What’s the National Mall like at 4 a.m.? Organizations that host events on the Mall have to make sure no equipment is left unattended. So Earl Lee was left guarding, overnight, a 1952 Hudson Hornet.
But at night is when Earl Lee was stationed there earlier this month — when the tourists were asleep in their hotels downtown, when the crunchy gravel of the Mall’s walkways sat undisturbedwhen the gleaming glass case he was guarding along Seventh Street NW provided some of the only light around, fluorescent and soft white.
, an offshoot of an insurance company for classic vehicles, whose mission statement calls “America’s automotive heritage” “worth saving and celebrating.”Lee owns a couple cars and motorcycles, but mostly this was a job, and his own mission statement — as he sat low in his lawn chair next to the Hornet, hours into his 6 p.m.-to-6 a.m. shift — was getting through it.
Soft piano hymnals emanated from a pop-up church on the grass nearby, itself guarded by three more workers.Galvan, 42 and soft-spoken, said he’s has been working security on and off for five years, including gigs at the Bullpen in Navy Yard during the Nationals’ World Series run in 2019. He was an optician for 18 years, until he lost his job during the pandemic.
And so the men sat. Around 1:30 a.m., tourists wheeled by on scooters and bicycles, peeking in at the Hornet as they passed, a symbol of a vintage, sepia-toned snapshot of Americana. According toLee and Galvan were working there for a company owned by Lee’s sister-in-law, where a recent posting lists wages starting at $20 to $24 an hour. Just a few weeks prior, the company had deployed the men to the Citi Open, at Rock Creek Tennis Center.
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