Ghosts of DC

In 1966, a Maryland congressman warned that Columbia's new pavilion shouldn't have to compete with Wolf Trap.

In 1978 a Washington Post reporter rented his house off Foxhall Road to a man from Olympic Construction.

Gambling houses, speakeasies and Sunday crowds lined Conduit Road just past the District line, and Montgomery County spent three decades trying to shut them down.

A radio reporter stepped off an elevator on the fifth floor of the District Building and into a shotgun blast.

The Tabard Inn's founder sold it in 1927, then bought it back at a 1930 foreclosure auction for $2,000.

The Foundry Branch trestle carried Glen Echo streetcars over Glover-Archbold Park from 1896 to 1960.

Gordon Parks made Ella Watson famous in 1942.

Detective Arthur Scrivener was found shot in a Georgetown alley on his wedding day in 1926.

Nearly 200 laborers showed up at 6 p.m. with orders to tear down the Northern Liberty Market that night.

In 1912 a boys' Robin Hood Club shack behind 3314 Newark Street in Cleveland Park caught fire, and three engine companies came.

In 1937 the Post promised Barnaby Woods buyers "social restrictions."

The Prince of Hawaiʻi kept a house on Mass Ave, sat with the Republican baseball team, and pushed a homestead act for his people.

In 1899 a marble sign called this M Street house George Washington's headquarters.

Four senators, a former Supreme Court Justice, and the Carter White House all lived in the same Glover Park high-rise.

Off Kirby Road in McLean, Cottonwood Street runs through the 26-acre farm a Black farmer named Christopher Columbus Hall bought in 1865 and divided among his 11 children.

On July 29, 1937, a capacity crowd packed a brand-new 1,007-seat Art Deco movie house at 12th and Newton NE.

A boy on tiptoe peers into the candy bins at 5608 Broad Branch Road NW.

In 1923 the Chevy Chase Theatre opened at 5612 Connecticut Avenue NW.

On the evening of September 21, 1927, a Washington attorney named Alexander G.

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It is 2:18 p.m. on Friday, March 2, 1973.

Everyone knows Metro’s concrete vaults.

For a generation, a 4,200-seat bowl on a Rock Creek Park hillside was the summer stage of Washington.

Long before Stetson's Famous Bar & Grill filled 1610 U Street NW with punk shows and cheap beer, the same storefront was a Prohibition speakeasy.

For sixty years a reform school for girls stood on the Palisades hill where Sibley Hospital is today.

A bookie named Nathan Detroit opened it in 1969, Howard Joynt ran it for 28 years, Carol Joynt closed it on July 12, 2009.

Halfway down the Rock Creek slope at 2400 Tilden Street NW stands Isaac Peirce's 1811 whiskey still.