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Washington, D.C., circa 1940. "Star Parking Plaza, 10th and E Streets N.W." This Motor Age landmark with Art Deco touches was erected by the publisher of the Washington Evening Star. The clock tower of the Old Post Office, soon to be the Trump Hotel D.C., rises at rear. 4x5 inch glass negative. View full size.
This isn't the site of either the FBI Building or the Hard Rock Cafe. It's the southwest corner of 10th & E, as seen looking southwest. Note the Old Post Office and Evening Star buildings in the background.
You can see an aerial view of what was on the site circa 1922 in an earlier Shorpy post,
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The corner in question is now the back side of the J Edgar Hoover FBI headquarters building.
Correct intersection, but rather than being located where the parking garage was, the Hard Rock is located in the building from where the photograph was taken (it was the Potomac Electric Power Company building at the time).
I notice the D2 bus is on its way to Trinidad. When DC's city buses were put under government ownership many years later, the new organization kept the old systems' numbering schemes. Today the D2 still exists, although now it's the Glover Park-Dupont Circle Line.
The street scene in this image is so clean and pristine, especially the smaller version, that it looks like a play set of miniatures.
Now the location of an office building that includes a Hard Rock Cafe.
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