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Publisher
Columbia Pike Revitalization Organization
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
About the Columbia Pike Documentary Project - "The Pike is the lens, but the picture is so much bigger than that...The Pike looks like the future; it looks like the world..." The Pike has been a mecca for new immigrants to the United States. They've come from everywhere: from Mali, Ethiopia, and the Sudan; Mongolia and throughout Southeast Asia; El Salvador, Guatemala, Ukraine, Egypt, , Azerbaijan, Bolivia... the list goies on and on. The Spirit...
Author
Pub. Date
1930
Language
English
Description
Ruth Levin donated these photographs in the 1990s. The collection has photographs of the Sher family and two family businesses. One of the businesses was M. Sher & Sons General Merchandise located at the corner of Columbia Pike and Walter Reed Dr. The other business was Columbia Hardware and Applicance Company. The collection includes both interior and exterior photographs for each store. Most of the photographs are identified.
Pub. Date
1955
Language
English
Description
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Arlington County Office of Planning produced a series of reports studying shopping centers in Arlington. The Office of Planning defined a shopping center, for purposes of inclusion in the study, as a series of stores built as a unit that had off-street parkiing. Beginning in the 1930s, this type of shopping center had experienced three decades of significant growth, and by the 1950s Arlington had twenty-two....
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