LinkLinks Washington Post: Good to the last drop: The drinking straw was invented in Washington By Editor On Nov 3, 2018 58 Share If you go to 900 Franklin St. NE, you will find the Stone Straw Building. The seemingly incongruous name sounds like something from the “Three Little Pigs.” Though the building is made of bricks (not stone), it was made by straws: millions upon millions of them, all descendants of the modest paper tube invented in Washington by Marvin C. Stone. DC History 58 Share FacebookTwitterReddItWhatsAppEmailPrint
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