After the Wedding ceremony in the Gurdwara at Fairfax Va, On strong recommendation of Neelam Sachdeva, we straightway headed towards Georgetown (Washington DC) at a distance of about 20 miles. It was a beautiful journey at this time of the year.
Manmohan and me struck the cord together right from the day we met each other in 1968 through Mr AS Varma who had worked with his Dad in Customs Department. From then onwards, we kept close to each other till Mohan immigrated to USA in June 1979. That was the golden period of our youth when we were singles till 1972. The married period after 1972 enhanced the company in Harvinder and Neelam. When I also moved to USA in1988, the friendship was revived and since then we have visited each other 4-5 times. Presently we are keeping the friendship alive through Social Media.
On My wedding Day in 1972
On Crooked Street, San Francisco in 1996
On the Bank of Potomac River in Georgetown, DC in 2016
Manmohan and me struck the cord together right from the day we met each other in 1968 through Mr AS Varma who had worked with his Dad in Customs Department. From then onwards, we kept close to each other till Mohan immigrated to USA in June 1979. That was the golden period of our youth when we were singles till 1972. The married period after 1972 enhanced the company in Harvinder and Neelam. When I also moved to USA in1988, the friendship was revived and since then we have visited each other 4-5 times. Presently we are keeping the friendship alive through Social Media.
GEORGETOWN is a historic neighborhood, commercial, and entertainment district located in northwest Washington, D.C., situated along the Potomac River. Founded in 1751 in the Province of Maryland, the port of Georgetown predated the establishment of the federal district and the City of Washington by 40 years. Georgetown remained a separate municipality until 1871, when the United States Congress created a new consolidated government for the whole District of Columbia. A separate act passed in 1895 specifically repealed Georgetown's remaining local ordinances and renamed Georgetown's streets to conform with those in the City of Washington.
Our friends Mohan and Neelam Sachdeva have been here a couple of times earlier. It is a beautiful small town, the town where John F Kennedy lived in Georgetown in the 1950s as both a Congressman and a Senator. Parties hosted by his wife, Jackie, and many other Georgetown hostesses drew political elites away from downtown clubs and hotels or the upper 16th Street corridor. Kennedy went to his presidential inauguration from his townhouse at 3307 N Street in January 1961.
3307 N Street, 4 Bed, 4 Bath Town House
M Street
Alexendra Garham Bell also earliest switching office for the Bell System was located on a site just below the C & O Canal, and it remains in use as a phone facility to this day. Bell originally moved to Georgetown due to the numerous legal hearings related to telephone patents, but then later created the Volta Laboratory and stayed on due to the many other scientific and technical organizations established in the region.
Volta Laboratory
The primary commercial corridors of Georgetown are the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and M Street, which contain high-end shops, bars, restaurants, and the Georgetown Park enclosed shopping mall, as well as the Washington Harbour waterfront restaurants at K Street, between 30th and 31st Streets.
Harbour
Students get a fantastic Ambience
Student Hostels
Georgetown is home to the main campus of Georgetown University in Washington. The embassies of Cameroon, France, Kosovo, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Mongoli, Sweden, Thailand, Ukraine and Venezuela are located in Georgetown.
The neighborhood is situated on bluffs overlooking the Potomac River. As a result, there are some rather steep grades on streets running north-south. The famous "Exorcist steps" connecting M Street to Prospect Street were necessitated by the hilly terrain of the neighborhood.
The primary commercial corridors of Georgetown are M Street and Wisconsin Avenue, whose high fashion stores draw large numbers of tourists as well as local shoppers year-round.
Jhumka Gira Re
In search of Jhumka
Popular lovers in Love Lane
Enjoying San Francisco Weather
What a tranquil ambience here! Best time spent together on the whole trip
Thanks Mohan and Neelam Sachdeva for bringing us this historic town.
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