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Sunday, February 15, 2009

The Old Flag at Tackle Box


The old US flag, now on a wall in Tackle Box in Georgetown, dates from 1863. If you count the stars on the flag, there are 45: forty five states by that time. West Virginia had been admitted in 1863: it was the forty fifth state.

The forty-sixth would be admitted in the Union one year later, in 1864: Nevada.

The other fourteen new states that followed were Nebraska (1867), Colorado (1876), Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Washington (1889), Idaho and Wyoming (1890), Utah (1896), Oklahoma (1907), Arizona and New Mexico (1912), Alaska and Hawaii (1959).

(Tackle Box in Georgetown)

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Sunday, December 14, 2008

Selling Fish


I saw this photo on a wall at Tackle Box in Georgetown.


(America viewed by Americans)

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Friday, September 12, 2008

Tackle Box in Georgetown




Georgetown, M Street: a tackle box at the entrance of a very small restaurant. I know what such stuff is good for as I saw some while visiting my friend Jay in Maine.

Tackle Box in Georgetown. Inside no-frills tables and benches; the clients are mostly young guys, so the atmosphere is great.

You read the menus on a chalkboard: seafood of all kind; lobster on a roll seems to be the best choice. To be frank, I tried once, I was kind'o disappointed, as I had the kind memory of another lobster on a roll that I had eaten in Maine some years ago. Jay and I were on his boat on a huge lake surrounded by endless woods. We stopped by a very small island; it was as small as to carry just a seafood shack and nothing else!

I tried then several times the lobster on a roll in Quincey Market in Boston, and it was also very good.

Only this was some time ago, so memories can show stuff much better than it really was; maybe the lobster on a roll in Maine was exactly as it is on the M Street in Georgetown, plus the aura of the endless woods surrounding the huge lake, plus the small island offering room just for the seafood shack!

I tried then the wood-grilled trout: this time I felt it as marvelous! Add to this a clam chowder.

I came then several times in this place: and in some weekends when I was in other places I missed it, this Tackle Box restaurant on the M Street in Georgetown!










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