A reader from Glover Park sent in this image of the cover of this year’s Northwest D.C. Your Community PhoneBook, which was recently delivered to residents in the wealthier parts of the city. According to the Community PhoneBook web site, the telephone directory covers “Northwest Washington, D.C.”, which by their definition includes only AU, Cathedral Heights, Cleveland Park, Foxhall Crescent, Friendship Heights, Georgetown, Glover Park, Palisades, Spring Valley and Tenleytown. Dupont Circle doesn’t even make the cut — so in other words, only the areas that could more accurately be described as Upper Northwest D.C. Community PhoneBook doesn’t make a directory for any other part of D.C.

That this company only targets wealthier neighborhoods isn’t the only thing that gets us — it’s hardly surprising, especially considering the D.C. Examiner famously delivers to more or less the same neighborhoods (plus Dupont Circle), and for that matter, you’d be hard pressed to find newspaper boxes for any (or certainly as many) other free publications like Express, Washington City Paper or The Onion in some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods.

But look at some of those images: a kid on a tire swing, and water skiing? This is what comes to the publishers’s mind when they think about Glover Park? Water skiing?

At least hardly anyone consults a paper version of the yellow pages anymore.