Monuments and Memorials Pointless Prize

[HokieBeth]

Sure you know the big three, Lincoln, Jefferson and Washington, but did you know there are over 160 monuments and memorials just in DC, including one to singer Sonny Bono? For this pointless prize simply ride at least 1 mile and snap a pic of your bike at a monument or memorial.

Other rules:
– only one per day and only one visit per memorial, meaning you only get one point for a post of the Washington monument. However you can include multiple memorials to the same person. For example there are two memorials to FDR in DC, you can get a point for each if posted on separate days.
– your bike must be in the photo
– name & location the monument/memorial must be included
– for this pointless prize a monument/memorial must be either a statue, commemorative plaque or sign of cultural or historic significance and must identify the name of the person or persons being memorialized
– not included are tombstones, gravestones, or painted murals
-use hashtag #monuments in your post

Prizes:
1st prize is a private 3-hour professional bike tour of the National Mall monuments and memorials for you and up to 3 friends! Tour includes stops at the Capitol, the White House and more than 10 other sites with historical background and cultural significance of the memorial provided by your guide.

2nd prize is the book “25 Bike Tours in Washington DC” by Anne H. Oman

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[Steve O]

Out on a #namegame ride, I happened upon this at the St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes Upper School in Alexandria:

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[Sophie CW]

@consularrider 215360 wrote:

Wait, you went to Queens and didn’t try to get a ride with me?

Haha… I am here visiting with family.

[Sophie CW]

I don’t understand why the Whitestone Veterans Memorial is fenced and not open to the public. Is the Whitestone, NY neighborhood that bad but I never knew it growing up?
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[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

Daniel Serrano was a 16 year old boy who lived around the block from my house. He died in a hit and run when crossing the street on 12/29/18. They never did find the person who ran him down. This is a memorial that his friends constructed for him at the scene of the accident. It was a little disheveled so I straightened it up.
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[BianchiBoy]

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Odell Road at the top of the “Odell Bump.” It must have been a wild time at Van Horn’s Tavern as the victorious Count de Rochambeau and his army took a break from their march from Yorktown. The trip to Yorktown is worth it. When I was there a couple years ago Redoubt #10 (taken by Hamilton) was about to fall into the bay.

[Sophie CW]

In celebration of Black History Month, I love this William B Gibbs Jr Memorial located on Gibbs Street in the Rockville Town Center. This teacher of the Rockville Colored School fought with Thurgood Marshall for equal pay for black educators in 1936. He was a civil rights advocate when he volunteered to be the NAACP’s plaintiff against Montgomery County.
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https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/william-b-gibbs-jr-1905-1984/

[consularrider]

looks like I forgot to post yesterday’s memorial sighting. As in the PublicArtFinder, York, PA is target rich in Monuments and Memorials. I stopped on W Market opposite the Post Office for the “Colonial Complex,” which includes the Golden Plough Tavern and the General Horatio Gates House picture here with the Gen Gates statue next to my bike. the Second Continental Congress worked out of York during the winter of 1777-1778, and adopted the Articles of Confederation.

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[CBGanimal]

2/3/2022 Monument this famous radio and TV antena building now stands as a monument for RTVE (radio television España)

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[consularrider]

“Cuban Friendship Urn” West Potomac park

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[BianchiBoy]

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Lakeland Historical Markers, College Park, depicting the story of the historic Black neighborhood. The story of Lakeland mirrors the experience of Black people during legalized segregation in the United States. From the 1960s through the mid-1980s, the urban renewal process in Lakeland demolished many family homes, displaced 104 of 150 households, leaving only a third of original Lakelanders in the community.

[Serdar]

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President Gerald Ford Park at 1426 Janneys Ln in Alexandria

[BianchiBoy]

@consularrider 212264 wrote:

Shakespeare’s A$$ in Central Park, NYC. From 1864 on the 300th anniversary of his birth. Had to take his backside since there was no name on the front.

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Guy had some guns.

[Sophie CW]

The Clarence “Pint” Isreal Park is adjacent to the Lincoln Park Community Center in Rockville includes a baseball field to memorialize this player in the Negro Leagues. He graduated from the Rockville Colored High School in 1935. #blackhistory
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https://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?playerID=isrea01cla

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

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If you zoom in to see the detail in the plaque, you’ll see that this bench is dedicated to Phil Calkins, a hand cyclist. I used to see him on the W&OD in the Vienna area all the time and didn’t know until today when I discovered this memorial bench that he’d died. Phil spent his life advocating for disability rights. He served on the Congressional Task Force on the Rights and Empowerment of Americans with Disabilities where he collected and analyzed data on discrimination against the disabled. This evidence was used to help raise public awareness about the need for legal protections for people with disabilities (in advance of the passage of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act).

[CBGanimal]

2/4/2022 monument of Enrique Iniesta a musician taking Spanish music around the world

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