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• 16:20, 11 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Grams Wedding.JPG (Wedding party photo after the marriage of Shirley Kneisley and Leroy Grams on June 20, 1953 at the First Methodist Church in Brunswick. According to daughter Shari and others, we have identified (from top left): Pat Keyser Smith, ?, ? (Bridesmaids), Nancy Shank Smith (Maid of Honor), Shirley and Leroy Grams, Will Funk (best man), Wayne Walker and Jim Holder (Groomsmen) Middle row: Cecelia Ann Garvin (Junior Bridesmaid), Donald Grams (Ringbearer) Front row: Flower girls were Judy Jennings an...)
• 16:20, 11 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Grams Wedding.JPG (Wedding party photo after the marriage of Shirley Kneisley and Leroy Grams on June 20, 1953 at the First Methodist Church in Brunswick. According to daughter Shari and others, we have identified (from top left): Pat Keyser Smith, ?, ? (Bridesmaids), Nancy Shank Smith (Maid of Honor), Shirley and Leroy Grams, Will Funk (best man), Wayne Walker and Jim Holder (Groomsmen) Middle row: Cecelia Ann Garvin (Junior Bridesmaid), Donald Grams (Ringbearer) Front row: Flower girls were Judy Jennings an...)
• 19:39, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:HC Summers.JPG (H. C. Summers Feed & Supply in Jefferson as it looked in the 1960s. The business dates back to the early 1900s, when L.E. Summers established it to serve the local agricultural community. It operates today well beyond the Jefferson area with deliveries around the tri-state region (MD, WV, and VA). (Photo courtesy of Remember When: Maryland and Virginia; information from the company website) Category:Smoketown In and Around)
• 19:39, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:HC Summers.JPG (H. C. Summers Feed & Supply in Jefferson as it looked in the 1960s. The business dates back to the early 1900s, when L.E. Summers established it to serve the local agricultural community. It operates today well beyond the Jefferson area with deliveries around the tri-state region (MD, WV, and VA). (Photo courtesy of Remember When: Maryland and Virginia; information from the company website) Category:Smoketown In and Around)
• 19:35, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Littens 1958 Chevy.JPG (Russ Litten poses in front of his west end Chevrolet-Oldsmobile dealership with a brand new 1958 Chevy Bel Air. See the Chevy truck in the showroom and a poster in the window promoting a Jimmy Dean show at the old fire hall. As you'll see from pumps, Litten's sold two brands of gas at the time--Crown and American (later known as Amoco.) Mark Stewart Back then the next model year would come out in September and it was a big deal. The style changed every year. Now all cars look a like and the...)
• 19:35, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Littens 1958 Chevy.JPG (Russ Litten poses in front of his west end Chevrolet-Oldsmobile dealership with a brand new 1958 Chevy Bel Air. See the Chevy truck in the showroom and a poster in the window promoting a Jimmy Dean show at the old fire hall. As you'll see from pumps, Litten's sold two brands of gas at the time--Crown and American (later known as Amoco.) Mark Stewart Back then the next model year would come out in September and it was a big deal. The style changed every year. Now all cars look a like and the...)
• 19:32, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Brunswick Dairy Post Souder & Chick.JPG (The old dairy on W. Brunswick Street after the Souder & Chick partnership dissolved in 1959. Note that the name was removed. It continued on as the Brunswick Dairy, Inc. until 1966. After 1966, residents filled their dairy needs at grocery stores and supermarkets. The building later served as Brunswick Police Headquarters. Anthony Smothers Yes it’s where my police career started!!! Brunswick Police Department and very first police Cadet… JH Smith I was a policeman there. Chief Miller ran t...)
• 19:32, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Brunswick Dairy Post Souder & Chick.JPG (The old dairy on W. Brunswick Street after the Souder & Chick partnership dissolved in 1959. Note that the name was removed. It continued on as the Brunswick Dairy, Inc. until 1966. After 1966, residents filled their dairy needs at grocery stores and supermarkets. The building later served as Brunswick Police Headquarters. Anthony Smothers Yes it’s where my police career started!!! Brunswick Police Department and very first police Cadet… JH Smith I was a policeman there. Chief Miller ran t...)
• 19:25, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Ralph Fry 326 W. Potomac.jpeg (Ralph Fry sits on the front bumper of his delivery wagon outside his West End store at 326 W. Potomac Street. Maybe 1920s or earlier? According to the 1990 history book "Brunswick: 100 Years of Memories", Fry operated a store there that carried railroad bolt material as well as groceries. The Hickmans later ran the West End Grocery Store from this location for many years. (Photo courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission; info from Images of America Brunswick by Mary H. Rubin)...)
• 19:25, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Ralph Fry 326 W. Potomac.jpeg (Ralph Fry sits on the front bumper of his delivery wagon outside his West End store at 326 W. Potomac Street. Maybe 1920s or earlier? According to the 1990 history book "Brunswick: 100 Years of Memories", Fry operated a store there that carried railroad bolt material as well as groceries. The Hickmans later ran the West End Grocery Store from this location for many years. (Photo courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission; info from Images of America Brunswick by Mary H. Rubin)...)
• 19:23, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Unknown couple with baby.jpg (As Donna Poffinberger wrote: Don’t know who they are but that’s a happy baby. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Kids)
• 19:23, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Unknown couple with baby.jpg (As Donna Poffinberger wrote: Don’t know who they are but that’s a happy baby. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Kids)
• 19:16, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Faith-reformed-church-petersville orig.jpeg (Per information from the South Mountain Heritage Society website. "This stone building in the center of Petersville was built by Governor Francis Thomas (served as the state's governor from 1842 until 1845 and buried at St. Mark's Cemetery) to serve as a town hall, despite Petersville never being a formally incorporated town. The structure soon became a church, first used by a Methodist Episcopal congregation. In 1903, a Reformed congregation, founded under the auspices of Burkittsville's...)
• 19:16, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Faith-reformed-church-petersville orig.jpeg (Per information from the South Mountain Heritage Society website. "This stone building in the center of Petersville was built by Governor Francis Thomas (served as the state's governor from 1842 until 1845 and buried at St. Mark's Cemetery) to serve as a town hall, despite Petersville never being a formally incorporated town. The structure soon became a church, first used by a Methodist Episcopal congregation. In 1903, a Reformed congregation, founded under the auspices of Burkittsville's...)
• 19:13, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Derailment crew and equipment (Big Liz) w-info.jpg (Derailment crew and equipment (Big Liz) in Brunswick tending to an engine that ran into the turntable pit beside the roundhouse because it was not aligned correctly. Terry Himes Robinson Being totally honest. This might have been me with Neil Wilhelm. He parked the engine in the roundhouse, closed the doors and I moved the turntable to pick him up and the engine came crashing through the doors. He started to run to the engine but new he couldnt make it and in Neil Wilhelm style threw his han...)
• 19:13, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Derailment crew and equipment (Big Liz) w-info.jpg (Derailment crew and equipment (Big Liz) in Brunswick tending to an engine that ran into the turntable pit beside the roundhouse because it was not aligned correctly. Terry Himes Robinson Being totally honest. This might have been me with Neil Wilhelm. He parked the engine in the roundhouse, closed the doors and I moved the turntable to pick him up and the engine came crashing through the doors. He started to run to the engine but new he couldnt make it and in Neil Wilhelm style threw his han...)
• 16:50, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Bethel-ame-church-petersville.jpg (Information on this church, according to the South Mountain Heritage Society: "Besides St. Mary's Church, another African American congregation existed in Petersville. Union Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in 1868 by free Blacks living in the community. The frame building, clad in board and batten siding, was constructed in 1868 and was nearly identical to Ceres Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, built two years later on South Mountain above Burkittsville. Unio...)
• 16:50, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Bethel-ame-church-petersville.jpg (Information on this church, according to the South Mountain Heritage Society: "Besides St. Mary's Church, another African American congregation existed in Petersville. Union Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in 1868 by free Blacks living in the community. The frame building, clad in board and batten siding, was constructed in 1868 and was nearly identical to Ceres Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, built two years later on South Mountain above Burkittsville. Unio...)
• 16:45, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Charlestown Races Out of the Gate.jpg (They're off! Photographed from the grandstand, horses leave the starting gates at the Charlestown Races. It's tough to date the photo since backs are turned, but guesses are welcome based on what style of dress can be seen. According to Luther Mumaw, this is: "Charlestown, probably before Shenandoah Downs. Shenandoah Downs didn’t open until 1959. Plus apron at Shenandoah went almost to far turn. CT stopped so horses could get to the track to go to the paddock to be saddled." Sandy Myers I...)
• 16:45, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Charlestown Races Out of the Gate.jpg (They're off! Photographed from the grandstand, horses leave the starting gates at the Charlestown Races. It's tough to date the photo since backs are turned, but guesses are welcome based on what style of dress can be seen. According to Luther Mumaw, this is: "Charlestown, probably before Shenandoah Downs. Shenandoah Downs didn’t open until 1959. Plus apron at Shenandoah went almost to far turn. CT stopped so horses could get to the track to go to the paddock to be saddled." Sandy Myers I...)
• 16:40, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Charlestown Races Molasses Betts.jpg (Richard C. "Stoney" Kline, Sr. of Brunswick trained race horses at the Charlestown Racetrack for a D. Foster who may also have been from Smoketown. Mr. Kline kept this horse, "Molasses Betts", in a shed on his property at 801 East D Street in Brunswick. Stoney Kline is second from the left in the lower photo taken on June 15, 1945. He worked for the B&O Railroad from around 1920 until his death in 1960. (Courtesy of Carolyn Kline Cogle) Category:Smoketown In and Around)
• 16:40, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Charlestown Races Molasses Betts.jpg (Richard C. "Stoney" Kline, Sr. of Brunswick trained race horses at the Charlestown Racetrack for a D. Foster who may also have been from Smoketown. Mr. Kline kept this horse, "Molasses Betts", in a shed on his property at 801 East D Street in Brunswick. Stoney Kline is second from the left in the lower photo taken on June 15, 1945. He worked for the B&O Railroad from around 1920 until his death in 1960. (Courtesy of Carolyn Kline Cogle) Category:Smoketown In and Around)
• 16:34, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Blair Harrington, Karl Shewbridge, Bob Grams, Bill Wenner. Ken Jones Circa 1940s.jpg (Brunswick Boys during World War II - (l-r in back) Blair Harrington, Karl Shewbridge, Bob Grams, Bill Wenner. Ken Jones is the little boy in front of Bob, who was considered like a big brother to his next door neighbor. The photo was taken behind the Shewbridge residence on N. Virginia Avenue. Before the bridge was built in 1955, this hill ran contiguously eastward to Maryland Avenue and featured open green space on which local kids played baseball and basketball. See the slope of W. B Stre...)
• 16:34, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Blair Harrington, Karl Shewbridge, Bob Grams, Bill Wenner. Ken Jones Circa 1940s.jpg (Brunswick Boys during World War II - (l-r in back) Blair Harrington, Karl Shewbridge, Bob Grams, Bill Wenner. Ken Jones is the little boy in front of Bob, who was considered like a big brother to his next door neighbor. The photo was taken behind the Shewbridge residence on N. Virginia Avenue. Before the bridge was built in 1955, this hill ran contiguously eastward to Maryland Avenue and featured open green space on which local kids played baseball and basketball. See the slope of W. B Stre...)
• 16:31, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Bob Grams and Friend.jpg (Future sports cartoonist Bob Grams on the right with an unidentified boy sometime in the World War II era. The boys posed in the Grams' yard on N. Virginia Avenue. See the black dog to the right of Bob. (Photo courtesy of Cynthia Grams Peltzman) Category:Smoketown Kids)
• 16:31, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Bob Grams and Friend.jpg (Future sports cartoonist Bob Grams on the right with an unidentified boy sometime in the World War II era. The boys posed in the Grams' yard on N. Virginia Avenue. See the black dog to the right of Bob. (Photo courtesy of Cynthia Grams Peltzman) Category:Smoketown Kids)
• 16:28, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Campaigning for JFK.jpg (This photo shows Mayor Jim Cummings and two members of the Brunswick City Council, Nellie Roby and W.F. "Bud" Albert campaigning for Senator John F. Kennedy in 1960. Note the big JFK button on Councilwoman Roby. She was serving her first term on the council and was the first woman elected to office in Frederick County. Congressman John R. Foley has his hand on the mayor's shoulder. Gladys Merriman is standing in back at her front door on 3rd Avenue. Foley ran for re-election to a 2nd term in...)
• 16:28, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Campaigning for JFK.jpg (This photo shows Mayor Jim Cummings and two members of the Brunswick City Council, Nellie Roby and W.F. "Bud" Albert campaigning for Senator John F. Kennedy in 1960. Note the big JFK button on Councilwoman Roby. She was serving her first term on the council and was the first woman elected to office in Frederick County. Congressman John R. Foley has his hand on the mayor's shoulder. Gladys Merriman is standing in back at her front door on 3rd Avenue. Foley ran for re-election to a 2nd term in...)
• 16:24, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Councilwoman Nellie Roby-Goodloe Byron.jpg (Maryland 6th District Congressman Goodloe E. Byron greets Brunswick City Council member Nellie G. Roby. The photo might have been taken at a campaign event. Byron ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1968 before election in 1970 to the first of four terms. He died suddenly while jogging on the C&O Towpath in October, 1978. He was only 49 years old. His wife Beverly succeeded him and served 6 terms until her defeat in the primary by Tom Hattery in 1992. Karen Cornelius: Byron also was involved...)
• 16:24, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Councilwoman Nellie Roby-Goodloe Byron.jpg (Maryland 6th District Congressman Goodloe E. Byron greets Brunswick City Council member Nellie G. Roby. The photo might have been taken at a campaign event. Byron ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1968 before election in 1970 to the first of four terms. He died suddenly while jogging on the C&O Towpath in October, 1978. He was only 49 years old. His wife Beverly succeeded him and served 6 terms until her defeat in the primary by Tom Hattery in 1992. Karen Cornelius: Byron also was involved...)
• 16:22, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Brunswick City Council Ocean City Boardwalk.jpg (Members of the Brunswick City Council and spouses on the boardwalk in Ocean City, MD in the late 1960s. The photo is believed to have been taken at the time of a Maryland Municipal League meeting. From left in back: Shelley Dawson, Mildred Dawson, Mayor Jess D. Orndorff, Frank Strakonsky, Bill Haller Middle: Nellie Roby (2nd from left), Ed Mullen, Willard "Pickett" Barger. Front row: Bessie Orndorff, Mrs. Strakonsky, Mrs. Barger. (Photo courtesy of John Roby Morsberger) [[Category:Smoket...)
• 16:22, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Brunswick City Council Ocean City Boardwalk.jpg (Members of the Brunswick City Council and spouses on the boardwalk in Ocean City, MD in the late 1960s. The photo is believed to have been taken at the time of a Maryland Municipal League meeting. From left in back: Shelley Dawson, Mildred Dawson, Mayor Jess D. Orndorff, Frank Strakonsky, Bill Haller Middle: Nellie Roby (2nd from left), Ed Mullen, Willard "Pickett" Barger. Front row: Bessie Orndorff, Mrs. Strakonsky, Mrs. Barger. (Photo courtesy of John Roby Morsberger) [[Category:Smoket...)
• 16:20, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Brown Wedding Photo.jpg (Doris M. Forrest and Allan W. Brown in a wedding day photo taken in the bride's front yard on East A Street in 1949. Doris was from Brunswick and Allan was from Lovettsville. (Photo courtesy of Rae O. Sunshine) Category:Smoketown Kids)
• 16:20, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Brown Wedding Photo.jpg (Doris M. Forrest and Allan W. Brown in a wedding day photo taken in the bride's front yard on East A Street in 1949. Doris was from Brunswick and Allan was from Lovettsville. (Photo courtesy of Rae O. Sunshine) Category:Smoketown Kids)
• 16:19, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Shraders-Arlene Painter.jpg (Great grandfather Ephraim and grandmother Sadie Shrader pose with little Arlene Painter at their home at 14 W. G Street sometime in the 1930s. (Photo courtesy of Terry Himes Robinson) Category:Smoketown Kids)
• 16:19, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Shraders-Arlene Painter.jpg (Great grandfather Ephraim and grandmother Sadie Shrader pose with little Arlene Painter at their home at 14 W. G Street sometime in the 1930s. (Photo courtesy of Terry Himes Robinson) Category:Smoketown Kids)
• 16:13, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Baptist Children Vacation Bible School 1962.jpg (This is a fantastic photo of a group of Brunswick kids in the Summer of 1962. It's believed to have been taken at the First Baptist Church's Vacation Bible School. The ball bat may be a giveaway, as Roby Morsberger remembers playing on a sandlot baseball team they called "Legion All Stars". The children are from left, but not necessarily in order are John Roby Morsberger, Jimmy Morsberger, Diane Wigington, Debbie Payne (in sunsuit), Daniel Kao, Alan Jones, Jim Phillips and Donald Kao. (...)
• 16:13, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Baptist Children Vacation Bible School 1962.jpg (This is a fantastic photo of a group of Brunswick kids in the Summer of 1962. It's believed to have been taken at the First Baptist Church's Vacation Bible School. The ball bat may be a giveaway, as Roby Morsberger remembers playing on a sandlot baseball team they called "Legion All Stars". The children are from left, but not necessarily in order are John Roby Morsberger, Jimmy Morsberger, Diane Wigington, Debbie Payne (in sunsuit), Daniel Kao, Alan Jones, Jim Phillips and Donald Kao. (...)
• 16:06, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Potomac River Bridge at Brunswick old & new.jpg (A unique view of the old Potomac River bridge from the then-new one as it was under construction. The new bridge opened in 1955. See the old mill to the left of the bridge. It closed in 1962 when the new Co-op opened on Souder Road. (From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketown Potomac River and C&O Canal)
• 16:06, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Potomac River Bridge at Brunswick old & new.jpg (A unique view of the old Potomac River bridge from the then-new one as it was under construction. The new bridge opened in 1955. See the old mill to the left of the bridge. It closed in 1962 when the new Co-op opened on Souder Road. (From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketown Potomac River and C&O Canal)
• 16:03, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Fire - Fire at JP Karn's 1963.jpg (Another photo of the fire at J.P. Karn's on S. Maryland Avenue in July 1963. Although the fire company did an excellent job of extinguishing this fire, Clayton Dalton wrote: "I wasn't born yet but my mom had an antique shop in the building, late 70's. Most of the building was still accessible although much of it probably wasn't really safe for us as young teenagers to be running around in. Even then, you could still smell burnt wood." See the 1953 700 series American LaFrance apparatus when...)
• 16:03, 10 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Fire - Fire at JP Karn's 1963.jpg (Another photo of the fire at J.P. Karn's on S. Maryland Avenue in July 1963. Although the fire company did an excellent job of extinguishing this fire, Clayton Dalton wrote: "I wasn't born yet but my mom had an antique shop in the building, late 70's. Most of the building was still accessible although much of it probably wasn't really safe for us as young teenagers to be running around in. Even then, you could still smell burnt wood." See the 1953 700 series American LaFrance apparatus when...)
• 14:43, 2 July 2024 Jcaves talk contribs created page File:Brunswick Post Office.pdf (Brunswick_Post_Office.pdf Category:City of Brunswick)
• 14:43, 2 July 2024 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:Brunswick Post Office.pdf (Brunswick_Post_Office.pdf Category:City of Brunswick)
• 14:34, 2 July 2024 Jcaves talk contribs created page File:City Hall on A st.pdf (City_Hall_on_A_st.pdf Category:City of Brunswick)
• 14:34, 2 July 2024 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:City Hall on A st.pdf (City_Hall_on_A_st.pdf Category:City of Brunswick)
• 14:19, 2 July 2024 Jcaves talk contribs created page File:Noah Fowler for Mayor-.pdf (Noah_Fowler_for_Mayor-.pdf Category:Elections)
• 14:19, 2 July 2024 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:Noah Fowler for Mayor-.pdf (Noah_Fowler_for_Mayor-.pdf Category:Elections)
• 13:51, 2 July 2024 Jcaves talk contribs created page File:Brunswick Police Officers who died in line of duty-Gazette May 15, 1997.pdf (Catagory:Police Brunswick_Police_Officers_who_died_in_line_of_duty-Gazette_May_15,_1997.pdf)
• 13:51, 2 July 2024 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:Brunswick Police Officers who died in line of duty-Gazette May 15, 1997.pdf (Catagory:Police Brunswick_Police_Officers_who_died_in_line_of_duty-Gazette_May_15,_1997.pdf)