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Summary

Not sure when this picture was taken, but it shows an old tar machine used for patching roads on West Potromac Street. See White's Grocery Store, People's Bank and Swank Hardware as you look up W. Potomac Street on the north side. Downtown Brunswick was full of business.

The Swank building was torn down for the right of way to the new Potomac River Bridge in 1954. This was after George Swank sold it to Irv Kolker and Nat Winters following World War II.

(Photo credit to Brunswick History Commission)

Smoketown History (Brunswick, Md.) From the looks of the car on the far right, this seems to be the 1930s.

Jacquelyn Ebersole: The steps you see are going up to the house of Bob and Lulu Foster the parents of Mary Foster Cage, my 8th Grade teacher. Mrs Foster was the main cook who taught quantiy cooking to all the cooks who came after her, Louise Cannon, Anna Eury to name a few.

Mary Jo Brown: The building between the steps and the People's National Bank is gone. There is a pocket park where the Swank building once stood. It has a memorial to Donald Darr and Fran New made with bricks from the old high school.