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Segun
12-21-2006, 04:00 AM
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Didn't think I'd be coming back here again, but it happened. The school sponsored my trip, so no folks, I'm not rich.

BUT BEFORE YOU GO FURTHER, YOU MUST DL THIS SONG. IT IS MY GIFT TO YOU!!!!!!11111 (http://www.streetsandsoul.com/wash2/gift.mp3)

Since my hotel was in Alexandria, I thought I'd get some shots.

KING SHIT!!!
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Its like Wilmette meets Philadelphia!
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Oops, there goes my flash. Ol girl looked at me crazy thinking I was trying to take a picture of her.




I was.
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I had to get up early, but I had a few hours to do some typical goonwandering.
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Wound up over here again.
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Damn, these stations are deeeeeeeep! This escalator had to be 300 feet. I got vertigo just looking to the bottom.
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Haven't seen this design before.
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The rally. I almost got arrested for swinging on some redneck trash who muttered "dumb niggers" under his breath. I'm all for freedom of speech, but I'm also for "freedom of fist", meaning my fist might just find its way to your teeth based on your comments. I'm 6'1" and ~215 lbs and I haven't had a foot massage in months! You don't wanna fuck with me. Go make my soup.
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Came too late
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The top of the French Fry.
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What? I didn't say anything. Why you looking at me like that?
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You can see the TOD stretching out through the horizon.
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My hotel room?
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Chinatown's not that authentic, but its mad busy at night.
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Georgetown.
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Well, last time I called Alexandria "Wilmette meets Philadelphia". Upon further exploring, I ran into a hood, complete with people hanging their clothes out in courtyards, bullet proof glass and what not. Now I think of Alexandria as an Evanston meets Philadelphia.
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Some more wandering, this time around Shaw and Howard U. I don't know where I walked, but it was DC, so it would probably look like a spiderweb if I mapped it.
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I don't want my funk funked up.
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On the way back, I thought I'd get a couple of grid shots, click on the shot for some grid in motion video.
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ColDayMan
12-21-2006, 04:18 AM
wow.

OhioGuy
12-21-2006, 04:34 AM
Whoa! Amazing. I love that city!

1Post2
12-21-2006, 04:55 AM
oooooaaa. you're gonna need some new shoes soon.

The-New-Tony-Detroit
12-21-2006, 05:07 AM
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shut the front door, that was goood....

Clevelumbus
12-21-2006, 05:10 AM
That was hottttttttt!

Wheelingman04
12-21-2006, 06:31 AM
Splendid!!!

ChrisLA
12-21-2006, 06:57 AM
Oh Chocolate City, lets get funked up with the some P Funk.



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I love it

I don't want my funk funked up.
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UrbanSophist
12-21-2006, 07:13 AM
I really enjoyed this! Thanks.

James Bond Agent 007
12-21-2006, 07:42 AM
Chocopolis? Now I'm hungry. :(

Bruin Brain
12-21-2006, 07:57 AM
230+ pics? How much is that "+" worth?!

This thread makes my city want to cry. :drowning:





That VIDEO!! It's like... like the BORG!! C'mon nerds, chant with me! "Resistance is futile!" :psycho:

WesternGulf
12-21-2006, 02:29 PM
Damn. You get around my any means necessary when visiting cities. I love that canyon shot behind the White House. How is that area around Howard compared to the rest of the real DC? I'm trying to find out how my friend who goes there does not appreciate DC or is he not getting around.

Urban ZombieĀ®
12-21-2006, 02:31 PM
Shazaam-bam. Lotsa history in this here thread, a'yup. Too many good pics, like little locusts eating away at my eyes. Those shots from the top of that big white boner thing are absolute magic.

But what the hell is this big imposing building in the foreground?:
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The national Vanilla Ice museum or...?

Grimm
12-21-2006, 04:02 PM
Alright. I guess men lie, women lie... but foot massages don't.

Evergrey
12-21-2006, 04:27 PM
beautiful photos... so much action... so much color... so vivid and vital... brilliant!

-GR2NY-
12-21-2006, 05:29 PM
space out your pics in the future.

skylife
12-21-2006, 06:57 PM
This is a really ambitious and nicely done thread!

Ex-Ithacan
12-22-2006, 12:28 AM
So ya hit DC and can't give a brother a holla? Damn.

I like your pictures man, thanks.

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SLC Projects
12-22-2006, 02:20 AM
Wow, those were alot of pics. that most of tooken forever to post all those pics on this thread. :haha: But nice photos.

OfCourse
12-22-2006, 03:07 AM
wow, that was awesome

A-town
12-22-2006, 06:05 AM
Nice thread, didn't realize D.C. was so dense.

Cirrus
12-22-2006, 02:32 PM
Killer. Hope you had a blast. Wonder I didn't see you at a drinking fountain.

... But next time you're in town we're taking you see some other neighborhoods. ;-)

Segun
12-25-2006, 08:56 PM
Gulf - Well, that area seemed lightweight hood. DC is a real extreme contrast city, so he probably has the same problems with the city that lots of black folks have here with Chicago.

Aus - Thats where they make picture hangers.

GRY - I'll press the space bar between each picture next time, thanks.

Ex - Had I prepared for this trip and had time I would have hollered.

Cirrus - I had no time to prepare for this, I was informed literally two days before going that I was going.

Kilgore Trout
12-25-2006, 10:15 PM
that was epic.

jacksom
12-27-2006, 07:02 PM
The Best of the D dot C.

Great pics.

dc_denizen
12-28-2006, 01:19 AM
Awesome! Great to see Alexandria get its due.

boden
12-28-2006, 02:14 AM
dent delivered dc.....and deliciously.........

Robert Pence
12-28-2006, 01:14 PM
Holy Smoke! What a hell of a thing to see, first thing in the morning. Now, I'm gonna' have to rest a while before I do anything else!

:worship:

BG918
12-28-2006, 07:20 PM
OUR CAPITAL CITY ROCKS! Nice Pics!

Buckeye Native 001
12-29-2006, 12:04 AM
That's our capitol?

Gorgeous. :tup:

giovanni sasso
12-29-2006, 12:40 AM
dope city.

dunno how i feel about a place that calls itself bohemian unless it's old, like 50s old.

also did not realize the straight shot up the mall to the capitol from up top the monument looks further out into RFK.

also. how many pics / what time do you go to the dentist? tooth hurty

Segun
12-29-2006, 05:01 AM
^ that place has been there since the late 20's.

Complex01
12-29-2006, 05:50 PM
Those are really great pics. Makes me want to get out there and check the whole thing out. Nice job...


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Xing
12-30-2006, 03:08 AM
Damn, those are great. It's too bad people even have to protest. Our country is filled with quite a few racists, money hungry , and oblivious whores.

MSPtoMKE
01-04-2007, 03:12 AM
I wish i would get whisked off to DC on 2 days notice. Prolific tour.

Kingofthehill
01-10-2009, 06:49 PM
Oh shit son!

Omega thread! What do you have in store for us this year?

jowens
01-11-2009, 02:49 AM
.............FIGHT FOR OLD DC!!

Great Thread!!

jowens
01-11-2009, 02:57 AM
But what the hell is this big imposing building in the foreground?:
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The national Vanilla Ice museum or...?

Thats RFK Stadium, the former homes of the Redskins and more recently the Senators.

zeno3333333
01-11-2009, 03:49 AM
I hope they continue to block Apple's attempts to put an Apple store on the main street of Georgetown. Apple wants it to have the plain silver-grey front there like all of the other Apple stores..it ruin the look of the old store fronts in Georgetown.

araman0
01-11-2009, 04:43 AM
Great shots! I warm up to DC more everytime I see pictures of it.

Where is this?

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Midwesterner
01-15-2009, 02:44 PM
Nicely done good sir!

stax
01-17-2009, 02:32 PM
Great shots! I warm up to DC more everytime I see pictures of it.

Where is this?

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That's Rosslyn (Arlington VA), right across the bridge.

OhioGuy
01-18-2009, 06:21 AM
I commented when this thread first was posted, but I've gotta comment again. DC & the surrounding suburbs have so many great streetscapes. Pedestrians certainly have plenty to appreciate in the Capital region.

I particularly adore the look of Alexandria. Very beautiful.

Nouvellecosse
02-15-2009, 12:49 AM
Gotta be the best DC area thread I've ever seen! No doubt one of the US' greatest cities.

Jibba
02-16-2009, 02:53 AM
Damn, this was something. A lot of something; something really, really good.



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