YoreDC is an online ‘time machine’ to Washington of old. Witness, experience, and visit the neighborhoods of centuries past; the events and colorful people, known and unknown, who’ve made beltway Washington a world metropolis.
YoreDC is a capital ride that’ll keep you in the loop.
Please consider becoming part of the YoreDC community, whether it’s providing feedback, suggesting content, or joining us for a tour of Greater Washington’s history. We invite you to share some old stories, photographs, and films from your neighborhood or family’s attic.
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It’s hard to imagine the lives your grandparents lived. Front Page takes you back to witness current events and cultures they experienced. The phone, light bulb, motorcar and aero plane all were new and glorious marvels in pre-digital DC. See the world through the lives of ancestors – in black & white and in color.
See the metropolis of ‘human fly’ Jug Reynolds. Witness high life in the Krazy Kat speakeasy and the low lifes who stalked the streets of ‘Murder Bay.’ Stories buried decades in distant archives come to life again in colorful, visual stories. And sometimes in living color. This is your key to the city.
See the 1932 Redskins and 19th century Nats. Go to a séance with Thomas Edison or hear controversial Oscar Wilde at the Metzerott. Sports & Leisure gets you a front row seat at the arena, the music hall, and bawdier vaudeville. You’ll see why it was called the ‘good old days.’ You will know the score.
Health and Medicine
Medicine in Washington, DC was more medieval than modern until the 20th century. At the end of the 19th century, one in seven people around the world had died of tuberculosis. In Washington, DC it was the leading cause of death. Medically, it was anything but the ‘good old days.’ The death rate fell from 31.3 in 1900 to 0.1 per 100,000 in 1950.
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