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Wish We Were Here: DC Postcards #14

heydayjoe — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 13:14:28 +0000

Here’s our latest hand-altered DC postcard — both are green, both speak with accents and both sold the American people insurance against fear.

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DC’s Oldest Apartment Building Hangs On — Barely

heydayjoe — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 12:59:32 +0000

In the late-nineteenth century, DC residents weren’t too keen on living in apartment buildings. Washingtonians at the time associated “apartments” with New York City’s festering, crime-ridden tenements – filthy, overcrowded Continue Reading →

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FDR and Friday the 13th

heydayjoe — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 19:10:27 +0000

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a mild case of triskaidekaphobia — he didn’t like the number 13. He refused to travel on the 13th day of any month and would Continue Reading →

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Today Washington DC Became Capital of the United States

heydayjoe — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 16:58:25 +0000

On June 11, 1800, DC became capital of the United States, leaving the country’s former capital of the previous decade, Philadelphia, to the fate of Pennsylvanians. While Washington, DC, was Continue Reading →

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Presidential Inbreeding: Are All U.S. Presidents Related?

heydayjoe — Fri, 09 May 2014 15:10:10 +0000

Does anybody else wish we could be done with all Bushes, Clintons and Kennedys? No more Roosevelts, Harrisons or Adamses? As it turns out, ruling dynasties formed by centuries of Continue Reading →

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As American as Cherry Pie … and Sushi

heydayjoe — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 16:00:05 +0000

Each spring, thousands make their annual pilgrimage to DC to gaze in awe at the riotous blooming of the Japanese cherry trees. Poet Pablo Neruda, distinctly not Japanese, once wrote, Continue Reading →

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All the Presidents’ Pooches

heydayjoe — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 12:13:42 +0000

George Washington had a dog named Drunkard, John Adams had a dog named Satan and Abraham Lincoln had a dog named Fido. (Fido never made it to DC because Lincoln Continue Reading →

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Wish We Were Here! — DC Postcards #1

heydayjoe — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 13:39:25 +0000

Here’s the first of our senseless collection of defiled postcards, depicting all of the holiday greetings from DC that we’d love to see on the gift shop racks. Each card Continue Reading →

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