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1/27/21 tunnel

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Parkview Recreation Center, Warder and Otis NW

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1/26/21 Wayne Gretzky

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1/25/21 bubbles

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1/23/21 pie
Or rather, what was left of it. Pie Sisters bourbon chocolate pecan

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@tomacsh 206093 wrote:

Silver Spring Post Office
8412 Georgia Ave…built in 1936. “Colonial Revival” style.

The history of the establishment of this post office in 1899 is fascinating. Prior to then, mail arrived to the B&O Railroad station just 2 blocks from this site (south); however the Silver Spring Post Office was located further north near the intersection of Colesville Rd and Georgia. And there was a toll gate between, so inhabitants to the south had to pay a toll of 2cents to cross and retrieve their mail! Gist Blair, grandson of the founder of Silver Spring and son of Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General under President Lincoln, petitioned to have a post office built south of the toll station to give rural southern residents relief, and it was established by President McKinley in May of 1899.

Sadly the USPS sold this location in 1981. You’ll never guess what’s housed here today…

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Nice! Does it have any murals inside? And what is there now?

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1/22/21 polka dots
Polka Dot Park

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1/21/21 Adidas

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1/20/21 president’s name post-FDR and not a yard sign or car

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@CBGanimal 205845 wrote:

I knew someone would remember this one!!!

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It’s within blocks of my house. I didn’t even have to think about it– just told Rumi that that was where we were going.

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Vanadu isn’t strictly public, but it is freely accessible to the public. The cars are all parked in front of the (equally decorative) house of Nicholson street in Hyattsville where it intersects Queen’s Chapel Rd. (artist is Clark Bedford).

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1/10/21 beetle

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@JoM 205731 wrote:

The Works Progress Administration’s (WPA) and the National Youth Administration (NYA) undertook crucial preservation work at the Frederick Douglass home (“Cedar Hill”) along the Anacostia River in Southeast Washington DC, where the great abolitionist writer and former slave lived and worked from 1878 to his death in 1895. The restoration work was focused on Douglass’ papers, library and artifacts, and on improvements to the extensive grounds of the estate.

This is such a great (and under-visited) historic site in DC! IT’s definitely on my top-ten when people come to visit the city.

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1/18/21 #publicartfinder featuring (or by) BIPOC.
I posted a different pic of this mural in #publicartfinder earlier this month.

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At the western end of the Marvin Gaye trail.

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