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Continuing the bad news over the weekend, at about 2:30 am Friday morning some guy on a bike threw bricks through the windows of Room 11 and Meridian Pint. Apparently this douchebag hates popular neighborhood bars. No one was hurt, and apparently the guy was chased for a bit but wasn’t caught. Staff were still…
It was a bad weekend in the neighborhood. Four people were shot at Georgia Avenue and Gresham Place after the Caribbean Festival parade passed by, and one of those victims, a 43 year-old man, died. The police think it’s a neighborhood dispute unrelated to the parade, and Jim Graham thinks the target was the same…
There’s a nice house on the northeast corner of 13th and Euclid with a big, wraparound porch. The house always has two flags: the US and one with blue and white stripes and hearts. I always wondered what it was, when the other day I saw a soccer jersey (for US national team player Michael…
14th/Park/Kenyon in 1921. The Civic Plaza was a playground! Something I briefly mentioned in the post about Acre 121 was an old real estate atlas from 1909 — it’s by a surveyor named G. William Baist, and thus the books are called Baist books. There’s a series of them on the Library of Congress’s website…