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After 81 years, landmark Memorial Bridge is in dire need of renovation | GRAPHIC: Memorial Bridge: A crumbling landmark – The Post
Arlington Memorial Bridge, which connects Arlington Cemetery and Northern Virginia to the Lincoln Memorial and Washington, D.C. needs significant renovation that could cost $250 million and take several years. The 81-year old span [...]

JOHN KELLY: Why are Arlington’s fire hydrants the colors they are? – The Post
Minutia lovers will probably enjoy this Answer Man column about the color scheme of Arlington County fire hydrants.
Having read Answer Man, you are able to ascertain your whereabouts. You know that in Fairfax County, fire hydrants have a silver barrel and [...]

ARLINGTON, Va. — Around 9:30 a.m., I followed up my earlier Alexandria reading with one from the Ballston neighborhood of Arlington. I’m calling that 1 inch.

Alexandria, Va.
Arlington, Va.
Ashburn, Va.
Bluemont, Va.
Burke, Va.
Fairfax, Va.
Falls Church, Va.
Leesburg, Va.
Mount Vernon, Va.
McLean, Va.
Purcellville, Va.
Vienna, Va.
Washington, D.C.
Burnham, Pa.
Claysburg, Pa.
Harrisburg, Pa.
Lewistown, Pa.
Baltimore, Md.
Dickinson, Md.
Rockville, Md.
Welden, N.C.
Wilson, N.C.
Avalon, N.J.
Stone Harbor, N.J.
Tuckahoe, N.J.
Conway, S.C.
Murrell’s Inlet, S.C.
Pawley’s Island, S.C.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. — The strange, heavy-at-time, rain storms on Friday resulted in rainbows throughout Northern Virginia. I saw one to the north from my office building window in Tysons, but the ones I saw driving to Ballston along Route 267 (Dulles Toll Road) and Interstate 66 were quite impressive:

Traffic was moving very slowly if [...]

GREAT FALLS, Va. — While it had occurred to me that the design of Old Dominion Drive was atypical for Northern Virginia roads, I had not thought about it enough to hypothesize that it was actually railroad-grade. A visit to Great Falls Park this past weekend enlightened me to that and it all made sense.

The [...]

Strasburg’s emus are missing – WTOP
Oh no! Steven Strasburg’s emus are missing in Arlington:

“When I did call animal control they seemed very surprised,” he said in an email. “I think one of the big reasons they didn’t ask about my name was that they were still processing the word ‘emu’.”
“I’m willing to bet that [...]

Oh, flickr.

I think it’s great the flickr thinks Arlington County is worthy of Explore, but if they are going to do that, they ought to use a photograph from Arlington. The George Washington Masonic Memorial is located in the city of Alexandria which is adjacent to Arlington and also worthy of Explore.
The great photo shown [...]

My seemingly weekly look at Google Maps errors is a little more sympathetic this week. I recently noticed that Virginia Route 237 is incorrectly marked on Washington Blvd. east of Glebe Road (VA 120). That is an understandable though — VA 237’s actual route doesn’t make any sense.
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VA 237 begins near the Fairfax [...]

Photo by roger4336 on flickr
I stumbled on a great flickr group recently, Arlington, VA before 1990. I didn’t spend a lot of time in Arlington before 1990 (or even 2000 for that matter), but I still recognized a number of things like the old Putt-Putt in Ballston which I went to once, not too mention [...]