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Day 289/365 – Jazz in the Sculpture Garden

October 29th, 2011

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Day 289/365 – Jazz in the Sculpture Garden
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Image by Kevin H.
Jazz in the Sculpture Garden is a free outdoor summer concert series in Washington, DC that is held every Friday evening in the National Gallery of Art’s Sculpture Garden. I think that makes reason number 2416 why it’s pretty damn awesome to live/work in DC. This concert series has been going on for years, but tonight was the first time I’d been. The Young Lions were playing and they were pretty good.

I got there an hour after the concert started and by that time people had parked themselves in nearly every available inch of the garden. There were people picnicking, people dancing, people drinking, and people just hanging out and enjoying the music. Now that I’ve been, I’m going to have to come back and check out some of the remaining concerts in the series this summer. I’ll have to try and get there earlier, though, so I can stake out a good spot.

Normally there are long, arcing jets of water spraying across this fountain, but they turn them off for the concert. In wintertime this fountain is converted into an ice skating rink. That’s something else I haven’t been to check out yet, but I plan on doing so this winter.

(July 24, 2009)

The Thermals @ the Black Cat
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Image by dizzy-eyed
Washington, D.C., 3-2-2007. Re-Photoshopped.

They Might Be Giants on the Millennium Stage
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Image by Kevin H.
At the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC for a free concert by They Might Be Giants.

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August 4th, 2011

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Does anyone know if the Warner Theatre in Washington Dc still has a Rooftop garden?

January 29th, 2011

Question by Shleigh: Does anyone know if the Warner Theatre in Washington Dc still has a Rooftop garden?

Best answer:

Answer by DON W
I hadn’t been aware of the garden until I read your question and did a bit of research. Here’s what I found:

The Warner’s special place in the history of Washington began in the 1920s when dozens of grand theaters and moviehouses lit up downtown. Built first for vaudeville and silent movies, the Theatre was opened as the Earle Theatre in 1924. It was complemented by a rooftop garden that attracted thousands of visitors per night. The basement was also famous, first as a restaurant and ballroom, and in the 1930s as the Neptune Room. The Earle featured its own precision dance troupe-much like the still-famous Rockettes-called the Roxyettes. They kept the traditions of vaudeville alive at the Earle until 1945, performing before and after feature films and with guest performers such as Red Skelton and Jerry Lewis.

Although I wasn’t able to find anything specific about what’s on the roof these days, I think it’s highly unlikely that there are any remains of the rooftop garden. The building has been rehabilitated many times–likely the garden was removed during such work. With the introduction of air conditioning, rooftop gardens became less popular, and increasingly expensive to maintain, particularly with fire marshals implementing stricter regulations limiting such venues.

What do you think? Answer below!

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Negro Education Not a Failure : Address by Booker T. Washington in the Concert Hall of Madison Square Garden, New York, Lincoln’s Birthday, February 12, 1904.

November 5th, 2010

Negro Education Not a Failure : Address by Booker T. Washington in the Concert Hall of Madison Square Garden, New York, Lincoln’s Birthday, February 12, 1904.

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Garden of the Pan American Building, Washington, D.C. (LOC)

February 25th, 2010

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Image taken on 1940-01-01 00:00:00 by The Library of Congress.

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[Garden of Pan American Union Building, Washington, D.C.] (LOC)

February 11th, 2010

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Image taken on 1940-01-01 00:00:00 by The Library of Congress.

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