This photo was linked on the other Thomas Circle photo. Just shows how nice that entire area used to look.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Thomas_Circle_...

Peoples is gone, but there's still a drugstore here -- just across 14th Street, with an address on Vermont Avenue. It's a CVS and, like its predecessor of eight decades, open all night, though not the pharmacy part.

I recall this area for its nighttime population and activities, with the drugstore as a focus. The trend has been upscale -- however, a May 2022 a shooting led to the "closing" of Thomas Circle and the clearing of its homeless encampment.

For these pictures around Thomas Circle, here's the center of the Circle. Statue of George Thomas, a noted general of the Civil War. He was known as the "Rock of Chickamauga", for his defense of the Union position there, and the "Sledge of Nashville" for his victory there. And "Old Pap" to his loyal troops. He refused to take action, even when pressed by Grant, until situation was favorable. When an instructor at West Point, he protected horses from overwork, and was known as "Slow Trot Thomas". After the war Sherman wrote that Thomas' service was "transcendent", a slow and methodical transcendent general.