Shelton Parker at 4th and L, 8 yrs old, Greg Parker's Brother
G. Parker selling the Washington Star paper at the now Wilson Building
<a title="Larry Anderson" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB3Dmp2bRsw">Larry Anderson oral history</a> (short clip)
Mr. Larry Anderson was born on an Air Force base in New Mexico. His father was an Army sergeant. They moved to Turkey and then to Seattle, WA. Sometime between 1964 and 1966, they moved to Arthur Capper. His mother had been raised in Southwest DC, off of 4th St, SW, and wanted to return to DC. In Arthur Capper, he lived with his parents and his three siblings (Richard, Ronald, and Teresa) in a two-level townhouse at 200 K St, SE. Mr. Anderson is a musician and a graphic artist, two skills he developed first in and around Arthur Capper.
Phelps High School 1970 Yearbook (only cover photo is loaded now)
Giddings Elementary School (Results Gym)
Giddings Elementary School (Results Gym)
Originally built in 1887, the Giddings School was enlarged by a major addition in 1934. The addition included 12 classrooms and an auditorium and was built in the Colonial Revival style.
The J.R. Giddings school is considered a historically significant building due to its role as the first all-black public school in Washington, DC.
The school was sold to the private sector in the 1990s and is now Results Gym.
MUSIC
REDDS AND THE BOYS
MUSIC
Redds was once a member of Rare Essence in their early days before going solo with his group Redds and the Boyz. He was the Funkiest guitarist I had ever heard .I believe this was actually around 1982 at the Atlas Theatre on H st NE. D.C. It’s Redds on guitar and vocals, Shack on trumpet and vocals(who created the phrase “When you walk in the door and you come to Go-Go… ya say what? Hello! Hello! Hello!) Kevin Miller ‘KO’ on Sax, Lonell Tabs on Trumpet, CJ (Redds cousin) on Sax, Vincent Tabbs on Bass guitar, Leon Thurston on Fender Rhodes keys, Artie Cambell on String synth, Danny Peete on Congos and myself, Dwayne Lee on drums.
Remembering Redds and The Boys [Dwayne Lee]
GARFIELD PARK
Garfield Park
Garfield Park has been a Capital Landmark since 1791. It is also were we used to play basketball under the bridge.We still use the park today for horseshoe pitching every Friday in the summer time. It is also were we have our annual Arther Capper Reunion Cookout on the 4th of JULY. There you will see any and everybody that grew up in Cappers.
Randall Jr High School
Randall Jr. High School
Randall Junior High School is an historic building at 65 I Street, Southwest, Washington, D.C.The 80,000 s.f. middle school closed in 1978.
It served as a homeless shelter until 2004, and as artist's studios, the Millenium Arts Center.
In 2006, the Corcoran Gallery of Art purchased the building from the City of Washington for $6.2 million.[2] The initial redevelopment with developer Monument Realty LLC fell through. A Telesis/Rubell group plans to redevelop the property beginning in 2012.
Joe's Store/3rd and K Market
Joe's Store/3rd and K Market
Joe's Store or 3rd and K Market was one of the Icon at Arthur Cappers. It was the store everyone frequent when they did not go to the Safeway. At night it was a place were all the singers in the neighborhood would meet up and do-whoop until the late night,early morning. I used to live across the street from the store,and my bedroom window was facing the store. I used to here Leon Lilly,John Lilly,Lorenzo Ross,Sunny Clark,my next door neighbor Derek to name a few. It was a very busy part of the neighborhood in the summertime. During the early 70's the store was owned by Mr. Goodman,Then Joe Reid took over after the riots. Then came Oriental Joe who took over after Joe Reid. Today the store is there.
Sherman Mills
Saint Paul AUMP Church
Saint Paul AUMP Church
Located at 401 I Street SE, Saint Paul African Union Methodist Protestant Church is one of the few surviving buildings from the predominantly African-American community that developed in the industrial area between Capitol Hill and the Washington Navy Yard. Saint Paul’s construction in 1924 reflects a significant period in the history of this working class community, which survived large-scale demolition and rebuilding in the 1950s before potentially being dispersed by massive redevelopment in the early twenty-first century. The church meets Criterion A because it is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad pattern of Washington, DC’s history.
Saint Paul was designed by R.C. Archer, who became Washington’s second African-American licensed architect. Archer’s long career was most distinguished for his church designs. Saint Paul was both his first important commission and his first church design in Washington.
Saint Paul is also significant as an outstanding example of a particular type of African-American house of worship. It was constructed as both the home of a newly-formed working class congregation and the first church of its denomination in the city. Saint Paul’s modest scale reflects the circumstances of its creation and its surrounding neighborhood, while its stylish façade reflects the pride of its congregation in their house of worship. Saint Paul retains this original façade with high degree of intactness and is the most intact church building of its type and era erected by an African-American congregation in the southeast quadrant west of the Anacostia River. It meets Criterion C because it exemplifies the distinctive characteristics of its era and building type as a house of worship for a modestly-sized, smaller denomination, working-class African-American congregation of the 1920s.