Adams Morgan 1934
11 06 2008Look familiar? Amazingly over the last 70 years the buildings at the corner of 18th Street and Columbia Road NW have remained mostly unchanged other than the Peoples Drug Store being replaced by a McDonald’s. The name Adams Morgan actually didn’t come into use until the 1950s from the names of the two area High Schools.
[Photo Credit: LeRoy O. King Jr.]
Here’s what it looks like now, other than the McDonald’s awning, it is exactly the same as it was in 1934. Amazing, we just wish there were still street cars!
[Flickr Credit: larryn2009]
Love the photo!
is that a Diamond cab making a right onto Columbia?!?!
What was the area called then? Anybody know?
Actually the schools in the area were not high schools but primary K-8 schools. The Adams School was an all-white school and the Old Morgan School was an all-black school. Before it got its name, I think it was part of Kalorama and/or Lanier Heights.