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• 18:33, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Potomac Hotel Menu.jpg (An extensive menu from the restaurant at the Potomac Hotel at 123 E. Potomac. Look at the prices! According to "Brunswick: 100 Years of Memories" in a piece written by Marg Jones Smith, the hotel was owned by her father, prominent local businessman Howard Marvin Jones. Jones had purchased the Yardley Hotel at public auction in 1924 and renamed it the Potomac Hotel. He "intended to make a fine hotel with a quality dining room." The mystery is that Marg Smith wrote that her father's "dining r...)
• 18:33, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Potomac Hotel Menu.jpg (An extensive menu from the restaurant at the Potomac Hotel at 123 E. Potomac. Look at the prices! According to "Brunswick: 100 Years of Memories" in a piece written by Marg Jones Smith, the hotel was owned by her father, prominent local businessman Howard Marvin Jones. Jones had purchased the Yardley Hotel at public auction in 1924 and renamed it the Potomac Hotel. He "intended to make a fine hotel with a quality dining room." The mystery is that Marg Smith wrote that her father's "dining r...)
• 18:29, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Old Potomac River Bridge Sign.jpg (Dedication sign for the old Potomac River bridge that connected Brunswick to Lovettsville. According to Megan Vogel, the sign was on the Virginia side on a rock across the street from the gas station on the northbound side of the road. Our thanks to the Brunswick Heritage Museum for showing us this gem! (Courtesy of the Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown Potomac River and C&O Canal)
• 18:29, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Old Potomac River Bridge Sign.jpg (Dedication sign for the old Potomac River bridge that connected Brunswick to Lovettsville. According to Megan Vogel, the sign was on the Virginia side on a rock across the street from the gas station on the northbound side of the road. Our thanks to the Brunswick Heritage Museum for showing us this gem! (Courtesy of the Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown Potomac River and C&O Canal)
• 18:26, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Burnside’s Corps marching over the pontoon bridge.jpg (The inscription on this Edwin Forbes drawing reads, “General Burnside’s Corps marching over the pontoon bridge into Virginia, at the town of Berlin on Thursday, October 27th, 1862.” This was around the time of Alexander Gardner's famous photos of Union encampments at the river bottom in Berlin. Could that have been the toll house on the Virginia side of the river? Burnside was one of four men to command the Army of the Potomac in Virginia. He replaced General George McClellan on November 7,...)
• 18:26, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Burnside’s Corps marching over the pontoon bridge.jpg (The inscription on this Edwin Forbes drawing reads, “General Burnside’s Corps marching over the pontoon bridge into Virginia, at the town of Berlin on Thursday, October 27th, 1862.” This was around the time of Alexander Gardner's famous photos of Union encampments at the river bottom in Berlin. Could that have been the toll house on the Virginia side of the river? Burnside was one of four men to command the Army of the Potomac in Virginia. He replaced General George McClellan on November 7,...)
• 18:23, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Class of 1947.jpg (This photo came from the cover of the 60th reunion of BHS Class of 1947 held at the Brunswick VFW Post (formerly the West End School) on September 29, 2007. Seems like a big class for that time. --Neil Gordon on left side second one in standing in front of the two guys in white shirts. --Delores Snoots (Renn) is in the lower right hand corner. Second from the right, front row. --Front row, third from left, Robert Trenton Comer (nickname Mike). --Connie Taylor (Grams) is in the 3rd row, secon...)
• 18:23, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Class of 1947.jpg (This photo came from the cover of the 60th reunion of BHS Class of 1947 held at the Brunswick VFW Post (formerly the West End School) on September 29, 2007. Seems like a big class for that time. --Neil Gordon on left side second one in standing in front of the two guys in white shirts. --Delores Snoots (Renn) is in the lower right hand corner. Second from the right, front row. --Front row, third from left, Robert Trenton Comer (nickname Mike). --Connie Taylor (Grams) is in the 3rd row, secon...)
• 17:53, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Moler's Food Market Red Moler.jpg (An inscription on the back of this photo read: "Moler's Market 207 East Potomac Street, Forrest (Red) Moler, Sr." This is likely an early photo of Moler's store at this location. The backstory is that Forrest Moler Jr. bought this store in 1957 from Churchman & Ridgeway following the tragic death of Jimmy Ridgeway in a small plane crash. For a time, veteran grocer and railroader Red Moler, who had sold his interest in the New York Hill Market several years before, ran the store while Junior...)
• 17:53, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Moler's Food Market Red Moler.jpg (An inscription on the back of this photo read: "Moler's Market 207 East Potomac Street, Forrest (Red) Moler, Sr." This is likely an early photo of Moler's store at this location. The backstory is that Forrest Moler Jr. bought this store in 1957 from Churchman & Ridgeway following the tragic death of Jimmy Ridgeway in a small plane crash. For a time, veteran grocer and railroader Red Moler, who had sold his interest in the New York Hill Market several years before, ran the store while Junior...)
• 17:50, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Nellie Roby Vote.jpg (Homemade signs on the family station wagon when Nellie Roby first ran unsuccessfully for Brunswick City Council in 1956. She was elected in 1960 and served until her death in 1972. The 1956 Chevy wagon appears to have been parked outside the Roby home on 3rd Avenue. (Photo courtesy of John Roby Morsberger) Category:Smoketown Politics and Public Works)
• 17:50, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Nellie Roby Vote.jpg (Homemade signs on the family station wagon when Nellie Roby first ran unsuccessfully for Brunswick City Council in 1956. She was elected in 1960 and served until her death in 1972. The 1956 Chevy wagon appears to have been parked outside the Roby home on 3rd Avenue. (Photo courtesy of John Roby Morsberger) Category:Smoketown Politics and Public Works)
• 18:39, 16 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Betty Brooks-Billy Brooks-Jean Moyer.png (Betty Brooks, Billy Brooks and Jean Moyer pose in front of a vintage car and the former Kaplon's store windows in the 1970s. See the folks looking at the display windows. Maybe an early Potomac River Festival? Jean Moyer worked at the West End Grocery store at 326 W. Potomac Street. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown People)
• 18:39, 16 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Betty Brooks-Billy Brooks-Jean Moyer.png (Betty Brooks, Billy Brooks and Jean Moyer pose in front of a vintage car and the former Kaplon's store windows in the 1970s. See the folks looking at the display windows. Maybe an early Potomac River Festival? Jean Moyer worked at the West End Grocery store at 326 W. Potomac Street. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown People)
• 18:36, 16 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Gene Bowers Littens Salesman.jpg (Super salesman Gene Bowers posed in front of Jim Haley's Chevrolet-Oldsmobile dealership on 600 W. Potomac Street in 1971. Longtime owner Russell Litten had sold the business to Mr. Haley around that time and gave the building facade a facelift. (Photo courtesy of Sherry Bowers Stull) Category:Smoketown People)
• 18:36, 16 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Gene Bowers Littens Salesman.jpg (Super salesman Gene Bowers posed in front of Jim Haley's Chevrolet-Oldsmobile dealership on 600 W. Potomac Street in 1971. Longtime owner Russell Litten had sold the business to Mr. Haley around that time and gave the building facade a facelift. (Photo courtesy of Sherry Bowers Stull) Category:Smoketown People)
• 18:34, 16 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Kodachrome Alma Smith-Ann Malone-Beverly Langley.jpg (In another of several Kodachrome photos we have from the early 1940s, the inscription on the back identified these Brunswick girls as Alma Smith, Ann Malone and Beverly Langley. This photo is believed to date to the Summer of 1943. (Photo courtesy of Mindy Niles from the Duane Smith Collection and the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketown Kids)
• 18:34, 16 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Kodachrome Alma Smith-Ann Malone-Beverly Langley.jpg (In another of several Kodachrome photos we have from the early 1940s, the inscription on the back identified these Brunswick girls as Alma Smith, Ann Malone and Beverly Langley. This photo is believed to date to the Summer of 1943. (Photo courtesy of Mindy Niles from the Duane Smith Collection and the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketown Kids)
• 18:31, 16 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Gary Bowers, Doug and Donna Stewart.jpg (Gary Bowers, Doug and Donna Stewart posed in their Sunday best near the corner of the 500 block of West Potomac Street, south side, about a block from Littens. Early 1950s. (Photo courtesy of Sherry Bowers Stull) Category:Smoketown Kids)
• 18:31, 16 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Gary Bowers, Doug and Donna Stewart.jpg (Gary Bowers, Doug and Donna Stewart posed in their Sunday best near the corner of the 500 block of West Potomac Street, south side, about a block from Littens. Early 1950s. (Photo courtesy of Sherry Bowers Stull) Category:Smoketown Kids)
• 18:30, 16 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Brunswick Street Summer Gang.jpg (Brunswick Street summer gang photographed in Gene and Margaret Bowers's yard at 616 Brunswick Street in August 1953. Back row: Gary Bowers, Pat O'Connor, Mike O' Connor, Gloria Moore Front row: Freddy Moore, Brenda Bowers, Sherry Bowers The O'Connors were from Illinois and visited their aunt during the summer. (Photo courtesy of Sherry Bowers Stull) Category:Smoketown Kids)
• 18:30, 16 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Brunswick Street Summer Gang.jpg (Brunswick Street summer gang photographed in Gene and Margaret Bowers's yard at 616 Brunswick Street in August 1953. Back row: Gary Bowers, Pat O'Connor, Mike O' Connor, Gloria Moore Front row: Freddy Moore, Brenda Bowers, Sherry Bowers The O'Connors were from Illinois and visited their aunt during the summer. (Photo courtesy of Sherry Bowers Stull) Category:Smoketown Kids)
• 18:18, 16 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Sherry Bowers and Leslie Forrest.jpg (July 20, 1954. Sherry Bowers and Leslie Forrest the Bowers' family yard at 616 Brunswick Street. Leslie's grandmother lived next door. (Photo courtesy of Sherry Bowers Stull) Category:Brunswick Kids)
• 18:18, 16 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Sherry Bowers and Leslie Forrest.jpg (July 20, 1954. Sherry Bowers and Leslie Forrest the Bowers' family yard at 616 Brunswick Street. Leslie's grandmother lived next door. (Photo courtesy of Sherry Bowers Stull) Category:Brunswick Kids)
• 17:47, 16 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Prescription Arts ladies.png (Edith Alger, Mildred "Pinky" Harper and Betty Powers pose in period clothes in the lunch area of the old Prescription Arts pharmacy in the mid-1970s. These ladies worked at the lunch counter. Maybe a Potomac River Festival? (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations)
• 17:47, 16 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Prescription Arts ladies.png (Edith Alger, Mildred "Pinky" Harper and Betty Powers pose in period clothes in the lunch area of the old Prescription Arts pharmacy in the mid-1970s. These ladies worked at the lunch counter. Maybe a Potomac River Festival? (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations)
• 19:15, 15 August 2024 Jcaves talk contribs created page Category:2024 Brunswick Distinguished Citizen (Created page with "Category:Brunswick Distinguished Citizen")
• 19:00, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:SW George Lehigh Cement.jpg (An advertising sign for a cement brand that was available at S.W. George & Co. The longtime Brunswick business was located at 302 W. Potomac Street. (Photo courtesy of Randy George) Category:Smoketown Advertising)
• 19:00, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:SW George Lehigh Cement.jpg (An advertising sign for a cement brand that was available at S.W. George & Co. The longtime Brunswick business was located at 302 W. Potomac Street. (Photo courtesy of Randy George) Category:Smoketown Advertising)
• 18:58, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:1280px-Brunswick High School (new) being built circa 1960 (7) 2.jpg (BHS under construction, 1964. (From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketwon Schools)
• 18:58, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:1280px-Brunswick High School (new) being built circa 1960 (7) 2.jpg (BHS under construction, 1964. (From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketwon Schools)
• 18:57, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:1280px-Brunswick High School (new) being built circa 1960 (6) 4.jpg (BHS under construction in 1964. (From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketown Schools)
• 18:57, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:1280px-Brunswick High School (new) being built circa 1960 (6) 4.jpg (BHS under construction in 1964. (From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketown Schools)
• 18:56, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:1280px-Brunswick High School (new) being built circa 1960 (5) 5.jpg (BHS under construction in 1964. (From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketown Schools)
• 18:56, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:1280px-Brunswick High School (new) being built circa 1960 (5) 5.jpg (BHS under construction in 1964. (From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketown Schools)
• 18:55, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:1280px-Brunswick High School (new) being built circa 1960 (4).jpg (BHS under construction. April 1965. The school opened for classes in the Fall of that year. (From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketown Schools)
• 18:55, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:1280px-Brunswick High School (new) being built circa 1960 (4).jpg (BHS under construction. April 1965. The school opened for classes in the Fall of that year. (From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketown Schools)
• 18:51, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:1280px-Brunswick High School (new) being built circa 1960 (3) 3.jpg (BHS under construction in 1964. The boy is unidentified. (From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketown Schools)
• 18:51, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:1280px-Brunswick High School (new) being built circa 1960 (3) 3.jpg (BHS under construction in 1964. The boy is unidentified. (From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketown Schools)
• 18:36, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:1024px-Brunswick High School (new) being built circa 1960 (2).jpg (BHS under construction. View of the frame and foundation, looking toward Jefferson. (From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketown Schools)
• 18:36, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:1024px-Brunswick High School (new) being built circa 1960 (2).jpg (BHS under construction. View of the frame and foundation, looking toward Jefferson. (From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketown Schools)
• 18:35, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Brunswick High School (new) being built circa 1960.jpg (During early construction of Brunswick High School in the early 1960, this snowy view looks towards the location of the baseball field. (From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketown Schools)
• 18:35, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Brunswick High School (new) being built circa 1960.jpg (During early construction of Brunswick High School in the early 1960, this snowy view looks towards the location of the baseball field. (From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketown Schools)
• 12:51, 15 August 2024 Wallgaier talk contribs created page File:Football Brunswick High School Players Get Ready for 2024-2025 Season, The Frederick News-Post, August 15, 2024.pdf (Brunswick's quarterback Ethan Houck getting ready for the season. Category:Recreation-Sports)
• 12:51, 15 August 2024 Wallgaier talk contribs uploaded File:Football Brunswick High School Players Get Ready for 2024-2025 Season, The Frederick News-Post, August 15, 2024.pdf (Brunswick's quarterback Ethan Houck getting ready for the season. Category:Recreation-Sports)
• 21:55, 11 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Litten's Ad 1952.jpg (Litten's Chevrolet sales ad, April 1952. This was before the dealership started selling Oldsmobiles. Ads in this style were typically made by national auto manufacturers for local franchisees to run. (Courtesy of Sherry Bowers Stull) Category:Advertising)
• 21:55, 11 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Litten's Ad 1952.jpg (Litten's Chevrolet sales ad, April 1952. This was before the dealership started selling Oldsmobiles. Ads in this style were typically made by national auto manufacturers for local franchisees to run. (Courtesy of Sherry Bowers Stull) Category:Advertising)
• 21:51, 11 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Factory 1947.jpeg (The Polan, Katz & Co. umbrella factory at the corner of Fifth Avenue & D Street in 1947. Currently Puerto Rico Distillery, the old factory was built sometime before 1936. According to the Brunswick News-Journal, it pre-dated residential development in that area as a 1936 Maryland National Guard aerial photo "shows the building with just a scattering of houses around it." Over the years, the building has been home to Brown's Hosiery (Ladies' stockings 1938-1939), Polan, Katz & Co. (Umbrellas...)
• 21:51, 11 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Factory 1947.jpeg (The Polan, Katz & Co. umbrella factory at the corner of Fifth Avenue & D Street in 1947. Currently Puerto Rico Distillery, the old factory was built sometime before 1936. According to the Brunswick News-Journal, it pre-dated residential development in that area as a 1936 Maryland National Guard aerial photo "shows the building with just a scattering of houses around it." Over the years, the building has been home to Brown's Hosiery (Ladies' stockings 1938-1939), Polan, Katz & Co. (Umbrellas...)
• 21:43, 11 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Bessie Westall Strickler.jpeg (This was Bessie Westall Strickler using an adding machine. Judging from the ledgers under the desk, perhaps this was Brunswick's Clerk Office at City Hall? Lynn Biller Folk Town of Brunswick's Clerk Office?? John Roby Morsberger No occupation listed in 1950 census. She may have been photographed working at one of the many organizations that she involved with. Sandra Cavalier When we moved to Brunswick in September 1963, we moved into Mr. and Mrs. Strickler's upstairs apartment at One Sixth...)