At what time should I line up for the public White House tours?

I am planning to go to Washington DC next week and I am planning to line up for the tours of the white house, which apparently starts distributing tickets at 7:30am at the visitor’s center. However, what time should I go to line up in the morning in order to avoid long lines?

Also, what time should I go to line up for the Washington Monument and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing?

Thanks!

Answer by DC Bob
Sorry, but…

Public tours of the White House are available for groups of 10 or more people. Requests must be submitted through one’s Member of Congress and are accepted up to six months in advance. These self-guided tours are available from 7:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Fridays, and 7:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Saturdays (excluding federal holidays). Tour hours will be extended when possible based on the official White House schedule. Tours are scheduled on a first come, first served basis. We encourage you to submit your request as early as possible since a limited number of tours are available. All White House tours are free of charge. For the most current tour information, please call the 24-hour line at 202…. Please note that White House tours may be subject to last minute cancellation.

You really should do some investigation for yourself.

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BERMUDA RAILWAY — DOUBLE-TRACK SWITCH POINT at the Old RIDDELL’S BAY STATION


Image by Okinawa Soba
Guy with a bicycle waits by the siding / platform. Nice view of the tracks on what looks like a bed of sand-filled rock. (I don’t know how they actually graded and laid the tracks). Nice end-on view of two different styles of cars. There’s a station sign in the distance, but it can’t be seen in this photo — and unfortunately, it’s blurred out when looked at under a ‘scope.

Early on, astute flickr member "basic country bumkins" took a serious and honorable stab at nailing down the location as the TERMINUS AT SOMERSET by matching certain features in the above image with another identified photo taken in 1933 and published elsewhere. See his detailed evaluation at this comment below : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/3304637454/#comment721…

However (!), another flickr watcher from Bermuda, WilliamCooke60, felt led to check this out against his own list of possibilities, and — while eliminating the similar-looking old station locations from his list — he carefully concludes that this is RIDDELL’S BAY STATION, the stop for WARWICK’S CAMP. See his original comment here : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/3304637454/#comment721…

I would like to thank both Basic Country Bumpkin and WilliamCooke60 for their time and effort move things along to making a serious ID of this unfortunately now-gone part of Bermuda’s colorful and interesting past.

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Now long gone, you used to be able to "ride the rails" in Old Bermuda from 1931 to 1948.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_Railway

"…….It is not easy to get a picture of the wide range of people connected to the railway, from the workers who built it, to the distant British capitalists who financed it, to the managers who ran it, it to the drivers and conductors actually operated the trains….." www.bermudarailway.net/then/people/people.html

If the above is true, I hope another image linked below is of historic interest to fans of the old Bermuda Railway. Go there, and hit the ALL SIZES button for a nice look at a one of the mechanics (or Engineers), and what looks like a uniformed conductor with gear bag. Not to mention it’s a great close view of two types of early cars… including the "1st" on on the line ! : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/3297978149/in/set-7215…

Also see : www.bermudarailway.net/

Living in Okinawa, Japan over the years, I sure missed having a Railroad. Okinawa had an extensive rail network that handled over 3,000,000 riders a year. It was destroyed during the Battle of Okinawa, and never rebuilt. To this day, Okinawa remains the only Prefecture in Japan without a Rail Road system.

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From a ca1931-36 series of amateur glass lantern-slides taken by an America tourist on a trip around the world. The photos were developed, printed on glass, and hand colored by the T. ENAMI STUDIO in YOKOHAMA, JAPAN.

This World-Traveling tourist, like many others on the Cruise Ship, saved their undeveloped pictures of the countries they visited until reaching Japan. At this time, Japan still had one of the best reputations for high-quality processing and coloring of the work of tourists passing through, and it was also convenient to get everything done VERY CHEAPLY and put in order before reaching North America and Home.

Although the studio’s founder, T. ENAMI had died in early 1929, his son TAMOTSU continued to sell the images his father had taken from 1892 until his death, as well as processing and coloring the work of tourists from around the world. The studio came to an end when it was fire-bombed in WW2.

For more about T. ENAMI and the later work of his son TAMOTSU, see : www.t-enami.org/services

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Rights granted are restricted solely to the above uses, by permission of the webmaster at T. ENAMI ARCHIVES www.t-enami.org/

No rights extended to Middle-man eBay Pirates, CD Photo harvesters.

What happens if you cook something at a lower temperature than the box recommends? Will it just take longer to cook?? I have ribs in the oven at 300 degrees and the corn bread says to cook at 400 degrees. I want to just stick the corn bread in with the ribs so they will be ready at the same time.. Think it will be all good cooking at 300 for a little longer?

Answer by Boris
it will just take longer to cook.

Answer by Kerie K
I would just finish the ribs and cook the corn bread last – by cooking them together you run the risk of making the cornbread take up the meat flavor and quick breads just turn out best baked quickly in a hotter oven. Your bread could come out flatter and dry cooking it on low heat longer. You can cover the ribs with foil and a towel to help hold the heat if you don’t have a holding drawer in your oven, and then pop in the corn bread. Sounds Yummy!

Answer by kjonesgirl
yeah the cornbread will just take longer to cook…just make sure that you position the cornbread in a good place because if it’s too far on the side of the oven it could cook too much on one side. Seems like a good meal:-)

Answer by merpius
It will take longer to cook. It could also turn out dryer than usual, because there is more time for the water in it to evaporate and the cooking will be more evenly spread. For corn bread, you can probably make it work. If it is done (by a toothpick test) but not brown enough, simply broil it for a minute or three; that will brown the top nicely without cooking the rest significantly more.

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