Would you do this today? I don't even know if you could. I can't remember the last time it was frozen completely solid. View looking east from the middle of a frozen Tidal...
Here is a nice photo from the late 1920s of two young women skating on the reflecting pool, with the Lincoln Memorial in the background. I think it's safe to say, this isn't something you're likely...
Faces & Places of Yesterday / 18.10.2012
Ice Skating in D.C. (1919)
What an eery photo from 1919. ...