The Georgetown library is progressing nicely on Wisconsin Ave, NW. There’s some nice copper details as well. But what is this thing at the top – I noticed it at the Petworth library (also under construction) as well? Will it be a clock?
Incidentally the Shaw library is also progressing nicely, should be a few more months I’m guessing.
I felt like I was entering a Wile E. Coyote cartoon. I can’t believe this is just random yet could not figure out a reason nor was I blown up by TNT. Totally bizarre. I guess sometimes a small bag of concrete tied to a tree balancing over a sidewalk is just a small bag of concrete tied to a tree balancing over a sidewalk…
I can’t remember if we ever got a definitive answer on this phenomenon – this house is obviously very well taken care of but you can see that some of the windows have been bricked over. Why is this? Is there some regulation that a house can only have a certain number of windows? For some reason I’m feeling like that might be the answer. If that is the answer, how many windows can a home have?
“Dear PoP,
There was an interesting quote projected on a residential building on Columbia Road NW between Belmont and Kalorama last night. Photos attached. Looks like it reads:
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
A great message no doubt, but would be interesting if anyone knows more about it. Think the guy at the bottom of the frame in the first photo is the one behind it but didn’t get a chance to ask him about it.”
DCist reports:
“Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters was here in D.C. projecting a quote by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on buildings around town Friday and Saturday night. Let me say that again, because it bears repeating: Roger Waters, the guy who wrote “Wish You Were Here,” is using a laser light projector to display a line from President Ike’s Cross of Iron speech.”
In the story they don’t say how they were able to confirm it was Roger Waters but in the comments they mention a press release they saw.
I know this isn’t cutting edge neighborhood news but I’m totally baffled. Can someone explain this marketing campaign to me? “We do amazing things” and then a venus flytrap. Hmm. I stared at this thing on the metro for like 5 stops and couldn’t let it go.
I guess this could make a pretty funny supplementary caption contest…
I can’t remember if we’ve ever spoken about this bizarre fence filler before. Anybody know what it is?
I thought all these communications towers were taken down at the corner of 14th and Florida Ave, NW (behind the new View 14 apartment building). Some towers were definitely taken down. Did they leave one up? Did one just recently go up? I hope there’s a significant discount if your window looks out on it but on the other hand I guess your cell phone reception will be fantastic…
“Dear PoP,
I was participating in the DC Servathon this weekend and came upon a chainlink fence off of Georgia Ave, by the Howard U Gadget Center (Gresham-ish cross street), with several padlocks on it. Being a silly suburbanite, I assume that they mean something. Do you know what these locks mean, if anything?”
Well I consider myself fairly urban and I wondered the same thing last March!
I’m not sure if we ever figured it out but at the time WDC had a good guess:
“A memorial to stolen bikes?”
This is kinda like why are barns painted red? I was taught that barns are painted red because that was the cheapest color paint… Anyway, I’ve noticed that the majority of planked up vacant houses/buildings use red planks. Does this just help preserve the wood? Does anyone know why this is the case?
This is outside of one of the Court of Appeals near Judiciary Square. So to the right seems to be a very modern security entrance. But what the Helen of Troy is the red circular thing to the left?