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24 November 2024

  • 19:3819:38, 24 November 2024 diff hist +951 N File:Westbound Station Workers.jpeg Railroaders who worked at the Westbound Station in 1956-1957. Sitting: Lee B. Smith Sr. (Night Clerk), Stanley Hoke (Freight Agent) Standing: Frank Brooks, Luther Deener, James William "Sarge" Rooney Sr. (Day and Nighttime laborers) Richard Maguire I can remember sitting in the Eastbound station about 3:00 am waiting to relieve the crew on an eastbound train upon arrival. We then took the train (NY 88) to Philadelphia. This was about 1973. Tamara Walker Kimberlee Butler. I remember going t... current
  • 19:3419:34, 24 November 2024 diff hist +307 N File:G.F. McGaha.jpeg George F. McGaha (left) worked at the Fruit Growers building in the Brunswick B&O yard (1934-35). The other man is unidentified. Can anyone tell us where the fruit growers building was located in the yard? (Photo courtesy of the Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown Railroaders current
  • 19:2419:24, 24 November 2024 diff hist +266 N File:A.G. Horine Prescription Card.jpeg A blank prescription card from A.G. Horine. This may date to the early 20th Century or prior. Telephone numbers ranging from 1-3 numbers first appeared in the 1890s. (Photo courtesy of the Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown Advertising current
  • 19:2119:21, 24 November 2024 diff hist +228 N File:Arlington Horine Medicine Bag.jpeg nside Dr. A.G. Horine's medical bag. Note the different kinds of pills. Maybe this is what he carried when he made house calls. (Photo courtesy of the Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown Businesses current
  • 19:1819:18, 24 November 2024 diff hist +1,212 N File:H.R. Mace & Co. Ad .jpeg A vintage ad for Orthophonic Records and Victrolas from longtime Brunswick business H.R. Mace & Company. According to the Maryland State Gazetter, the company featured these items from 1909-11 and probably later. One-time Brunswick Mayor Harry R. Mace (1932-1938) sold furniture and other household items on the first floor at W. Potomac Street where King's Pizza operates today. Mace got into the business working for his father Thomas Mace's furniture store at 207 E. Potomac Street where Mole... current
  • 19:1219:12, 24 November 2024 diff hist +285 N File:Veterans Day Parade Petersville Ruritan.jpg Interesting choice of float display for the Petersville Ruritan Club in what might have been the late Sixties. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations current
  • 19:0919:09, 24 November 2024 diff hist +309 N File:Oscar Mitchell Retirement 2.jpg Oscar (Mitch) Mitchell poses while crossing the tracks one more time on his retirement day in 1954. Look at all the vintage cars in the parking lot! (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Railroaders current
  • 19:0719:07, 24 November 2024 diff hist +1,002 N File:Charles Harrington RR Days.jpg Charles Harrington sitting outside the old caboose in the 1960s. He was a Clerk/Agent for the B&O Railroad in Frederick. This may have been an early Railroad Days celebration. The Charles Harrington family regularly decorated a large pine tree in their yard on N. Maple Avenue, which was a beloved gathering place for Wenner's Hill neighborhood children in the 1950s. Norval Kennedy Dutch Masters cigar box open. To collect money for donations or tours or whatever? Second cigar box obscured. J... current

21 October 2024

  • 00:3800:38, 21 October 2024 diff hist +805 N File:Girl Scout troop 791 Towpath Color.jpg Girl Scout troop 791 from Jefferson's Valley Elementary School pose during a bike ride on the Towpath in Fall 1971. According to Cheryl Beachley Varkalis: "I missed a few but here you go. Leilani Drayer, Mary Kelly, Daun Monath, Mandy Rose, Kim Beavers, Sharon Keller, Julie Setters, Gwen McAllister Hoebeke, Me, Debra Huffer Moler, Robin Leatherman, Brenda McAllister, Lynn Beachley, Mrs. Sexton, Mrs. McAllister, My Mom." The girl with the "pink top might be Denise Teagle. " Mary Kelly: "I be... current

20 October 2024

  • 23:2723:27, 20 October 2024 diff hist +360 N File:Class-of-1945.bhs-reunion.png Brunswick High School Class of 1945 Reunion. Pharmacist and community leader Bob Moler is 3rd from the right in front. This may have been the 50th class reunion. Those identified are (L-R): Dick Wenner, ?, Bud Kidwell, ?, ?,?, Donald Woods, Bob Moler, Mud Brooks, Colleen Selby?, ? (Photo courtesy of Jim Moler) Category:Smoketown Schools current
  • 23:2123:21, 20 October 2024 diff hist +557 N File:Car Yard 1970 from the Bridge.jpg Looking westward from the bridge toward the Car Yard in August, 1970. Here are some comments on the location: Todd Crone What is left of the cattle pens on the right hand side of the picture. Phil Lowery Todd Crone Never seen cows there but often used for pigs. I grew up on Walnut Street and watch them load the pigs. Kenny Edwards Brunswick yard held coal here and car repair shop was a little north of this picture. (Photo by John P. Hale courtesy of the City of Brunswick, Maryland Histor... current
  • 23:1523:15, 20 October 2024 diff hist +806 N File:Horine's Ad Sign early 1900s.jpg An old advertising sign for Horine's Drug Store. It must date between 1901-1912 because that's the timeline of the Post Office when it was on the Square Corner in the building that many of us remember as S&N Katz. Doris Kelley Barker Bettie Nielsen I remember Dr. Horine as a doctor, his son we called Dr. but he wasn’t. Dr. Horine’s office was behind the ice cream confectionary store. Dr. Smith was just past there with a house in between and the many time I went to Dr. Smith. He gave us the w... current
  • 23:1323:13, 20 October 2024 diff hist +1,552 N File:King's 1st location.jpg King's Pizza at 111 W. Potomac Street when it operated next to Fast Eddie's. King's opened at this location sometime in the 1980s. Please share your memories. Good food was available on this corner! Sadly the building has been gone for at least a decade. Prior to King's it was briefly home to the Blade-Times in the 1960s. Going back to the 1920s, it housed grocery stores such as Wenner's City Meat Market, White's Self Service, and John's Supermarket. The Kaplon family owned the building fo... current

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