Pointless Prize: 2023 Photo Scavenger Hunt

[DCAKen]

@bikingjenn 222166 wrote:

1/10/23 the 50s So, not to brag but…I found the best entry…beautiful Chevy Belair 1956 Vintage Station wagon in front of a 1954 built home with matching aqua accents owned by Mick from Hastings, England and his wife Barbara born in England in 1955. And, the mailbox matches the car!!! Dryer Ave, Largo FL

I was hoping to see a car with tailfins yesterday, but couldn’t find one.

[Kbikeva]

1/11/2023 The 40’s

Tonka toys, started in 1940. In the 1980s (that you skipped) I briefly temped for their maquiladora on the border. To this day, I love me a good, hard-working construction vehicle! My secret fantasy birthday gift is to have my own bulldozer. And permission to use it wherever I choose.🤣

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[consularrider]

#scavhunt – 1/12/2023 – The 40s.

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A decade mostly known for war, I’m thinking Swords to Plowshares and learn war no more. The Harry S Truman (US President for the second half of the 1940s) Building was designed at the end of the 1930s as the new home for the War Department but became the home of the US State Department in the 1940s.

[bikesnick]

1/11/2023 – ’40s
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The frist US postage stamps went on sale on 1 July 1847.

[Laurie E.]

1/11/23 40’s
St. Mary’s Catholic Church and School was founded in 1640!

[Jan Johnson]

Sculpture based on iconic and historic photo, “V-J Day in Times Square.” This was over at National Harbor.
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[Mtansill]

1/11/2023: the 40s

In 1844, the first telegraph line, which was being constructed between Washington and Baltimore, came through Bladensburg!

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[DCAKen]

1/11/2023 The 40’s

The Second World War raged for the first half of the decade.

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[JessicaH]

40s. Arlington National Cemetery

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[rumipumi]

1/11 The 40’s

Apparently great cyclists think alike although in my defense, I actually think I took this photo before [mention]Mtansill [/mention] did , just late in posting to the forum!

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[AlanA]

1/11/2023 – The 40’s

The 40’s would not exist without this!!

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[LeftyLaura]

1/11/2023 the 40s

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[HokieBeth]

1/11/23 40’s

Military style housing built in the 1940’s in the Shirlington and Fairlington areas for incoming Federal workers. The properties went up before much of the infrastructure so water, sewage and electricity were added later. Also this was segregated housing for several decades.

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[LGRides]

1/11/23 ’40s

The original Sterling Elementary School which opened in 1946.

http://lcpshistory.blogspot.com/2012/07/sterling-community-center-annex.html?m=1

[AlanA]

@bikesnick 222241 wrote:

1/11/2023 – ’40s
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The frist US postage stamps went on sale on 1 July 1847.

Hah! I took two pictures of a PO today and didn’t even know I could use them! And, that’s from the PO person from last year!

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