Recent changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Track the most recent changes to the wiki on this page.
List of abbreviations:
- N
- This edit created a new page (also see list of new pages)
- m
- This is a minor edit
- b
- This edit was performed by a bot
- (±123)
- The page size changed by this number of bytes
30 November 2024
|
|
19:35 | (Upload log) [Pwenner (11×)] | |||
|
|
19:35 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Christmas Tree Cutting Man with ax.jpeg (Some Brunswick Rotarians getting set to cut some Christmas trees sometime in the early 1950s. From left to right are former Brunswick Mayor and furniture store owner Harry Mace, farm owner T. West Claggett (with ax), unknown, garage owner West Schnauffer and realtor Lytle Baker. The location is unknown. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Christmas) | ||||
|
|
19:32 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Senior Center Gathering.png (This photo is believed to have been a gathering at the old Senior Center when it was located on W. Potomac Street when Ethel Porter was coordinator. The Bank of Brunswick calendar indicates it was taken in March, 1968. Some of the people in the photo are Hazel Coffman (3rd from the left with her arm on the table), Vernon Kelley (2nd from right in front of the file cabinet), Rev. David Sparrow of the Mt. Zion AME Church in Knoxville on the far right. In the middle leaning forward is Hilda Sco...) | ||||
|
|
19:30 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Albaugh Chevrolet Sales.jpg (A 1930 ad for Albaugh Chevrolet, a dealership which preceded Litten's Chevrolet-Oldsmobile at the 600 W. Potomac Street location. Litten's started out on E. Potomac Street, where the former Moose Club lodge is located today. Look at those prices! Here's a little local automotive history from "Brunswick: 100 Years of Memories" (1990): The location on West Potomac Street currently occupied by King Pizza (when it was at 111 W. Potomac) was the site of the Albaugh Agency that sold Chevrolets a...) | ||||
|
|
19:27 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Locomotive-Roundhouse Taken from Bridge.jpg (In a photo taken from the bridge, the museum's caption reads: "This locomotive assists mainline trains by leading the train or adding extra power." Please share any additional observations of this scene. Judging from the cars, this is from the early 1970s. See the rooflines of the Gross Store, passenger station and YMCA on the left looking east. (Photo courtesy of Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown Railroad) | ||||
|
|
19:25 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Brunswick Hardware Melvin Baker-Melvin Taylor.png (Melvin Baker and Melvin Taylor at Brunswick Hardware at 302 W. Potomac Street in the mid-1970s. Taylor originally a partner in the business with Leroy Strawsburg. Abbie Ricketts Melvin Baker came in every weekday morning and drank coffee bought at the Berlin Restaurant across the street. Jeff Sanbower They had anything you needed in that store. Chris Hamby Sylvia Puddy I like the old hardware store because they had a lot of the old stuff that a lot of these old houses still require. (Fro...) | ||||
|
|
19:19 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Veterans Day Parade U.S. Navy Exhibit.png (This U.S. Navy exhibit featured a Navy RIM-8 Talos ramjet powered missile on a big truck as it rolled down W. Potomac Street. According to Owen Brown, the missile was first produced in 1955 and deployed in 1958. This must have been a late 1950s parade during the height of the Cold War between the U.S. and Russia. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations) | ||||
|
|
19:14 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Veterans Day Parade Cloverettes.jpeg (This majorette team marching in the unseasonably warm 1961 Veterans Day Parade are believed to have been called the Cloverettes. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations) | ||||
|
|
19:08 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Veterans Day Parade Square Dance Club.jpeg (The Roundhouse 8 Square Dance Club dancing on their Veterans Day Parade float sometime in the 1960s. Danny Miller was the caller (with microphone). His wife Rosie is on the podium dancing next to him. The man sitting in front of them facing the camera was John Himes. Linda Dawson (Lucas) was dancing on the far left facing the camera. Angela Lucas Mostoller Have never seen this pic before 💕 my mom Linda Dawson Lucas is on the left. Danny Miller was the caller and believe that is his wife Ros...) | ||||
|
|
19:02 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Veterans Day Parade Silver Bit Riding Club 1940s.png (This was the Silver Bit Riding Club in a Veterans Day Parade that might date back to the 1940s. To help us date the photo, note signs for W. Potomac Street businesses such as Ideal Cleaners/Tailoring on the left side. On the right side of the street, we see a liquor store in the Harmon Building, the Maryland Dining Room (later Mrs. Himes restaurant) and a billiards parlor next to Potomac Edison. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Publ...) | ||||
|
|
18:59 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:American Legion Post 96 c1940.jpeg (Steadman-Keenan American Legion Post 96 members march past Watson's Cut Rate on W. Potomac Street in an early Brunswick Veterans Day Parade, circa 1940. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers) | ||||
|
|
17:54 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Caboose group.jpg (This photo was taken next to the old caboose at an event in the late 1960s. There are cigar boxes on the table to collect money. Maybe a tour of the caboose? From left to right are Lee Nuse, Amos Kaplon, Charlie Harrington, Glenn Good and Charlie Halley. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations) | ||||
25 November 2024
|
|
19:53 | (Upload log) [Pwenner (6×)] | |||
|
|
19:53 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Veterans 21-Gun Salute.jpeg (A Veterans Day salute by members of Post 96 sometime in the 1960s. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers) | ||||
|
|
19:50 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:7623 Locomotive by Coal Tipple.jpeg (A group of railroaders pose on an engine in the Brunswick B&O yard in front of the coal tipple. Todd Crone: 7623 was built by Baldwin in 1945 and was renumbered to 673 in 1956, that is about as close as I can get from this picture. For a time frame, its after 1945--the late '50s that is a em-1 b&o 2–8-8-4 that was delivered in the second batch of em-1s. Andrew Roberts Todd Crone given the wear and tear evident on the loco, it is probably closer to 1950 than 1944. BTW, I think the renumberin...) | ||||
|
|
19:48 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Diamond Jubilee Kaplon's Windows.jpeg (Local folks view Kaplon's window displays during the September 1965 Diamond Jubillee celebration of Brunswick's 75th birthday. The store was still open for business then. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations) | ||||
|
|
19:46 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:First Methodist Church Kindergarten Event.png (Pre-school teachers Marie Huffer, Dot Decker, and June Utterback, along with an unidentified child, participated in a circus-themed "Learn and Play" event at the fellowship hall of the First Methodist Church on S. Maryland Avenue. The photo was likely taken in the late 1960s. Danielle Moore Clary I am thinking that this picture may have been taken in their fellowship hall (the room by the kitchen with the stage). Jim Stewart I was younger - but we had nursery school at the church - upstairs...) | ||||
|
|
19:41 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Minnick sisters.png (Sisters Louise and Bernice Minnick in a photo likely taken in the late 1960s. Bernice was married to Gene Summers, who was tragically killed in a bus accident in the 1970s. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown People) | ||||
|
|
19:39 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Veterans Day Parade Time to Educate.jpeg (Brunswick Elementary School sponsored participation in the parades for years. Perhaps this was around the time the consolidated school opened in 1952? The location was the corner of Brunswick Street and Georgia Avenue where the floats and marching groups gathered to kick off the parade in the days when the procession went east. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations) | ||||
24 November 2024
|
|
19:00 | (Upload log) [Pwenner (14×)] | |||
|
|
19:00 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Roundhouse Aerial View.jpg (An aerial view of the roundhouse and the 200 block of East Potomac Street. See Moler's Food Market on the left at 207 E. Potomac Street. Jeff Hanke There is a Seaboard System painted locomotive on the right. So it can’t be any earlier than 1982, but likely 1986 is more realistic. Foreign power didn’t start making it system wide until around then. Todd Crone Condition of the roof, 70s at least. Also since there are Chessie System hoppers that puts it post 1973. Sean Staub Todd Crone I’d bet...) | ||||
|
|
18:57 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Callers Office.jpg (A scene from the Caller's Office in the Brunswick B&O Yard. Maybe 1950s? Charles Harper, Irl Thomas at the teletype machine, ?, George Brady (Back right) Doris Kelley Barker You spoke of my dear, sweet Uncle Irl Thomas married to Levetta Kelley, my Dad’s sister of 11 children. Uncle Irl and Aunt Levetta in 1931 when 1,000 railroad men were laid off, they lost their home on Brunswick Street to the bank. They moved in with my parents, Frank and Clara Kelley, 215 N. Delaware Avenue. They lived...) | ||||
|
|
18:51 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:CF Booth.jpg (C.F. Booth poses next to the towering old coal tipple. He was noted at the museum as Machinist Helper. Does anyone remember him? The tipple ceased operations sometime in the 1950s as the old steam locomotives were phased out. (Photo courtesy of Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown Railroader) | ||||
|
|
18:47 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Musical Tribute to Brunswick.JPG (This show at the old fire hall was sponsored by VOCAL, circa 1990. Comments Betty Hedges VOCAL was the group that ousted Mayor Susan Fauntleroy in 1990. They did not want the water and sewer rates to go up to pay for needed improvements. (Courtesy of the City of Brunswick Maryland History Commission) Category:Smoketown Music) | ||||
|
|
18:44 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Westbound Station 1976.JPG (The westbound Brunswick train station in 1976. The station was designed by Ephraim Francis Baldwin and opened in 1891 on Seventh Avenue. Several years later the building was moved to its current location. David Mcintosh This station was first built on the south side of Potomac Ave in 1891. Then moved to its present place in 1907. (Photo courtesy of Ray Soderberg) Category:Smoketown Railroad) | ||||
|
|
18:39 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:E.F. Baldwin.jpeg (Ephraim Francis Baldwin (1837-1916) apprenticed as a draftsman in the architectural office of Niernsee and Neilson in Baltimore. He left in 1867 and practiced on his own for 2 years before forming a partnership with Bruce Price, whom he had met at his former employers. They practiced together until 1873 and Baldwin worked again on his own for the next decade. In 1883 he formed a partnership with a former employee, Josias Pennington. Over a course of a 50 year architecture career Baldwin desi...) | ||||
|
|
18:38 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded 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...) | ||||
|
|
18:34 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded 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) | ||||
|
|
18:24 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded 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) | ||||
|
|
18:21 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded 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) | ||||
|
|
18:18 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded 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...) | ||||
|
|
18:12 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded 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) | ||||
|
|
18:09 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded 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) | ||||
|
|
18:07 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded 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...) | ||||
21 November 2024
| 10:00 | Upload log Wallgaier talk contribs uploaded File:Rev. George Harpel (obituary) FrederickNewsPost, 2024.11.21.pdf (Obituary for Rev. George Harper, who served in Brunswick earlier in his ministry. Category:Obituaries) | ||||
20 November 2024
| 09:28 | Upload log Wallgaier talk contribs uploaded File:18-year- old woman accused in stabbing of 16-year-old girl, FrederickNewsPost, 2024.11.20.pdf (An 18-year- old woman is accused in stabbing of 16-year-old girl in Brunswick over disputed text messages. Category:Police) | ||||
18 November 2024
| 08:11 | Upload log Wallgaier talk contribs uploaded File:Brunswick falls to Liberty on PKs in 1A state final, FrederickNewsPost, 2024.11.18.pdf (Brunswick soccer team looses state championship by narrow margin. Category:Recreation-Sports) | ||||
17 November 2024
| 11:20 | Upload log Wallgaier talk contribs uploaded File:1A Boys State Soccer Final Capsule, FrederickNewsPost, 2024.11.16.pdf (Pre-game assessment of Brunswick and Liberty soccer teams, going into the state 1A finals. Category:Recreation-Sports) | ||||
15 November 2024
| 16:02 | File:Masters of sustained success, Railroaders go for 3rd state crown in 4 years. FrederickNewsPost, 2024.11.15.pdf diffhist +7 Wallgaier talk contribs | ||||
| 15:53 | Upload log Wallgaier talk contribs uploaded File:Masters of sustained success, Railroaders go for 3rd state crown in 4 years. FrederickNewsPost, 2024.11.15.pdf (If Brunswick (14-2-2) defeats Liberty (15-1) in Saturday night’s Class 1A state championship, it will become the first Frederick County team to win three state titles in four years. Category:Recreation-Sports) | ||||
14 November 2024
| 06:48 | Upload log Wallgaier talk contribs uploaded File:Brunswick football endures turbulent late-season stretch by leaning on belief and experience. FrederickNewsPost, 2024.11.14.pdf (Review of a successful BHS 2024 football season, including the impact of head coach Jerry Smith leaving. Category:Recreation-Sports) | ||||
12 November 2024
|
|
09:09 | (Upload log) [Wallgaier (2×)] | |||
|
|
09:09 Wallgaier talk contribs uploaded File:Brunswick recognized for sustainability initiatives, FrederickNewsPost, 2024.11.12.pdf (The City of Brunswick received the highest recognition (silver certification) from Sustainable Maryland for its efforts in promoting sustainability. The effort was coordinated by Sarah Frost, chair of the Green Team in Brunswick. Category:City) | ||||
|
|
08:51 Wallgaier talk contribs uploaded File:Roaders' Kaunis commits to Terps, FrederickNewsPost, 2024.11.12.pdf (BHS baseball player Ty Kaunis signs with University of Maryland. FrederickNewsPost, 2024.11.12.pdf CategoryRecreation-Sports) | ||||
11 November 2024
|
|
12:45 | Brunswick Annual Veterans Day Parade 7 changes history −21 [Dhuscha (7×)] | |||
|
|
12:45 (cur | prev) 0 Dhuscha talk contribs | ||||
|
|
12:44 (cur | prev) −56 Dhuscha talk contribs | ||||
|
|
12:41 (cur | prev) 0 Dhuscha talk contribs | ||||
|
|
12:41 (cur | prev) +64 Dhuscha talk contribs | ||||
|
|
12:38 (cur | prev) −29 Dhuscha talk contribs | ||||
| m |
|
12:36 (cur | prev) +59 Dhuscha talk contribs Tag: Manual revert | |||
|
|
12:23 (cur | prev) −59 Dhuscha talk contribs Tags: Manual revert Reverted | ||||
| 12:43 | Move log Dhuscha talk contribs moved page File:465778307 968823188613022 4006791406433554776 n.jpg to File:2024 Veterans Day Flyer.jpg | ||||
|
|
12:40 | (Upload log) [Dhuscha (2×)] | |||
|
|
12:40 Dhuscha talk contribs uploaded File:465778307 968823188613022 4006791406433554776 n.jpg | ||||
|
|
12:25 Dhuscha talk contribs uploaded File:FOR WEB 2024 Veterans Day.pdf (2024 Veterans Day Parade Booklet) | ||||
