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Faces & Places of Yesterday / 08.01.2014

The York Theatre in Petworth

The York Theatre in the 1920s

We came across an awesome old photo on Flickr of the York Theatre, sitting at 3640 Georgia Ave. NW, in Petworth, near the intersection with New Hampshire Ave. The York Theatre in the...

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If Walls Could Talk / 16.04.2012

If Walls Could Talk: Tivoli Theater Was “The Temple of the Arts”

Tivoli Theater (photo by Flickr user dbking)

You can't walk past the Tivoli Theater in Columbia Heights and not admire it, imagining what the surrounding streets were like in the late 1920s. The arrival of Harry...

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