User contributions for HistoryCommission2

23 October 2019

• 15:1115:11, 23 October 2019 diff hist 0 N File:Woody Free of the Woody Free Trio.jpg No edit summary
• 15:0815:08, 23 October 2019 diff hist +39 File:Gary Free Sr, Woody Free and Merle Anderson..jpg No edit summary
• 15:0815:08, 23 October 2019 diff hist +282 N File:Gary Free Sr, Woody Free and Merle Anderson..jpg From the album "Old Family Photos" the last time Woody Free played as the trio, New Years eve Dec.31 1973 at the Hawaiian Nite Club. From (left-right) Gary Free Sr, Woody Free and Merle Anderson. (Photo courtesy of Gary Free Jr.) Grandson and son of W...
• 15:0715:07, 23 October 2019 diff hist +39 File:Tropical Islanders dates to the 1930s.jpg No edit summary
• 15:0715:07, 23 October 2019 diff hist +393 N File:Tropical Islanders dates to the 1930s.jpg This old photo of a band called the Tropical Islanders dates to the 1930s. The gentleman on the far left has been identified as Earl Ausherman and in the middle right is Brunswick's own Woody Free. The band played local dances, church functions and on...
• 15:0415:04, 23 October 2019 diff hist +245 N File:Some correspondence from Jimmy Dean to H.E. (Sonny) Cannon.jpg Some correspondence from Jimmy Dean to H.E. "Sonny" Cannon, dated October 11, 1956. Wouldn't it be nice to see one of those posters? (Photo courtesy of the Brunswick Volunteer Fire Department) Category:Smoketown History Music
• 15:0115:01, 23 October 2019 diff hist +905 N File:Country music legend Jimmy Dean (left) at the York Fairgrounds in the 1960s.jpg Country music legend Jimmy Dean (left) at the York Fairgrounds in the 1960s. At this time, he had recently finished a national prime time variety show that aired on ABC from 1963-66. According to Jim Dixon, Brunswick Fire Chief Sonny Cannon provided t...
• 15:0015:00, 23 October 2019 diff hist +284 N File:Brunswick Volunteer Fire Company Poster from the 50's or 60's.jpg Brunswick Volunteer Fire Company Poster from the 50's or 60's. Thanks to Sonny Cannon for bringing such really good bands to Brunswick. The old Fire Hall was located where Smoketown Brewery is now. Photo courtesy of Jason Russell [[Category:Smoketo...
• 14:5814:58, 23 October 2019 diff hist +325 N File:Playing the blues in nearby Frederick County.jpg Playing the blues in nearby Frederick County. Three young men enjoying a moment on a bench in Specht's Store in Doubs in 1944 across from the train station. (The date is based on the Fall, 1944, issue of "Titter Magazine" on the shelf.) (Photo by Walk...
• 14:5714:57, 23 October 2019 diff hist +39 File:Mary Wetnight, Betty Stauffer and Margaret Bowers at the Guy Lombardo dance.jpg No edit summary
• 14:5714:57, 23 October 2019 diff hist +160 N File:Mary Wetnight, Betty Stauffer and Margaret Bowers at the Guy Lombardo dance.jpg Mary Wetnight, Betty Stauffer and Margaret Bowers at the Guy Lombardo dance at the old fire hall in 1960. (Photo courtesy of Sherry Bowers Stull)
• 14:5514:55, 23 October 2019 diff hist +39 File:Doug and Mary Wetnight, Betty Stauffer, Oshyie and Myer Kaplon, Margaret Bowers at the Fire Hall Dance.jpg No edit summary
• 14:5514:55, 23 October 2019 diff hist +241 N File:Doug and Mary Wetnight, Betty Stauffer, Oshyie and Myer Kaplon, Margaret Bowers at the Fire Hall Dance.jpg Enjoying Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians at the old fire hall in Spring 1960 are from left to right: Doug and Mary Wetnight, Betty Stauffer, Oshyie and Myer Kaplon, Margaret Bowers. (Photo courtesy of Sherry Bowers Stull)
• 14:5314:53, 23 October 2019 diff hist +39 File:Margaret and Gene Bowers at the Fire Hall Dance.jpg No edit summary
• 14:5314:53, 23 October 2019 diff hist +187 N File:Margaret and Gene Bowers at the Fire Hall Dance.jpg Margaret and Gene Bowers dressed to kill for the Guy Lombardo dance at the old fire hall on W. Potomac Street in the Spring of 1960. (Photo courtesy of Sherry Bowers Stull)
• 14:5114:51, 23 October 2019 diff hist +39 File:Guy Lombardo on stage with his orchestra, the Royal Canadians.jpg No edit summary
• 14:5114:51, 23 October 2019 diff hist +359 N File:Guy Lombardo on stage with his orchestra, the Royal Canadians.jpg Guy Lombardo on stage with his orchestra, the Royal Canadians at the old Brunswick Fire Hall in the Spring of 1960. Lombardo and his band, which billed themselves as creating "the sweetest music this side of heaven", played the Fire Hall on Easter Sund...
• 14:4814:48, 23 October 2019 diff hist +39 File:Woody Free & The Memory Trio playing at the Hawaiian Nightclub..jpg No edit summary
• 14:4814:48, 23 October 2019 diff hist +77 N File:Woody Free & The Memory Trio playing at the Hawaiian Nightclub..jpg Woody Free & The Memory Trio playing at the Hawaiian Nightclub.
• 14:4614:46, 23 October 2019 diff hist +39 File:The Esquires on stage at the Hawaiian.jpg No edit summary
• 14:4514:45, 23 October 2019 diff hist +43 N File:The Esquires on stage at the Hawaiian.jpg (Courtesy of Connie Silliman)
• 14:4414:44, 23 October 2019 diff hist +668 N File:Hawaiian Nightclub in its heyday..jpg Inside of the Hawaiian Nightclub in its heyday. (Photo courtesy of Connie Nicholson Silliman) Judy Norris Gardner: My Dad, Johnny Norris, played there also. This pictures brings back so many memories. It would be so nice if this club was still there...
• 14:4014:40, 23 October 2019 diff hist +252 N File:Connie Nicholson Sillman sings at the Fire Hall.jpg Connie Nicholson Sillman age 15 was the daughter of Mr & Mrs James Nicholson of Petersville but she was reported as the daughter of Mr & Mrs Harry Nicholson of Brunswick. This happened more than once. Category:Smoketown History Music
• 14:3714:37, 23 October 2019 diff hist +298 N File:Brunswick Fire Hall late 50s or early 60s.jpg Early picture(late 50's or early 60's) taken at the Brunswick Fire Hall. Future Mayor Jess Orndorff and wife Bessie, Mr. & Mrs. James Nicholson and daughter Connie and the Thurmont Warshowicz family. (Photo courtesy of Connie Nicholson Silliman) [[Ca...
• 14:3514:35, 23 October 2019 diff hist +333 N File:Brunswick Fire Hall Dance, late 1950s..jpg Brunswick Fire Hall Dance, late 1950s. In the picture, from the left, are Ruth Shafer, ?, Christine Shafer Eagle, Donald Shafer, Virginia & Jim Nicholson, ?, ?, Les Frye, ?, ?, Floyd Wickham, ?. Can you help us identify the others in question? (Photo...
• 14:3414:34, 23 October 2019 diff hist +477 N File:Fire Hall Dance in 1958.jpg Fire Hall Dance in 1958 - On the left is Bessie Cummings wife of then Mayor Jim Cummings in front of the transaction with Connie Nicholson, the cigarette girl. The picture on the right shows Fire Chief Sonny Cannon with Millard J. Tawes right after Taw...
• 14:2814:28, 23 October 2019 diff hist +568 N File:Charles CT Stull was band director for Frederick County high schools.jpg Charles CT Stull was band director for Frederick County high schools in the 1940s and 1950s. As he did with all district schools, Mr. Stull came to Brunswick a couple times a week to coach the BHS band. (Photo from the 1965 Railroader Yearbook courtes...
• 14:2614:26, 23 October 2019 diff hist +292 N File:Potomac Club Orchestra - 1937.jpg Potomac Club Orchestra - 1937 1st Row (L-R) John Funk (standing), Albert Danner, Bobby Garrison, Don Musgrove, Leo Dean, Spike Shivers 2nd Row (L-R) Arthur Griffith, Donald Darr, Claude Porter, C Moler (Credit Brunswick History Commission) [[Category...
• 12:4312:43, 23 October 2019 diff hist +393 N File:Brunswick High School Band - 1935.jpg The Brunswick High School Band - 1935 Front row (L-R) J. Longbreak, M. Kaplon, D. Crabill, B. Wall, E. Dixon, D. Dixon, M. Smith Back row (L-R) G. Grimm, W. Strathern, M. Hoffmaster, B. Edwards, A. Hightman, G. Hoffmaster, A. Dixon, R. Newcome, P. Ha...
• 12:4012:40, 23 October 2019 diff hist +200 N File:Brunswick Community Band.jpg The Brunswick Community Band at the 1935 Apple Blossom Festival Parade. The band director was William Will, Sr. (Photo courtesy of Jerry Hatcher) Category:Smoketown History Music
• 12:3012:30, 23 October 2019 diff hist +434 N File:Cowboy Copas and Shirley Kline.jpg This picture was taken in the 1950s in Brunswick, probably at the Fire Hall. The young lady is Shirley Kline. We think the guitarist is Cowboy Copas, who toured with Patsy Cline and perished together with Patsy, Hackshaw Hawkins and Randy Hughes in the...
• 12:2712:27, 23 October 2019 diff hist +244 N File:Gene Green with Patsy Cline taken at the Brunswick Moose Lodge..jpg (Photo courtesy of Jeanne Green Brandenburg) Nancy Lincks Rohrback: Patsy's roots in this area go way back my grandmother Wilhelmina "Babe" Webber was her sitter when Patsy was a small tot. Category:Smoketown History Music
• 12:2212:22, 23 October 2019 diff hist +83 N File:Patsy Cline & Bill Peer on stage at the Brunswick Moose club in 1953..jpg (Courtesy of Bill Shewbridge) Category:Smoketown History Music
• 12:2112:21, 23 October 2019 diff hist +358 N File:Patsy Cline with Bill Peer & the Melody Boys.jpg Patsy Cline with Bill Peer & the Melody Boys at the Brunswick Moose club in March 1953 (Courtesy of Bill Shewbridge) Donna Poffinberger: Brunswick was a hot spot for music entertainment.....the Moose, Fire Hall and the Hawaiian nite club. people came...
• 12:1812:18, 23 October 2019 diff hist +230 N File:Patsy Cline, Brunswick Coucilwoman Nellie Roby and Jimmy Dean.jpg Patsy Cline, Brunswick Councilwoman Nellie Roby and Jimmy Dean back stage at a show at the Brunswick Fire Hall in the mid-1950s. (Photo courtesy of JoEllen Morseberger Fisher) Category:Smoketown History Music
• 12:1612:16, 23 October 2019 diff hist +52 N File:Jimmy Dean and the Texas Wildcats appeared so often at the Brunswick Fire Hall.jpg Category:Smoketown History Music
• 12:1412:14, 23 October 2019 diff hist +144 N File:Sonny Cannon introduces the Eddie Watley Band from Warrenton, VA.jpg Sonny Cannon introduces the Eddie Watley Band from Warrenton, VA (Photo courtesy of BVFD) Category:Smoketown History Music
• 12:1212:12, 23 October 2019 diff hist +224 File:Sonny Cannon's dances at the old Fire Hall.jpg No edit summary
• 12:1112:11, 23 October 2019 diff hist +52 N File:Sonny Cannon's dances at the old Fire Hall.jpg Category:Smoketown History Music
• 12:0912:09, 23 October 2019 diff hist +214 N File:George Hamilton IV performed at the old Brunswick Fire Hall.jpg George Hamilton IV performed at the old Brunswick Fire Hall as a young man. Here's an early promo piece from Louise Cannon's collection. (Photo courtesy of BVFD) Category:Smoketown History Music
• 12:0812:08, 23 October 2019 diff hist +285 N File:Guy Lombardo Dance Tickets.jpg Old Blade-Times ad for one of Sonny Cannon's dances at the old Fire Hall on West Potomac Street. Royal Canadians' bandleader Guy Lombardo was an annual fixture in Brunswick for a long time. (Clipping courtesy of Sherry Bowers Stull) [[Category:Smoket...
• 12:0612:06, 23 October 2019 diff hist +39 File:Guy Lombardo played at the Fire Hall.jpg No edit summary
• 12:0512:05, 23 October 2019 diff hist +1,064 N File:Guy Lombardo played at the Fire Hall.jpg Thanks to Sonny Cannon, Saturday night at the Brunswick Fire Hall swung in the 1950s and '60s. Guy Lombardo, Duke Ellington, the Count Basie Orchestra and then up & coming country acts, including Jimmy Dean and Patsy Cline, headlined bills. (Credit Br...
• 12:0012:00, 23 October 2019 diff hist +39 File:Sonny Cannon striking an impresario pose.jpg No edit summary
• 12:0012:00, 23 October 2019 diff hist +551 N File:Sonny Cannon striking an impresario pose.jpg Sonny Cannon striking an impresario pose with Billy Eckstein collar on N. Potomac Street in the late 1940s during the big band era. This was before the current firehouse was built in 1948-49. The half block across the street with Hudson Row and Wenner...
• 11:5611:56, 23 October 2019 diff hist −7 File:Fire Hall Ballroom.jpg No edit summary
• 11:5611:56, 23 October 2019 diff hist +41 N Category:Smoketown Music Created page with "Category:Smoketown History Collection "
• 11:5511:55, 23 October 2019 diff hist +1,356 N File:Fire Hall Ballroom.jpg About the 10,000 square feet ballroom at the firehouse, Sonny Cannon told the Washington Post in a feature story on Brunswick: "All the big names have played here. Guy Lombardo played here 7 Easter Sundays in a row. Duke Ellington--you shoulda seen hi...
• 11:4711:47, 23 October 2019 diff hist −12 File:Nelly Roby in DC at the Cherry Blossom Festival in the 1940s.jpg No edit summary current
• 11:4711:47, 23 October 2019 diff hist −12 File:Lenwood Moss, Brunswick Post Office.jpg No edit summary current