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Little Tavern was a burger chain around DC, VA, MD from 1928 until about 1991 for most of them. This one was in Georgetown Washing DC. I took the photo from a moving car in 1992, I see now there is a For Rent sign in the window. I think part of the building is still there, it has been other restaurants over the years.
Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit university whose main campus is located in the Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Georgetown. The oldest Catholic university in the United States, Georgetown administers 180 programs in four undergraduate schools, three graduate and professional schools, and several specialized institutes. The faculty and programs in international affairs and law are especially well regarded. Georgetown's three urban campuses are laid out using quadrangles and rectangular lawns, with various facilities for research, sports, housing, and services. The main campus is known for the neo-Romanesque style Healy Hall, a designated National Historic Landmark.
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An outbound train from Georgetown to Silver Plume. On I-70, the distance between towns is two miles (and about 500 feet in altitude going towards Silver Plume), but the train takes 4.5 miles to get there because of topography and the need to gain altitude. The water in the foreground is Clear Creek, for which the Clear Creek Canyon is named.
Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit university whose main campus is located in the Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Georgetown. The oldest Catholic university in the United States, Georgetown administers 180 programs in four undergraduate schools, three graduate and professional schools, and several specialized institutes. The faculty and programs in international affairs and law are especially well regarded. Georgetown's three urban campuses are laid out using quadrangles and rectangular lawns, with various facilities for research, sports, housing, and services. The main campus is known for the neo-Romanesque style Healy Hall, a designated National Historic Landmark.
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Wide angle shot of the stairs to the student dorms on the campus of Georgetown University. Taken with Nikon D600 and a 17-35mm f/2.8
nrhp # 66000243- The Georgetown–Silver Plume National Historic Landmark District is a federally designated United States National Historic Landmark that comprises the Town of Georgetown, the Town of Silver Plume, and the Georgetown Loop Historic Mining & Railroad Park between the two silver mining towns along Clear Creek in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States.
The district includes well-preserved examples of the buildings and mining structures of the Colorado Silver Boom from 1864 to 1893. The Georgetown Loop Historic Mining & Railroad Park includes the reconstructed Georgetown Loop, a spectacular example of 19th-century 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railway engineering required to negotiate the 601 feet (183 meters) of elevation rise in the mere 2.0 miles (3.2 kilometers) between the two towns. Historic steam locomotives pull passenger trains over the loop from late May through the beautiful Autumn colors of early October. Guided tours of the Lebanon Silver Mine are also available.
The district was designated a National Historic Landmark on November 13, 1966.
Gold was discovered in Georgetown by George and David Griffiths in 1859, and Georgetown eventually took its name from the former. The gold finds in the area were relatively minor, but a major lode of silver was discovered in 1864, kicking off the local boom. Georgetown became a center for thousands of miners operating in the surrounding hills. Silver Plume was developed as one of a series of satellite camps, and in 1884 the Georgetown Loop Railroad was built, connecting the two by rail. Mining declined in the 1890s, and the area has since had a relatively low population.
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Georgetown, CO at night.
shot at f/16 to get the starbursts in the lights.
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Georgetown Loop Railroad steaming with Fall Colors and Snow.
The Georgetown Loop Railroad is a narrow gauge heritage railway located in Clear Creek County, Colorado in the United States. The Georgetown Loop Railroad was one of Colorado’s first visitor attractions. Completed in 1884, this spectacular stretch of narrow gauge railroad was considered an engineering marvel for its time. The thriving mining towns of Georgetown and Silver Plume lie two miles apart in steep, narrow Clear Creek west of Denver. To connect them, engineers designed a corkscrew route that traveled nearly twice that distance, slowly gaining more than 600 feet in elevation. It included horseshoe curves, grades of up to 4 percent, and four bridges across Clear Creek, including the massive Devil’s Gate High Bridge. The Colorado & Southern Railway operated the line for passengers and freight until 1938. Originally part of the larger line of Colorado Central Railroad constructed in the 1870s and 1880s, it was later dismantled, but was restored in the 1980s to operate during summer months as a tourist railroad, carrying passengers using historic narrow-gauge steam locomotives.
In 1959, the centennial year of the discovery of gold in Georgetown, the Georgetown Loop Historic Mining & Railroad Park was formed by the Colorado Historical Society. The Colorado Historical Society’s chairman negotiated a donation of mining claims and mills, and nearly 100 acres of land. Rail line construction began in 1973 with track and ties donated by the Union Pacific Railroad.
The four-mile segment opened on March 10, 1884 and is a restored segment at the upper end of the historic Colorado Central main line up Clear Creek Canyon west of Golden. It climbs approximately 640 feet between the two towns. The longer main line up the canyon was constructed in the wake of the Colorado Gold Rush and was used extensively during the silver boom that followed in the 1880s to haul the lucrative silver ore traffic down from the mines at Silver Plume. The Loop portion of the line was the crowning segment of the line at the top of the gorge and features a 95-foot high trestle. The entire line, including the Loop, was dismantled in 1939, but interest in restoration of the Loop segment as a tourist attraction in the 1970s led to the construction of a new high bridge and the refurbishment of the segment, which reopened in 1984.
The train ride includes an optional walking tour of the Lebanon Silver Mine, located at the halfway point on the railroad. Visitor walk 500 feet into a mine tunnel bored in the 1870s while guides point out the rich veins of silver and the history of the mine.
Passengers board the train at depots located in either Silver Plume or Georgetown. (Wikipedia)
"Ich Bin Ein Berliner" Mural by Rodrigo Pradel on the side of a German Beer Hall in Georgetown called The Berliner.
Auxiliary power-cab unit (APCU) 9861 ( renumbered later to 903) was converted from an Ontario Northland Railway FP7A 1512 for use on GO trains. It provided a better crash standard for the crew and the GMD prime mover was replaced by a V8 engine to provide climate control power to the passenger cars.
9861 is seen at Georgetown Ontario on April 27th, 1974 on the official launch of the GO service to Brampton and Georgetown. GP40-2W 9808 was heading the train and 9861 was on the rear. Invited dignitaries traveled to Georgetown on a steam hauled service powered by Ontario Rail's ex-CPR 1057 and rode the GO Train home.
We had to take a boat out to the lighthouse. The tour guide said people live in these boats but don't pay taxes or prier fees...Hope everyone has a Bless week!
I’ve wanted to get involved with the 100 Strangers Project since I became aware of it about six months ago. I love people but am a bit of an introvert so find it difficult to approach strangers. My wife and I were on a long driving vacation to Texas and Arizona when we stopped at a cute little bakery called “Desserts by Rebecca” in Georgetown, Kentucky. The clerk was a lovely, very personable young woman and on the spur of the moment I asked her if I could take her photo for the 100 Strangers Project. She quickly said yes and I took her photo. My wife and I and the clerk were all masked for covid so the photo was less then ideal. I then got brave and asked if she would be willing to take her mask down just long enough for one more quick photo. She pulled her mask down revealing this beautiful smile. I very much regret that I did not have the presence of mind to ask her name though she did say that she was not Rebecca. (The only camera I had handy was my little Sony RX100 and I could have chosen a better background but I got my first stranger.) Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page. To see more of my own photos check out my web site at Gary Bluhm Photography.