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Colorized 1964 photo of a man in a dark suit and bow tie watching an older Black woman in a plaid dress and head scarf arrange vegetables, with bushel baskets of green beans, cabbages and potatoes, under a market shedUnion Market Was Built on an Old Army Camp and Circus Lot16 min readEpisodeAI-colorized view of the new Hecht Co. store at Parkington, a green brick building with a glass facade and workers on scaffolding, with a line of late-1940s cars parked along North Glebe Road in October 1951When Hecht’s Opened Parkington, 60,000 Shoppers Showed Up8 min readTwelve-year-old Linda Bowman looks out her kitchen window near Fairfax Station at the farm field chosen for a Nike missile launching site in 1954.The Nike Missiles of Fairfax County9 min readTongsun Park, in glasses and a paisley tie, raises his right hand to be sworn in, with the Great Seal of the United States behind him.Koreagate’s Clubhouse: Tongsun Park’s George Town Club8 min read
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The two-story brick Columbia fire engine house on St. Asaph Street in Alexandria, with twin arched engine doors, a large arched window and a brick bell tower, about 1918 to 1920.The Secondhand Fire Engine Behind Old Town’s Columbia FirehouseRock Spring Club, a three-story frame clubhouse with striped awnings on Conduit Road, about 1897Conduit Road Roadhouses: DC’s Vice Strip Over the LineProgram cover for Danny Kaye and his All-Star International Show at the Carter Barron Amphitheater, August 21-27 1956Carter Barron Amphitheater: The Golden Age of Concerts in Rock Creek ParkTed’s Bulletin History: From 1928 Brick Store to Capitol Hill’s Culinary Staple
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Lincoln Memorial in 1917Lincoln Memorial History: Construction, Designs, the Secret Basement, and the Swamp It Was Built On17 min read
The Bayou exterior in 1977 with the Whitehurst Freeway overhead at 3135 K Street NW, GeorgetownThe Bayou: 45 Years Under the Whitehurst Freeway18 min readEpisodeA hatchet photographed in 2004 that a Wikimedia Commons contributor identified as the one thrown in the 1970 Bunny Man incidentIs the Bunny Man Real? The 1970 Story and Bunny Man Bridge7 min readsoldiers stand guard on Chain Bridge during the Civil War (Library of Congress)Chain Bridge: The Chains Behind the Name6 min readThe Story of Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska’s Mansion5 min read