Security Cameras for Condo
Top Stories
PoP Pre-Preview: Three Little Pigs, Charcuterie & Salumi Holy Cow, Meth Lab Fire in Dupont Tues. Night? The New Orleans PoBoy Shop Opening in Dupont in AprilNeighborhoods
Adams MorganCapitol HillColumbia HeightsH St. NELogan Circle16th St. heightsAnacostiaBloomingdaleBrightwoodBrooklandCapitol Riverfront/Navy YardChevy ChaseCleveland ParkCrestwoodDowntownDupont CircleEckingtonEdgewoodFoggy BottomForest HillsFriendship HeightsFt. TottenGeorgetownGlover ParkHill EastKaloramaLedroit ParkMt. PleasantMt. Vernon SquareNoMaPalisadesPark ViewPenn Quarter/ChinatownPetworthPleasant PlainsSW WaterfrontShawTakomaTenleytownTrinidadTruxton CircleU StreetVan NessWest EndWoodland-NormanstoneWoodley Park
See MoreRecent Forum Posts
Recent Classifieds
What the Helen of Troy is This?
I can’t remember if we’ve ever spoken about this wild sight. It is not one of those paper things but is actually built into the concrete. It’s located in what’s now a parking lot across from the Convention Center. Presumably this was some sort of club back in the day? Anyone know for sure?
Whenever this lot is developed, it’d be cool if they were able to preserve the vestige from a previous era.
Category: Mt. Vernon Square, What the Helen of Troy is This?
Blog Categories
Featured Real Estate Listings
Most Commented This Week
115
COMMENTS
Friday Question of the Day - Favorite Cheap Eats?
02 February 2012 4:19 PM
90
COMMENTS
Vicious Burglary and Assault in Ledroit Park
02 February 2012 9:51 AM
60
COMMENTS
Sounds Like it's From a Movie, Sadly, This Really Happened
05 February 2012 3:11 PM
43
COMMENTS
Black and Orange Burgers Opens Up at 14th and U St, NW
01 February 2012 9:43 AM
41
COMMENTS
Holy Cow, Meth Lab Fire in Dupont Tues. Night?
03 February 2012 10:25 AM
Recent Comments
Anonymous
12:05am
escape pod. 
concerned
12:05am
The interior looks fabulous. I can't wait to check it out. I hope the owners can do away...
Anonymous
11:58pm
Wash Vegas!!!!
parkviewj
11:49pm
What a sweet transformation. Hopefully they'll have great selection and prices.
Shutit
11:46pm
And yet so many other ethnicities have been the target of that very same socio-economic...
Looks like a crime scene.
Not a club. I don’t remember if it was a tailor/dry cleaner or a clothing store.
Ask Alex Padro, at Shaw Main Street. He was the one who told me what it is, so I know he knows.
I’ve seen this before, and always assumed that there was a men’s clothing store there at one time.
I was told by a local historian that it was a tailor back in the day. And I think that lot will be incorporated into the new convention center hotel that should break ground really soon (hopefully!).
I remember seeing it explained in detail somewhere out there on the Web. It’s the remnants of the terrazzo entrance to an old store. I believe the road was widened at some point, taking away some of the sidewalk that would’ve been in front of it.
Sweet city sign!
Atras en el dia.
Jimmy Hoffa casual wear.
Isn’t there cowboy boots next to it (under the cone)
Here’s a picture of it from 1994. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kinorama/4427919031/in/set-72157623412752062/
It was a iconic destination for the first generation of urban explorers (ie white kids who went into DC at night near the old Greyhound station) It has survived for many years due to the unspoken respect paving companies have from covering it over by mistake. How it survives is a mystery.