“Dear PoPville,
I found these three bottles along with another tiny one buried in my yard. (more…)
Archeological Finds
“Dear PoPville,
It’s been a while since Melody Music on Connecticut Avenue closed, but there was a Melody Music shopping bag mixed in with the sidewalk leaves on Swan Street this morning, (more…)
I spotted this guy at Cleveland Park Fine Wines & Spirits and couldn’t resist: (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
I recently bought a 1912 rowhouse in Columbia Heights and the owner/realtor didn’t know much about its fireplace. When I got a chimney/fireplace inspector out here, he discovered (while on the roof) that there was no chimney! (more…)
Thanks to Glen for sending this awesome find from 1957: “Been going thru about 100 years of family albums and this once I thought might interest you.”
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.
“Dear PoPville,
Found at Dulles airport this morning (Thursday), a Continental Airlines 737. Not sure where someone dug this up from; but pretty sure there had not been a Continental flight in over a decade. (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
Shot in the dark —
About 25 years ago I was living in NW DC (16th & U), working as a bartender at Julio’s. In my travels, I came upon an older Russian (or Eastern European) homeless man; very disheveled and with a big scraggly beard. I may have run into him in the Adams Morgan area. I had heard that he was an artist, so I struck up a conversation and in fact he was! I ended up buying a piece from him that has been with me ever since. I never saw him again. (more…)
Thanks to Adam for sending from 16th Street Heights: “Check out this neighborhood barn find I stumbled upon this afternoon on Allison Street! It’s a decomposing mid-1960’s Mustang 289! I must have walked by this ancient alley garage a zillion times over the years and somehow never noticed it before. Wow, and oy.”
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.
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Thanks to Jonnel for sending from CC Liquor Store in Columbia Heights “The place has been closed for about a month now. Guy out front said renovations. Cool to know in its former glory it was a pharmacy.”
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.
“Dear PoPville,
We recently replaced the front porch of our Capitol Hill home, and in the debris underneath uncovered this old-looking booklet. It’s missing the cover, but from what I can tell is a publication highlighting the Black community – everything from African American musicians to a “toothpick artist.” From what I can tell, it’s from around 1956. (more…)