Here's the real reason this otherwise minor story is getting so much airplay.
Here's the real reason this otherwise minor story is getting so much airplay.
This would be the old Standard Oil station owned by the Martin family!
For a long time Rich's dad was the only black man in DC to actually own a gas station ~ he'd stood firm against a company buyout even when the city government (with a black mayor) was trying to force all the independents to undertake ruinously expensive modifications.
Brings back old times ~ and the Martin family was in the headlines.
NOTE: Way back when I first came to the DC area you could get an efficiency condo apartment (One room with kitchen, toilet and balcony) in the Watergate for $12,000! By the time I got out of the Army (which had slashed my income to levels where I couldn't even pay a mortgage like that) the same condo unit was selling for $120,000. Today a unit like it, with no river view, is going for $240,000. You add a full bedroom to that the price jumps OVER $500,000.
You got that right!