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District of Columbia

mahatmakanejeeves

(61,437 posts) Thu Mar 23, 2023, 12:24 PM Mar 2023

Lunch counter during Cherry Blossom Festival 1954 in a still highly segregated Washington DC:

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Fri Apr 8, 2022: Lunch counter during Cherry Blossom Festival 1954 in a still highly segregated Washington DC:

Lunch counter during Cherry Blossom Festival 1954 in a still highly segregated Washington DC:

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Lunch counter during Cherry Blossom Festival 1954 in a still highly segregated Washington DC: (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 OP

DC area is still highly segregated IronLionZion Mar 2023 #1

A Peoples Drug Store... 50 Shades Of Blue Mar 2023 #2

Those prices look good. jimfields33 Mar 2023 #3

Tough woman does not need an overcoat. Sneederbunk Mar 2023 #4

We used to go down to D.C. for cherry days randr Mar 2023 #5

IronLionZion

(47,069 posts)

1. DC area is still highly segregated

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Mar 23, 2023, 12:34 PM

Mar 2023

Government contracting is absolutely insane. The contracts full of hundreds of foreign workers are all 2 hours away. Cheap disgusting office space but just under the limit for requiring any travel reimbursement.

50 Shades Of Blue

(10,905 posts)

2. A Peoples Drug Store...

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Mar 23, 2023, 12:50 PM

Mar 2023

jimfields33

(19,257 posts)

3. Those prices look good.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Mar 23, 2023, 01:01 PM

Mar 2023

By the way, 25 cents in 2023 should be 2.67 in todays dollars. Trust me you can’t get a large sundae anywhere for 2.67. Inflation is out of wack to what reality is today.

Sneederbunk

(15,329 posts)

4. Tough woman does not need an overcoat.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Mar 23, 2023, 01:04 PM

Mar 2023

randr

(12,493 posts)

5. We used to go down to D.C. for cherry days

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Mar 23, 2023, 01:32 PM

Mar 2023

I remember the "colored only" water fountains.

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