BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Takoma neighborhood

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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:
1. TAKOMA_230101_19.JPG: Broken windows at Takoma's Psycho house. I presume the building is being torn down?
2. TAKOMA_230101_30.JPG: Takoma Masonic Hall
3. 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.
4. TAKOMA_230507_67.JPG: The Arbor @ Takoma
5. TAKOMA_230621_02.JPG: I still haven't gotten out the car to photograph these yet.
6. TAKOMA_230729_15.JPG: Friedrich's Electric Maid Modern Dry Cleaning Community Exchange
7. TAKOMA_230826_06.JPG: San Miguel School
8. TAKOMA_230919_03.JPG: Frederick's Electric Maid Modern Dry Cleaning Community Exchange The place is now for sale.
9. TAKOMA_230919_29.JPG: F--- change. I miss 7-11
10. TAKOMA_230919_32.JPG: This used to be the 7-11
11. TAKOMA_230919_36.JPG: Torchinsky Hebrew Funeral Home
Wikipedia Description: Takoma, Washington, D.C.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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 confined to the small downtown, which is slowly being re-developed. Many of the houses in the area are historic, with some over 100 years old.

Takoma was originally developed in 1888 as part of a Victorian resort village. Developer B.F. Gilbert encouraged the Seventh-Day Adventist Church to set up their world headquarters in neighboring Takoma Park, Maryland, and promoted the community's reputation for vegetarianism and "clean living" away from the "malarial swamps" of the city.

Takoma, D.C. was originally regarded as the commercial hub for the entire surrounding area, prior to the development of Silver Spring, as it featured large shops and industrial buildings in the area now occupied by the Metro station. The Seventh-Day Adventist Church maintained a publishing house on the D.C. side of the line; after moving to Silver Spring, the former site of the publishing house became art lofts and rehearsal space for the Washington Opera.

The Takoma Theater, built in 1924, is located in the neighborhood. Takoma Theatre Conservancy, a nonprofit preservation group, is raising money to buy and refurbish the theater. The District of Columbia awarded a grant to the group to study how the theater would affect the residential neighborhood and how it should operate the theater if it reopened.

The Takoma Recreation Center and Public Pool is one of several major recreation centers in D.C.
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