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AI-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 UpTwelve-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 CountyTongsun 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 ClubCaroline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr. in Halloween costumes with President Kennedy in the Oval Office, 1963Washington Used to Trick-or-Treat a Night Early
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In this morning’s emailAI-colorized historical photograph of shops, gas pumps, and a yellow stop sign at the rural Tysons Corner crossroadsWho Was the Tyson Behind Tysons Corner?Senior Prom at the White House: Susan Ford’s Class of 1975EpisodeSt. Aloysius Church today at 19 I Street NW, the brick Renaissance Revival church still standing in NoMaSwampoodle: The Lost Irish Neighborhood Union Station Erased
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1791 L'Enfant Plan of the new cityWhy Is There No J Street in Washington, DC?Episode
Rowhouses in the Trinidad neighborhood of Northeast DC, March 2007How Washington’s Trinidad Neighborhood Got Its NameWillie McCover 1974 Topps Washington "Nat'l Lea"1974 Washington Padres: Topps Cards for the ‘Washington Stars’AI-generated illustration of a horned, goat-faced figure in a misty forestThe Maryland Goatman: The Real 1970s Story Behind the LegendEpisodeAI illustration of the HKS Architects ballpark concept on the Potomac, with the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and Capitol beyond center fieldThe Stadium That Almost Brought the Nationals to Arlington