The Columbia Pike Documentary Project is a multi-disciplinary history of Columbia Pike in Arlington, VA, one of Americas most-ethnically diverse communities. Paula Endo, Lloyd Wolf, Mimi Xang Ho, Duy Tran, Aleksandra Lagkueva, Lara Ajami, and other team members have been using photography and oral history to document life along the Pike. The project is sponsored by the Columbia Pike Revitalization Organization Contact: Lloyd Wolf- lloydwolf@lloydwolf.com or www.pikedoc.org
New businesses have come to the Pike, and people are emerging after winter's cold and to some extent from the health restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Greens N Teff Cafe is a plant-based Ethiopian restaurant, and Eska, a family-style middle eastern restaurant and hookah lounge with Palestinian roots that shows great promise, is opening soon on the site of the controversial former Purple Lounge.
Dollar Plus Mattress store at 4801-A Columbia Pike, has a wide range of items for sale for the home, kitchen, clothing, shoes, tools, mattresses, and specializes in a products from Morocco. The owners are vey warm and helpful, the prices quite a bargain, and the atmosphere is redolent with North African charm.
Photography by Lloyd Wolf and Lara Ajami.
