BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Takoma neighborhood

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1. TAKOMA_230919_03.JPG: Frederick's Electric Maid Modern Dry Cleaning Community Exchange The place is now for sale.
2. TAKOMA_230919_29.JPG: F--- change. I miss 7-11
3. TAKOMA_230919_32.JPG: This used to be the 7-11
4. TAKOMA_230919_36.JPG: Torchinsky Hebrew Funeral Home
5. TAKOMA_230826_06.JPG: San Miguel School
6. TAKOMA_230729_15.JPG: Friedrich's Electric Maid Modern Dry Cleaning Community Exchange
7. TAKOMA_230621_02.JPG: I still haven't gotten out the car to photograph these yet.
8. TAKOMA_230507_67.JPG: The Arbor @ Takoma
9. TAKOMA_230101_01.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2023_DC_Takoma DC -- Takoma neighborhood (48 photos from 2023)
10. TAKOMA_230101_19.JPG: Broken windows at Takoma's Psycho house. I presume the building is being torn down?
11. TAKOMA_230101_30.JPG: Takoma Masonic Hall
12. TAKOMA_230101_37.JPG: Note that Masonic building shows two dates. "A.D. 1921" and "A.L. 5924" I didn't realize that Masons were one of those groups who think the world began less than a billion years ago. (Scientists guess it's 4.5 billion years old.) The Hebrew calendar uses the same fiction. The Christian calendar is of course based on JC's birth which is egotistical but no one argues that the world didn't exist before then and at least there's some factual basis for the date (even though they got it wrong -- it's believed to have been between 6 BCE and 4 BCE). It is thought that the Mesopotamian civilization started around 4000 BCE. Lucy, BTW, the partial skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis female found at Hadar, in the Afar region of Ethiopia, is slightly less than 3.18 million years old. Anno Lucis From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Anno Lucis (“in the Year of Light”) is a dating system used in Masonic ceremonial or commemorative proceedings, which is equivalent to the Gregorian year plus 4000. It is similar to Anno Mundi. For example, a date Anno Domini (AD) 2023 becomes Anno Lucis (AL) 6023. This calendar era, which would designate 4001 BC as 'year zero', was adopted in the 18th century as a simplification of the Anno Mundi era dating system used in the Hebrew calendar and borrowing from other ideas of that time regarding the year of creation. After the Masoretic text was published, dating creation around 4000 BC became common, and it was received with wide support. Proposed calculations of the date of creation, using the Masoretic from the 10th century to the 18th century, were numerous and fluctuated by many decades. Notably, Isaac Newton's calculation pointed at the year 4000 BC. Among the Masoretic creation estimates or calculations for the date of creation, Archbishop Ussher's specific chronology dating the creation to 4004 BC became the most accepted and popular in Protestant Christendom, mainly because this specific date was attached to the King James Bible. The Hebrew Calendar has traditionally, since the 4th century AD by Hillel II, dated the creation to 3761 BC, in accordance with the Seder Olam Rabbah compiled by Jose ben Halafta in AD 160, and in agreement with The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries, in which the Muslim chronologist al-Biruni identifies anno mundi as 3448 years before the Seleucid era, but not with Seder Olam Zutta, which dates it to 4339 BC and was compiled in AD 804.
13. TAKOMA_221218_01.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2022_DC_Takoma DC -- Takoma neighborhood (2 photos from 2022)
14. TAKOMA_210517_004.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2021_DC_Takoma DC -- Takoma neighborhood (20 photos from 2021)
  Seekers Church Seekers Church has canceled in-person Sunday worship services and other activities until further notice. We will be sharing sermons and our lives via technology during this time. Feel free to connect at seekerschurch.org and by contacting us at question@seekerscurch.org Let's keep praying for al those impacted here and around the world.
15. TAKOMA_210517_007.JPG: Pray pray pray pray
16. TAKOMA_210517_009.JPG: DACA Students Hope admist [sic] grief over climate change Dogs Violence in America Isreal [sic] / Palestine Empowerment from Believing in Others MLK's Dream Children in Cages Peacemakers & Confronters [sic] Corporations being more just Our Prayers for Peace & Justice
17. TAKOMA_210517_030.JPG: There used to be a 7-Eleven here.
18. TAKOMA_210517_031.JPG: dance dance dance dance
19. TAKOMA_210517_040.JPG: Electric Maid Commodity Exchange
20. TAKOMA_210517_047.JPG: Torchinsky Hebrew Funeral Home
21. TAKOMA_210517_063.JPG: They had this yarn octopus on their grand clock downtown before but since then it's been moved to the children's playground.
22. TAKOMA_210517_078.JPG: Stayer University
23. TAKOMA_210517_101.JPG: Church Center Takoma Park Seventh-Day Adventist
24. TAKOMA_201211_09.JPG: Outdoor classes!
25. TAKOMA_200417_44.JPG: The Cady-Lee 7064 Eastern Avenue, NW Washington, DC
26. TAKOMA_200411_001.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2020_DC_Takoma DC -- Takoma neighborhood (42 photos from 2020)
27. TAKOMA_200411_066.JPG: Public Notice of a Pending Application Historic Preservation Review Board Product Description: Combine lots + construct new 6-story multi-use building
28. TAKOMA_200411_070.JPG: Technically, this area is in DC (Takoma), not Maryland (Takoma Park). Being lazy, I put the stuff on the other side of the Metro bridge as DC.
29. TAKOMA_200411_081.JPG: Pandemic What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath -- the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cease from buying and selling. Give up, just for now, on trying to make the world different than it is. Sing. Pray. Touch only those to whom you commit your life. Center down. And when your body has become still, reach out with your heart. Know that we are connected in ways that are terrifying and beautiful. (You could hardly deny it now.) Know that our lives are in one another's hands. (Surely, that has come clear.) Do not reach out your hands. Reach out your heart. Reach out your words. Reach out all the tendrils of compassion that move, invisibly, where we cannot touch. [Promise this world your love– for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, so long as we all shall live.] –Lynn Ungar 3/11/20
30. TAKOMA_200411_092.JPG: This used to be a 7-Eleven
31. TAKOMA_200411_109.JPG: Seekers Church
32. TAKOMA_200411_112.JPG: Join us for Free Live stream yoga on our YouTube site www.yogaHeightsDC.com
33. TAKOMA_200411_115.JPG: Torchinsky
34. TAKOMA_200411_119.JPG: Friedrich's Modern Dry Cleaning
35. TAKOMA_200411_124.JPG: Takoma Central
36. TAKOMA_200411_127.JPG: Masonic building
37. TAKOMA_190630_15.JPG: [Scot] McKenzie
38. TAKOMA_190421_01.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2019_DC_Takoma DC -- Takoma neighborhood (22 photos from 2019)
39. TAKOMA_190421_12.JPG: Takoma Pride
40. TAKOMA_190421_23.JPG: MainStreetTakoma.org ** TAKOMA ** #HateHasNoBizHere We respect WOMEN * We value BLACK LIVES * We stand with our LGBTQ COMMUNITY MEMBERS * We stand with IMMIGRANTS and REFUGEES and PEOPLE OF ALL FAITHS. * We stand with our COMMUNITY All Are Welcome Here hate has no business here
41. TAKOMA_171009_01_STITCH.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2017_DC_Takoma DC -- Takoma neighborhood (4 photos from 2017)
42. TAKOMA_110327_001.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2011_DC_Takoma DC -- Takoma neighborhood (31 photos from 2011)
  The old theater
43. TAKOMA_080920_01.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2008_DC_Takoma DC -- Takoma neighborhood (8 photos from 2008)
44. TAKOMA_040721_06.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2004_DC_Takoma DC -- Takoma neighborhood (7 photos from 2004)
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Wikipedia Description: Takoma, Washington, D.C.
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Takoma (or Takoma Park) is a neighborhood in northern Washington, D.C.. It is located in Advisory Neighborhood Commission 4B, in the District's Fourth Ward, within the northwest quadrant. Takoma and the rest of Ward 4 are represented in the Council of the District of Columbia by Muriel Bowser.

Along Eastern Avenue, the boundary of the District of Columbia, the neighborhood borders the city of Takoma Park, Maryland, with which it shares its origins. Takoma shares a common identity with the neighboring city in Maryland, and the downtown area surrounding the Takoma Metro station crosses the District of Columbia line. Takoma is bounded by Georgia Avenue to the west, somewhere between Tuckerman and Van Buren Streets to the south, and Eastern Avenue to the northeast. The current site of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Georgia Avenue separates it from Rock Creek Park.

Both neighborhoods together were noted regionally and nationally for extremely progressive politics dating from the 1960s, when area residents (led by future Takoma Park, MD mayor Sam Abbott) rallied to prevent a 10-lane freeway from bisecting the community, and lobbied to build the Metrorail system, on the site of the former B&O railroad station around which the community had been built. However, much of the land adjacent to the station was demolished or neglected in the wake of the freeway controversy, creating division between downtown Takoma Park, MD and the center of the Takoma community, which roughly parallels the D.C. line. Both of the remaining areas, on either side of the D.C.-Maryland line, are now protected as U.S. Historic Districts.

The area in between is currently experiencing a period of development, with new apartment buildings, restaurants, and bars opening. Takoma is a diverse neighborhood, populated mostly by middle class families. It has fewer apartments than adjoining areas in Maryland. Large buildings are ...More...
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