The Street Vendors

Before we actually moved here, we visited Washington DC many times over the last 30+ years. Growing up, we also came here on family vacations. And in High School, we went on newspaper adventures that stopped here on the way to New York. And before that, my father has a Coast Guard scrapbook that shows him in his uniform with his buddies in the city in the 40's. So you could say we were destined to move here given all the times we ended up here for one reason or another. One thing that seems to have remained the same are all the street vendors. They are parked by the curbside all along the Mall, all year round, but particularly noticed during the summer and on the weekends. The stuff they sell is something tourists want: a cold drink, a hot dog, a T shirt, or a trinket memento. I don't know anything about license requirements, or other regulations. But they are as much of a mainstay as the monuments themselves. It would look very odd without them.

The good ole T-shirt

On Independence Avenue by the American Indian Museum

Down by the Department of Agriculture

On the way to Federal Center metro stop

In front of the Capitol

Along Independence Avenue