LeftyLaura
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LeftyLauraParticipant1/17/23 – Prohibition
With prohibition forever, there wouldn’t be bike shops with beer! Thank you Green Lizard!
Photo fails to load on all three of my devices. I’m too frustrated to continue. If you want the photo, go to Strava.
LeftyLauraParticipant1/16/2023 – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
A day of service, friends of the W&OD participated in BikeArlington’s cleanup from Columbia Pike east. Over 100 folks checked in and gathered over 100 bags of trash. Heavy lift!
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LeftyLauraParticipant1/15/2023 National Hat Day
Captured this Russian doll with a hat from Russia at the Reston ice rink. Such cute, delicate felt decorations! Thanks to mom I didn’t have to manually manipulate the photo to protect the child’s image from the internet!
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LeftyLauraParticipant1/14/2023 – National Dress Up Your Pet Day
I lost my pet rock so I had to find an owl to adopt. I purchased (adopted) this little Knight Owl and it will live with me & the grands forever!
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Bards Alley at 110 Church St. NW, Vienna, VA
LeftyLauraParticipant@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.
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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!!
LeftyLauraParticipant1/13/2023 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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LeftyLauraParticipantOh my!! I was just there and walked past those vases. When scrolling I spotted your post. Good catch!!
LeftyLauraParticipant1/12/2023 – the 30s
My mother and her bothers played Lincoln Logs thru the 49s. So now I have their set and play with my grands timeless!
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January 12, 2023 at 2:18 am in reply to: Team captains – please post your Strava groups for your teams here #1123223LeftyLauraParticipantLeftyLauraParticipant1/11/2023 the 40s
I went in search of tiddlywinks but alas not a round disk to be found so the Robinson’s favorite board game created in the 40s. Can you guess?[ATTACH=CONFIG]29573[/ATTACH]
LeftyLauraParticipant1/10/2023 the 50s
The disk came out in the early 40s but fizzled and returned in the 50s as a frisbee and it caught fire—even dogs got in the game.
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LeftyLauraParticipant1/9/2023 – the 60s
Legos! From my brothers in the 60s thru my kids to my grands we’re Lego fans. Planning a trip to Legoland NY in 2023. What more can I say???
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LeftyLauraParticipant1/8/2023 the 70s
Game of the decade: Chinese Checkers as imagined it an art piece looking like CDs.
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LeftyLauraParticipant1/7/2023 – The 90s
The 90s were the grow up time for Reston. The village centers became dwarfed by a thing called the Reston Town Center. It started with the Hyatt hotel. The 90s were before the four lane roads and stop lights came to Reston. A sleepy time for a sleepy town that grew up. [ATTACH=CONFIG]29446[/ATTACH]
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