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Title: The Hood
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Published: Sep 18, 2005
Author: Self
Post Date: 2005-09-18 17:55:37 by crack monkey
Keywords: Hood
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We bought huge memory cards and special batteries for our cameras in preparation for Sept 24th. I went out to test mine today and took 160 pictures around the neighborhood. Most of them were garbage, but some were pretty interesting. I posted some below: These houses were built in about 1760. The airconditioners were added later: They are finding skeletons buried in the basements of some of these houses. They think they might have been slave quarters and burial under the floor was an african custom: These are just typical row houses in the area. They were built in about 1870: More mid 19th century row houses. There are tons of them around: People were out in period costume running an old canal boat up the canal. Here is the boat in a lock. All you can see is the roof: Here the lock has been completely filled and the boat is at the level of the tow path: Opening the lock: When the lock opens a mule starts pulling the boat up the canal: Here is the guy who helped Jeff Gannon sell his house: These people dig up their banana trees each winter and put them in a greenhouse. A lot of work just to have a stinking tropical plant in your yard: Here are some more modern row houses from the early 1900s. Notice how the row houses keep getting bigger every 20 years or so? Here is the oldest building in Georgetown. It's a store and the cealings are only about five feet high: Here is the last shot of the boat going down the canal: 
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Here are some more from the same batch: Anyone who has been to Paris will recognize this. It's one of the Guimarre Metro stops from the Belle Epoch. They must have just got it as I have never seen this before. It's out in front of the new coffee shop by the archives. The coffee shop has a Belle Epoch motif. This is a very weird sculpture. It's an 3D optical illusion that turns inside out and moves as you stare at it. I think it fooled the camera. I tried to show the trick but it doesn't show up too well: Here is a garden spider: This is supposed to shock you by being so common place. But I bet no one under thirty even knows what it is. This one is by Miro's daughter and it is kind of suggestive. I'm surprised Ashcroft hasn't gone after it. He probably doesn't have enough imagination to see what the girl is getting at. An army of strange, headless bandaged figures: I've always liked this Rabbit, or Jackass or whatever it is supposed to be: The Viet Nam memorial to women solders and nurses: This is the Watergate, the tidal gate on the canal as it lets out into the Patomic. The Watergate that Nixon broke into is visible in the background. It's named after this watergate that you see here. The decaying wood in the background is what is left of the original wooden dam. I've always liked the stonework on this condo building. I think my relationship fell apart because I chickened out of going halfies on a condo here. A street scene near Dupont. The building is now really nice condos. It used to be a mansion for one family. Another Dupont street scene" More Dupont: 17th Street where Rove and Drudge hang out with the guys:
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