IN ITS EARLIEST DAYS the mile-long stretch of F Street from 15th to Fifth was called the Ridge. Until Pennsylvania Avenue was paved, it was about the only way to reach the Capitol from downtown Washington. But the name didn’t stick, and with the turn of the 20th century F Street finally came into its own. For decades it
In an era of prosperity and peace, of sporty cars and speakeasies, of Calvin Coolidge and Al Capone, he led a fashion-conscious city through the Roaring Twenties. His name was Julius Garfinckel, and in his time he reigned as the merchant prince of the nation’s capital.