Just passing this along…
I was on the bus heading home when a guy on a cell phone was talking loudly to his friend about applying for a job. He said they are hiring at where he works and they need people and he’s working both the day and night shift. He also announced they are hiring at Nine West. Where he works they’ll do a background check but as long as you didn’t do anything that involves stealing it’s cool. They are paying $7 something an hour, and need cashiers and stockers (night shift). Where is this place? Burlington Coat Factory in City Place Mall in Silver Spring. They are also hiring at Rainbow at City Place. Talk to the manager, her name might be Ebony. And there is a manager named Tasha (?) at the Nine West.
But the juiciest job tip was the bouncing gig. If you are a ‘female’ and you can break up fights (specifically fights in bathrooms), somewhere there is a club looking for you and will pay $100 a night. Sadly, I got off the bus before the name of this club was revealed.
Now I just wanna bust out in a rendition of “Meeting in the Ladies Room” (youtube)
Day: September 29, 2009
Ten Days of Truxton- The Name- The Hood
Okay, I gotta book that I checked out of the library and I’ma goin’ to use it. The book is Truxtun of the Constellation by Eugene S. Furguson.
I am inspired to write for two reasons one is an article from the WP columnist John Kelly, “There is no Washington, DC– but I’m not renaming my column” and an Examiner article about the TC. In the John Kelly piece, if completely accurate supports my suspicion that people in the last few centuries weren’t sticklers when it came to place names. Federal City, Washington City, same diff. When the most accurate official and legal name isn’t high on your list of priorities sloppiness may occur. The punishment for sloppiness is that long after the responsible generation is dead later generations get to nit pick.
Seriously, someone find me PROOF, actual f*ing primary resourced proof that the Shaw neighborhood was named DIRECTLY after Robert Gould Shaw, and not the Shaw Junior High School, which was. Because prior to the 1950s I can’t find a bit of proof that the neighborhood was even called Shaw, as a neighborhood. Mid City and northwest are the only names that seem to pop up prior to the Shaw School Urban Renewal Project. I am not counting the school districting.
So, ’round the turn of the century there was the Truxton Circle (named for Thomas Truxtun) at Florida and North Capitol. I’ve heard talk that the actual circle was in Eckington. But since streets act as borders, I’m going to say it was bordering West Eckington and Old City. Eckington is a suburb of the City (of Washington).Using the journal Washington History Volume 14, No. 2 as a guide, there is Eckington(1887), Center Eckington (1891) and West Eckington(1891). These sub-divisions are on the other side of Boundary Street/ Florida Avenue and the City residents have just as much claim to the traffic circle as the Eckington and Bloomingdale(1889) ones.
So the Truxton traffic circle was a traffic hazard and it went away. But then appeared a Truxton Post Office. On Florida Avenue, NE, not helping my argument. And then sometime in the 60s or 70s it closed. Then in the 60s came the Shaw School Urban Renewal Area project of which the TC is a part of, but it appears there was no reason to call our part Truxton Circle. Then came the Ward & ANC system in the 70s where Shaw was divided, having most of Shaw in Ward 2 and the TC in Ward 5. In the late 80s when the District government was selling houses and bringing in cable, they referred to the area as Truxton Circle.
Next Ten Days of Truxton: Slavery.