Shorpy, “the 100-year-old photo blog” has a photo posted today that reminded me of a picture I took last December in Washington, DC. Here’s the photo on Shorpy, taken by Louise Rosskam in 1941:
And here’s the photo I took:
At first I thought it was the same store: both are on N Street SE in Washington DC. But on closer inspection I don’t think they’re the same; the upper story windows and other details don’t match up. The store in my photograph is across from the construction site of the new Washington Nationals baseball stadium, and I haven’t been able to figure out where Shulman’s market is on a DC map.
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Eliza, thanks for the photo! He is a different view of the store: http://www.shorpy.com/files/images/1a34424u.jpg … the street number is either 485½ or 405½.
Thanks for the second view, Dave. The colors in both are just amazing. The shot I took was the building on the NW corner of N Street and Half Street SE. (Two blocks east of the arrow on this map). Unfortunately I can’t seem to get Google maps to show me where 405 1/5 or 485 1/2 N Street is.
I did a little more research and posted the results in the comments under the pic. The address was 485 1/2 N Street SW. Union Street seems to have disappeared or been renamed. Here is 485 N Street SW today, according to live.com:
http://tinyurl.com/3do3m3
Here’s a map showing the now-vanished intersection of Union and N.
Nice research, Dave! And what a great old map. It looks like Shulman’s market is 7 blocks west of the store in my photo.
Dave’s link ( http://www.shorpy.com/files/images/1a34424u.jpg )
is a broken one at this moment.
ays
alex
and the other one (of the map) http://www.shorpy.com/images/photos/union_street_washington.jpg too!
You’re right, Alex. I’ll see if I can get this foxed…