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Greatest City Sign Ever?

By Prince Of Petworth

Published July 7, 2009 at 10:42PM | Updated July 7, 2025 at 1:53PM

A buddy of mine saw this sign on 16th a few years ago and thankfully still had it on his camera phone. Too good.

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Capturing Sweet City Signs – Transfer and Storage Co

By Prince Of Petworth

Published July 6, 2009 at 4:00PM | Updated July 3, 2025 at 11:27AM

The sign above was spotted not far from the carriage house one post down. And the following just sorta blew my mind:

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Capturing Sweet City Signs – Macombo Lounge

By Prince Of Petworth

Published July 2, 2009 at 4:00PM | Updated July 2, 2025 at 12:55PM

A reader mentioned that they liked seedy strip bar signs so I thought I’d add the one above from upper Georgia Ave.

And in complete contrast is this sign from a building at Catholic University:

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Capturing Sweet City Signs – Giant Food

By Prince Of Petworth

Published July 1, 2009 at 4:00PM | Updated July 2, 2025 at 12:34PM

hellomarkers! has found some good ones and added them to the PoPville flickr pool. I thought I’d highlight a few of them here. A little explanation of the sign above:

“i found this beauty as a result of terrible traffic on the bw parkway. since i wasn’t in a rush, i decided to take route one back into the city. and was i ever glad. especially since i was able to pick up groceries for the week, in addition to getting this picture. laurel, md”

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PoP Photo Archives Caption Contest

By Prince Of Petworth

Published July 1, 2009 at 10:00AM | Updated July 2, 2025 at 12:26PM

I thought this was a pretty funny sight because there was only one beat up Cadillac in the lot. Your captions in the comments and winner announced Thursday due to the holiday Friday.

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Capturing Sweet City Signs – European Electronics and The Dog Wash

By Prince Of Petworth

Published June 30, 2009 at 4:00PM | Updated June 24, 2025 at 5:39PM

Following on the theme from yesterday ( Swedish Pastry Shop), I thought I’d continue with European Electronics.

I also liked this one, which I found in alley off 9th Street, NW:

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Catholic University a Bit Depraved?

By Prince Of Petworth

Published June 29, 2009 at 11:14PM | Updated June 24, 2025 at 5:26PM

I saw tons of these signs around Catholic University. A bit ironic? Ed. Note: Obviously these signs are not affiliated with Catholic University. I just thought it was funny they were surrounding the campus. On Flickr Mr. T in DC asks:

“I don’t think it’s legal to discriminate based on gender like that, is it?”

Any lawyers out there?

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Capturing Sweet City Signs – Swedish Pastry Shop

By Prince Of Petworth

Published June 29, 2009 at 4:00PM | Updated June 24, 2025 at 5:10PM

I found this sweet one (no pun intended) on upper Georgia Ave. What’s a Swedish pastry? I hope the folks from Wonderland/LGL are able to salvage this sign before it vanishes.