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Sweet Hidden Park
This was a wild find. It is a most unexpected park on Hobart Street located off Sherman Ave. between Harvard and Columbia. It’s odd because it is located in the middle of the block on both sides of the street. Very cool. Apparently it was a “gift of Mr. and Mrs. David Lloyd Kreeger to the people of Washington in honor of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson”. Wild.
Other side of the park after the jump.
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I don’t know what she encouraged, besides the Great Society, but Lady Bird has other area parks and playgrounds named after her.
PoP,
The neighborhood throws a block party every year in that park on Hobart. You just missed the last one!
Lady Bird was a big advocate of “beautification” especially wildflowers on highways and if I remember correctly the anti-billboard feeling. Maybe that was the prompting
David Kreeger was the former chairman of GEICO — he died in 1990 (his obit in the NY Times: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE6DD133BF933A15752C1A966958260). His wife Carmen died in 2003. They’re the ones who donated the money for this park. The Kreeger Museum on Foxhall Road NW was formerly their home – see http://www.kreegermuseum.org/.
Ladybird was HOT!