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I have been telling people who come on my tours that one day in 2018
we're going to go to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and all of the fountains are going to be working.
It hasn't it hasn't yet happened,
so one thing that I actually read recently that I thought was really interesting, that I wanted to ask you about were
about the fountains at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial.
So for people who haven't been there before or haven't been there in a while,
this is a very very large monument to a former president who pretty specifically
said that he didn't want this monument at all.
And so in the 1990s Congress commissioned a monument to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and
there's a lot of water features inside and I actually read that the designer may have intended people to play around in some
of the waterfalls
that were included in there
but the National Park Service, certainly concerned with liability and maintenance and other things, was not so interested in having that happen.
Yeah, the landscape architect, his name was Lawrence Halprin, he won the contest. He's awesome architect.
He does most of his work on the west coast, but he envisioned there's, if you go there you'll see in the fountains
there's kind of these stepping stones and it's so tempting to walk out among the waterfalls.
And of course the kids do all the time and they parkour off the sides.
But the Park Rangers will yell at them.
So yeah.
There's definitely a
stress there between the original designer's intention and the Park Service needing to maintain and not have people drown and, you know.
Yeah, and there was another article I was reading recently was making reference to the fact that there are actually some
fountains in Washington DC that have been broken for so long
that people don't even realize they're fountains, because they've lived here for decades and they've only ever seen them as statues.
Like Columbus Circle?
Yes, so Columbus Circle for those who don't know is the street that's right in front of Union Station.
So if you've ever traveled by train or by bus, you've probably come through Union Station.
It's about a mile north of the Capitol Building and there's a statue of Christopher Columbus right over there,
and it's not the Christopher Columbus statue, it's the Christopher Columbus fountain.
Right. Yeah.
Well, he's been sort of vilified in history, justifiably so, I think, in the last like 30 years, but that fountain hasn't worked
I think since the 90s, I think. I mean, it's never worked since I've been here.
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