“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…)
Archeological Finds
“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…)
If you have a photo of a neat find from your house or place of work please send an email to princeofpetworth(at)gmail.com thanks. Please let me know where/what neighborhood you found it in too. Thanks.
Thanks to Dan for sharing this awesome find:
“Found this in my garden while preparing my plots for the planting season near U Street. It was very green and rusted at first, but after cleaning it up it appears to be a brass button of some sort.
So, I did some online digging (pun intended) and it turns out that this is a US Naval Officers formal attire button from before 1939. (more…)
If you have a photo of a neat find from your house or place of work please send an email to princeofpetworth(at)gmail.com thanks. Please let me know where/what neighborhood you found it in too. Thanks.
Thanks to Sean for sending: “We came across this paper fan advertising “B.F Keith’s High-Class Vaudeville” in the attic of our Mt. Pleasant home.” (more…)
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If you have a photo of a neat find from your house or place of work please send an email to princeofpetworth(at)gmail.com thanks. Please let me know where/what neighborhood you found it in too. Thanks.
Thanks to Erin for sharing this absolute awesomeness: “a DC address book from 1896 that my mom had found.
The book has old advertisements and addresses of the “elite residents of Washington” and lists “receiving days” for some homes when visitors were preferred. In the back of the book it lists the names of various club’s members (i.e Cosmos Club members when it was a gentleman’s club, etc).” (more…)
Thanks to the Christensen family for sharing this cool find:
“It’s from a childhood trip they took to DC from Iowa in 1934, and appears to be taken from the Capitol toward Union Station.”
If you have a photo of a neat find from your house or place of work please send an email to princeofpetworth(at)gmail.com thanks. Please let me know where/what neighborhood you found it in too. Thanks.
Photo by Anne Kelley
Some more shots from last night and a terrific Archeological Find: (more…)