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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- DU_200216_013.JPG: 1949
Going Underground
- DU_200216_018.JPG: Passengers often boarded streetcars from narrow concrete platforms on the street.
- DU_200216_022.JPG: Streetcars, pedestrians, and automobiles mingle on a busy street corner in the 1910s.
- DU_200216_027.JPG: Cissy Patterson's mansion looks out over ongoing underpass construction.
- DU_200216_031.JPG: The underpass under construction.
- DU_200216_035.JPG: 1955
Changing City, Changing Transit
- DU_200216_050.JPG: Map of lines 40 and 42 through Dupont Circle
- DU_200216_053.JPG: Riders on a DC streetcar in the 1940s
- DU_200216_061.JPG: Young boy riding a DC streetcar in the 1940s
- DU_200216_066.JPG: DC Transit logo featured on a streetcar at the National Capital Trolley Museum
- DU_200216_069.JPG: A new silver sightseer streetcar boasts luxury amenities like air conditioning in the 1960 photo
- DU_200216_070.JPG: 1962
Streetcars No More
- DU_200216_076.JPG: This street in Georgetown is the only place in the city where the old streetcar tracks are still visible.
- DU_200216_080.JPG: A group explores the underpass after it was unsealed for the first time in several decades.
- DU_200216_085.JPG: An artist's rendition of the proposed shopping mall, 1975
- DU_200216_090.JPG: A musician performs for a crowd at Dupont Underground.
- DU_200216_093.JPG: 1963-Today
Breaking New Ground
- DU_200216_099.JPG: Dupont Circle station exit onto Massachusetts Avenue, 1949
- DU_200216_103.JPG: This entrance to the Dupont Circle underpass would soon be closed off, even though some residents wanted to increase underground transit.
- DU_200216_111.JPG: Some retired streetcars ended up in museums, like the National Capital Trolley Museum.
- DU_200216_143.JPG: Chris Pyrate
- DU_200216_146.JPG: Katie Spak 2019
- DU_200216_153.JPG: Vaclav Havel
17.11.1989
Velvet Revolution
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Velvet Revolution or Gentle Revolution was a non-violent transition of power in what was then Czechoslovakia, occurring from 17 November to 29 December 1989. Popular demonstrations against the one-party government of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia included students and older dissidents. The result was the end of 41 years of one-party rule in Czechoslovakia, and the subsequent dismantling of the command economy and conversion to a parliamentary republic.
On 17 November 1989 (International Students' Day), riot police suppressed a student demonstration in Prague. The event marked the 50th anniversary of a violently suppressed demonstration against the Nazi storming of Prague University in 1939 where 1,200 students were arrested and 9 killed (see Origin of International Students' Day). The 1989 event sparked a series of demonstrations from 17 November to late December and turned into an anti-communist demonstration. On 20 November, the number of protesters assembled in Prague grew from 200,000 the previous day to an estimated 500,000. The entire top leadership of the Communist Party, including General Secretary Miloš Jakeš, resigned on 24 November. On 27 November, a two-hour general strike involving all citizens of Czechoslovakia was held.
In response to the collapse of other Warsaw Pact governments and the increasing street protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announced on 28 November that it would relinquish power and end the one-party state. Two days later, the federal parliament formally deleted the sections of the Constitution giving the Communist Party a monopoly of power. Barbed wire and other obstructions were removed from the border with West Germany and Austria in early December. On 10 December, President Gustáv Husák appointed the first largely non-communist government in Czechoslovakia since 1948, and resigned. Alexander Dubček was elected speaker of the federal parliament on 28 December and Václav Havel the President of Czechoslovakia on 29 December 1989.
In June 1990, Czechoslovakia held its first democratic elections since 1946. On 1 January 1993, Czechoslovakia split into two countries -- the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
- DU_200216_157.JPG: Vaclav Havel
- DU_200216_158.JPG: 1989
Velvet Revolution
CZ
- DU_200216_228.JPG: Chris Brate
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