Comments on: More Awesome Before and After Pictures – U and 14th Street Area 2004 and Today http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2009/10/more-awesome-before-and-after-pictures-u-and-14th-street-area-2004-and-today/ Welcome to the beautiful life Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:05:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Parkwood Person http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2009/10/more-awesome-before-and-after-pictures-u-and-14th-street-area-2004-and-today/#comment-49348 Parkwood Person Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:45:37 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2009/10/more-awesome-before-and-after-pictures-u-and-14th-street-area-2004-and-today/#comment-49348 Well said NewShawNeighbor, and thanks for sharing the memories MK! Well said NewShawNeighbor, and thanks for sharing the memories MK!

]]> By: Brian Levy http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2009/10/more-awesome-before-and-after-pictures-u-and-14th-street-area-2004-and-today/#comment-49347 Brian Levy Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:34:10 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2009/10/more-awesome-before-and-after-pictures-u-and-14th-street-area-2004-and-today/#comment-49347 A few other articles I've posted: http://web.mac.com/brianlevy/Brian_Levy/Hood.html A few other articles I’ve posted:
http://web.mac.com/brianlevy/Brian_Levy/Hood.html

]]> By: MK http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2009/10/more-awesome-before-and-after-pictures-u-and-14th-street-area-2004-and-today/#comment-49346 MK Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:21:08 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2009/10/more-awesome-before-and-after-pictures-u-and-14th-street-area-2004-and-today/#comment-49346 @Marco, you make me cry with that article. @Marco, you make me cry with that article.

]]> By: Esmeralda http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2009/10/more-awesome-before-and-after-pictures-u-and-14th-street-area-2004-and-today/#comment-49345 Esmeralda Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:49:26 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2009/10/more-awesome-before-and-after-pictures-u-and-14th-street-area-2004-and-today/#comment-49345 @ Marco: Thanks so much for the link. What a fascinating article! @ Marco: Thanks so much for the link. What a fascinating article!

]]> By: fred joiner http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2009/10/more-awesome-before-and-after-pictures-u-and-14th-street-area-2004-and-today/#comment-49344 fred joiner Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:55:32 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2009/10/more-awesome-before-and-after-pictures-u-and-14th-street-area-2004-and-today/#comment-49344 Photographer Jati Lindsay has been documenting U Street for some now as well..he has some shots of the Elllington when it was a parking lot. www.jatilindsay.net Photographer Jati Lindsay has been documenting U Street for some now as well..he has some shots of the Elllington when it was a parking lot.
http://www.jatilindsay.net

]]> By: Marco http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2009/10/more-awesome-before-and-after-pictures-u-and-14th-street-area-2004-and-today/#comment-49343 Marco Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:54:43 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2009/10/more-awesome-before-and-after-pictures-u-and-14th-street-area-2004-and-today/#comment-49343 http://web.mac.com/brianlevy/Brian_Levy/Hood_files/Post%2014th%26U.pdf The above article goes a lot towards explaining what 14th and U was once like; and before 1968 it certainly sounded marvelous. However the article paints a pretty grim picture of how things stood in 1988; Im a bit taken aback how the author's (Juan Williams) fear that the neighborhood would one day be taken over by whites (like, gasp, G-Town!) seems to be coming true. http://web.mac.com/brianlevy/Brian_Levy/Hood_files/Post%2014th%26U.pdf

The above article goes a lot towards explaining what 14th and U was once like; and before 1968 it certainly sounded marvelous. However the article paints a pretty grim picture of how things stood in 1988; Im a bit taken aback how the author’s (Juan Williams) fear that the neighborhood would one day be taken over by whites (like, gasp, G-Town!) seems to be coming true.

]]> By: WDC http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2009/10/more-awesome-before-and-after-pictures-u-and-14th-street-area-2004-and-today/#comment-49342 WDC Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:20:30 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2009/10/more-awesome-before-and-after-pictures-u-and-14th-street-area-2004-and-today/#comment-49342 Well, Centzon, if the tiny robots didn't come, it's probably because it wasn't a worthy cause. Case closed. (But really... does anyone know the timeline?) Well, Centzon, if the tiny robots didn’t come, it’s probably because it wasn’t a worthy cause.

Case closed.

(But really… does anyone know the timeline?)

]]> By: cookietime420 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2009/10/more-awesome-before-and-after-pictures-u-and-14th-street-area-2004-and-today/#comment-49341 cookietime420 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:18:54 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2009/10/more-awesome-before-and-after-pictures-u-and-14th-street-area-2004-and-today/#comment-49341 I grew up in Tenleytown and have watched the city change dramatically, first for the worse, and then for the better in my opinion. The nadir has to be the crack-fueled murder and bankruptcy years of the late 80's and early 90's. DC is quickly moving away from its "small town" past. I sort of miss it but those dark years are a touchstone for me and I never want to go back. The elephant in the living room is how the change is happening. Black people (and even middle class whites) are moving out and wealthier white people are moving in. It feeds the notion of "the plan," the idea that there is a conspiracy by white people to move black people out of the city. I don't believe in "the plan" but it's pretty obvious that, plan or no plan, the effect is the same. This American Life did a nice piece on gentrification that included talk about the plan. http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=350 I grew up in Tenleytown and have watched the city change dramatically, first for the worse, and then for the better in my opinion. The nadir has to be the crack-fueled murder and bankruptcy years of the late 80′s and early 90′s. DC is quickly moving away from its “small town” past. I sort of miss it but those dark years are a touchstone for me and I never want to go back.

The elephant in the living room is how the change is happening. Black people (and even middle class whites) are moving out and wealthier white people are moving in. It feeds the notion of “the plan,” the idea that there is a conspiracy by white people to move black people out of the city. I don’t believe in “the plan” but it’s pretty obvious that, plan or no plan, the effect is the same.

This American Life did a nice piece on gentrification that included talk about the plan.
http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=350

]]> By: MK http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2009/10/more-awesome-before-and-after-pictures-u-and-14th-street-area-2004-and-today/#comment-49340 MK Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:04:08 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2009/10/more-awesome-before-and-after-pictures-u-and-14th-street-area-2004-and-today/#comment-49340 Don't all you nostalgia buffs feel so bad. I'm a DC native from generations back and I remember going to the DC premier of the movie Ben Hur at the Tivoli theater back in '59 when I was barely old enough to know I was alive. The place had green velvet (or it looked velvet to me) seat cushions, green velvet with elaborate gold trim curtains covering the movie screen, ornate painted plaster ceilings and ushers in uniforms that escorted you to your seat. The state that its in now gives me pain. My parents moved to 16th street only for its proximity to 14th Street and its incredible shopping from Park Road all the way to downtown. I wish my family had taken pictures before the riots of '68 because it was beautiful. All that said, I love and miss the old neighborhood but I'm thrilled to see it trying to come back. Don’t all you nostalgia buffs feel so bad. I’m a DC native from generations back and I remember going to the DC premier of the movie Ben Hur at the Tivoli theater back in ’59 when I was barely old enough to know I was alive. The place had green velvet (or it looked velvet to me) seat cushions, green velvet with elaborate gold trim curtains covering the movie screen, ornate painted plaster ceilings and ushers in uniforms that escorted you to your seat. The state that its in now gives me pain. My parents moved to 16th street only for its proximity to 14th Street and its incredible shopping from Park Road all the way to downtown. I wish my family had taken pictures before the riots of ’68 because it was beautiful. All that said, I love and miss the old neighborhood but I’m thrilled to see it trying to come back.

]]> By: Brian Levy http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2009/10/more-awesome-before-and-after-pictures-u-and-14th-street-area-2004-and-today/#comment-49339 Brian Levy Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:00:44 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2009/10/more-awesome-before-and-after-pictures-u-and-14th-street-area-2004-and-today/#comment-49339 Thanks for posting Dan- a few more pics I took are here: http://web.mac.com/brianlevy/Brian_Levy/2004-05_U_St_Project.html Unfortunately I don't know the history of what happened to the diner. Thanks for posting Dan- a few more pics I took are here:
http://web.mac.com/brianlevy/Brian_Levy/2004-05_U_St_Project.html

Unfortunately I don’t know the history of what happened to the diner.

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