U Street Life: Meridian Hill Park is for Pimps

On my way back home from Columbia Heights on Sunday I stopped to check out Meridian Hill Park. Meridian Hill is a great park right off of 16th street and only a couple of blocks up from U St. Every Sunday locals and dirty stinking hippies alike come together to play music and form a drum circles. I snapped a couple of pics of the massive cascading fountain which is in the center of the park and a few people hanging in the park. The whole atmosphere was very cool people played soccer, Frisbee (some guy practiced tight rope for some reason) and I'm sure Ill come back with a few people this weekend. I looked up some history of the park on wikipedia because wikipedia is awesome and it tells me that the park was originally part of what eventually became GW University and in 1914 was bought by the Federal government to be redesigned into a grand urban park. Meridian Hill park was also voted to be called Malcolm X Park in the 70s but the D.C. law was not ratified by congress (as was it required to take effect). These days you'll find certain people that still refer to the park as Malcolm X Park, in my opinion if they are from D.C. and lived here in the 70's that is allowed, but if they are hipster transplants from southern California you should probably punch them in the face. Anyway, Meridian Hill Park is awesome you should go there and bang a hippie drum.

Fountain Pics