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• 18:35, 22 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Vicki Dearing - Distinguished Citizen Bio.pdf (Vicki Dearing - 2024 Distinguished Citizen Category:People)
• 18:17, 22 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Irvin and Roma Hebb in 1974.jpeg (Category:People)
• 18:14, 22 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Roma Cummings Hebb - Distinguished Citizen Bio.pdf (Roma Cummings Hebb - Brunswick Distinguished Citizen Category:People)
• 18:00, 22 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Richard Harrington - Distinguished Citizen Bio.pdf (Richard_Harrington - 2024 Brunswick Distinguished Citizen Category:People)
• 17:52, 22 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Phil Childs - Distinguished Citizen Bio.pdf (Phil Childs - 2024 Brunswick Distinguished Citizen Category:People)
• 17:50, 22 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Julie Maynard - Distinguished Citizen Bio.pdf (Julie Maynard - 2024 Brunswick Distinguished Citizen Category:People)
• 17:46, 22 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Ellis Burruss - Distinguished Citizen Bio.pdf (Ellis Burruss - 2024 Brunswick Distinguished Citizen Category:People)
• 17:38, 22 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Abbie Ricketts - Distinguished Citizen Bio.pdf (Abbie Ricketts_2024 Brunswick Distinguished Citizen. Category:People)
• 21:11, 21 August 2024 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:Bob Moler - Distinguished Citizen Bio.pdf (Category:People)
• 17:51, 21 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Childs family.jpg (Phil Childs flanked by his infant daughters Cindy and Nancy at their home on New York Hill in the early 1960s. (Photo courtesy of Nancy Childs East) Category:Smoketown Kids)
• 16:32, 21 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Molers Prescription Arts Pharmacy Brunswick Medical Ctr.jpg (Pharmacist Bob Moler wore a carnation as he and wife Ardeth (left) welcomed customers to his new pharmacy, which moved from its downtown location to the then new Brunswick Medical Center at 610 9th Avenue in 1981. Daughter & son Amy and Jim on the left. (Brunswick Citizen clipping courtesy of The City of Brunswick, Maryland History Commission) Category:Smoketown Businesses)
• 21:48, 20 August 2024 Dhuscha talk contribs uploaded File:Election 2024 official results.pdf
• 15:38, 20 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Charlie Harris - Distinguished Citizen Bio.pdf
• 08:09, 20 August 2024 Wallgaier talk contribs uploaded File:Vista Pointe annexation discussed, The Frederick News Post, August 20, 2024.pdf (The proposed Vista Pointe annexation will provided addition housing adjacent to the current Brunswick Crossing development on the west end of town. Category:Brunswick Area)
• 18:51, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Bill Peer & Melody Boys & Girls Apple Blossom Festival.jpg (Bill Peer and the Melody Boys and Girls at the 1954 Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester, VA. Cheryl Wilt My late parents used to go to shows at the Brunswick Moose. My dad just got back from Korea. Bill Peer was also the parts man for Goode Brothers ,my grandfathers and his cousins garage in Charles Town. Linda Runkles I sure do remember those days! I was young but I went with my parents! David Fink My parents Patsy (Taulton) & Ray Fink used to see them there all the time. I grew up on th...)
• 18:41, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Wenner Store N. Maple.jpg (An unidentified employee posing outside Wenner's store at G Street and N. Maple Avenue in the late 1930s. See the Brunswick Tri-state league baseball player walking into the store. (Photo courtesy of Jo Jamison) Category:Smoketown Businesses)
• 18:39, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded 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...)
• 18:36, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded 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)
• 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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)
• 19:00, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 uploaded 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...)
• 21:21, 11 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded 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...)
• 21:14, 11 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded 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)
• 19:02, 11 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded 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))
• 18:48, 11 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded 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...)
• 18:41, 11 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded 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)
• 18:34, 11 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded 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...)
• 16:48, 11 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded 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...)