Presidents and First Ladies Trivia

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Calvin Coolidge? Or, Harding?

The Gayety and several other great old burlesque theaters were still around (but in bad shape) in the 1950s. My mother was always careful to skirt us around 9th Street when we were shopping in D.C.

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Here's a great article about the Gayety and other theaters of that ilk. The writer is John DeFerrari, who maintains a great, free website on Streets of Washington - a history of all sorts of things reminiscent of the old, more colorful days in our nation's capital. He spoke at a Surratt luncheon last fall on Mr. Lincoln's Backyard - a history of Lafayette Square.

http://www.streetsofwashington.com/2011/...eater.html