We think that Woodward, Bernstein, Bradlee et al, have this whole Deep Throat thing wrong. W. Mark Felt? Seriously, didn’t the good folks over at 15th and L streets see the 1999 movie “Dick“?

In all seriousness, there is still another mystery that needs to to be cleared up. Where are the sketchy parking garages that Mr. Felt and Mr. Woodward used to exchange information? And will historic preservationists push to declare the sites landmarks?

They would probably have to be in buildings from the 1960s or early 70s. The buildings above the garages would probably have to be ugly, since that was the norm for Washington during that era.

Here are our nominations, please add to your candidates in comments:
— The Bender Building on L Street between 18th Street and Connecticut Avenue
— Any building in Crystal City or Rosslyn from the Watergate era (easy access to the District for both the Post’s ace reporters and Felt)
— The Kennedy Center parking garage (who would suspect information would be passed so close to the scene of the original crime?)
— The parking garage below what is now K’s New York Deli fka Krupin’s in Tenleytown (exchange information, then ponder said information over some whitefish salad and matzo ball soup)
— The 1926 Capital Garage (.pdf) at 1320 New York Ave. NW, which was torn down in 1974 (Did Felt have the building demolished to cover his tracks?) According to “Capital Losses,” the journalist Charles McDowell Jr. sang the praises of the garage before it was razed. From Capital Losses:

How tense and giddy it was to park a car in a living monument. Your lights were on to see you through the dark places and give warning to others. … Headlights: Horns: Squealing tires: you backed down a ramp and into an odd corner, and a white-faced fellow-adventurer would come down past you with a fraternal wave.

A dark place … a “white-faced fellow-adventurer” … it sounds like a perfect place to bring down the Nixon administration.