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Summary

This is a 1963 Veterans Day photo of the parade making its way past some houses in the 300 block of W. Potomac Street.

Please share any memories of this side of the street or of the folks in the covered wagon.

The tall building was an apartment dwelling for many years after the businesses on the first floor ended. It's been replaced by a modern residence.

Randy George Tall building is long gone.

Doris Kelley Barker Agree with Randy but it was an old haven for small apartments and enabled people to have a home . On the western side was my Aunt Grace and Uncle Roy Rice’s house & I visited often. The Rice’s home place was going west beside Dr. Watson’s house and dentist office. Coming east was the Good property—she was principal of East Brunswick School, he and engineer, I think. The Hood school teachers lived on the George’s Hardware Store side across from the Goods Also across from the Rice’s was Daily Funeral Home and Bennett great Furniture Store. I wasn’t here until 1929 and we had cars, not covered wagons, ha, ha.

Doris Kelley Barker Smoketown History (Brunswick, Md.) Peter, The Booth family had the last nice house in this group going west. Dr. Watson had the first house in the next block and his office was in his lovely home. Our family sat in his chair many times and he and his family were lovely. Then Dr. Meadows came to town and Dr. Watson was getting older, so we younger ones went to Dr. Meadows who was in that beautiful building across from Horines that was on W. Potomac Street where his big apartment had all the big windows and I played with his two daughters. My Uncle Roy Rice’s brother was Walter Rice who always lived in the old fire hall on N. Delaware and also in the new one where the brewery is now. His life was the fire hall. Uncle Roy and Aunt Grace’s grandson was the first president of YaHoo with another gentleman from the same college— that was Tim Koogle, son of their daughter, Lucille and Grayson Koogle, all Brunswick people. We were all close. Uncle Roy had a famous song he liked and would come to our house and have me play it on the piano, all dear to me.

Jim Stueve As a member of the MD American Legion I had the opportunity to come to Brunswick to write a story and take pictures of Brunswick's Veterans Day parade for the Pentagram newspaper for the Army's Military District of Washington. My wife and I were sitting in the front right hand corner of the reviewing stand and I explained to her I was going down to street level and to yell down to me when a good photo-op was coming. While we were talking the reviewing stand collapsed in the middle and all kinds of people sitting there rolled head over heels down to the middle. If I remember right the Department Commander got hit in the head with an amplifier. When things calmed down and the injured taken for assistance the parade went on with the emcee announcing participants using a pair of broken glasses! The was 1984 if I remember right.

(Photo courtesy of Sue & Bill Kubat)