Comments on: Lost Capitol Hill: Ptomaine Row

By: Elizabeth Festa

Elizabeth Festa — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:18:22 +0000

I had forgotten. Maybe John was trying to break up with me and making it up.. The ghost looked a bit like Lincoln.. He sat by the window on the second story of 115 C Street looking at the James madison bldg.

By: Tim Krepp

Tim Krepp — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:02:04 +0000

Liz, if you know of a ghost and you’re holding out, I will haunt you.

By: Elizabeth Festa

Elizabeth Festa — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:18:15 +0000

I know 115 C Street very well, as stayed there for awhile. My husband lived there, on the second floor, where he and his roommate joked about a ghost, and I would always been the lookout from the second floor window. Maybe you can put 115 C on the tour next year, Robert. I also know Marie Hertzberg (through a friend), so will look it up, as Ruth Overbeck was known to say. And Norm, who is a connoisseur of gourmet and gourmand diners and delis, and first told me of the G Man at Mangiolardo’s, makes me want to go back in time to these old haunts.

By: Bernadette McMahon

Bernadette McMahon — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:06:00 +0000

I lived in a second floor apartment at 115 C Street SE from Sept. 1966 until Jan. 1971. All that time, I had a view of the Jefferson Bldg. beyond the two blocks of grass (there was still some remnant of the former Carroll Street running East-West through the site). I never saw the houses that were torn down in the early 60s, but for a first hand story, see the Overbeck Project interview with Marie Hertzberg.

By: Donna Scheeder

Donna Scheeder — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:37:59 +0000

Before ground was broken, it was a parking lot. My office used to be in the Jefferson Bldg where we could look across Independence Avenue. First in late 69 it was parking. I remember Jimmies in the 200 block which was the home of the Orlando sandwich.

By: Robert Pohl

Robert Pohl — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:50:22 +0000

I was wondering what had happened to the field in the meantime – the only picture I found showed it full of rubble, but that was probably taken during the demolition.
Today it would presumably be turned into a parking lot.

By: Norman Metzger

Norman Metzger — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:41:30 +0000

Corrected website. Sorry.

By: Norman Metzger

Norman Metzger — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:40:19 +0000

Remember playing touch football, with Ted Gay and others, on then open field now occupied by the Madison Building. Also, “dining” in the late ’60s at the Neptune Inn, on the 200 block. It was cheap, edible, and filling.