Comments on: DC’s Original Target http://www.popville.com/2011/10/dcs-original-target/ Welcome to the beautiful life Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:32:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: notlawd http://www.popville.com/2011/10/dcs-original-target/#comment-403777 notlawd Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:32:54 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=47492#comment-403777 That’s awesome! I was wondering what that was. I hope they serve food as well. I am dying for a sit down place I can walk to.

BTW, I had friends from out of town this summer and when we walked by one of them seriously asked if the liquor store used to be a real Target.

]]> By: Prince Of Petworth http://www.popville.com/2011/10/dcs-original-target/#comment-403550 Prince Of Petworth Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:05:03 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=47492#comment-403550 It is the very northern border of Petworth and the very southern border of Brightwood. So folks call it both Petworth and Brightwood.

]]> By: BP http://www.popville.com/2011/10/dcs-original-target/#comment-403509 BP Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:13:52 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=47492#comment-403509 I suppose its part of Petworth but its so far removed from the area around the Metro I was wondering if it its own neighborhood name.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.popville.com/2011/10/dcs-original-target/#comment-403506 Anonymous Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:47:35 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=47492#comment-403506 isn’t that petworth?

]]> By: BP http://www.popville.com/2011/10/dcs-original-target/#comment-403503 BP Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:00:13 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=47492#comment-403503 Is there a neighborhood name for that strip of businesses along Kennedy St. from N Cap to Georgia?

]]> By: Anonymouse http://www.popville.com/2011/10/dcs-original-target/#comment-403389 Anonymouse Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:08:01 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=47492#comment-403389 I think the exchange names were dropped in the mid-60s. By the time I was learning to use a phone, ca. 1974, we just used seven digits, and all the phone books were digits-only. (This was in PA and NJ.) But I’ll bet older people kept using the exchange letters they were used to for years after.

]]> By: JL http://www.popville.com/2011/10/dcs-original-target/#comment-403369 JL Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:33:28 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=47492#comment-403369 Don’t think so; it says 12:00 every time I’ve seen it.

]]> By: JL http://www.popville.com/2011/10/dcs-original-target/#comment-403366 JL Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:32:11 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=47492#comment-403366 This has been one of my favorite city signs for a long time. POP (and others), are you aware of other signs in the city that still have the old-style phone numbers? The only other one I know of is at the Yellow Cab dispatch center on Bladensburg Rd. (LIncoln 4-1212). Might be a cool post to do sometime… I’m sure there are others out there.

]]> By: Dupont Worker http://www.popville.com/2011/10/dcs-original-target/#comment-403300 Dupont Worker Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:23:17 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=47492#comment-403300 Seconding not a front… old guy is real nice they just don’t put much into the facade of the store or, for that matter, anything in front of the glass partition. Behind the glass partition lie reasonably-priced beer and liquor.

]]> By: TonyR http://www.popville.com/2011/10/dcs-original-target/#comment-403150 TonyR Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:16:48 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=47492#comment-403150 There’s also the phone number for the Pennsylvania Hotel in NYC – PE(nnsylvania) 6-5000. One for our older readers, or younger Glenn Miller fans.

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