Tag: Tidal Basin

During the dark early days of World War II, people in the city of Washington still found time to relax on weekends. This photo...

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. Source: Dig...

We're back to a few days of cold, nasty weather. This seems like a good time to think back to the gorgeous weekend we...

The driver of this car did and ended up in the Tidal Basin. The car made it out but two men did not. A...

Here is a great old photograph of East Potomac Park and Hains Point (which we learned about yesterday). This was taken by an airplane (obviously)...

Hains point is named for Peter Conover Hains. That was easy. You would know that if you checked Wikipedia, so I'm not really adding...

These ladies look like they're having a great time hanging out at the old Tidal Basin bathing beach. That would be an absolutely nasty...

It seems like this the Cherry Blossom Festival is a really long way away ... especially after this weekends crappy weather. So, in the...

Here's an amazing shot I found on Shorpy (what an amazing site), taken at the Tidal Basin bathing beach in 1922. The photograph is...