Washington Post Employees Took Lots of Photos With Their Old Sign

The Washington Post‘s sign vanished from its building on 15th Street, northwest, Tuesday. The paper plans to move to Franklin Square by mid-December. The old sign will be preserved inside the new building, on the fourth floor, HR VP Wayne Connell told employees in a memo Monday, reminding them, “If you’d like a last-minute photo of the building with our sign still in place, now would be the time to take it.”

Here are some of the people who took him up on the offer. Send me links to your selfies/portraits with the sign: abeaujon@washingtonian.com.

First day of the new gig, last day with our #washingtonpost sign before we move. But really sharing this pic because of @larimers and her A+ photo bombing skillz.

A photo posted by Abby D. Phillip (@abbydaniella) on Oct 19, 2015 at 3:09pm PDT

Taking in the last day of the @washingtonpost sign on 15th Street. It’s moving with us to our new HQ in December.

A photo posted by Philip Rucker (@philiprucker) on Oct 19, 2015 at 10:57am PDT

The @washingtonpost building move gets real tomorrow with the removal of the sign on 15th Street. Here’s one last one for old time’s sake! Photo by @mckennaewen

A photo posted by Chloe Magner (@missmagner) on Oct 19, 2015 at 3:06pm PDT

Last day of landmark @washingtonpost sign on 15th St, advanced screening of @spotlightmovie and follow-up interview with Marty Baron. Quite the WaPo week. #whatsoldisnew

A photo posted by Jessie Niewold (@jlniewold) on Oct 21, 2015 at 6:56pm PDT

Preparing to move, Washington Post removes its sign: https://t.co/n2kOvm65BX Here’s me outside the building in 1975 pic.twitter.com/dUxo9yv9ap

— Stephen C. Fehr (@scfehr1) October 20, 2015

This Washington Post sign was taken down today, in anticipation of our December move from … https://t.co/AEIg9s0DGA pic.twitter.com/8h4kZSC4NC

— Maura Judkis (@MauraJudkis) October 20, 2015

They’re tearing the sign down in front of the @washingtonpost tomorrow so we snagged a photo real quick. pic.twitter.com/KXKYM0DAQy

— Steven Rich (@dataeditor) October 19, 2015

photo day on 15th St. Our sign comes down tomorrow; will be inside the new HQ @washingtonpost pic.twitter.com/DrwOIllIku

— Richard Leiby (@richleiby) October 20, 2015

This one is perhaps the best, and it’s not even taken by a Post employee!

I grabbed a cliché selfie before the sign could come down. http://t.co/qMnw2k6L8B pic.twitter.com/AeOOsVVssQ

— Teak Phillips (@TeakPhillips) October 19, 2015

Here are two Post staffers who showed up too late to get the sign in their selfie: Joe Heim, left, and Steve Hendrix.

Andrew Beaujon

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Andrew Beaujon joined Washingtonian in late 2014. He was previously with the Poynter Institute, TBD.com, and Washington City Paper. His book A Bigger Field Awaits Us: The Scottish Soccer Team That Fought the Great War was published in 2018. He lives in Del Ray.