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  • 18:5118:51, 18 August 2024 diff hist +821‎ N File:Bill Peer & Melody Boys & Girls Apple Blossom Festival.jpg ‎ Bill Peer and the Melody Boys and Girls at the 1954 Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester, VA. Cheryl Wilt My late parents used to go to shows at the Brunswick Moose. My dad just got back from Korea. Bill Peer was also the parts man for Goode Brothers ,my grandfathers and his cousins garage in Charles Town. Linda Runkles I sure do remember those days! I was young but I went with my parents! David Fink My parents Patsy (Taulton) & Ray Fink used to see them there all the time. I grew up on th... current
  • 18:4118:41, 18 August 2024 diff hist +261‎ N File:Wenner Store N. Maple.jpg ‎ An unidentified employee posing outside Wenner's store at G Street and N. Maple Avenue in the late 1930s. See the Brunswick Tri-state league baseball player walking into the store. (Photo courtesy of Jo Jamison) Category:Smoketown Businesses current
  • 18:3918:39, 18 August 2024 diff hist +869‎ N File:Joseph Tojo Himes and Family.jpg ‎ Joseph “Tojo” Himes retired from the B&O in 1980 after 32 years and seven months on the job, first as a fireman then is an engineer. The Brunswick Citizen reported that "at the time, he and his wife Clara were thinking of trying out life in Fort Myers, Florida. Here he is pictured with his grandchildren: Holly and Susan Phillips in front, Skip Himes and Terry Himes Robinson in back. James Bowden Mr Himes was my next door neighbor growing up I used to sit on his front porch for hours every da... current
  • 18:3618:36, 18 August 2024 diff hist +503‎ N File:Westbound Train by the Y.jpg ‎ In this photo from the 1970s, the westbound train has just changed crews and is leaving Brunswick. See the old YMCA on the left and WB Tower on the right. Rhonda Mcgaha-Meise My father was an Engineer & spent many a day at that YMCA Jeana Fawley Harmon And my Aunt Yonnie (Longerbeam) was probably inside waiting on railroaders and giving them a “hard time”! 😂😂😂 (Photo courtesy of Bill Rettberg, Jr. and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad History) Category:Smoketown Railroad current
  • 18:3318:33, 18 August 2024 diff hist +1,043‎ N File:Potomac Hotel Menu.jpg ‎ An extensive menu from the restaurant at the Potomac Hotel at 123 E. Potomac. Look at the prices! According to "Brunswick: 100 Years of Memories" in a piece written by Marg Jones Smith, the hotel was owned by her father, prominent local businessman Howard Marvin Jones. Jones had purchased the Yardley Hotel at public auction in 1924 and renamed it the Potomac Hotel. He "intended to make a fine hotel with a quality dining room." The mystery is that Marg Smith wrote that her father's "dining r... current
  • 18:2918:29, 18 August 2024 diff hist +416‎ N File:Old Potomac River Bridge Sign.jpg ‎ Dedication sign for the old Potomac River bridge that connected Brunswick to Lovettsville. According to Megan Vogel, the sign was on the Virginia side on a rock across the street from the gas station on the northbound side of the road. Our thanks to the Brunswick Heritage Museum for showing us this gem! (Courtesy of the Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown Potomac River and C&O Canal current
  • 18:2618:26, 18 August 2024 diff hist +649‎ N File:Burnside’s Corps marching over the pontoon bridge.jpg ‎ The inscription on this Edwin Forbes drawing reads, “General Burnside’s Corps marching over the pontoon bridge into Virginia, at the town of Berlin on Thursday, October 27th, 1862.” This was around the time of Alexander Gardner's famous photos of Union encampments at the river bottom in Berlin. Could that have been the toll house on the Virginia side of the river? Burnside was one of four men to command the Army of the Potomac in Virginia. He replaced General George McClellan on November 7,... current
  • 18:2318:23, 18 August 2024 diff hist +929‎ N File:Class of 1947.jpg ‎ This photo came from the cover of the 60th reunion of BHS Class of 1947 held at the Brunswick VFW Post (formerly the West End School) on September 29, 2007. Seems like a big class for that time. --Neil Gordon on left side second one in standing in front of the two guys in white shirts. --Delores Snoots (Renn) is in the lower right hand corner. Second from the right, front row. --Front row, third from left, Robert Trenton Comer (nickname Mike). --Connie Taylor (Grams) is in the 3rd row, secon... current
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