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Don't start watching this unless you have seventeen minutes because you won't be able to stop. http://youtu.be/2mkr3GureeA
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I worked on 14th street a block from U in 1963. At the Safeway. 14th and U, H street, N. E.-both of these areas had literal blocks which burnt to the ground in 1968 after Martin Luther King was assassinated. I remember my roomate and I, in 1968, standing on the 15th floor roof of 710 Roeder road in Silver Spring and watching flames and smoke rise from downtown Washington. I remembor sitting at a traffic light behind an armored personnel carrier at 8th and H, N. E. On both sides of me were rubble. Where I once worked I couldn't go back to-it was dangerous. It was also dangerous for those who lived there. (Of course I also remember Jimi Hendrix playing the Star Spangled Banner on his guitar at the Ambassador Theatre in the late '60's. I stood in the front row-there were no seats-and vividly remember getting hungry from all of the weed being smoked around me-in the ballroom.) Today there's a renaissance for these areas that dates back to the '40's. I applaud those who are homesteading, who-honestly-do not know what it was like from '68 into the early and mid '90's. (For anyone reading this-next time you go to Red Hen, step into the convenience store next door. The cashier sits behind armored glass.) To this day I cannot walk down H street or parts of 14th street without recalling the flames that once rose above them. I am sure that a lot of "old time" Washingtonians like myself feel the same way. It is good to see them come back. Next is Anacostia where I was born... D. C. today is coming full circle.
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