Academic lessons evolve over the ages. It seems that various inventive moments have earlier starting dates; like the PDP-11. Who was the envisioned computational support, those similar vehicle's efforts. With a propellor spinning on a beanie, most remember. That mercury switches and vaccuum tubes be the reign of the day. Until, those mid-70s were met and sand, metals, and etching procedures yielded the modern IC. And, as usual, some students simply do not get the hint, stay silenced and ask not, plus simply enjoy the classroom entertainment, called the lesson. Offered , by the comedian and MC, who gives the best audience guests the duplicated grand prize. And, the quizzical dunce among the corner a four square lesson called a "pass". Oh, I know you you know! Thank, the clueless questioners for filling the nationwide on campus assessment banks. Sadly, most were left among the stacks of dishes at Subway, Panda Express, Popeyes, or the like. Because, that first beer after high school graduation. Left them a blubbering fool. We simply do not no why? It was a Model A ... T, starting when... That be academics regionalization and what be one's best travelled pathway. When, a vast detour arises; it be troubling. Santa Claus' Grand Olde Party
Our country is so stupid. We got rid of one of the best transportation advances of all time. Why? To build individual automobiles that produce a myriad of effects: traffic congestion, deadly crashes, environmental damage from oil, gasoline and other petroleum products. We've become more antisocial and move farther away from each other
If you freeze the video at around 4:40, that shot was taken on the street that I grew up on, D. Street, between 12th Street & Tennessee Avenue, N.E. Over on the left of that shot was a Safeway grocery store. Wow, this is amazing! I've driven through the old neighborhood and it looks virtually nothing like this anymore
Of the 4 Pitchers mentioned - Brown 91 W Jones 229 W Hadley 161 W Liska 17 W = 498 W Walter Johnson, 417 W The only pitcher to have won more games than the 4 mentioned combined is Cy Young, 511 W
Because of lesser frame rates, most old sports films depict play as either too fast or slo-mowed to match modern standards. Here we see the speed of the ball and the players was just as it is now.
10th and D NW (when D and 10th connected). The FBI building now stands to the left in the video. The Department of Justice and the National Archives would now be to the right. The two spires in the background are on the Dorothy I. Height Building.
I was 9 going on ten, and I remember being let out our elementary school early. We had to put soul on our doors and told the white people we had known and the retailers that were white put soul on there house doors and stores. I remember going out to the store everything on the ground from the stores and I wanted a paper doll book and my mother said no it is stealing.
These aren't connected by wires like the new ones. These look better to me. And there's no ugly barriers and construction like now. Wish I could walk on those streets!
They really looked nice but it came at a high cost. Putting the power supply underground in the slot between the two rails was expensive and required tons of maintenance to keep open, especially in winter.
My Grandpa Fred Schulte was on this team. He hit a three run homer in the last game of the '33 World Series and almost stopped a homer by Mel Ott by diving over the fence and knocking it back. After some controversial debate, Judge Landis ruled it a home run and the Giants won.
I remember riding the street car with my grandmother. Don't remember the trolley though. 1958-63? My grandmother would ride us to different places for the day on Sundays. There was a hot box in the middle used to burn my rear end. I remember the Georgetown Barn, Capital Hill Barn, Navy Yard Barn, Barney Circle?, and a few others. We would walk across Key Bridge to ANC and visit Uncle Eddie. Visit Navy Yard and walk down 8th Street. Leave early in the morning and get back just before dark. Eat chicken or whatever and have sweet dreams. Wake up and go to school.
I was on 14 and Clifton St near the Eddie Lenard s and Chambers furneral home when they burned a white van the night of the first day Dr King got shot. I was living on 14 and w St at the time saw it All atage 9
Charles Bland. I use to play music with the TNT Tribble band at the birdland club at 14th and Kenyon st NW 4 blocks from W street, But I was home on leave from the army when I heard that King was killed, and I said it going to get bad.
This video captures a few precious seconds of a special streetcar line that has joined the swelling ranks of thing that we look back upon. II have a little story about the Washington, D.C. streetcars and that line which went to Glen Echo Amusement Park: kennyduke.blogspot.com/2014/06/trolley-lines-cabin-john-to-glen-echo.html
Growing up in the DC in the 80's I grew up in the NW area of town, and still saw the burned down and boarded up buildings of the riots from '68. In the end we only made our neighborhoods worse, because store owners refused to rebuild and move back in, so the city just let those areas deteriorate, which caused many problems later on in DC's crack area.
I used to ride the DC Transit streetcars during the late 1950's and the mid 1960's. The streetcar lines were numbers like 32, 42, 82. The bus lines started with letters and then a number, like X2.
I remember the DC Transit system reaching out into nearby Maryland but not Northern Virginia, with the exception of the 36 streetcar which crossed Key Bridge and terminated at a station on the Virginia side on the Bridge. From there, you would need to take an Arnold Lines bus to continue into Arlington. Later, those busses would continue into the District through Georgetown onto M Street, then Pennsylvania Ave to K Street and end at 11th and E Streets NW.
Watching these again was an amazing experience! I was a young guy at the time, and I was captivated by their smooth running in the streets. Thank you for bringing the images to others.
I loved it when we'd take a street car to go shopping. My trips were mostly Silver Spring to Bethesda, but sometimes we'd take the street car all the way downtown to DC, to Union Station to visit my grandad, who worked there, for C&O. Street car rides were exciting to a kid. Even more fun, when we caught "the double", which was what we called the mini "train" of two connected street cars. Thanx so much for the nostalgia trip!
