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Today’s route — 13.7 miles

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Barberz #101

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Uggly 1 Stop Barber Shop

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It's hard to say for sure, but it looks like Claudette Hair Starz may have moved here from across the street to share space with Uggly.

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This little museum contains more than 500 dolls belonging to Naida Njoku, who had to abandon her old collection and start over when she and her husband fled the Nigerian Civil War of the late 1960s and came to the US.

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Barberz #102

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Stripes

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Portal of the day

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St. Albans through the years (more photos here)

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St. Albans’ Greatest

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This mural depicts many of the famous athletes and musicians who have lived in St. Albans, especially the section known as Addisleigh Park. You can see more of the mural, as well as a similar one that preceded it, here.

From left to right: Tommy "Hurricane" Jackson, Roy Campanella, Jackie Robinson, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Illinois Jacquet, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Brook Benton, Milt Hinton, John Coltrane, Fats Waller, and James Brown.

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188-05 Linden Boulevard

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Shop Here & Be Blessed

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Sidewalk seating

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Children of Abraham

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From left to right: Scriptural Baptist Church, Scriptural Christian Supply Center, and Beth Elohim Hebrew Congregation, a black Hebrew Israelite synagogue founded by the late Rabbi Levi Ben Levy, former chief rabbi of the Israelite Board of Rabbis for the New York metropolitan area and the Western Hemisphere.

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Rooted

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Mildred Morris, R.I.P.

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Rose and company

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Kudzu invasion

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"The vine that ate the South" is now snacking on the North.

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St. Catherine of Sienna

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Kitty colony

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Twin oak towers

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Outdoor weight room?

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Two-tone lowrider

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with (presumably imitation) snakeskin interior

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Curlicues

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Street name quiz

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Is the proper spelling A) Everit Place or B) Everett Place?

Answer: C) None of the above.

It's actually Everitt Place (spelled differently on street signs at each of its three intersections, and only correctly at one), presumably named after August Everitt, who ran a general store that was located at the nearby intersection of today's Farmers and Linden Boulevards. Everitt's store "became the hub of local business and an anchor that fostered residential and commercial development in St. Albans".