The Fristoe family house, 3309 17th St., about 1898.
Byron S. Adams’s delivery truck, around 1920.
many homeowners to take in boarders or convert their properties into rooming houses, apartments, or institutions. By the 1950s, this once-fashionable suburb was a firmly working-class urban neigh- borhood, with pockets of immigrants and African American migrants from the South. The end of race restrictive convenants (1948), school desegre- gation (1954), and the development of new suburbs in Virginia and Maryland led many white families to move out and African American families to take their places.
Jimmy Dean, on accordion, and his band, 1952.
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