A send this shot in and speculates – a homemade punching bag? Or do you think there was some problem with the tree bark?
What the Helen of Troy is This
Dear PoPville,
I noticed this big box that looks like it fell off of a ship on the north side of P St NW near the corner of 16th. A quick Google search for T.U.S.&S. (the letters on it) show that the company makes switch and signal equipment for railroads, but there’s no trains anywhere near here! What is this thing? Could it be leftover from an old trolley line? Were there ever trolley’s on P Street?
Page 2 of the Omnibus Alcohol Beverage Regulation Amendment Act Legislation 2012
So, this is odd. Please note the last sentence from page 2 of the Omnibus Alcohol Legislation 2012 in the image above. Yesterday someone sent me a link to CM Tommy Wells page to look into the Omnibus Alcohol Legislation 2012. It was posted June 26th and explains:
Earlier today, Councilmember Jim Graham introduced the “Omnibus Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Amendment Act of 2012.” The legislation has a wide variety of amendments to the city’s alcohol laws and policies. It includes items related to noise in the neighborhood, Advisory Neighborhood Commissions’ voluntary agreements, Sunday alcohol sales, and much, much more. We’d love to hear your thoughts and reactions to the legislation.
It also has the full PDF of the legislation. So a reader asked that I look into growler sales and whether or not stores like D’Vines will be able to sell them again. Anyway, right as I got to page two I noticed some very odd language:
“(2) Paragraph (34) is amended by replacing the word “buttocks” with the word “anus”.”
So, uh, what exactly are we legislating here… Staffers having fun?
Oh yeah, back to the original request, if anyone wants to comment on whether stores like D’Vines should be able to sell growlers again, you can do so here. The current language looks like only full-service grocery stores and brew pubs will be able to sell growlers.
You can see the full legislation below:
“Dear PoPville,
What’s up with this? This was taken at U street. Saw similar folks in Columbia heights.”
Those are MPD recruits.
In 2010 it was a dry cleaners (Tony’s One Hour Martinizing Cleaners.) Wikepedia says Martinizing Dry Cleaning was:
a dry cleaning franchise founded in 1949. Martin Franchises, Inc., the parent company, is the largest dry cleaning franchise in the United States, with over 600 franchised stores worldwide. The family-owned company is based in Loveland, Ohio. The concept of One Hour Martinizing was pioneered by a New York chemist named Henry Martin in 1949. At the time, drycleaning was done with flammable solvents, so the plants were located remotely from the storefronts. A customer would drop off their cleaning “in town”, the garments would travel to the production facility to be cleaned and pressed, then they would return to the store several days later for pickup. But, by using a non-flammable solvent, the use of which was discovered by Mr. Martin, drycleaning plants could now be located much more conveniently, and the process could be carried out in a much more timely manner. The use of this non-flammable solvent was adopted throughout the industry and revolutionized the business in that facilities could better serve their customers and provide much faster turn-around on the orders, if need be. Operationally this has been termed “on-site cleaning” (as opposed to the “remote” cleaning of the past).
Cool.
Anyone know what type of tree this is?
A readers sends in this bizarre photo from the Old Post Office building at 12th and Pennsylvania Ave, NW. It took place yesterday around 2pm. She writes: “Complete with music. No explanation.” Anyone know what it was?
Maybe a preview of what is in store with the coming luxury Trump hotel…?
“Dear PoPville,
Wondering if you have any idea what this eye sore/waste of space is behind U street. Its between 12/13 and T/U… seems like at least that grassy area could be used for much better things.”
A reader snaps this photo of a “Bad Boys Club” license plate this morning. TBD did a good breakdown of 2011 DC License plates in February. They wrote:
“The D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles issued 113,259 tags to District drivers in the fiscal year of 2011. But not all tags are created equal.
As the DMV website states, you can create any number of specialty license plates, sometimes for extra fees.”
You can see the tag fees here. And if you want to create an organization vehicle tag – you can learn how to do that below:
Dear PoPville,
While walking through the new Navy Yard park last week during my lunch break, I happened to pass through the old lumber shed that is currently being renovated.
The place is totally gutted with nothing going on at all right now….except for this!
What the heck is a miniature sky tram doing there? Yes…it actually is moving from one side to the other.Is this some type of art installation? A secret form of advertising for something that is coming to this location?
I have no idea…so very random and unexpected.
Anybody know what this is all about?
I actually went to the baseball game last night and a friend of mine said it was art. Does anyone know more about this piece?
