Landmark Big Chair Is Reborn, Rot-Proof; 8-Month Absence Ending in Anacostia

From: The Washington Post | Date: April 16, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Not a week passes without a stranger asking Anacostia security guard Bunmi Fadairo what might seem like an odd question.

What happened to the chair?

In this Southeast Washington neighborhood, there is only one chair -- the big chair, the 191/2-foot-tall landmark that was dismantled last summer after 46 years on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue.

Tired of explaining that it had become old and rotted, Fadairo sometimes likes to joke that thieves lifted the chair off its pedestal and took off in the dead of night.

"And sometimes they believe me," he said, laughing at the idea of a gang running ...

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