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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: 646
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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#1. To: crack monkey (#0)
Wonderful pics! Thank you.
Wonderful photos CM. Here is the guy who helped Jeff Gannon sell his house: Will Fagg "1-866-Hey-Will" Sometimes ya can't make stuff up like real life.
"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny." – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
These are fantastic! Where is this place? It's just beautiful!
I remember learning from my Girl Scout trip to D.C. and Williamsburg that Dolly Madison was only 5'1" and considered tall and stately. The average height for a man was 5'5" and at 6' General George Washington was a giant among men.
"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny." – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
It's DC between Dupont circle and about Wisconsin. I was walking from just west of Dupont Circle down to the camera shop on about M and Wisconsin when I took these photos.
Okay, I've been over there before but I don't remember the boats and the locks.. Parts of DC really are beautiful..
The canal is about half way between M and the Harbor. It's pretty high off the Patomic there. You can miss it if you are in a hurry crossing the little bridges.
well, darn, we should have planned the trip up there. we'll have to do it for another event. great pics!
Dan Quayle was asked one time what he thought of Roe Vs. Wade. He responded they are two different ways to cross the Potomic.
Are we but an organic computer influenced by our environment to desire one set of neuropeptides over another, equating into competition for self worth on a primitive level never realized by the shallow and self empowering.
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:
Will Fagg....now there's a name that "builds character" during the junior high school years.
"If you're not cynical, then you're not paying attention."
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!
"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny." – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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.
And, a way for the rest of us to avoid him!
"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny." – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
#2. To: crack monkey (#0)
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Here is the oldest building in Georgetown. It's a store and the cealings are only about five feet high:
#5. To: Lady X (#3)
Where is this place?
#6. To: crack monkey (#5)
#7. To: Lady X (#6)
#8. To: crack monkey, Hmmmmm, Jethro Tull, Zipporah (#0)
#9. To: christine (#8)
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#11. To: crack monkey (#0)
Here is the guy who helped Jeff Gannon sell his house
#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.
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