D.C. Latino Festival

A table representing United Farm Workers at a Mount Pleasant Street festival shares the cause with the community. Out My Window: Nancy Shia's 40-year Photographic History of 18th Street and Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Same cause, two years later, a table in Kalorama Park brings the United Farm Workers, a union for farm workers, to the earliest years of the DC Latin Festival. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Saturday dance party in Community Park West. Dancing to the music of Maria y Los Magnificos. This was before the town houses were built next to Mama Ayesha’s. You can see the row houses across Calvert Street. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Saturday afternoon Latin Festival in Kalorama Park. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Panama float. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Paraguay Float. (c) Nancy shia,2020
People on the street scurry to get out of the way of the oncoming parade. Traditionally the parade begins with police on motor cycles and the carrying of the colors. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Puerto Rican Float. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Paraguay Float. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
A truck pulls a trailer carrying a volcano, to represent the country of El Salvador. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Looking east from above the crowd on Columbia Road, the sidewalks are filled with people as far as the eye can see. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
The excitement & anticipation for the parade to begin was always felt up and down Columbia Road where the crowds lined up and waited. The parade was always late. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Kalorama Park on a Sunday afternoon, when the Latin Festival begins to slow down, the conga drummers are still going strong. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Kalorama Park on a Sunday afternoon, when the Latin Festival begins to slow down, the conga drummers are still going strong. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Señor Gavilan opened a bodega, first in Mount Pleasant, and then in Adams Morgan in the 1970s. Sadly, it closed in 2019. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Zodiac Music Store was a popular place in the Latinx Community. It was run by Daniel Bueno, who relocated on Columbia Road several times before landing in on place. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Chi Shia stops her stroller at 18th & Columbia to talk with a few friends she meets along the way. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
The vacant building at 1717 Columbia Road was used to fly a banner condemning the government of El Salvador for its brutality in the civil war. (c) Nancy Shia,2020
The 1985 DC Latin Festival parade marshal was Celia Cruz. She rode in the back of a convertible, mostly standing and waving to the masses who came to Columbia Road to see her. The man looking up at her adoringly is Arturo Griffiths. (c) Nancy Shia,
Out My Window: Nancy Shia's 40-year Photographic History of 18th Street and Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Out My Window: Nancy Shia's 40-year Photographic History of 18th Street and Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Out My Window: Nancy Shia's 40-year Photographic History of 18th Street and Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Out My Window: Nancy Shia's 40-year Photographic History of 18th Street and Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Out My Window: Nancy Shia's 40-year Photographic History of 18th Street and Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Out My Window: Nancy Shia's 40-year Photographic History of 18th Street and Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Out My Window: Nancy Shia's 40-year Photographic History of 18th Street and Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Out My Window: Nancy Shia's 40-year Photographic History of 18th Street and Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Out My Window: Nancy Shia's 40-year Photographic History of 18th Street and Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020

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