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Maple Avenue. These stores operated during the

1930's, 1940's and 1950's. By the 1970's all had closed. On the opposite side of Maple in the same block, Owen "Skeets" Kline started a grocery store with his brother Jim that later became Owen Kline's OK Market and is today Jim Fauntleroy's sign shop. This is at 704 Maple Avenue. This concludes the tour of yesteryear. To get in sync with today, just keep headed north and you will see the Brunswick Shopping Center, where many" of your basic needs may be met in one large block.

Cincotta building and it was made in 1941. (I believe I am right about this date because I was working there at the time). You should have seen the coal dirt! The store was later turned into selfservice that itis now. The remodeling was done, as near as I can remember, when Mr. Jeff Cauley was manager. He still resides in Brunswick. "The Newberry stores were sold to the McCrory chain but they still carry the Newberry name. This transaction was in 1969 or 1970. I was appointed manager in 1973 and remained so until I retired on February 1, 1974." W - Helen L. Cooper

S - Charlie Brown, Pete Chaney, Jeanette Ephraim, Mary Kearfott, Mildred and Sherm Lowry, Junior Moler, Margaret Moss, Charlotte Nalley Hammond, Shane Nalley, Alta Nuce, Ernestine Phillips, Helen Porter, Lillian Rice, Frank Wenner.

OUTDOOR ADVERTISING Remember when we had billboards in town and Charlie Barnhart was the man that kept them interesting? Charlie lived atthe top of First Avenue. There were two billboards side by side at the foot of First Avenue, across from Werntz's store. En route to Knoxville, there were two more, set over in the field to the right. A lone billboard stood at Wynkoop' s, 809 Petersville Road, and two stood side by side on the west side of Petersville Road. Charlie's company owned the signs, and he changed the ads possibly monthly. He kept many more of their signs updated throughout the countryside along the roads.

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J. J. NEWBERRY CO. "I was hired by J.J. Newberry in January 1930," said Helen L. Cooper, who sent the History Commission her brief history of the J. J. Newberry Company in Brunswick. Miss Cooper continued, "In 1941 I was promoted from sales girl to cashier. At that time the cashier did all of the office work and managed the store in the manager's absence. "One day I was cleaning out the filing cabinet and found a letter from the New York office which stated that Store Number Eleven in Brunswick, Maryland was initiated in 1919. I believe the J. J. Newberry Company bought the "Banks 5 & 10 Cent Store." If you will notice, the name is still on the window in the store room that belongs to Tony Cincotta's estate. "The John J. Newberry moved across the street to its present location, which is now three store rooms. There are three doors in front. The store room next to the Cincotta building was at one time the old opera house which was later made into an indoor miniature golf course. The center room, I believe, was the Lace Store which later moved down on East Potomac Street. The last store room, next to the Potomac Foundation Building was atone time a store that was owned and operated by a Mr. Eugene Cost. "I do not know if the date of 1919 was when Newberry moved to its present location or just what it was, but the last addition was the room next to the

S - Dutch Burns W-MMM

PAINTERS AND PAPERHANGERS Under the heading of Paperhangers and Painters, the Maryland State Gazetteer of 1909-10-11 listed three from Brunswick: Lewis McMeeks & Son, David B., W. E. Orrison, and Thomas Tillotson.

Ray Beck and his brother, Baxter, were wellknown paperhangers plying their trade in Brunswick from the 1920's into the 1940's. Clara Crowl Bohrer and Grace Crowl Nuce were part-time paperhangers during the 1930'sand 40's. Eurly "Jerry" Gosnell, his wife Pauline, and her brother Robert, also did paperhanging during the late 1940's and 50' s.

One of Brunswick's well-known painters was Charlie Wiggington who kept busy from the 1930's

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