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Wartime Washington Monument: 1943

Submitted by Dave on Tue, 08/14/2012 - 5:37am.
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November 1943. "The Washington Monument." The "tan line" a third of the way up shows where construction resumed in the 19th century after a hiatus of many years. Photo by Esther Bubley, Office of War Information. View full size.

November 1943. "The Washington Monument." The "tan line" a third of the way up shows where construction resumed in the 19th century after a hiatus of many years. Photo by Esther Bubley, Office of War Information. View full size.

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Georgia marble

Submitted by rivlax on Fri, 08/17/2012 - 11:15am.

Growing up in Georgia we were always told that marble from Georgia was used when the construction began, but the Civil War called a halt to that, and they finished it after the war with inferior Yankee marble, thus the visible line. ;-)

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Lum & Abner

Submitted by Fredric Falcon on Tue, 08/14/2012 - 9:50pm.

This reminds me of what the radio hillbilly Abner said when he saw the monument:

"They stuck the wrong end in the ground, and it doesn't look anything like George Washington anyway!"

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Chromehenge

Submitted by perpster on Tue, 08/14/2012 - 2:25pm.

Those parked cars arrayed around the Monument give a Stonehenge feel to the image.

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Not what I heard

Submitted by Sgt McG on Tue, 08/14/2012 - 12:53pm.

Some Park Police officers were alleged to have told gullible looking tourists that the line was the high water mark from the Great Flood of 1893.

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That's what "they" want you to believe

Submitted by Vintagetvs on Tue, 08/14/2012 - 11:42am.

But the truth is that's where it was rebuilt after the Saucers invaded Earth.

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