And that's the way it was

11th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC, December 1968. Washington Star Collection. Washingtoniana Collection, DC Public Library. This was 8 months after the riots which followed the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

RG comments about the number of people walking on the street in the 1940s vs. today, in the earlier blog entry about streetcars and the Atlanta photo. He might like this photo.

Fortunately, the 7th Street NW corridor is coming back. It'll take some time for F Street to revive, but it's slowly starting to happen.