I sometimes forget how relatively new everything is in the US.
Some of our buildings are over fifty years old!
If you look carefully, you can see a wrestling ring being erected in front of it.
I see an erection ring wrestling in front of it.
I keep forgetting DC was a literal fucking marsh at one point
I mean, that's why DC gets called "The swamp". It's not just a metaphor for corruption, it comes from the fact that it's built on a literal swamp
IIRC several presidents and prominent politicians became sickened and/or died by drinking local water. There's a modern theory that Harrison was one of them, I recall.
Such a pretty meadow ruined.
*swamp
Every good meadow is at its heart a seasonal wetland.
I think the Lincoln memorial is kind of cool looking. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I would have been fine if they just left it at that.
Isn't it incredible how humans want to turn a beautiful earth into a shitty hellhole.
I think the Lincoln memorial looks nice. I think it's okay for cities to exist, and that they be pretty.
Cities are the most efficient way to house people
I'd take that view vs. the reflecting pool.
I would have thought there'd be roads.... DC's main roads were laid out in the early to mid 1800s....
Around the same time, and by the same designer that did Indianapolis. Everyone at the time thought he was crazy for putting in absolutely enormous roads. Turned out that he was right to do so.
The Lincoln memorial going up in the early 1800s would have raised too many questions.
Lol, well yeah. I just figured that by the early 1900s DC would have been a bit more developed than it clearly was.
The area where the monuments were put was an actual swamp back then. It was filled in over the following decades...
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