“Dear PoPville,
I found this metal object (with quarter for scale) in my backyard when planting a scrub – Logan Circle area. It is the original shape and the second picture shows 2 openings where it connected to something. Any guesses are welcome!” (more…)
Eliezer “Chef Ziggy” Albino Segui
“Dear PoPville,
I believe you posted the original GoFundMe campaign and story on PoPville. All very sad. No cause of death provided.”
The sad update:
“It is with a very heavy heart that I deliver news of Eliezer “Chef Ziggy” Albino Segui’s passing last week. He will be sorely missed by his community. (more…)
Thanks to ss for sharing from U Street: “When we dug out the basement of our 1890 rowhome, the crew unearthed an old mason jar, completely intact, that was under the old cement slab. According to the markings on the bottom of the jar, it was created in Harpers Ferry, WV in the 1920s, if I recall correctly. We cleaned it off and still have it. I wish I would have thought about burying something before the poured the new foundation.
It really is remarkable that this thing survived the jackhammering of the cement slab and dig out. Glad the workers saved it too.”
If you have a photo of a neat find from your house, place of work or neighborhood please send an email to [email protected] thanks. Please let me know where/what neighborhood you found it in too. Thanks.
Thanks to Patricia for sending: “Opened up walls in our former sleeping porch in Manor Park. Row house was built in 1929. Fairfax Farms Dairy milk bottle found in the insulation. (more…)
If you have a photo of a neat find from your house, place of work or neighborhood please send an email to [email protected] thanks. Please let me know where/what neighborhood you found it in too. Thanks.
Thanks to Will for sharing from his dad: “from the Hahn shoe store on Pennsylvania ave I was told.” (more…)
Tilden and Reno Road, NW
Adieu Melvin Hazen, nobody will miss you.
In February 2021 Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton educated:
“Hazen began his career in the D.C. government as a surveyor in 1889 and rose through the ranks to become President of the three-member Board of Commissioners, a role he held from 1933 until his death, in 1941. Over the 51 years of his career, he held considerable influence and power over the development of D.C., and chose to wield this power by implementing a drastic urban planning strategy in Northwest D.C. that promoted segregation, prioritized all-white communities and marginalized African-American residents. (more…)
If you have a photo of a neat find from your house, place of work or neighborhood please send an email to [email protected] thanks. Please let me know where/what neighborhood you found it in too. Thanks.
Thanks to Claudia for sending this great find from “the St. John’s Opportunity Shop in Chevy Chase.”
The description on the back is the best: (more…)
Einstein memorial 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW photo by Mark Kelner
At Rodman’s grocery store: (more…)
4530 Wisconsin Ave, NW
From an email:
“From being the first to supply the now-famous “Landfill Harmonic” Paraguayan children with instruments to servicing nearly 100 instruments for D.C.’s Jefferson Academy, over the past 20 years, D.C.’s Middle C Music (4530 Wisconsin Ave. NW) has been a pillar of the local community and beyond. When word got out in 2004 that the nearby Best Buy was going to build a music store, the community successfully organized on Middle C’s behalf and Best Buy pulled out. Since inception, there has been three “Middle C Music Day Recognition” as voted by D.C. City Council.
And on March 19 they’re celebrating 20 years in Tenleytown. (more…)
If you have a photo of a neat find from your house, place of work or neighborhood please send an email to [email protected] thanks. Please let me know where/what neighborhood you found it in too. Thanks.
Thanks to Katie for sending: “A neighbor in Mt. Rainier sadly passed away from Covid. His relatives have been cleaning out his house a bit and occasionally put some things on the curb. Another neighbor grabbed one of those pieces of furniture and found this neat relic in it!” (more…)