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To: The Washington Post

From: The Salt Lake Tribune

All you folks at The Washington Post are probably worried and excited about this weekend's move from your old offices on 15th Street — the place many of the rest of us may have seen so painstakingly recreated in the movie version of "All the President's Men" — to a new HQ a few blocks away at a place called Franklin Square.

We're told that it's newer, smaller, fewer rats and bugs, more windows, more attuned to the modern newspaper focus on a 24-hour digital, social media, video operation.

(I took a tour of the newsroom in 1976 while a college student in Washington. I'm pretty sure I saw Katherine Graham, Ben Bradlee and a Virginia Slade for Congress poster in a corner office.)

— Hello, new Washington Post, home to tiny offices but big new ambitions — Joel Achenbach | Washington Post Magazine [With a brief video look at the new digs.]

" ... The relocation has been going on for weeks, but this weekend marks the final valediction at the old home and the frenzied lurch from 15th and L to 13th and K. Ideally the move will be so smooth that no one will notice the slightest hiccup on the Web site, no delay in loading stories on the mobile app, no blank spots on the front page and not evn ay typpos or garblx9seies@@@. On Monday, Dec. 14, we should all be in the new home. ..."

The same thing happened, for similar reasons, at The Salt Lake Tribune back in, whoa, 2005, when we moved from the old Tribune building on Main Street a few blocks away to the Gateway Center.

If it helps you feel any better, our move, thanks mostly to herculean efforts of our IT guys, went off incredibly smoothly.

On the other hand, ever since we moved in, there's been a steady trickle of our neighbors, mostly in the retail floors below, moving out.

I hope it wasn't something we said.

Oh, and we're looking for a new moneybags owner, too. In case you have any suggestions.

— End of an era, but not a mission — Washington Post Editorial

" ... Before we turn out the lights on the old headquarters and make the move a few blocks away, it must be said that what mattered most was not the building, but the people. If you had observed our family arguments over the years, you would have seen an ambitious and self-questioning bunch, aware of our deficiencies but driven by the pursuit of truth in all its complexity and difficulty. ..."