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Old 01-04-2017, 07:31 AM   #6
glatt
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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Originally Posted by monster View Post
I find it hard to believe this stuff could have lain forgotten for so long.
Maybe everyone who knew about it thought it was obvious and assumed that everyone else also knew about it. But it hadn't been passed down from generation to generation.

Like, I bet kids in this area today have no idea that you actually used to be able to drive the length of Pennsylvania Avenue, including DIRECTLY in front of the White House. And it was no big thing. Just a street everyone drove down. A busy one.
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