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| 19:44, 19 January 2025 | Tony Cincotta with ax.jpg (file) |  |
126 KB | Tony Cincotta (right) strikes a jovial pose with an ax. This is another photo from the series documenting Rotarians cutting Christmas trees for a seasonal drive. Not sure whose back is turned. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Christmas | 1 |
| 19:41, 19 January 2025 | Smith-Spurrier Christmas 1952 Photo.jpg (file) |  |
76 KB | Christmas 1952 at the Smith family home at 527 W. Potomac Street. In the photo, as listed on the back, but not in head order are: Earl, Clara & Helen Wright, Helen Spurrier, Gram Spurrier, Lee Smith (back right), Walter Wright, Frida & Floyd Smith (front right) The Spurriers lived across the street at 514 W. Potomac Street. Randy George My neighbors way back when. Lee’s parents home. Wonderful people and neighbors. Had a great model railroad set up in the attic. Brings back many childhood... | 1 |
| 19:36, 19 January 2025 | SWGeorge&Co Christmas Ad.jpg (file) |  |
750 KB | Joyous Noel from S.W. George & Co. We're not sure of the year, but likely early 1960s. (Blade-Times Clipping courtesy of City of Brunswick Maryland History Commission) Category:Smoketown Advertising | 1 |
| 19:35, 19 January 2025 | Litten's Christmas Ad.jpg (file) |  |
1.48 MB | Christmas ad for Litten's Chevrolet-Olds dealership at 600 W. Potomac Street. Probably early 1960s. (Blade-Times Clipping courtesy of City of Brunswick Maryland History Commission) Category:Smoketown Advertising | 1 |
| 20:35, 30 November 2024 | Christmas Tree Cutting Man with ax.jpeg (file) |  |
573 KB | Some Brunswick Rotarians getting set to cut some Christmas trees sometime in the early 1950s. From left to right are former Brunswick Mayor and furniture store owner Harry Mace, farm owner T. West Claggett (with ax), unknown, garage owner West Schnauffer and realtor Lytle Baker. The location is unknown. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Christmas | 1 |
| 20:32, 30 November 2024 | Senior Center Gathering.png (file) |  |
3.45 MB | This photo is believed to have been a gathering at the old Senior Center when it was located on W. Potomac Street when Ethel Porter was coordinator. The Bank of Brunswick calendar indicates it was taken in March, 1968. Some of the people in the photo are Hazel Coffman (3rd from the left with her arm on the table), Vernon Kelley (2nd from right in front of the file cabinet), Rev. David Sparrow of the Mt. Zion AME Church in Knoxville on the far right. In the middle leaning forward is Hilda Sco... | 1 |
| 20:30, 30 November 2024 | Albaugh Chevrolet Sales.jpg (file) |  |
319 KB | A 1930 ad for Albaugh Chevrolet, a dealership which preceded Litten's Chevrolet-Oldsmobile at the 600 W. Potomac Street location. Litten's started out on E. Potomac Street, where the former Moose Club lodge is located today. Look at those prices! Here's a little local automotive history from "Brunswick: 100 Years of Memories" (1990): The location on West Potomac Street currently occupied by King Pizza (when it was at 111 W. Potomac) was the site of the Albaugh Agency that sold Chevrolets a... | 1 |
| 20:27, 30 November 2024 | Locomotive-Roundhouse Taken from Bridge.jpg (file) |  |
470 KB | In a photo taken from the bridge, the museum's caption reads: "This locomotive assists mainline trains by leading the train or adding extra power." Please share any additional observations of this scene. Judging from the cars, this is from the early 1970s. See the rooflines of the Gross Store, passenger station and YMCA on the left looking east. (Photo courtesy of Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown Railroad | 1 |
| 20:25, 30 November 2024 | Brunswick Hardware Melvin Baker-Melvin Taylor.png (file) |  |
3.3 MB | Melvin Baker and Melvin Taylor at Brunswick Hardware at 302 W. Potomac Street in the mid-1970s. Taylor originally a partner in the business with Leroy Strawsburg. Abbie Ricketts Melvin Baker came in every weekday morning and drank coffee bought at the Berlin Restaurant across the street. Jeff Sanbower They had anything you needed in that store. Chris Hamby Sylvia Puddy I like the old hardware store because they had a lot of the old stuff that a lot of these old houses still require. (Fro... | 1 |
| 20:19, 30 November 2024 | Veterans Day Parade U.S. Navy Exhibit.png (file) |  |
2.37 MB | This U.S. Navy exhibit featured a Navy RIM-8 Talos ramjet powered missile on a big truck as it rolled down W. Potomac Street. According to Owen Brown, the missile was first produced in 1955 and deployed in 1958. This must have been a late 1950s parade during the height of the Cold War between the U.S. and Russia. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations | 1 |
| 20:14, 30 November 2024 | Veterans Day Parade Cloverettes.jpeg (file) |  |
842 KB | This majorette team marching in the unseasonably warm 1961 Veterans Day Parade are believed to have been called the Cloverettes. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations | 1 |
| 20:08, 30 November 2024 | Veterans Day Parade Square Dance Club.jpeg (file) |  |
779 KB | The Roundhouse 8 Square Dance Club dancing on their Veterans Day Parade float sometime in the 1960s. Danny Miller was the caller (with microphone). His wife Rosie is on the podium dancing next to him. The man sitting in front of them facing the camera was John Himes. Linda Dawson (Lucas) was dancing on the far left facing the camera. Angela Lucas Mostoller Have never seen this pic before 💕 my mom Linda Dawson Lucas is on the left. Danny Miller was the caller and believe that is his wife Ros... | 1 |
| 20:02, 30 November 2024 | Veterans Day Parade Silver Bit Riding Club 1940s.png (file) |  |
4.25 MB | This was the Silver Bit Riding Club in a Veterans Day Parade that might date back to the 1940s. To help us date the photo, note signs for W. Potomac Street businesses such as Ideal Cleaners/Tailoring on the left side. On the right side of the street, we see a liquor store in the Harmon Building, the Maryland Dining Room (later Mrs. Himes restaurant) and a billiards parlor next to Potomac Edison. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Publ... | 1 |
| 19:59, 30 November 2024 | American Legion Post 96 c1940.jpeg (file) |  |
438 KB | Steadman-Keenan American Legion Post 96 members march past Watson's Cut Rate on W. Potomac Street in an early Brunswick Veterans Day Parade, circa 1940. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers | 1 |
| 18:54, 30 November 2024 | Caboose group.jpg (file) |  |
68 KB | This photo was taken next to the old caboose at an event in the late 1960s. There are cigar boxes on the table to collect money. Maybe a tour of the caboose? From left to right are Lee Nuse, Amos Kaplon, Charlie Harrington, Glenn Good and Charlie Halley. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations | 1 |
| 20:53, 25 November 2024 | Veterans 21-Gun Salute.jpeg (file) |  |
626 KB | A Veterans Day salute by members of Post 96 sometime in the 1960s. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers | 1 |
| 20:50, 25 November 2024 | 7623 Locomotive by Coal Tipple.jpeg (file) |  |
458 KB | A group of railroaders pose on an engine in the Brunswick B&O yard in front of the coal tipple. Todd Crone: 7623 was built by Baldwin in 1945 and was renumbered to 673 in 1956, that is about as close as I can get from this picture. For a time frame, its after 1945--the late '50s that is a em-1 b&o 2–8-8-4 that was delivered in the second batch of em-1s. Andrew Roberts Todd Crone given the wear and tear evident on the loco, it is probably closer to 1950 than 1944. BTW, I think the renumberin... | 1 |
| 20:48, 25 November 2024 | Diamond Jubilee Kaplon's Windows.jpeg (file) |  |
314 KB | Local folks view Kaplon's window displays during the September 1965 Diamond Jubillee celebration of Brunswick's 75th birthday. The store was still open for business then. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations | 1 |
| 20:46, 25 November 2024 | First Methodist Church Kindergarten Event.png (file) |  |
2.06 MB | Pre-school teachers Marie Huffer, Dot Decker, and June Utterback, along with an unidentified child, participated in a circus-themed "Learn and Play" event at the fellowship hall of the First Methodist Church on S. Maryland Avenue. The photo was likely taken in the late 1960s. Danielle Moore Clary I am thinking that this picture may have been taken in their fellowship hall (the room by the kitchen with the stage). Jim Stewart I was younger - but we had nursery school at the church - upstairs... | 1 |
| 20:41, 25 November 2024 | Minnick sisters.png (file) |  |
2.1 MB | Sisters Louise and Bernice Minnick in a photo likely taken in the late 1960s. Bernice was married to Gene Summers, who was tragically killed in a bus accident in the 1970s. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown People | 1 |
| 20:39, 25 November 2024 | Veterans Day Parade Time to Educate.jpeg (file) |  |
529 KB | Brunswick Elementary School sponsored participation in the parades for years. Perhaps this was around the time the consolidated school opened in 1952? The location was the corner of Brunswick Street and Georgia Avenue where the floats and marching groups gathered to kick off the parade in the days when the procession went east. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations | 1 |
| 20:00, 24 November 2024 | Roundhouse Aerial View.jpg (file) |  |
418 KB | An aerial view of the roundhouse and the 200 block of East Potomac Street. See Moler's Food Market on the left at 207 E. Potomac Street. Jeff Hanke There is a Seaboard System painted locomotive on the right. So it can’t be any earlier than 1982, but likely 1986 is more realistic. Foreign power didn’t start making it system wide until around then. Todd Crone Condition of the roof, 70s at least. Also since there are Chessie System hoppers that puts it post 1973. Sean Staub Todd Crone I’d bet... | 1 |
| 19:57, 24 November 2024 | Callers Office.jpg (file) |  |
99 KB | A scene from the Caller's Office in the Brunswick B&O Yard. Maybe 1950s? Charles Harper, Irl Thomas at the teletype machine, ?, George Brady (Back right) Doris Kelley Barker You spoke of my dear, sweet Uncle Irl Thomas married to Levetta Kelley, my Dad’s sister of 11 children. Uncle Irl and Aunt Levetta in 1931 when 1,000 railroad men were laid off, they lost their home on Brunswick Street to the bank. They moved in with my parents, Frank and Clara Kelley, 215 N. Delaware Avenue. They lived... | 1 |
| 19:51, 24 November 2024 | CF Booth.jpg (file) |  |
163 KB | C.F. Booth poses next to the towering old coal tipple. He was noted at the museum as Machinist Helper. Does anyone remember him? The tipple ceased operations sometime in the 1950s as the old steam locomotives were phased out. (Photo courtesy of Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown Railroader | 1 |
| 19:47, 24 November 2024 | Musical Tribute to Brunswick.JPG (file) |  |
170 KB | This show at the old fire hall was sponsored by VOCAL, circa 1990. Comments Betty Hedges VOCAL was the group that ousted Mayor Susan Fauntleroy in 1990. They did not want the water and sewer rates to go up to pay for needed improvements. (Courtesy of the City of Brunswick Maryland History Commission) Category:Smoketown Music | 1 |
| 19:44, 24 November 2024 | Westbound Station 1976.JPG (file) |  |
484 KB | The westbound Brunswick train station in 1976. The station was designed by Ephraim Francis Baldwin and opened in 1891 on Seventh Avenue. Several years later the building was moved to its current location. David Mcintosh This station was first built on the south side of Potomac Ave in 1891. Then moved to its present place in 1907. (Photo courtesy of Ray Soderberg) Category:Smoketown Railroad | 1 |
| 19:39, 24 November 2024 | E.F. Baldwin.jpeg (file) |  |
1.67 MB | Ephraim Francis Baldwin (1837-1916) apprenticed as a draftsman in the architectural office of Niernsee and Neilson in Baltimore. He left in 1867 and practiced on his own for 2 years before forming a partnership with Bruce Price, whom he had met at his former employers. They practiced together until 1873 and Baldwin worked again on his own for the next decade. In 1883 he formed a partnership with a former employee, Josias Pennington. Over a course of a 50 year architecture career Baldwin desi... | 1 |
| 19:38, 24 November 2024 | Westbound Station Workers.jpeg (file) |  |
1.17 MB | Railroaders who worked at the Westbound Station in 1956-1957. Sitting: Lee B. Smith Sr. (Night Clerk), Stanley Hoke (Freight Agent) Standing: Frank Brooks, Luther Deener, James William "Sarge" Rooney Sr. (Day and Nighttime laborers) Richard Maguire I can remember sitting in the Eastbound station about 3:00 am waiting to relieve the crew on an eastbound train upon arrival. We then took the train (NY 88) to Philadelphia. This was about 1973. Tamara Walker Kimberlee Butler. I remember going t... | 1 |
| 19:34, 24 November 2024 | G.F. McGaha.jpeg (file) |  |
816 KB | George F. McGaha (left) worked at the Fruit Growers building in the Brunswick B&O yard (1934-35). The other man is unidentified. Can anyone tell us where the fruit growers building was located in the yard? (Photo courtesy of the Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown Railroaders | 1 |
| 19:24, 24 November 2024 | A.G. Horine Prescription Card.jpeg (file) |  |
1.28 MB | A blank prescription card from A.G. Horine. This may date to the early 20th Century or prior. Telephone numbers ranging from 1-3 numbers first appeared in the 1890s. (Photo courtesy of the Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown Advertising | 1 |
| 19:21, 24 November 2024 | Arlington Horine Medicine Bag.jpeg (file) |  |
2.45 MB | nside Dr. A.G. Horine's medical bag. Note the different kinds of pills. Maybe this is what he carried when he made house calls. (Photo courtesy of the Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown Businesses | 1 |
| 19:18, 24 November 2024 | H.R. Mace & Co. Ad .jpeg (file) |  |
1.61 MB | A vintage ad for Orthophonic Records and Victrolas from longtime Brunswick business H.R. Mace & Company. According to the Maryland State Gazetter, the company featured these items from 1909-11 and probably later. One-time Brunswick Mayor Harry R. Mace (1932-1938) sold furniture and other household items on the first floor at W. Potomac Street where King's Pizza operates today. Mace got into the business working for his father Thomas Mace's furniture store at 207 E. Potomac Street where Mole... | 1 |
| 19:12, 24 November 2024 | Veterans Day Parade Petersville Ruritan.jpg (file) |  |
55 KB | Interesting choice of float display for the Petersville Ruritan Club in what might have been the late Sixties. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations | 1 |
| 19:09, 24 November 2024 | Oscar Mitchell Retirement 2.jpg (file) |  |
123 KB | Oscar (Mitch) Mitchell poses while crossing the tracks one more time on his retirement day in 1954. Look at all the vintage cars in the parking lot! (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Railroaders | 1 |
| 19:07, 24 November 2024 | Charles Harrington RR Days.jpg (file) |  |
229 KB | Charles Harrington sitting outside the old caboose in the 1960s. He was a Clerk/Agent for the B&O Railroad in Frederick. This may have been an early Railroad Days celebration. The Charles Harrington family regularly decorated a large pine tree in their yard on N. Maple Avenue, which was a beloved gathering place for Wenner's Hill neighborhood children in the 1950s. Norval Kennedy Dutch Masters cigar box open. To collect money for donations or tours or whatever? Second cigar box obscured. J... | 1 |
| 00:38, 21 October 2024 | Girl Scout troop 791 Towpath Color.jpg (file) |  |
78 KB | Girl Scout troop 791 from Jefferson's Valley Elementary School pose during a bike ride on the Towpath in Fall 1971. According to Cheryl Beachley Varkalis: "I missed a few but here you go. Leilani Drayer, Mary Kelly, Daun Monath, Mandy Rose, Kim Beavers, Sharon Keller, Julie Setters, Gwen McAllister Hoebeke, Me, Debra Huffer Moler, Robin Leatherman, Brenda McAllister, Lynn Beachley, Mrs. Sexton, Mrs. McAllister, My Mom." The girl with the "pink top might be Denise Teagle. " Mary Kelly: "I be... | 1 |
| 23:27, 20 October 2024 | Class-of-1945.bhs-reunion.png (file) |  |
10.54 MB | Brunswick High School Class of 1945 Reunion. Pharmacist and community leader Bob Moler is 3rd from the right in front. This may have been the 50th class reunion. Those identified are (L-R): Dick Wenner, ?, Bud Kidwell, ?, ?,?, Donald Woods, Bob Moler, Mud Brooks, Colleen Selby?, ? (Photo courtesy of Jim Moler) Category:Smoketown Schools | 1 |
| 23:21, 20 October 2024 | Car Yard 1970 from the Bridge.jpg (file) |  |
119 KB | Looking westward from the bridge toward the Car Yard in August, 1970. Here are some comments on the location: Todd Crone What is left of the cattle pens on the right hand side of the picture. Phil Lowery Todd Crone Never seen cows there but often used for pigs. I grew up on Walnut Street and watch them load the pigs. Kenny Edwards Brunswick yard held coal here and car repair shop was a little north of this picture. (Photo by John P. Hale courtesy of the City of Brunswick, Maryland Histor... | 1 |
| 23:15, 20 October 2024 | Horine's Ad Sign early 1900s.jpg (file) |  |
44 KB | An old advertising sign for Horine's Drug Store. It must date between 1901-1912 because that's the timeline of the Post Office when it was on the Square Corner in the building that many of us remember as S&N Katz. Doris Kelley Barker Bettie Nielsen I remember Dr. Horine as a doctor, his son we called Dr. but he wasn’t. Dr. Horine’s office was behind the ice cream confectionary store. Dr. Smith was just past there with a house in between and the many time I went to Dr. Smith. He gave us the w... | 1 |
| 23:13, 20 October 2024 | King's 1st location.jpg (file) |  |
204 KB | King's Pizza at 111 W. Potomac Street when it operated next to Fast Eddie's. King's opened at this location sometime in the 1980s. Please share your memories. Good food was available on this corner! Sadly the building has been gone for at least a decade. Prior to King's it was briefly home to the Blade-Times in the 1960s. Going back to the 1920s, it housed grocery stores such as Wenner's City Meat Market, White's Self Service, and John's Supermarket. The Kaplon family owned the building fo... | 1 |
| 17:49, 6 October 2024 | Nalley's Grocery Store Wenner's Hill.jpg (file) |  |
206 KB | Looks like a turkey about to meet its maker in this 1939 photo outside Nalley's Grocery Store at 707 N. Maple Avenue. The man and woman are unidentified. (Photo courtesy of Jo Jamison) Category:Smoketown Businesses | 1 |
| 17:43, 6 October 2024 | Community dinner at the old fire hall in the late 1960s Watsons-Nelsons-Rev Miller.png (file) |  |
3.69 MB | At a community dinner in the old fire hall in the late 1960s. From the left were Harwood and Mary Jane Watson, Lawrence Nelson, Mrs. Nelson, Reverend Ralph Miller of Bethany Luthern Church. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations | 1 |
| 17:37, 6 October 2024 | Grace Church Formally Opened from The Blade-Times June 7, 1923.tif.jpg (file) |  |
1.2 MB | June 1923 Blade-Times announcement of the formal opening of Grace Episcopal Church at 114 E. A Street. The church building is a modified English Gothic style with exceptionally beautiful stained glass windows. Similar church buildings made from local fieldstones are common in Anglican congregations in both the United States and Great Britain. Note the message in the upper right about the weekly cost of the newspaper. (News clipping courtesy of the City of Brunswick Maryland History Commiss... | 1 |
| 17:35, 6 October 2024 | Phil Childs Gail Ravenscroft Walker.jpg (file) |  |
69 KB | Brunswick business leader Phil Childs speaks with Gail Ravenscroft Walker at an event, circa late 1960s. We're not sure of the event or location. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations | 1 |
| 17:33, 6 October 2024 | Kaplon's Father-Child.jpg (file) |  |
82 KB | An unidentified father and child posing at Kaplon's, circa 1960. The photo provides a nice perspective on how the store looked inside. Doris Kelley Barker Could that be Bobby Burgee from New York Hill but then our neighbor across the street on N. Delaware Avenue? I know he lived outside Baltimore when married but he could have been home and Myer Kaplon took everyone’s picture. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) [[C... | 1 |
| 17:20, 6 October 2024 | Potomac River Bridge dedication parade Lovettsville float going down Potomac Street on July 30, 1955 (2).jpg (file) | .jpg) |
45 KB | The Lovettsville float in the July 30, 1955 parade celebrating the then new Potomac River Bridge passes Kaplon's Department Store on West Potomac Street. The archway sign above the queen reads "The Gateway". We believe the princess second from left was Donna Cummings. (Photo courtesy of Ray Dinterman) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations | 1 |
| 17:16, 6 October 2024 | Boy-Honeymoon Express Kaplon's.jpg (file) |  |
366 KB | All aboard the Honeymoon Express! This photo may have been taken in the 1940s. Notice the saddle shoes on the boy. The photo must have been taken around Eastertime, as those appear to be Easter bonnets in the Kaplon's display window above the boy. Toy company Louis Marx made about 40 variations of the Honeymoon Express wind-up toy over several decades. It outsold Lionel for much of the 1950s. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public... | 1 |
| 20:09, 13 September 2024 | Canal Boat Bugler.jpeg (file) |  |
1.23 MB | A bugler on a canal boat somewhere near Lock 30 on the C&O Canal. The date is unknown. (Photo courtesy of the Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown Potomac River and C&O Canal | 1 |
| 19:53, 13 September 2024 | Grams Baptism Grace Church.jpg (file) |  |
1.44 MB | Cynthia Grams in her mother Ruth's arms at Grace Episcopal Church on her baptism day in 1957. Flanking mother and daughter are Godparents Leigh Feete and Ken Jones. The officiant that day was Father James Fenhagen, who was a young rector at Grace Church. Leigh Feete Schwertfeger and Dr. Ken Jones were honored as Distinguished Citizens of Brunswick, as was Cynthia's father, sports cartoonist Bob Grams. (Photo courtesy of Cynthia Grams Peltzman) Category:Smoketown Houses of Worship | 1 |
| 19:47, 13 September 2024 | Arlene Painter Geraldine Shrader.jpg (file) |  |
65 KB | Arlene Painter and her aunt Geraldine Shrader at their W. G Street home sometime in the early 1940s. Patricia Moore Snoots Had to be around 1942. Arlene and me were the same age. We were born in 1940 and went to school together. Brenton Barger I remember the Shrader family... lived about two doors down from my grandparents. (Photo courtesy of Terry Himes Robinson) Category:Smoketown Kids | 1 |
