D.C. was very different the last time it hosted the World Series. Heck, the Pentagon didn’t exist back then.
What did the Washington region look like in 1933, the last time a local Major League Baseball team was playing in the World Series? For starters, the Pentagon and National Airport didn’t exist. The Arlington Memorial Bridge was all of 1 year old and the Glenn L. Martin Co. — the company responsible for the “Martin” in Lockheed Martin Corp. — had just started fueling the burgeoning aviation industry from its new headquarters in Maryland.
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• J. Willard Marriott, who in 1927 started what would become the world’s largest hospitality company with a root beer stand in Columbia Heights, was expanding his chain of popular Hot Shoppes restaurants by 1933, bringing newfangled drive-in restaurants to the region. Marriott and his wife, Allie, were banking $1 million a year from their six Hot Shoppes locations by ’33. Marriott (NASDAQ: MAR) wouldn’t open its first hotel until 1959.
