Pointless Prize: 2023 Photo Scavenger Hunt

[Boomer Cycles]

01/13/2023 – the 20s

Memorial Bridge construction began in 1926 though it was not finished until 1931, and not opened to vehicular traffic until 1932.

Symbolically, the bridge was designed to show the strength of a united nation by joining a memorial on the north side of the Potomac River (the Lincoln Memorial) with one on the south (Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial). Memorial Bridge and Avenue also connect the nation’s capital to Arlington National Cemetery, where thousands who died fighting to preserve democratic government have been laid to rest. It is lined with monuments and memorials to such diverse figures as Admiral Byrd, the Seabees, Valor, and Sacrifice. In total, seven memorials have been installed along Memorial Avenue: the first in 1961 and the last in 2001.

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[AlanA]

1/13/2023 – The 20’s

Since this is the 20’s, any picture I took today recorded a moment of the 20’s. Specifically, Friday, January 13, 2023.

This is the picture I’m going with since it required a bit of an effort to get to.

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[DCAKen]

1/13/2023 – the 20s

During the Roaring Twenties, Chicago was known world-wide as a hotbed of gangsters, hootch, and shootouts. The most famous mobster as Al Capone, running the Chicago Outfit until his conviction on tax evasion in 1931. His men committed the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in 1929 (which was also memorialized in the movie “Some Like It Hot”)

[LeftyLaura]

Oh my!! I was just there and walked past those vases. When scrolling I spotted your post. Good catch!!

[LeftyLaura]

1/13/2023 the 20s

Toys of the twenties (1920s, not 2020s) were definitely sex specific so the Erector Set was for boys. It continues to be a pasttime and has been copied with many plastic building sets.

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[LeftyLaura]

@Jan Johnson 222429 wrote:

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#scavhunt “the 20s”. I took this photo from outside of Beckmann Place Antiques on the W&OD in Vienna. These vases look inspired by the Art Deco movement of the 1920s.

Oh my!! I was just there and walked past those vases. When scrolling I spotted your post. Good catch!!

[camiller]

1/13/2023 20’s

Inscription on Historic Marker: The Fairfax Rosenwald School or “Fairfax Colored School” was constructed in 1925–26 on this site. It replaced an earlier African-American school on Main Street east of the Fairfax Cemetery. In 1917, Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., formed the Julius Rosenwald Fund, a philanthropic foundation that funded construction of over 5,000 schools for African-Americans across the rural south between 1917 and 1932. The Fairfax Rosenwald School was one of four such schools built in Fairfax County. It was demolished in 1951 and replaced by Eleven Oaks School.

Check out this paper (the abstract has a great summary) on the impact of the Rosenwald Schools on Black achievement. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED509827.pdf

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[LeftyLaura]

@camiller 222447 wrote:

1/13/2023 20’s

Inscription on Historic Marker: The Fairfax Rosenwald School or “Fairfax Colored School” was constructed in 1925-26 on this site. It replaced an earlier African-American school on Main Street east of the Fairfax Cemetery. In 1917, Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck u0026 Co.. formed the Julius Rosenwald Fund, a philanthropic foundation that funded struction of over 5,000 schools for African- Americans across the rural https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED509827.pdfsouth between 1917 and 1932. The Fairfax Rosenwald School was one of four such schools built in Fairfax County. It was demolished in 1951 and replaced by Eleven Oaks School.

Check out this paper (the abstract has a great summary) on the impact of the Rosenwald Schools on Black achievement. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED509827.pdf

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And the Legato School closed in 1930. Fairfax County School Board had its first meeting in the 1920s. That’s all I know of FCPS history in the 20s.

[camiller]

@Serdar 222380 wrote:

Dear fellow riders! Thank you for your participation and great photos. It takes work to decide on the day’s winner of the main prize. And special thanks for so many photos about the history of the USA!

But I would like to remind the rules. Please, reread them. The most violated rules are #9 and #11. Please, post only one photo, and do not bring items from home.

1. Obvs, you should be a participant in Freezing Saddles ’23
2. It has to be on a bike ride on the day it was requested
3. For the main competition, it has to be posted in the Forum on the day for which it was requested, i.e., 12:01 AM EST to 11:59 PM EST for the day it was requested. Sorry, we won’t count the ones that aren’t posted for the day it was requested. That’s part of the challenge.
4. The reason we say “for the day it is requested” is because we will release a weekly list of scavenger hunt items ahead of time, with one item for each day — but don’t take and/or post the pic until that day comes.
5. We will update the Scavenger Hunt theme weekly on this thread and Strava. We will try to update it in advance of the week ahead so you have time to make plans!
6. Your Forum post must be titled with the date and the found object/theme. Example: IF the item for January 1st were “borscht,” you would title your Forum post: 1/1/2023 borscht
7. Description, short backstory, or location are optional (but nice). That said, if your pic is abstract or not relatable to my request, please explain (e.g., I ask for “happiness,” and you post a pic of a tennis ball you found on a ride, please explain how that tennis ball = happiness)
8. It has to be a picture you took. You don’t need to be in the photo, but if you are in it, it either has to be a selfie or done with a self-timer
9. Only one pic/day should be posted in the Forum. Please only pad by adding one pic/day. (You can include as many photos as possible on your Strava ride.)
10. It has to be a picture, not a video.
11. Let’s stick to things you find out there during your ride, not things you bring or make yourself (unless otherwise specified). Example 1: Don’t scratch it into the dirt if I say find “2023”. Example 2: if I say find a flower, don’t bring a flower with you on your ride and take a pic of that. This takes the fun out of looking for things, which is the whole point.
12. Unless specified otherwise, your bike does not have to be in the photo.
13. Found item needs to be clear and discernible (or legible if text) in the picture. If you are using Tapatalk and are having trouble posting pics that are large enough, let us know, and I/we can help you with it.
14. Filters are OK, but no obvious/blatant photoshopping… not that we would know anything about such things.

Thanks,
Serdar

Oops. Several of my “photos” were a collage so I was thinking it was just one photo. I’ll stop doing collages.

[consularrider]

#scavhunt – 1/13/2023 – The 20s

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Most of us have lived in two of the 20s centuries, don’t think I’ll make it to a third

[CBGanimal]

1/13/2023 20s

After seeing two vehicles crash into each other Garrett Morgan invented the traffic signal in 1923

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[rumipumi]

1/13 the 20’s

I went grocery shopping by bike to the Lidl.

Nothing more 2020’s than pandemic grocery shopping in our masks [emoji40]

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[Serdar]

@camiller 222450 wrote:

Oops. Several of my “photos” were a collage so I was thinking it was just one photo. I’ll stop doing collages.

Collages that are uploaded as one file are considered one photo.

[bikingjenn]

1/13/23 The 20s–went with 2020s specifically around 3/2020 with the advent of the N95 or surgical mask as a part of daily outerwear

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[Serdar]

@camiller 222447 wrote:

1/13/2023 20’s

Inscription on Historic Marker: The Fairfax Rosenwald School or “Fairfax Colored School” was constructed in 1925-26 on this site. It replaced an earlier African-American school on Main Street east of the Fairfax Cemetery. In 1917, Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck u0026 Co.. formed the Julius Rosenwald Fund, a philanthropic foundation that funded struction of over 5,000 schools for African- Americans across the rural https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED509827.pdfsouth between 1917 and 1932. The Fairfax Rosenwald School was one of four such schools built in Fairfax County. It was demolished in 1951 and replaced by Eleven Oaks School.

Check out this paper (the abstract has a great summary) on the impact of the Rosenwald Schools on Black achievement. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED509827.pdf

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This is a collage. Therefore, I count it as one photo.

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