BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Pennsylvania Avenue area

DC -- Pennsylvania Avenue area:

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Description of Pictures: Various shots, often of the street being empty due to Covid-19 restrictions.

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1. PENN_200314_020.JPG: Having seen a video of monkeys rampaging through some Japanese city because there weren't enough tourists to feed them, I started wondering about the pigeons and rats in the city. What were they eating now that downtown was empty? Would they be attacking people at some point?
2. PENN_200314_027.JPG: 12:30pm on a Saturday! Covid-19 crowds.
3. PENN_200314_032.JPG: At this point, almost no one had or was even thinking of wearing a mask.
4. PENN_200314_097.JPG: 3pm on a mild Saturday afternoon, looking down a pretty much empty Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington DC at the start of the Covid-19 panic. The Capitol is in the distance with the Trump Finger on the right. All of the museums have been closed for several days now.
5. PENN_200411_39.JPG: An empty Pennsylvania Avenue at 11am on a Saturday four weeks into the Covid-19 shutdown.
6. PENN_200530_01.JPG: Anti-virus Health Mask package
7. PENN_200613_03.JPG: Trucks are parked in various places for protective purposes.
8. PENN_200613_20.JPG: Much of downtown DC was shut down on the weekend of June 13, 2020 in case of additional rallies and marches for BLM. This was Pennsylvania Avenue at 1pm on Saturday. The remarkable thing is how this compares to images taken almost exactly three months previously, at the start of the Covid-19 shutdown. The difference was back then there were still some cars on the streets. This time, pretty much none except for police and military vehicles.
9. PENN_201227_05.JPG: I'm not sure how common this is in most cities but along the Presidential inauguration route, things like manhole covers, traffic control boxes, and stop lights have stickers than indicate whether they may have been tampered with or not. Also, you won't find postal drop boxes (and this was before the Trump administration tried to destroy the postal service) nor many trash cans. Also of this helps to protect the route from bombs and such.
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Wikipedia Description: Pennsylvania Avenue
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Pennsylvania Avenue is a street in Washington, D.C. joining the White House and the United States Capitol. Called "America's Main Street," it is the location of official parades and processions, as well as protest marches and civilian protests. Moreover, Pennsylvania Avenue is an important commuter route and is part of the National Highway System.

Route:

The street runs for seven miles inside Washington, but the stretch from the White House to the United States Capitol building is considered the most important—effectively the heart of the city. It continues on the other side of the Capitol for many miles, through the Capitol Hill neighborhood, over the Anacostia River on the John Philip Sousa Bridge, and well into Prince George's County, Maryland, where, in addition to its street name, it is designated Maryland Route 4. In the other direction, the street continues northwest past the White House, ending at M Street in Georgetown.

History:

Laid out by Pierre L'Enfant, Pennsylvania Avenue was one of the earliest streets constructed in the federal city. Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson considered the Avenue an important feature of the new Capital. After inspecting L'Enfant's plan, President Washington referred to the thoroughfare as a "Grand Avenue." Jefferson concurred, and while the "grand avenue" was little more than a wide dirt road, he planted it with rows of fast growing Lombardy poplars. The symbolically important street was named for Pennsylvania as consolation for moving the capital from Philadelphia. From 1862 to 1962, streetcars ran the length of the avenue from Georgetown to the Anacostia River.

Although Pennsylvania Avenue extends seven miles, the expanse between the White House and the Capitol constitutes the ceremonial heart of the nation. Washington called this stretch "most magnificent & most convenient" and it has served the country well. At one time, Pennsylvania A ...More...
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2020 photos: Well, that was a year, wasn't it? The COVID-19 pandemic cut off most events here in DC after March 11. The child president's handling of the pandemic was a series of disastrous missteps and lies, encouraging his minions to not wear masks and dramatically increasing infections and deaths here.The BLM protests started in June, made all the worse by the child president's inability to have any empathy for anyone other than himself. Then of course he tried to steal the election in November. What a year! Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. The farthest distance I traveled after that was about 40 miles. I only visited sites in four states -- Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and DC. That was the least amount of travel I had done since 1995. Number of photos taken this year: about 246,000, the fewest number of photos I had taken in any year since 2007.
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