These days, Rosslyn is home to miles of national chains, the Georgetown Waterfront boasts some of the city's best restaurants, and local residents are up in arms about a single, benign chimney on Georgetown University's campus.
Shows how much the area has changed. For a few years, the District Department of Transportation has been searching its archives for interesting artifacts about the D.C. area. And the photos they recently released of the District in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s, show a very different D.C. than the one we know today.
Rosslyn, for instance, used to be a smattering of stores and railyards, connected to Georgetown by a very empty Key Bridge. This photo was taken of the Virginia town in 1945:
The Georgetown Waterfront, from the looks of this photo taken in 1946, was almost all factories:
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To see more photographs of what Georgetown looked like 70, 90, or even 110 years ago, please visit the new Peabody Room, "Georgetown's Attic," at the Georgetown Branch Library when it reopens on R Street, NW this October!
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