 4th revision of these plans mostly because the plans don’t fit in with the architecture of the other buildings on the street. The WaPo has more details on the four plans.
One does have to wonder how much more time Apple will spend trying to open a store in Georgetown. They purchased the space for the store two years ago and still haven’t even begun construction. So, on one hand, they already own some land and that would seem to indicate a level of dedication to utilizing that space. On the other hand, the land is not useful if they can’t build a store on it that meets company design requirements.
Wayback: Groceries…1922 Style
We haven’t checked the PQ Living Wayback machine recently and a walk up to the CityVista Safeway to buy groceries reminded us of the positive changes we’ve seen in our area in 2008 alone.
How did you do your grocery shopping in 1922? Simple. Hit the Center Market (the subject of our first Wayback post also) which stood where the National Archives building stands now at 8th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW. One of our favorite historical photo sites, Shorpy, has the above photo in full resolution showing what it was like as to shop the aisles at one of the largest markets in DC.
Photo Credit: Shorpy – The 100 Year Old Photo Blog