In this latest selection of photos from DDOT’s historic photos of DC streets on its Flickr page, we take a look at the 3rd Street Tunnel. I think these are some of my favorites, with the Botanic Gardens in the background.
27
Aug
2010
In this latest selection of photos from DDOT’s historic photos of DC streets on its Flickr page, we take a look at the 3rd Street Tunnel. I think these are some of my favorites, with the Botanic Gardens in the background.
Full disclosure: When people come to visit my hometown, we have to decide if we’re going to take them to the Big Texan Steak Ranch where they might attempt to eat a 72 ounce steak in one hour or if we’d rather show off the Cadillac Ranch — a collection of spray-painted Cadillac cars buried […]
Washington, DC is justly criticized for lacking the lunch places and corner delis of other major American cities. Blame it on the growth of the Federal Government (among about a zillion other reasons). As the gov’met grew, they tore down rows and rows of hash slinging dives, restaurants, chop suey palaces, and so on; in […]
Pizza, for me, is more than dinner. I grew up in Staten Island, New York. The forgotten borough, perhaps, but the pizza could hold its own with many of the legendary places in Brooklyn or Manhattan. Pizza night was every Friday and it was a privilege to ride with Dad to pick it up, sitting […]
I am now a patron of Patrón, the top-drawer Mexican tequila, as poured by the generous Henry, at the opening of his new restaurant, Mi Vecindad, down on 12th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, SE. At the newest addition to the Pan-Latin panoply of restaurants on the Hill, from La Lomita to Henry’s popular Mexican/Salvadoran joint […]