BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Union Station (exterior)

DC -- Union Station (exterior):

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1. US_970218_01.JPG: Union Station; outside Union Station was designed by Daniel Burnham and completed in 1908. It was built to replace and consolidate the city's two major railroad stations: the B&P Railroad Station (which stood where the National Gallery of Art now stands) and the B&O Railroad Station (which stood where Union Station was constructed). The B&O Station was the station where Abraham Lincoln arrived incognito for his first inaugural in 1861 and from which his funeral train left for Springfield Illinois in 1865. The B&P Station had been where President Garfield was fatally shot in 1881. The MacMillan Commission in 1901 recommended that all Victorian architecture on the Mall be replaced by a unified Beaux-Arts complexion which led to the tearing down of the B&P. The Main Hall in the station features statues of Roman Legionnaires, designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. These statues were original nudes and shields were quickly added to cover up their private parts. In 1912, the very first commercial film to use a Washington setting, "Filial Love," used the Columbus statue out front in one of its scenes. In 1951, the station provided the backdrop for the opening scenes of Alfred Hitchcock's thriller "Strangers on a Train". In 1953, a runaway train, "The Federal Express," en route to Boston, slammed into the main concourse at the station. The station was packed with visitors arriving for President Eisenhower's inauguration. The crash caused millions of dollars in damage but, surprisingly, no severe injuries. The crash was used, in part, as the basis for the 1976 Gene Wilder/Richard Pryor movie "Silver Streak". In 1964, the Beatles arrived by train at Union Station after their first US appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, performing their first real concert just up the street at the DC Colliseum. Like most railroad stations in the second half of the 20th century, Union Station had started to go downhill until it was restored, at a cost of $160 million, in a project which ended in 1988. Now it is occupied with the typical restaurants and such.
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1997 photos: Since 1984, I've lived in Silver Spring, Maryland. From 1981 to 2002, photos were taken using a Pentax ME Super camera. From 1989 to 2002, I was doing all pictures as prints (instead of slides which I had grown up on). In 1997, at the age of 40, my photo obsession began and I started taking thousands of photos per year. In September, 2002, I switched to digital cameras and the number of photos exploded. Image quality is going to be variable because these are scans of slides and/or prints. The images shown here were scanned in two phases. In the early years of the website, I rescanned a selection of pre-digital images, all at fairly low quality settings. During the COVID pandemic, I launched the Great Rescanning Effort, rescanning ALL of my pre-digital images from various media (prints, slides, negatives, etc) at higher resolution and quality settings. Mutilple versions of images -- some from the initial scannning phase, some from prints, some from slides/negatives -- were posted so there are frequently duplicate images on the same page. At some point, I hope to have time to do a final review and get rid of the duplicates but that'll have to wait until all of the pre-digital images are finally posted. Trips this year: North Carolina (Dad), Florida (Mom), using a time share in Arkansas to visit Civil War sites in Missouri, Georgia, Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee. The Civil War became my excuse to see places I'd never been to in my life and it was a great motivator for 20 years or so.
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