“Dear PoPville,
It’s just so interesting and I really want to understand why.”
Ah the cloud car, not the corn car, though this cloud has gone from black to white. When the cloud was black “It was part of a campaign by enviro groups to get automakers to drop efforts to roll back clean car standards”.
West Virginia and Florida Ave NE. Photo by @seanmaiwald
Ummm, thanks to Mathew for passing on from Sean: “Coronavirus supply store???”
Photo by @seanmaiwald
After looking inside, I can’t tell if this is like the “microscope store”, straight up art, straight up entrepreneurial (ie selling cold water on a hot day) or straight up bat shit crazy. I guess we gotta find out the prices…
RudeHaggis with this curious find yesterday. Any ideas or should we just turn this into a straight up caption contest?
“Dear PoPville,
Any idea what’s being put up in Union Station atrium? Middle area is partitioned off.”
USRC reports that they are: “happy to announce that from February to July, all the damaged marble floor tiles will be replaced. This conservation work is being undertaken by Promacs LLC.”
“Dear PoPville,
What is this? Traffic camera? Saw this on North Capitol Ave just south of Pierce pointed at the northbound lane. It seems temporary. Is it a sound monitor?”
1800 M Street, NW
“Dear PoPville,
Just wanted to let you know there was some crazy shit going down at 18th and M, NW last night. People within the 1800M building received the following message.
Then the DC Fire Department told everyone to enter the building emergency shelters. Fire trucks were blocking off M St. We thought we’d be in for a long night.
Luckily, 10 minutes later we were given the all clear.
Lo and behold. This morning we find out the following from our courageous news team at Fox 5:
“All clear, sounds like someone may have pooped in the elevator.” (more…)
15th and Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Ken writes yesterday: “they CUT DOWN ALL THE TREES at Pershing Park to “build” the National World War I memorial. It was once one of the prettiest monuments/parks in the city. Now it’s torn up to be “renovated” by WW1 Centennial.”
A photo of the park from 2014: (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
I wonder if you know what these chrome-color steel machines are (photo attached taken at L’Enfant station platform). These machines make a whirring mechanical noise and have been spotted at stations throughout the system. Any ideas?”
“Dear PoPville,
The last several nights- there are two mysterious trucks with what looks like giant vacuums on them next to the train tracks above 2nd and K St NE. They seem to start late evening and run non-stop until about midnight and are so loud! I’m a block away and Indoors, a decibel app messures 45dB and if I open the window of my apartment it reads ~80dB. Loud enough to be super annoying at night. Wondering if anyone in the community has insight as to what this machinery is and/or what the project is?”
“Dear PoPville,
It’s not massively exciting, but it’s puzzling me:
Can anyone explain the random old school loud speaker on the front of this Capitol Hill row house? Doesn’t look like part of an official emergency alert system and I’ve not seen similar elsewhere. Is it just an odd home burglary thing, or a way to yell at the neighbor kids?”
Ed. Note: Isn’t this part of the old school fire alarms?