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You can always count on a big rain storm like we had last night to clean the streets at bit, and more importantly, to wash away some of the particularly nasty smells that build up on our sidewalks. There is a freshness to the air that probably wasn’t there the day before, and that’s true on some block of course, more than others.
One block in particular made us crave a good, long storm, the 600 block of 10th street right outside Hard Rock Cafe (999 E St NW). Their garbage gets picked up on 10th street so the cans full of restaurant refuse (and the the awful residue left behind from the garbage) would fester and smell terrible, long after pickup. We used to feel sorry for the tourists who lined the block waiting to get into Ford’s Theatre on a muggy summer morning (you know it was bad if we were feeling sorry for tourists).
But as the tense of our lines above already hint, this is all in the past. When Hard Rock started offering outdoor seating (as we noted in late July), the building also began a program to actively clean the trash residue on a daily basis. This is not just the quick spray with a hose that many building do each morning, no we see workers scrubbing detergents all over the sidewalk in their cleansing efforts.
So from what was once one of the most olfactory-offensive blocks in the city, we now have one of the sweetest. In fact it often appears so clean that you could probably eat off of the sidewalk, but with Hard Rock offering tables and chairs, we wouldn’t recommend it.
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