Talk:National Mall

Caption?

File:From Washington Monument.jpg

The Victorian landscaping and architecture of the Mall loooking east from the top of the Washington Monument, showing the influence of the Downing Plan on the National Mall. Train tracks leading to a shed cross the Mall behind the Arts and Industry Building, the Army Medical Center and the Armory (circa 1904)

The caption at right seems unclear or a non-sequitur. First, why are the practically invisible train tracks even mentioned, instead of the much more visible structures? Second, what do the train tracks have to do with Downing's Plan? Did Downing plan the train tracks? Alanscottwalker (talk) 16:26, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

Mall's slight deviation from east-west alignment

Any of the experts have a substantiated explanation that could be put here? Wegesrand (talk) 11:26, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

In popular culture

Forrest Gump while having a scene take place at the National Mall is incorrectly stated to have take place during the 1963 March on Washington. Based on prior events earlier in the film, it is more likely to have taken place at a later date closer to the year of 1967. 57.140.28.9 (talk) 17:57, 17 November 2023 (UTC)