Pointless Prize: 2023 Photo Scavenger Hunt

[Kbikeva]

1/30/2023 FDR

He did love his cigars…

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[rumipumi]

1/30 FDR

My son is a graduate of Eleanor Roosevelt high school in Greenbelt, Maryland. Eleanor Roosevelt was of course married to FDR and Greenbelt it self was part of an FDR initiative to build planned, utopian communities.

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I had no idea he would actually be wearing his Roosevelt high school band hoodie when I went up to UMD to drop off a mathbook to him on my afternoon ride!

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[bikesnick]

1/30/2023 – Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The FDIC was created by the Banking Act of 1933, enacted during the Great Depression to restore trust in the American banking system, and signed into law by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

[consularrider]

#scavhunt – 1/30/2023 – 141st Birthday of FDR

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[LeftyLaura]

1/30/2023 Franklin D Roosevelt

Original name: North Road
Name changed by ordinance on October 26, 1992.
On September 27, 2021, the following information was relayed:
Mr. and Mrs. Newton Jr. had a house constructed on North Road in Boonton Township in 1986. When the 911 service was installed in 1992, the township advised that a name change of North Road was required to avoid confusion with North Glen Road. Mr. and Mrs. Newton, Jr. asked if they could name the road, pending the township’s approval of the new name. The Newton family selected the name “Whispering Pines” to reflect the white pine trees behind their house that had been planted by the CCC in 1933.
The CCC or Citizens Conservation Corp was a work relief program that gave millions employment on environmental projects during the Great Depression. Considered by many to be one of the most successful of Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, the CCC planted more than three billion trees and constructed trails and shelters in more than 800 parks nationwide during its nine years of existence. The CCC helped to shape the modern national and state park systems known today.
Thank you, Dorothy and George Edward Newton, Jr., for providing the history of Whispering Pine Road.

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[cvcalhoun]

1/30/2020 FDR
From Bethesda Magazine:

Stimulus money injected into the U.S. economy by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs would bring new additions to the avenue’s streetscape, as well. In 1938, under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a new, classically inspired post office was built on Wisconsin Avenue. The neo-Georgian building was constructed out of native stone trucked in from the Stoneyhurst Quarries out River Road.

The building is no longer a Post Office, but you can still see the words “United States Post Office Bethesda Maryland” if you zoom in.

[LhasaCM]

1/30 – FDR

One of two cabinet members to last FDR’s entire term, Frances Perkins was the first woman to serve in the cabinet, and thus the first to be in the Presidential line of succession. She was the longest serving Secretary of Labor at 12 years, and she helped design the Social Security system. The DOL headquarters is named in her honor, dedicated as such in 1980 on what would have been her 100th birthday.

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[Boomer Cycles]

1-30/23 – FDR’s birthday

George Washington Middle School in Alexandria, VA was completed in 1936. It was funded by the Public Works Administration (PWA) with a grant of $300,000 made in 1933. PWA was a highlight of FDR’s New Deal.

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[AlanA]

1/30/2023 – FDR

Sunrise with FDR.

I was leaving town, so I had to do a short early ride so I could get this picture at Fount Rushmore.

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[camiller]

1/30/2023 FDR Birthday

During the Great Depression people had lost confidence in banks and were withdrawing money to store at home. On Monday, March 6, 1933. President Roosevelt issued Proclamation 2039 ordering the suspension of all banking transactions. On March 9, The Emergency Banking Act of 1933 was signed by FDR. The act was done to restore people’s confidence in the banking system. It allowed the banks to reopen as soon as examiners found them to be financially secure. Later that year, on June 16, 1933, The Banking Act of 1933 was signed by FDR. This act created the FDIC to further increase people’s confidence in the American banking system.

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[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

1/30/23 Monday – Franklin D. Roosevelt? He was born on this day.
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[CBGanimal]

1/30/2023 Franklin D Roosevelt

Not to be outdone by karenbikes2 but I had the same idea…

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[JoM]

1/30/2023 FDR

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On June 19, 1934, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Public Law 73-432 establishing a National Archives of the United States Government.

The National Archives can be seen as a symbol of FDR’s commitment to history and learning, which he iterated at the dedication of his library. He said that a nation “must believe in the past. It must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.”

[drevil]

1/30/23 FDR

Frankie and Ellie’s crib from 1916-1920 on R St NW, and is now the ambassador of Mali’s residence. Article from 1978, when the house sold for $350,000!

[Catedrew]

1/30/23 – Franklin D. Roosevelt

It’s amazing what you find if you just happen to look down. I was riding tonight, and had to toss something in the closest trash can, and my bike light caught something on the ground, and lo and behold, a penny and a dime. And the dime has an image of FDR’s profile.

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