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18 August 2024

  • 18:3918:39, 18 August 2024 diff hist +869‎ N File:Joseph Tojo Himes and Family.jpg ‎ Joseph “Tojo” Himes retired from the B&O in 1980 after 32 years and seven months on the job, first as a fireman then is an engineer. The Brunswick Citizen reported that "at the time, he and his wife Clara were thinking of trying out life in Fort Myers, Florida. Here he is pictured with his grandchildren: Holly and Susan Phillips in front, Skip Himes and Terry Himes Robinson in back. James Bowden Mr Himes was my next door neighbor growing up I used to sit on his front porch for hours every da... current
  • 18:3618:36, 18 August 2024 diff hist +503‎ N File:Westbound Train by the Y.jpg ‎ In this photo from the 1970s, the westbound train has just changed crews and is leaving Brunswick. See the old YMCA on the left and WB Tower on the right. Rhonda Mcgaha-Meise My father was an Engineer & spent many a day at that YMCA Jeana Fawley Harmon And my Aunt Yonnie (Longerbeam) was probably inside waiting on railroaders and giving them a “hard time”! 😂😂😂 (Photo courtesy of Bill Rettberg, Jr. and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad History) Category:Smoketown Railroad current
  • 18:3318:33, 18 August 2024 diff hist +1,043‎ N 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... current
  • 18:2918:29, 18 August 2024 diff hist +416‎ N 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 current
  • 18:2618:26, 18 August 2024 diff hist +649‎ N 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,... current
  • 18:2318:23, 18 August 2024 diff hist +929‎ N 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... current
  • 17:5317:53, 18 August 2024 diff hist +824‎ N 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... current
  • 17:5017:50, 18 August 2024 diff hist +373‎ N 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 current

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15 August 2024

11 August 2024

  • 21:5521:55, 11 August 2024 diff hist +276‎ N 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
  • 21:5121:51, 11 August 2024 diff hist +1,844‎ N 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... current
  • 21:4321:43, 11 August 2024 diff hist +1,048‎ N 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... current
  • 21:2121:21, 11 August 2024 diff hist +592‎ N File:Medora Brady Antiques.jpeg ‎ Mrs. Medora Elgin Brady was an authority on antiques and a collector. She dealt in antiques, at one time operating this shop at the crossroads of Routes 79 and 180. She also dealt from her home at 521 West Potomac Street. Her home was filled with 19th century furniture. Her shop is believed to have been on the southwestern corner where Follin's service station stood. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries; information fro... current
  • 21:1421:14, 11 August 2024 diff hist +486‎ N File:Roscoe Rockwell.jpeg ‎ Roscoe Rockwell (1895-1956) poses on a rail outside Kaplon's on the Maryland Avenue side. He was manager of Brunswick's Potomac Edison store at 25 W. Potomac Street. The longtime electric utility once operated stores like the one in downtown Brunswick that sold household appliances. Do these stores still operate anywhere today? (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown People current
  • 19:0219:02, 11 August 2024 diff hist +500‎ N File:Tri-County League Scoreboard.jpeg ‎ 1937 Brunswick Tri-County League baseball team in front of the scoreboard at Scheer Stadium. Here are the names of the players and men in suits: Back row (L-R): Ray Danner, John Hammond, Lee Hahn, Jonnie Stewart, Gene Bowers, John McQuillen, Red Hawes (manager) Front row (L-R): Elmer Bowers, Ellis Grams, Gene Hahn, Beanie Taylor, Carl McQuillen, Doug Howe, Roy Powell, Carroll Flora (Photo courtesy of Jo Jamison) Category:Smoketown Baseball (Photo courtesy of Jo Jamison) current
  • 18:4818:48, 11 August 2024 diff hist +556‎ N File:Tommy Thompson Funeral.JPG ‎ Local reporting on the funeral of Former Chief of Police Tommy Thompson. Since he had served faithfully during a time of declining health, he was accorded the honor of a traditional police funeral despite not having been killed in the line of duty. He was only 48. Doris Kelley Barker Always loved Tommy at First Baptist Church and as our policeman. He also had his license, I believe, to fly an airplane. (Brunswick Citizen clipping courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) [[C... current
  • 18:4618:46, 11 August 2024 diff hist +37‎ File:Fabulous 40s Reunion .jpeg ‎No edit summary current
  • 18:4118:41, 11 August 2024 diff hist +488‎ N File:Fabulous 40s Reunion .jpeg ‎ A BHS Fabulous '40s reunion, early 1970s. The following people have been identified: Kneeling: Ernie Weinholt, Charles Weddle, ?, ?, ?, ?, the Coopers. Standing: Bill Harrington,?,?, Paul Orrison, June Orrisson, Red Phillips, tTeeny Phillips, ?, Noni and Tommy Sigler, ?, Mary Margrabe, ?, the Utterbacks Bill Wenner, Clair and Betty Ebersole, Carl Margrabe (Photo courtesy of Peter Wenner from the collection of Judge William W. Wenner) Category:Smoketown Schools
  • 18:3418:34, 11 August 2024 diff hist +663‎ N File:Knights of Pythias A.M. Thomas.jpeg ‎ This is a framed Knights of Pythias membership certificate for A.M. Thomas, who was inducted into Brunswick's Loyalty Lodge 122 on July 18, 1911. The lodge was organized on October 24, 1892. The brotherhood owned several properties in town, including lots acquired in 1919 at 1 N. Virginia Avenue and the former fire hall on Delaware Avenue. They once operated a lodge on I Street, which may have been the location in 1911. Does anyone know? The organization has been dormant in Brunswick since... current
  • 16:4816:48, 11 August 2024 diff hist +630‎ N File:614 Chessie Safety Express Eastbound.jpg ‎ The 614 Chessie Safety Express at the old Brunswick Eastbound Station, circa 1980. As previously noted in our last post, between 1979 and 1980, restoration work on the locomotive to operating condition took place and it was used for extensive mainline excursion service from the early 1980s until the late 1990s. Note the old B&O style dwarf signal on the right of the engine. They were used as another means of signaling a train what to do in low-speed or restricted clearance areas.  (From... current
  • 16:4516:45, 11 August 2024 diff hist +1‎ File:614 Chessie Safety Express Gross Store.jpg ‎No edit summary current
  • 16:4316:43, 11 August 2024 diff hist +1,615‎ N File:614 Chessie Safety Express Gross Store.jpg ‎ The 614 Chessie Steam Special from Baltimore to Martinsburg passes the old Gross Store in the late 1970s. Here is a little history from Wikipedia: Chesapeake and Ohio 614 is a class "J-3-A" 4-8-4 "Greenbrier" (Northern) type steam locomotive built in June 1948 by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) as a member of the J-3-A class. As one of the last commercially built steam locomotives in the United States, the locomotive was built with the prima...
  • 16:3516:35, 11 August 2024 diff hist +1,343‎ N File:River Camp photo.jpg ‎ Here's a photo of a family gathering at a river camp from what appears to have been the 1940s. The Potomac River offered an easy and cost-effective Summer getaway for local families during the Great Depression/World War II era. Looks like a volleyball or badminton net on the right. Jacquelyn Ebersole Robert Rickard would be Sonny Rickards son. Sonny married into the Smith family. I will have Pat Smith look at this picture. I believe that is her father-in-law reclining in the front of the p... current
  • 16:3016:30, 11 August 2024 diff hist +268‎ N File:Wenner's Hill Gang 1950s.JPG ‎ Wenner's Hill Gang of East E Street--late '50s. From left to right: Dickie Harsh, Donna Dawson (Poffinberger), Denny Dawson, Peggy Jean Lewis, Terry Dawson, Norma Dawson and Denny Harsh. (Photo courtesy of Peggy Jean Lewis) Category:Smoketown Kids current
  • 16:2816:28, 11 August 2024 diff hist +1,608‎ N File:Charlotte and Pink Nalley.JPG ‎ William "Pink" Nalley posed with his daughter Charlotte (Hammond) in front of his grocery store at 707 N. Maple. The photo was taken in 1939. After having managed the Wenner's store at G Street & N. Maple Avenue, Pink Nalley opened a store in the basement of his nearby home. His granddaughter Jo Jamison remembers a meat room off the main storeroom. Debbie Brawner I grow up on 709 North Maple Avenue ( in between Pink and Margaret Nalley's house and their daughter Charlotte and Uncle John Ham... current
  • 16:2416:24, 11 August 2024 diff hist +466‎ N File:Brunswick People in front of S&N Katz.JPG ‎ A group of men pose on Brunswick's square corner in July, 1946, according to a notation on the back of the photo. On the far left was Jack Cunningham, Arlington "Peg" Ayres was in back 3rd from the left. Allen "Red" Phillips was 2nd from the right. Others are unidentified. S.&.N. Katz was a new business in Brunswick as it began operations in 1946. (Photo from the Teeny Phillips collection courtesy of Marsha Sutfin) Category:Smoketown People current
  • 16:2016:20, 11 August 2024 diff hist +618‎ N 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... current

10 August 2024

  • 19:3919:39, 10 August 2024 diff hist +447‎ N 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 current
  • 19:3519:35, 10 August 2024 diff hist +923‎ N 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... current
  • 19:3219:32, 10 August 2024 diff hist +1,261‎ N 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... current
  • 19:2519:25, 10 August 2024 diff hist +545‎ N 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)... current
  • 19:2319:23, 10 August 2024 diff hist +236‎ N 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 current
  • 19:1619:16, 10 August 2024 diff hist +1,394‎ N 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... current
  • 19:1319:13, 10 August 2024 diff hist +1,097‎ N 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... current
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