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In the numbers game of the 1950s, one man was on top: ‘Whitetop’ Simkins John Kelly
In his book “I Came As a Shadow,” Big John Thompson mentions a numbers runner named Simpson. Was Simpson called “Whitetop”? Somehow, that comes to me.
Jesse Washington, is an evocative look at an earlier D.C. The famed Georgetown coach wrote about moving with his family from Anacostia to a brick house on W Street NW at age 10. “That’s where I learned that bricks hide poverty,” he wrote. “Back in Southeast we could tell which were the poor people’s houses because they were made of wood and would be falling apart. The house on W Street had a nice brick front and looked fine from the outside, but was so terrible inside it was condemned by the city after we moved out.”
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This architectural rendering provides a preliminary view of what the proposed Lidl location in Lorton will look like. (Conceptual architectural renderings done by Bignell Watkins Hasser Architects)
LORTON, VA Elm Street Development has announced a Lidl grocery store will anchor the new Liberty Market shopping center in Lorton. An opening date has not yet been announced.
The new Lidl store will be 30,000 square feet, and is a part of a project to transform the historic Lorton Reformatory into a new urban village. Lidl s building has already been approved by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, the National Park Service, and Fairfax County s Architectural Review Board. The store is currently pending building permits from Fairfax County.