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Vendors hawk memorabilia on 23rd Street as inauguration kicks off

Sunday, January 18, 2009, 8:23 pm

Almost six hours after today’s inaugural concert, the GW campus is teeming with nearly a dozen street vendors who are set up along 23rd Street near the Foggy Bottom Metro. The vendors are selling everything from buttons and t-shirts to magnets and flags bearing President-elect Obama’s face, his family and messages ranging from “Hope” to “I was there.”

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