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20 January 2025

19 January 2025

  • 20:3420:34, 19 January 2025 diff hist +884‎ N File:Imperial Theater 1920s side view.jpeg ‎ Here’s a photo of the old Imperial Theater on W. Potomac Street, taken from a different angle than we have seen before, likely in the 1920s. Some mystery. There appears to have been stairs or maybe a red carpet on the right side of the theater. There once was a basement with a bowling alley and pool room until around 1931. The bowling alley was located in the rear of the basement, but the stairs may have led to a hallway or tunnel. If you look closely, you will notice a sign featuring the n... current
  • 20:2220:22, 19 January 2025 diff hist +1,672‎ N File:Imperial Theater, West Potomac St in ruins 1967.jpg ‎ This sad 1967 photo shows the much-beloved Imperial Theater on W. Potomac Street, which had been deteriorating for years following its closure in 1962. A theater at this location dated back to a 1912 lease at the Frederick County Courthouse. The old kiosk now resides at the Brunswick Heritage Museum. According to "Brunswick: 100 Years of Memories": After the theater closed, Grayson Holler took over the building hoping to turn it into a nightclub for teens. However during renovations, the bu... current
  • 20:0020:00, 19 January 2025 diff hist +121‎ N File:Happy Holidays W. Potomac Street.JPG ‎ The building is gone at 6 W. Potomac Street, but the message is forever. Category:Smoketown Christmas current
  • 19:5419:54, 19 January 2025 diff hist +671‎ N File:Community Space Event Adults&Boys.jpeg ‎ This photo is interesting and mystery on a couple of levels: 1) A group of 5 teen age boys watching a panel of 5 professionally dressed adults on a stage high above them. Hard to tell what the event was. 2) We've seen similar photos of this latticed stage at both the old Imperial Theater and a makeshift stage in a community space at the bottom of W. B Street before the 1955 Potomac River Bridge was constructed. This appears to have been the latter. See the heavy upright piano on the right.... current
  • 19:4819:48, 19 January 2025 diff hist +715‎ N File:Political - Brunswick businessmen and civic leader Circa 1960 (2).png ‎ We've posted a similar photo of these prominent Brunswick businessmen and civic leaders of the time. We believe that this photo was taken in the early 1960s. If that is the Scheer Stadium scoreboard in the distance on the left, the men may have been surveying the future site of Brunswick High School. From the left are Claude Lutman (People's Bank President), Harry George Jr. (S.W. George Co.) Rev. Ralph Miller (Pastor of Bethany Lutheran Church), Richard Bowers (Litten's Chevrolet salesman)... current
  • 19:4219:42, 19 January 2025 diff hist +489‎ N File:Ladies Gathering laughter.png ‎ This is nice photo of a ladies gathering back in the day where some were having a laugh. Miss Georgia Hood is on the left. Elizabeth Fry is elsewhere according to library records. Maybe 3rd from left? Fran New is laughing on the far right. Can anyone guess the occasion and identify the ladies and in what order? (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations current
  • 19:3819:38, 19 January 2025 diff hist +506‎ N File:Young boy overlooking tracks in east end.jpg ‎ In this iconic photo in the age of steam, a young boy looks out over a line of hopper cars, which carried coal and coke. The cars in the distance are refrigerator cars, commonly called "reefers". See the coal tipple, a locomotive and the B&O Shops in the background. The boy's location is somewhere on what's now E. Potomac Street close to the old Moose Club. It may date to the early 1900s. (Photo courtesy of the City of Brunswick Maryland History Commission) Category:Smoketown Kids current
  • 19:3419:34, 19 January 2025 diff hist +250‎ N File:Johnnys Barber-Christmas Ad.jpg ‎ This ad for Johnny's Barber Shop at 20 W. Potomac Street ran in the Blade-Times during the 1964 Christmas season. The proprietor of the shop was John Ventimiglia. (Blade-Times ad courtesy of Kim Myers) Category:Smoketown Christmas current
  • 19:1519:15, 19 January 2025 diff hist +1,095‎ N File:Wenner's Hill Christmas Tree.jpg ‎ On the right was the tall Wenner's Hill neighborhood Christmas Tree at 605 N. Maple Avenue in 1959. For years in the 1950s and '60s, the Charles Harrington family decorated a huge pine tree in their yard at 605 N. Maple Avenue where neighborhood children performed “The Christmas Story,” recited the “Night Before Christmas,” and sang carols. Afterwards, Santa greeted the kids with “Christmas Boxes”, which included a bag of hard candy and an orange. Nathan Sean Stone Pretty cool seeing the ho... current
  • 19:1219:12, 19 January 2025 diff hist +749‎ N File:Teen Dance Damion & the Classics.jpg ‎ A dance with Damion & the Classics sounds like fun right now. No alcohol, though.... Note the sponsor. Was anyone here or have friends or family who were members of the Merry Ladies Chapter of the Izaak Walton League? This ad ran in December 1964. Sherry Stull I used to attend every Damion and the Classics dance that I could possibly go to. The Brunswick Fire Hall was the best dance venue. Barbara Schaeffer Altman They use to play at the Legion for our Teen Club too. We had great bands th... current
  • 19:0719:07, 19 January 2025 diff hist +291‎ N File:Millie Burch-Phillips.png ‎ Millie Burch poses next to the office tree at Phillips Insurance Company when it was downtown on W. Potomac Street in the mid-1970s. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Christmas current
  • 19:0419:04, 19 January 2025 diff hist +290‎ N File:Merrimans Sisters Santa.jpg ‎ The Merriman sisters--Kathy (4), Terry (9) and Cindy (7)--meet Santa at the 7th Street Shopping Center in Frederick, December 1962. We think Santa might have been Brunswick's own Paul Weitzel.  (Photo courtesy of Kathy Ann Merriman Sears) Category:Smoketown Christmas current
  • 18:4418:44, 19 January 2025 diff hist +351‎ N File:Tony Cincotta with ax.jpg ‎ 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 current
  • 18:4118:41, 19 January 2025 diff hist +900‎ N File:Smith-Spurrier Christmas 1952 Photo.jpg ‎ 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... current
  • 18:3618:36, 19 January 2025 diff hist +218‎ N File:SWGeorge&Co Christmas Ad.jpg ‎ 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 current
  • 18:3518:35, 19 January 2025 diff hist +231‎ N File:Litten's Christmas Ad.jpg ‎ 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 current

30 November 2024

  • 19:3519:35, 30 November 2024 diff hist +464‎ N File:Christmas Tree Cutting Man with ax.jpeg ‎ 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 current
  • 19:3219:32, 30 November 2024 diff hist +752‎ N File:Senior Center Gathering.png ‎ 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... current
  • 19:3019:30, 30 November 2024 diff hist +987‎ N File:Albaugh Chevrolet Sales.jpg ‎ 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... current
  • 19:2719:27, 30 November 2024 diff hist +443‎ N File:Locomotive-Roundhouse Taken from Bridge.jpg ‎ 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 current
  • 19:2519:25, 30 November 2024 diff hist +651‎ N File:Brunswick Hardware Melvin Baker-Melvin Taylor.png ‎ 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... current
  • 19:1919:19, 30 November 2024 diff hist +489‎ N File:Veterans Day Parade U.S. Navy Exhibit.png ‎ 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 current
  • 19:1419:14, 30 November 2024 diff hist +303‎ N File:Veterans Day Parade Cloverettes.jpeg ‎ 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 current
  • 19:0819:08, 30 November 2024 diff hist +1,360‎ N File:Veterans Day Parade Square Dance Club.jpeg ‎ 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... current
  • 19:0219:02, 30 November 2024 diff hist +573‎ N File:Veterans Day Parade Silver Bit Riding Club 1940s.png ‎ 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... current
  • 18:5918:59, 30 November 2024 diff hist +314‎ N File:American Legion Post 96 c1940.jpeg ‎ 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 current
  • 17:5417:54, 30 November 2024 diff hist +430‎ N File:Caboose group.jpg ‎ 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 current

25 November 2024

  • 19:5319:53, 25 November 2024 diff hist +229‎ N File:Veterans 21-Gun Salute.jpeg ‎ 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 current
  • 19:5019:50, 25 November 2024 diff hist +878‎ N File:7623 Locomotive by Coal Tipple.jpeg ‎ 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... current
  • 19:4819:48, 25 November 2024 diff hist +344‎ N File:Diamond Jubilee Kaplon's Windows.jpeg ‎ 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 current
  • 19:4619:46, 25 November 2024 diff hist +780‎ N File:First Methodist Church Kindergarten Event.png ‎ 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... current
  • 19:4119:41, 25 November 2024 diff hist +329‎ N File:Minnick sisters.png ‎ 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 current
  • 19:3919:39, 25 November 2024 diff hist +504‎ N File:Veterans Day Parade Time to Educate.jpeg ‎ 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 current

24 November 2024

  • 19:0019:00, 24 November 2024 diff hist +620‎ N File:Roundhouse Aerial View.jpg ‎ 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... current
  • 18:5718:57, 24 November 2024 diff hist +945‎ N File:Callers Office.jpg ‎ 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... current
  • 18:5118:51, 24 November 2024 diff hist +322‎ N File:CF Booth.jpg ‎ 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 current
  • 18:4718:47, 24 November 2024 diff hist +348‎ N File:Musical Tribute to Brunswick.JPG ‎ 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 current
  • 18:4418:44, 24 November 2024 diff hist +415‎ N File:Westbound Station 1976.JPG ‎ 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 current
  • 18:3918:39, 24 November 2024 diff hist +1,374‎ N File:E.F. Baldwin.jpeg ‎ 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... current
  • 18:3818:38, 24 November 2024 diff hist +951‎ N File:Westbound Station Workers.jpeg ‎ 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... current
  • 18:3418:34, 24 November 2024 diff hist +307‎ N File:G.F. McGaha.jpeg ‎ 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 current
  • 18:2418:24, 24 November 2024 diff hist +266‎ N File:A.G. Horine Prescription Card.jpeg ‎ 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 current
  • 18:2118:21, 24 November 2024 diff hist +228‎ N File:Arlington Horine Medicine Bag.jpeg ‎ 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 current
  • 18:1818:18, 24 November 2024 diff hist +1,212‎ N File:H.R. Mace & Co. Ad .jpeg ‎ 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... current
  • 18:1218:12, 24 November 2024 diff hist +285‎ N File:Veterans Day Parade Petersville Ruritan.jpg ‎ 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 current
  • 18:0918:09, 24 November 2024 diff hist +309‎ N File:Oscar Mitchell Retirement 2.jpg ‎ 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 current
  • 18:0718:07, 24 November 2024 diff hist +1,002‎ N File:Charles Harrington RR Days.jpg ‎ 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... current
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