BGuthrie Photos: DC Heritage Trails: Lift Every Voice: Georgia Ave./Pleasant Plains Heritage Trail

DC Heritage Trails: Lift Every Voice: Georgia Ave./Pleasant Plains Heritage Trail:

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1. TRGAPP_160229_006.JPG: Lift Every Voice Georgia Ave./Pleasant Plains Heritage Trail 5 Griffith Stadium "I used to come home every night, get a quarter from my mother, run to Griffith Stadium, and sit in the bleachers," Abe Pollin once said. "I would look out at these good seats and say, ‘Some day, maybe I will get a good seat.' "When Pollin's MCI Center opened downtown in 1997, the respected real estate developer got himself – and gave his city – thousands of good seats. Griffith Stadium occupied this block until it was razed in 1965. (Howard University Hospital opened here ten years later.) During the 1940s, Griffith crowds cheered batting superstar Josh Gibson of the Homestead Grays, the Negro League team that won more games than any other hometown team. Here ace pitcher Walter Johnson led the all-White Washington Senators to their only World Series victory in 1924. While Griffith was one of DC's few public venues open to all during segregation, the races sat separately. Griffith also hosted the Washington Redskins (1937-1961), student cadet competitions, Boy Scout jamborees, National Negro Opera Company performances, and mass baptisms conducted by Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, whose Church of God still stands just across Georgia Avenue. The charismatic Michaux organized affordable housing, had his own radio show, and served bargain meals at the Happy News Café. In 1946 impresario David Rosenberg hired prominent African American architect Albert Cassell to design a music hall at 815 V Street. Soon after, Duke Ellington lent his name to a nightclub there. By 1952 WUST Radio occupied the facility, hosting evangelical broadcasts, jazz, and later, reggae and go-go concerts. After WUST moved to Virginia, the 9:30 Club relocated there from 930 F Street.
2. TRGAPP_160229_009.JPG: Homestead Grays power hitter Josh Gibson at bat
3. TRGAPP_160229_012.JPG: Walter Johnson photographed in 1924, the year the Senators won it all
4. TRGAPP_160229_017.JPG: High School Cadets participated in separate competitive drills at Griffith Stadium. White cadets march, above, and a company from the "colored" schools stands in formation, at left.
5. TRGAPP_160229_019.JPG: High School Cadets participated in separate competitive drills at Griffith Stadium. White cadets march, above, and a company from the "colored" schools stands in formation, at left.
6. TRGAPP_160229_022.JPG: Elder Michaux welcomes diners in his Happy News Café, 1727 7th St., 1937.
7. TRGAPP_160229_025.JPG: A baptism begins at Griffith Stadium
8. TRGAPP_160229_028.JPG: Elder Solomon Michaux's Church of God, 1949, across from Griffith Stadium
9. TRGAPP_160229_031.JPG: The WUST building became the "9:30 Club" in 1996
10. TRGAPP_160229_037.JPG: WUST Radio DJ Steady Eddie was a Howard University senior and member of the Howard Players, 1952.
11. TRGAPP_160229_041.JPG: This bird's-eye view of Griffith stadium shows Georgia Ave. with its streetcars at the upper edge of the ball park, 1925.
12. TRGAPP_160229_045.JPG: Lift Every Voice Georgia Ave./Pleasant Plains Heritage Trail How many dreams and memories reside in this short stretch of Georgia Avenue! South of Florida Avenue where it is called Seventh Street, its heart once beat to jazz riffs and the eager steps of people dressed in their finest. Here swept aromas once wafted from commercial bakeries. Just north of Florida is where hot Saturday afternoons meant Griffith Stadium, the crack of the bat and shouts of baseball-mad crowds. And Georgia continues. It climbs toward Howard University, the historical heart of our country's African American intellectual community. Farther still, brick temples of learning give way to rowhouses and storefronts, and the steady beat of everyday life. Lift Every Voice: Georgia Ave./Pleasant Plains Heritage Trail pays homage to the musicians and impresarios, Jewish shop-keepers and African American barbers, intellectuals and activist, and all who built a thriving community along this stretch of one of Washington's oldest thoroughfares. "Pleasant Plains" once was the name of the Holmead family estate, which spread from Rock Creek to Georgia Avenue north of Columbia Road. Today's Pleasant Plains neighborhood lies north of the old Holmead land. And while most of this trail lies in Pleasant Plains, it actually starts in Shaw, enters Pleasant Plains at Florida Avenue, crosses through Park View, the neighborhood north of Howard University, and ends in Petworth. Lift Every Voice: Georgia Ave./Pleasant Plains Heritage Trail is an Official Washington, DC Walking Trail. The self-guided tour of 19 signs is 1.9 miles long, offering about two hours of gentle, uphill exercise. Free keepsake guidebooks in English and Spanish are available at businesses and institutions along the way. For more on DC neighborhoods, please visit www.CulturalTourismDC.org.
13. TRGAPP_160229_051.JPG: Lift Every Voice Georgia Ave./Pleasant Plains Heritage Trail How many dreams and memories reside in this short stretch of Georgia Avenue! South of Florida Avenue where it is called Seventh Street, its heart once beat to jazz riffs and the eager steps of people dressed in their finest. Here swept aromas once wafted from commercial bakeries. Just north of Florida is where hot Saturday afternoons meant Griffith Stadium, the crack of the bat and shouts of baseball-mad crowds. And Georgia continues. It climbs toward Howard University, the historical heart of our country's African American intellectual community. Farther still, brick temples of learning give way to rowhouses and storefronts, and the steady beat of everyday life. Lift Every Voice: Georgia Ave./Pleasant Plains Heritage Trail pays homage to the musicians and impresarios, Jewish shop-keepers and African American barbers, intellectuals and activist, and all who built a thriving community along this stretch of one of Washington's oldest thoroughfares. "Pleasant Plains" once was the name of the Holmead family estate, which spread from Rock Creek to Georgia Avenue north of Columbia Road. Today's Pleasant Plains neighborhood lies north of the old Holmead land. And while most of this trail lies in Pleasant Plains, it actually starts in Shaw, enters Pleasant Plains at Florida Avenue, crosses through Park View, the neighborhood north of Howard University, and ends in Petworth. Lift Every Voice: Georgia Ave./Pleasant Plains Heritage Trail is an Official Washington, DC Walking Trail. The self-guided tour of 19 signs is 1.9 miles long, offering about two hours of gentle, uphill exercise. Free keepsake guidebooks in English and Spanish are available at businesses and institutions along the way. For more on DC neighborhoods, please visit www.CulturalTourismDC.org.
14. TRGAPP_160229_059.JPG: A view through the ruins of Dox Liquors, which once stood on this corner, of business across Seventh St., April 16, 1968.
15. TRGAPP_160229_061.JPG: Lift Every Voice Georgia Ave./Pleasant Plains Heritage Trail 1 Grief Turns to Anger Thursday Evening, April 4, 1968. The news that the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., has been assassinated in Memphis makes its way like lightning through the city. Nearby at 14th and U Streets -- once the cultural heart of DC's African American community and a bustling area where hundreds change buses and shop -- faces register first shock and then anger. People demand that businesses close out of respect for Dr. King. Then individuals begin breaking windows, looting some places, burning others. The violence spreads along U Street to this intersection, where, over the next three days, almost every white-owned business on Seventh between S Street and Florida Avenue is destroyed. A United Planning Organization leader tells the Washington Post that day, "Black Americans feel more divided from white Americans than at any time in this century." The 1968 riots were, in large part, a response to inequities in housing, jobs, and schools, and to the city's neglect of black neighborhoods. "We're burning the rats and roaches along with everything else," proclaimed a youngster who had just set fire to a store here on Seventh Street. The rubble and crime left behind scarred this Neighborhood for years, and those who once enjoyed its restaurants and clubs stayed away. While officials and activists worked on rebuilding plans almost immediately -- a playground opened in summer 1969 where Waxie Maxie's had stood at 1836 Seventh Street, across Seventh close to T Street -- it would take many long years and the 1991 opening of this Metro station to make substantial progress.
16. TRGAPP_160229_065.JPG: A soldier guards smoldering wreckage at the southwest corner of Seventh and Florida.
17. TRGAPP_160229_076.JPG: Pharmacist Phil Rosen opened Dox Liquors on this corner in 1950
18. TRGAPP_160229_081.JPG: Pharmacist Phil Rosen opened Dox Liquors on this corner in 1950, top, and welcomed boxer Joe Louis, who was promoting Joe Louis Kentucky Bourbon, right. Below, the store lies in ruins, April 1968.
19. TRGAPP_160229_086.JPG: A looter vaults the counter at Manhattan Auto, Seventh and R. before the building bursts into flames. A few days later, soldiers stand guard outside the burned-out Manhattan Auto showroom.
20. TRGAPP_160229_097.JPG: In February 1969, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development George Romney and President Richard Nixon presented to Mayor Walter Washington, right, plans for a park to replace the ruined Waxie Maxie's.
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