Georgetown and Kennedy Center

• Georgetown is a residential area with activities. It was a run-down area with factories and warehouses until Eleanor Roosevelt decided to transform this area. Many prominent people live here. Jacqueline Kennedy and Henry Kissinger once lived here. For ordinary Washingtonians and tourists, this place is for shops and restaurants, and for meeting interesting people. European visitors like this place. Let us look at some photos.
  1. The first business you do at Georgetown is to look for a good place to eat. Yes, there are more than 200 restaurants and cafeterias within this small area.
  2. Cafe Milano is an expensive Italian restaurant. People seem to go there in order to prove they are important. Morton's Steak House is next to this Cafe.
  3. Bistro Francois is a reasonably priced French restaurant. I go there fairly often not only for eating, but also for meeting interesting people.
  4. How about an American restaurant. Americans are inventive people. They keep inventing new Hamburgers.

  5. You can meet many interesting people at Georgetown. I had this photo with visitors from Sttugart (Germany) in 2012.
  6. At the Bistro Francois, I met two graduate students from Kazakhstan. They were studying business and finances at Georgetown University. They claim their country has resources and money, but not may people know how they flow. They want to find out how they are flowing.
  7. There are many shoppers ready to spend time instead of money at Georgetown. Shops go bankrupt often.
  8. There are people and people on a festival day. Each festival has its title and spell out its purpose, but they do not seem to care about them. They simply seek fun.

  9. This is one of the entrances to the residential area from the traffic-jammed main street. Many famous people lived in this area.
  10. One of the residential streets two blocks away from the main street.
  11. There are many expensive houses not far from the main fun-loving commercial area.
  12. The Hour Season's Hotel is one of the five-star hotels in this area.
  13. This is the backyard of this expensive hotel.

  14. The C & O Canal (Chesapeake and Ohio Canal) used to be an important transportation route from the Atlantic coast to Ohio. From Ohio, agricultural crops were brought for exports to Europe. European luxury goods were brought to Ohio's landlords. The Baltimore-Ohio Railroad replaced this Canal as the major route.
  15. This stone house is the oldest house in the Washington area. This house of course has its history. Apparently, this house was an important place in those pre-railroad days.
  16. Those chimneys tell that there were also many factories.
  17. One of the locks along the Canal. This canal had to go through the high grounds of the Appalachian Mountains.
  18. Canal-side tables are available in a number of restaurants.
  19. Warehouses along the Canal. These old buildings now serve as up-scale office buildings.
  20. The Washington Harbor was the connecting point between the Canal and the Atlantic Ocean. These days, the Harbor is somewhat different.

• The Washington Harbor these days serves as one of the major water-front recreational areas in the Washington area.
  1. Washington Harbor from the Potomac River.
  2. Somewhat closer from the River.
  3. The Big Fountain at the Harbor place.
  4. The Fountain during the winter time. Expensive to operate.
  5. viewed from a high-rise building across the Potomac River.
  6. viewed from the rooftop terrace of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.

  7. One of the up-scale restaurants at the Harbor place. I had a photo with these two hostesses.
  8. You can meet many interesting people there. I had a photo with two young ladies from Argentina.
  9. Riverfront walkway. The Kennedy Center is seen.
  10. The Key Bridge named after Francis Scott Key. Who was he? Click here.

• J. F. Kennedy Center in Washington viewed from the Georgetown waterfront. This photo includes also the Watergate residential complex, the Arlington-Memorial Bridge, a floating restaurant "Odyssey", and a helicopter carrying an important person are also seen (July 2004).
  1. Kennedy Center viewed from the Potomac River.
  2. Kennedy Center and the Watergate Complex viewed the Rover.
  3. Kennedy's Bust, in the main lobby of Washington's Kennedy Center for Performing Arts (February 2002).
  4. Chandeliers in the Opera House contributed by the Austrian government. Here is another photo of the same set.

  5. The Kirov Ballet of St. Petersburg is now called Mariinskty Ballet. This music group comes to the Kennedy Center frequently, and I try to go there.
  6. La Bayadere. After the performance of La Bayadere at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, DC (USA 2008). La Bayadere was premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1877.
  7. Don Quixote by the Mariinsky Ballet. They came to Washington in 2009. I took this photo when everybody was excited after their performance of Don Quixote, consisting of Spanish dances with Viennese music.

  8. Rooftop Cafeteria. They do not want to be hungry during the performance.
  9. Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial seen from the rooftop terrace of the Kennedy Center.
  10. Watergate Complex on the west side of the Center.
  11. Brides on the Potomac River. They are the Arlington Memorial Bridge (left) and the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge.
  12. Georgetown and Washington Harbor also seen from the rooftop.

Other Important Places in the Washington Area

• Washington, DC, covering important places in Washington, DC.

• Mount Vernon. George Washington's residence 20 kilometers south of Washington.

• Annapolis, 50 km east of Washington, home of the U.S.Naval Academy.