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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
Views: 627
Comments: 15
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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#11. To: crack monkey (#0)
Will Fagg....now there's a name that "builds character" during the junior high school years.
That sign was in the Dupont/17th Street area. The place where Rove and Drudge hold court. The Log Cabin Republicans are headquartered there as well. I was thinking it could just be an alias that brings in business.
OH, absolutely!
I was thinking it could just be an alias that brings in business. OH, absolutely! I think it's simply a FABULOUS way to attract a certain type of clientel.
#15. To: crack monkey (#14)
And, a way for the rest of us to avoid him!
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#12. To: orangedog (#11)
Will Fagg....now there's a name that "builds character" during the junior high school years.
#13. To: crack monkey, orangedog (#12)
I was thinking it could just be an alias that brings in business.
#14. To: robin (#13)
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