https://www.historicsilverspring.com/welcome daily 1.0 2019-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519853341976-1JPIC0J3WFK4I2SMR8Y9/sshs-map-trail-all.jpg Welcome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519165774554-ZQS7I9UB0M927IEG98EC/Trail1-SS12-Giffords.jpg Welcome Opened in 1938, Gifford Ice Cream Co. as it appeared in September 1948. Collection of the Silver Spring Historical Society   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519333731629-R7SKZLW6IVYG1PHFH23N/trail3-ss14-bakery.jpg Welcome In 1926, the Dietle family posed in front of their newly opened Silver Spring Home Bakery, 8223 Georgia Avenue. Courtesy of the Silver Spring Historical Society and John P. Hewitt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519167694128-8URBLH9L30R59C347H9I/Trail2-SS8-Hunter4-1913.jpg Welcome Hunter Bros. coal and hardware business in 1913. Collection of the Silver Spring Historical Society   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1530826896568-OIZ5OM5HBPKVDD6ICLLL/trail6-ss3-warbonds.jpg Welcome Velatis caramels are sold here now, but in 1943 this was a bank. “Back the Attack” was a WWII victory exhibit sponsored by The Washington Post and held on the grounds of the Washington Monument. Photo by Nellie Hewitt Stinchcomb https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519759450554-Y5Y084YXQHKTFKEM5MK0/trail4-ss5-lumberlunch.jpg Welcome Harry F. Duncan poses with a model of his flagship restaurant, Little Tavern #1, built in 1938 at 8230 Georgia Avenue. 1972 Photo by Wellner Streets, Courtesy DC Public Library, Star Collection, © Washington Post https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1530565358050-5WFOTEWA5BJ6QIYY44O8/trail5-ss4-bank-seco.jpg Welcome Bank employees and curious bystanders are shown milling about following a bank robbery in this Oct. 27, 1928, Evening Star photo. Courtesy Washingtoniana Division, DC Public Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519245127568-NG7883FJB9OZCUTZTAVH/gallery-masonhall-ss2-9.jpg Welcome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519856665133-B5BG8EKYXVVCVB29AT3Q/home-banner-silver-1938.jpg Welcome https://www.historicsilverspring.com/hardware-gallery daily 0.75 2018-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519338430906-9QODF2LXL5254LZG2WIN/hunter-8-store-1913.jpg Hardware Gallery - Hunter Hardware, 1913 Silver Spring’s “shopping center” in 1913 provided the neighboring community with all of its needs. The general store of Bernard R. Gannon, Sr. is on the left and next door is Hunter Bros. coal and hardware business. Cyrus and Leander McCormick founded McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. in 1847, which became part of International Harvester Co. in 1902. Collection of Silver Spring Historical Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519338430906-9QODF2LXL5254LZG2WIN/hunter-8-store-1913.jpg Hardware Gallery - Hunter Hardware, 1913 Silver Spring’s “shopping center” in 1913 provided the neighboring community with all of its needs. The general store of Bernard R. Gannon, Sr. is on the left and next door is Hunter Bros. coal and hardware business. Cyrus and Leander McCormick founded McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. in 1847, which became part of International Harvester Co. in 1902. Collection of Silver Spring Historical Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519338425225-08CG7M7I5JPA42L2LRML/hunter-8-cornerstone.jpg Hardware Gallery - Legacy preserved This cornerstone was originally set into the brick facade of Hunter’s 1925 building. When the building underwent remodeling in 1949, the stone was reinstalled in the facade of the new store front where it remains today. Hunter likely had this cornerstone fabricated to reflect the number of years that he had been in the hardware business — 1896 is when he started working, as a 16-year-old, at Orndorff & Truxton Co. at 203 7th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. Photo by Jerry A. McCoy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519338429339-8P26G4VWFZJN9WE3M532/hunter-8-outside1945.jpg Hardware Gallery - A new owner John H. Hunter posed with employees, including daughter Gertrude, when the store was sold to Lawrence B. Maloney, Sr. in 1945. (L-R) Bowe Atwood,* Leonard Maloney, Thomas Hunter, unknown, Gertrude Hunter McRorie,* unknown, John H. Hunter, unknown, John D. McRorie,* Lawrence B. Maloney, Jr., Lawrence B. Maloney, Sr. (* indicates employee) Photo Courtesy Kevin M. Maloney https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519415009676-0XE5ORPWM8NGX3639KWY/hunter-8-inside1945.jpg Hardware Gallery - Hunter Hardware, 1945 John H. Hunter posed with employees, including daughter Gertrude, when the store at 8126 Georgia Avenue was sold to Lawrence B. Maloney, Sr. in 1945. (L-R) unknown, unknown, Gertrude Hunter McRorie,* John H. Hunter, Lawrence B. Maloney, Jr., unknown, Lawrence B. Maloney, Sr., Leonard Maloney, Bowe Atwood,* John D. McRorie,* Thomas Hunter (* indicates employee. Unknowns are probably employees). Photo Courtesy Kevin M. Maloney https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519338429271-HIVCG19X1EEY9CY7LBMY/hunter-8-maloney1945.jpg Hardware Gallery - Slow transition Maloney’s, Inc. featured the Hunter Bros. name (sign above door) when they took over the business in 1945. The landmark 175-year-old pin oak that germinated before the start of the American Revolutionary War was cut down in June 1948 to make way for the expanded store front. Photo courtesy Kevin M. Maloney https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519338425282-CP24SEFO3Q0EAXP2EXR7/hunter-8-maloney6-1948.jpg Hardware Gallery - Jobs for veterans Lawrence B. Maloney, Sr. with WW II veterans taking on-the-job training in refrigeration, truck/tractor mechanics, parts, and accounting under the GI Bill. (L-R) B. Hunter, E. Meade, R. Glidden, C. Jones, Mr. Maloney, C. Phelps, R. Staiger, L. Ruppert, R. Massick, J. Walden. Photo by O. B. Troup, January 23, 1948, Maryland News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519338427257-72MDDXNXNHVXAQDF7J4S/hunter-8-maloney7-1952.jpg Hardware Gallery - Modern branding This c. 1952 photograph shows the exterior remodeling, designed in 1949 by Raymond Loewy Associates, providing the uniform look of an International Harvester Co. store and service center. Photo courtesy Kevin M. Maloney https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519338427198-T71W4P5RNW6VFQRXKX3T/hunter-8-maloney9-1950s.jpg Hardware Gallery - Night vision The original 1925 facade of 8126 Georgia Avenue containing two display windows and arched center door frame with lunette window above (removed) is clearly visible behind a glass-enclosed addition in this c. 1950s photograph. This facade continues to serve as an interior wall of the extant structure. Photo courtesy Kevin M. Maloney https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519338431002-GHKP03DI9DYUMGS38JST/hunter-8-tierod-star.jpg Hardware Gallery - Holding it together Tie rods were used to connect the brick side walls of the 1925 building to keep them from bowing outward. Three star-shaped tie-rod anchors are still visible on each side, between the first and second floors. https://www.historicsilverspring.com/family-business daily 0.75 2018-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519669023271-X5ULLST6ZISW2O7ZX6DU/family-14-bakery2-1926.jpg Family Business - Bread spread "Bread is your best food, Eat more of it." So declare the signs in the bakery window. In 1926 the Dietle family posed in front of their newly opened Silver Spring Home Bakery, 8223 Georgia Avenue. With Richard J. “Pop” Dietle are from left to right his sons Erwin, Richard, Herbert, and Henry. On the right is his wife, Matilda. The shop closed in 1936, but a bakery that the family had opened on Seminary Road in the Montgomery Hills section of Silver Spring in 1930 became Dietle’s Tavern in 1934. It closed in 2003. Courtesy Silver Spring Historical Society and John P. Hewitt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519669023271-X5ULLST6ZISW2O7ZX6DU/family-14-bakery2-1926.jpg Family Business - Bread spread "Bread is your best food, Eat more of it." So declare the signs in the bakery window. In 1926 the Dietle family posed in front of their newly opened Silver Spring Home Bakery, 8223 Georgia Avenue. With Richard J. “Pop” Dietle are from left to right his sons Erwin, Richard, Herbert, and Henry. On the right is his wife, Matilda. The shop closed in 1936, but a bakery that the family had opened on Seminary Road in the Montgomery Hills section of Silver Spring in 1930 became Dietle’s Tavern in 1934. It closed in 2003. Courtesy Silver Spring Historical Society and John P. Hewitt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519677823576-GDNJTLYLVE7THITRCQKQ/family-14-dolan1-1925.jpg Family Business - Good move John and Geneva Dolan pose circa 1925 next to their relocated house that was moved from Georgia Avenue to 918 Thayer Avenue. The house sat on property that borders the east side of Mayor Lane. Courtesy Silver Spring Historical Society and Helen Dolan Sherber https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519669080949-231JVQM8XFNEZZD84X13/family-14-sclar8-1920s.jpg Family Business - All in the family business Moses Sclar opened the Grand Leader department store in 1926 at 8221 Georgia Avenue. Circa 1920s photograph shows Moses Sclar and his family: (back row, left to right) wife Catherine, daughter Ada, and Moses; (front row, left to right) children Fannie, Jacob, and Reuben. Everyone helped out in the store. Courtesy Sidney and Reuben Sclar and the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519669107903-S699SW1WC48N69A8GBKZ/family-14-cars7-1930s.jpg Family Business - Marketing on the move Circa 1930s view of automobiles being used to promote businesses. Sign on left vehicle reads “STOP LOOK SHOP AT THE GRAND LEADER STORE SILVER SPRING MD” (store with large flag). Vehicle on right carries sign reading “NASH LEADS THE WORLD IN MOTOR CAR VALUE EARL F. POTTER.” Potter’s auto dealership was located around the corner at 921 Silver Spring Avenue. Courtesy Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519669150446-Q61N76X005J5Z20AABZU/family-14-parade-1948.jpg Family Business - Everyone loves a parade! The “Silver Spring — Avenue of Progress” parade held on September 11, 1948 celebrated the opening of Georgia Avenue’s redesigned Baltimore & Ohio Railroad underpass and new paving. One of the bands marches through the 8200 block of Georgia Avenue, past The Grand Leader Store (with balcony) and the original Dolan properties, at left in image. Photo by Jay Braun. Courtesy Silver Spring Historical Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519669177569-QFB17CJZETHCA0AJ02GR/family-14-8200blockshops-1950.jpg Family Business - Thriving commerce 1950 view of the many Silver Spring businesses located on the east side of the 8200 block of Georgia Avenue. The Grand Leader Store is third from the left, with vertical “SHOES” sign. Courtesy Silver Spring Historical Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519669191905-V3HGH4G5H0QPN7T92FVW/family-14-ads-1949-50.jpg Family Business - Ad mission Marketing works for Georgia Avenue... Advertisements for The Grand Leader Store (left) at 8221 (published in the 1930 Montgomery Blair High School Silverlogue yearbook) and the Mt. Vernon Cycle & Sports Shop, a later tenant of 8223 (published in the June 10, 1949 Maryland News newspaper). Don't forget your worms! Courtesy Silver Spring Historical Society https://www.historicsilverspring.com/sligo-gallery daily 0.75 2018-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519317006143-0XKMM3A7H66E4SVIWDPN/sligo-12-sligoave-c1910.jpg Sligo Gallery - Sligo Avenue, circa 1910 View of Sligo Avenue (also known as Bluestone Road and Blair Road) looking east from Georgia Avenue. James H. Cissel lived in the house shown on the extreme left with the partial front porch. His daily commute consisted of only a few steps to his bank and flour and feed operations. Collection of Silver Spring Historical Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519317006143-0XKMM3A7H66E4SVIWDPN/sligo-12-sligoave-c1910.jpg Sligo Gallery - Sligo Avenue, circa 1910 View of Sligo Avenue (also known as Bluestone Road and Blair Road) looking east from Georgia Avenue. James H. Cissel lived in the house shown on the extreme left with the partial front porch. His daily commute consisted of only a few steps to his bank and flour and feed operations. Collection of Silver Spring Historical Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519317037595-0EUMNSSWXREQB50NVF2G/sligo-12-ssnatbank1-1917.jpg Sligo Gallery - Silver Spring National Bank, 1917 The message on this postcard mailed in 1920 by bank employee Mary Roeder reads, “On the reverse side you will find my new place of employment and believe me it is heaven compared to the other places I have had.” Photograph taken on June 21, 1917 by Willard R. Ross. Collection of Silver Spring Historical Society   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519317104483-0N7BSVEIUM80YNY9UP50/sligo-12-ssnatbank-check-1924.jpg Sligo Gallery - Check this out Check in the amount of $4.03 written by Hiram B. Backus to William P. Wilson on July 9, 1924. Backus lived in the Woodside neighborhood of Silver Spring on 1st Avenue. Wilson owned a farm located on the east side of Georgia Avenue adjacent to Woodside Park. Collection of Silver Spring Historical Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519420321244-CO8TCKEMZQKESDRZH1DK/sligo-12-panorama2-1927.jpg Sligo Gallery - Making tracks, 1927 The intersection of Georgia and Sligo avenues as it looked in 1927. The brick building at right was just north of Sligo Avenue. It was built in 1910 for Silver Spring National Bank, which relocated in 1925. The set of tracks crossing Georgia Avenue was a spur line allowing materials shipped via the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to be delivered directly to Griffith & Perry’s warehouse. Collection of Silver Spring Historical Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1530812881714-JZ8N59NNEC5YNOWN23O8/sligo-12-marylandnews-whole-Jun22-1934.jpg Sligo Gallery - Read All About It! Front page of the June 22, 1934 The Maryland News, the first newspaper published in Silver Spring. The public was invited “…to read it, criticize it, make suggestions and send in news.” The subscription was $2.00 per year. Collection of Silver Spring Historical Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1530812927319-E6UYO9Y9LL74V4XUB8OY/sligo-12-giffords-1940s.jpg Sligo Gallery - Churning Out Business In 1938, John Nash Gifford founded the Gifford Ice Cream Co. when he converted one of the former coal and feed structures at 8101 Georgia Avenue into a plant for the manufacture and sale of ice cream. This undated photo is from the 1940s. Collection of Silver Spring Historical Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519317192759-FXL9W5DJGOFJCI1R3T9O/sligo-12-giffords-1948.jpg Sligo Gallery - Gifford's, 1948 In 1938, John Nash Gifford founded the Gifford Ice Cream Co. when he converted one of the former coal and feed structures at 8101 Georgia Avenue into a plant for the manufacture and sale of ice cream. Eventually, there were eight stores in the D.C. area before the company collapsed in 1985. This photo was taken in September 1948. Collection of Silver Spring Historical Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1530812958124-QUSDOK6SHTBFHRCGQ9YZ/sligo-12-giffords-horses-1951-.jpg Sligo Gallery - More Ice Cream! Compared to earlier photos, by the 1950s (judging from the 1951 Dodge), Gifford’s had expanded, taking over the parking lot between it and the Del Vecchio Italian Kitchen at left. Collection of Silver Spring Historical Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519317202934-05E5WQGRX21QS3MAFS6A/sligo-12-giffords-menu2.jpg Sligo Gallery - We all scream for ice cream! Gifford's opened in 1938. Among the many items listed in this circa 1950s menu is a Jumbo Hot Butterscotch Sundae for 90¢! Collection of Silver Spring Historical Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1519321821284-HZ5IGDYZT7JE2PVHCSGG/sligo-12-sligoave-1947-tall.jpg Sligo Gallery - Growing pains Vehicles detour in 1947 from southbound Georgia Avenue onto Sligo or Philadelphia avenues due to construction of the enlarged Georgia Avenue underpass, taking place on the right. The unique stone wall visible on the left was part of the Gifford Ice Cream parking lot. Collection of Silver Spring Historical Society https://www.historicsilverspring.com/bonifant-gallery daily 0.75 2019-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1530645693798-UCVRMG7UGGKR0XV2PH77/bank-seco-4-ssnb-holdup3.jpg Bonifant Gallery - "Give Me All You've Got" Inquisitive spectators gather shortly after the holdup of the Silver Spring National Bank in this Oct. 27, 1928, Evening Star photo. This brick bank was designed and constructed by John M. Faulconer and Frank B. Proctor in 1925, also Silver Spring residents. Courtesy Washingtoniana Division, DC Public Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1530645693798-UCVRMG7UGGKR0XV2PH77/bank-seco-4-ssnb-holdup3.jpg Bonifant Gallery - "Give Me All You've Got" Inquisitive spectators gather shortly after the holdup of the Silver Spring National Bank in this Oct. 27, 1928, Evening Star photo. This brick bank was designed and constructed by John M. Faulconer and Frank B. Proctor in 1925, also Silver Spring residents. Courtesy Washingtoniana Division, DC Public Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1530567714288-KBDOJCD6CK7ZJIGD85YV/bank-seco-4-ssnb-holdup3.jpg Bonifant Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1530567739761-2S8O5383WGDDS1YSAFWF/bank-seco-4-ssnbemployees2.jpg Bonifant Gallery - Gunfire in the Street Silver Spring National Bank’s (from left) Ira C. Whitacre, cashier; James H. Cissel, founding and long-time president; and Fred L. Lutes, assistant cashier, posed for the Oct. 27, 1928 Evening Star after the town’s first bank robbery. Whitacre and Lutes fired their personal pistols at the escaping robber. Courtesy Washingtoniana Division, DC Public Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1530567812440-8RG67IHXKYCWXSZFCKBK/bank-seco-4-ssnatbank-tenbucks.jpg Bonifant Gallery - A Note of Our Own Why is “Silver Spring” printed on this bill? “National Currency” was established by the National Banking Act of 1863, which chartered individual national banks to both guarantee their solvency and to raise money for the federal government. Over 12,000 banks issued their own bank notes featuring the institution’s name, a system that lasted until 1935. This $10 note was issued by the Silver Spring National Bank in 1920 and featured then, as now, a portrait of the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Courtesy Silver Spring Historical Society and J. Fred Maples https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1530568169621-DJWOX9P445V5KL1I8A1H/bank-seco-4-ssnb-just-be4-demolition.jpg Bonifant Gallery - 90 Years Later The original brick portion of the bank, painted a cream color in this photo, was built in 1925. The 16-foot-deep limestone facade was added in 1938. Also visible is the International Style addition at the rear, added in 1951. The building was demolished in 2015. Photo by Silver Spring Historical Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1530647488176-C2OUJGH2W6OJU8901PDM/bank-seco-4-ssnatbank-engraved.jpg Bonifant Gallery - Seeing the Light of Day “The Silver Spring National Bank” carved into the 1938 limestone frieze was covered by signs of companies that occupied the building in its more recent years. The engraving was uncovered briefly in 2015, only to disappear within hours when the building was demolished. Photo by Silver Spring Historical Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1530648390397-79NK65XC75XIUISI04OM/bank-seco-4-duckett.jpg Bonifant Gallery - Community Visionary For 50 years, from 1915 to 1965, banker and lawyer Thomas Howard Duckett guided the Silver Spring National Bank through mergers, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1933 “Bank Holiday” during the Great Depression, and World War II staff shortages with the implementation of “Women Power.” Duckett, whose law offices were on the top floor of the bank, played seminal roles in the establishment of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission in 1918 and the Maryland-National Capital Park & Planning Commission in 1927. Photo source: Fifty Years of Suburban Banking etc. 1915-1965 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1530568208218-HPZUDWEPA0FJOG1HMZ93/bank-seco-4-seco5.jpg Bonifant Gallery - From Silents to Talkies Silver Spring’s first movie theater, the SECO (owned by Suburban Electric Company), opened in 1927 at 8242-8244 Georgia Avenue. “London After Midnight,” starring Lon Chaney, was playing on March 28, 1928, the date this photograph was taken by Willard R. Ross. This silent film is one of the American Film Institute’s nine most wanted lost films. The theater closed in 1991. Courtesy Jerry A. McCoy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1530568223516-99LNTKAU95KE363YSTL5/bank-seco-4-liquor-disp6.jpg Bonifant Gallery - Calm after the storm Titled “Scene of the Battle,” this photograph of the Silver Spring Liquor Dispensary at 8400 Georgia Avenue appeared in the Dec. 7, 1933 Washington Herald. An estimated 1,500 customers besieged the dispensary the night before to celebrate the repeal of Prohibition and finally purchase legal liquor. Courtesy Washingtoniana Division, DC Public Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1530568239551-EI6SKN9LZ9TR9MA1LFYT/bank-seco-4-guardianbldg7.jpg Bonifant Gallery - Another Floor Added This “Eaglecolor” postcard, circa 1954, featured a photograph of the Guardian Building, 8400 Georgia Avenue, taken by R. F. Body. Every day the two loudspeakers to the left of the clock broadcast the hours of the day, the Lord’s Prayer at noon, and classical music at 6:00 P.M. The building was demolished for the widening of Bonifant Street and its sidewalk, so 8402 is the lowest-numbered address on the block. Courtesy Jerry A. McCoy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1530806556625-FBKWAERB9GFKIGV16QEQ/bank-seco-4-%2723tornado-Cowell.jpg Bonifant Gallery - 1923 Tornado On Thursday, April 5, 1923, at approximately 3 p.m., a tornado ravaged the homes and families living just west of Georgia Avenue, on Oak, Maple and Cedar avenues (now Bonifant St., Dixon and Ramsey avenues, respectively). It injured four people, destroyed five houses, partially wrecked a dozen others, but miraculously killed no one. Dr. & Mrs. Frederick E. Dudley Jr., owned a wood frame home at 8404 Maple (now Dixon) Ave. Having just moved in three weeks earlier, Dr. Dudley was quoted in the Evening Star, “We had watched it eagerly and hourly during the course of its construction and we were just getting comfortably settled.” Courtesy Silver Spring Historical Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1530806573365-GVB9GHWH9QIWS8Q0AV3D/bank-seco-4-%2723tornado-Dudley.jpg Bonifant Gallery - 1923 Tornado The tornado on April 5, 1923 was “over in no time” as the Evening Star reported. It lasted less than a minute. Its path of destruction measured an estimated 600 feet wide and a quarter of a mile long. Damages totaled more than $100,000 (in 1923 dollars). On the corner of Bonifant and Ramsey, where the Greenberg & Bederman law offices are now located, William M. Cowell, a carpenter, and John C. Cowell, a bricklayer, owned a home at 1109 Oak Ave. The roof blew away and west facade (which faced the B&O railroad tracks—the dark horizontal line visible at left) crumbled, and the house was one of five deemed destroyed. Twelve more were damaged. Courtesy Silver Spring Historical Society https://www.historicsilverspring.com/ripley-gallery daily 0.75 2019-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1530654092391-RC4300BNF22P8VPNTSS1/ripley-5-ssbuildingsupply-1924.jpg Ripley Gallery - Measure Twice, Cut Once Joseph R. Griffin (center with mustache), millwork estimator for the Silver Spring Building Supply Co., poses with millwork employees on July 18, 1924. The millwork was located diagonally across Ripley Street (then Poplar Street) from the back of 8222-26 Georgia Avenue. A Baltimore & Ohio Railroad siding extended half the length of Ripley Street from the main line of the B&O’s Metropolitan Branch, allowing for ease in delivery of lumber and other supplies. Courtesy Silver Spring Historical Society and E. Brooke Lee III https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1530654092391-RC4300BNF22P8VPNTSS1/ripley-5-ssbuildingsupply-1924.jpg Ripley Gallery - Measure Twice, Cut Once Joseph R. Griffin (center with mustache), millwork estimator for the Silver Spring Building Supply Co., poses with millwork employees on July 18, 1924. The millwork was located diagonally across Ripley Street (then Poplar Street) from the back of 8222-26 Georgia Avenue. A Baltimore & Ohio Railroad siding extended half the length of Ripley Street from the main line of the B&O’s Metropolitan Branch, allowing for ease in delivery of lumber and other supplies. Courtesy Silver Spring Historical Society and E. Brooke Lee III https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1530654119941-G3KDS3V7VT3GK961E484/ripley-5-ssbuildingsupply-office-1924.jpg Ripley Gallery - “A Finger in Almost Every Pie” James H. Cissel (center with mustache), president of the Silver Spring Building Supply Co., poses with his employees in this photo taken July 18, 1924 in the ground floor office at 8222-26 Georgia Avenue. Cissel’s sister-in-law, Rose A. Clark, sits in the background. Cissel was the first president of the Silver Spring National Bank, founded in 1910. He was a founding commissioner of the Maryland-National Capital Park & Planning Commission in 1927, donating portions of his vast land holdings to preserve the original bucolic nature of Silver Spring, and helped create the M-NCPPC park system. Courtesy Silver Spring Historical Society and E. Brooke Lee III https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1530654145319-1VCJURNEZ40P5YDIT39S/ripley-5-ssbuildingsupply-9-24-1922-washpost.jpg Ripley Gallery - Building Business This photograph shows the recently completed Silver Spring Building Supply Co., 8222-26 Georgia Avenue, as featured in a September 24, 1922 Washington Post advertisement proclaiming “All Kinds of Building Material.” Courtesy Washingtoniana Division, DC Public Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1530654218996-KTTM0QXA9HY65RXT9EJQ/ripley-5-north-wash-realty.jpg Ripley Gallery - All in a Day’s Work This is a still from a 1927 silent film produced by the North Washington Realty Co. that promoted downtown Silver Spring and its neighboring residential communities. The man in the white shirt looking out the second floor window of 8222-26 Georgia Avenue is likely E. Brooke Lee. Courtesy Silver Spring Historical Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1530654278590-PGLRZDLPXAUAVBE3NPZP/ripley-5-lt-duncan-harry.jpg Ripley Gallery - Neighborhood Tavern Harry F. Duncan poses with a model of his flagship restaurant, Little Tavern #1, built in 1938 at 8230 Georgia Avenue. The iconic building design was by architect George E. Stone and engineer Charles E. Brooks, partners in Stonebrook Corp. of Baltimore, Md. Wellner Streets took this photograph for the Star-News, December 11, 1972. COURTESY DC PUBLIC LIBRARY, STAR COLLECTION, © WASHINGTON POST https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1530655050812-BK3VBP2XWE8OVJQX775A/ripley-5-lt-office-2003.jpg Ripley Gallery - Civic Minded In 1949 Duncan held an organizational meeting in his corner executive office on the second floor of 1007 Ripley Street, the corporate headquarters of Little Tavern. There, the groundwork was laid for the establishment of a Silver Spring branch of the Boys’ Clubs of America. Duncan, serving as chairman of its board of directors, spearheaded construction of a permanent club facility opening in 1958. Located at 1300 Forest Glen Road in Silver Spring, the “Harry F. Duncan Building” continues in 2009 as part of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington. 2003 photo by Judy Reardon. Courtesy Silver Spring Historical Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1530654447584-0V2XG469IB1U3FC7F7E7/ripley-5-8236ga-fussels-1927.jpg Ripley Gallery - Early Eatery A 1927 postcard shows Jack’s Lunch & Confectionary, Eugene Corrigan, proprietor, at 8236 Georgia Ave. Fussell’s signage refers to a popular ice cream. By 1940, Florence McCann was operating McCann’s Lunch Room here. COLLECTION OF JERRY A. MCCOY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1561744758175-XO2JHR84K1ARHCNSJG0V/ripley-5-lt-washpost1957.jpg Ripley Gallery - Table service denied In 1957, the NAACP began a survey of Montgomery County eateries that served African-Americans. The Georgia Ave. Little Tavern was the only Silver Spring establishment to deny blacks table service. Black patrons could only order take-out. This article appeared in the Washington Post, Aug. 26, 1957. Courtesy of The Washington Post. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1561744801385-Q4URHW8EB6HHX657APXV/ripley-5-lt-eateries-serving-blacks-1958.jpg Ripley Gallery - Serving without discrimination In May 1958, the NAACP released a list of Montgomery County, Md. restaurants where African-Americans would be served without discrimination. The list includes O’Donnell’s in Bethesda, Normandy Farm in Potomac, and the Olney Inn. Asterisks denote establishments that changed policy between August 1957 when the survey began and May 1958 when it was published. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1530654301433-4YPWYOT4HDLQ5O8DKJNC/ripley-5-little-tavern-by-judy-reardon.jpg Ripley Gallery - Caught in Time Painting by Silver Spring resident and historic preservationist Judy Reardon of Little Tavern #1 as it appeared in 1991. Courtesy Silver Spring Historical Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1530654507537-YUQICHGI6ZT5DZ1OVHPW/ripley-5-2cissel-lee.jpg Ripley Gallery - Promoting Preservation Silver Spring Historical Society founder Jerry A. McCoy points out the intact 1922 “Cissel-Lee Building” at 8222‑26 Georgia Avenue to a group of visitors during a 2008 walking tour of historic Silver Spring. The photo shows the original gray slate roofline canopies and 3-over-one double-hung wood sash windows (the “eyes” of the structure). Photo by Marcie Stickle https://www.historicsilverspring.com/post-office-gallery daily 0.75 2019-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1572992394534-R4MHRGS7B32UGG8AFHAT/postoffice-3-klinge-map-1931+alt.jpg Post Office Gallery - PLATTING A COURSE A portion of Plate 30 from Atlas of Montgomery County, Volume One, published 1931. Red depicts buildings built of brick. Note the area between Georgia Avenue & Fenton Street, today known as Fenton Village, consisted mostly of single family homes, and was called Silver Spring Park. This neighborhood name also applied to the area east of Fenton; today it is part of the more extensive area named East Silver Spring. Collection of Silver Spring Historical Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1572992394534-R4MHRGS7B32UGG8AFHAT/postoffice-3-klinge-map-1931+alt.jpg Post Office Gallery - PLATTING A COURSE A portion of Plate 30 from Atlas of Montgomery County, Volume One, published 1931. Red depicts buildings built of brick. Note the area between Georgia Avenue & Fenton Street, today known as Fenton Village, consisted mostly of single family homes, and was called Silver Spring Park. This neighborhood name also applied to the area east of Fenton; today it is part of the more extensive area named East Silver Spring. Collection of Silver Spring Historical Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1572992601340-TJN4RKQ2IYXMUAEC7QQI/postoffice-3-georgiaave-1943-warbonds.jpg Post Office Gallery - WWII Patriotism Today you can buy caramels here. In 1943, this was a bank promoting “Back the Attack,” a WWII victory exhibit sponsored by The Washington Post and held on the grounds of the Washington Monument. The sign in the window of Frank L. Hewitt’s Citizens Building & Loan Association features a quote by General Dwight D. Eisenhower that reads “We are playing in the big leagues. You can’t hit a home run by bunting. You have to step up there and take your cut at the ball.” The analogy referred to the all-out Allied invasion of Italy on September 3, 1943, rather than individual attacks on “stepping stones” such as Sardinia, Corsica, or Crete. Photo by Nellie Hewitt Stinchcomb. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1572992705531-NDMHQFL7UY7NZAJYI201/postoffice-3-home-the-elms-1910.jpg Post Office Gallery - What came before The site of the 1937 Silver Spring post office, 8412 Georgia Avenue, was previously occupied by a single family home known as The Elms (this photo is ca. 1910). Built approximately 1897, the wood frame house was occupied by Gist Blair, who served as Silver Spring’s first postmaster from 1899 to 1906. It was later the home of Silver Spring’s second postmaster, Frank L. Hewitt, and his family during the 1920s. Courtesy Silver Spring Historical Society and John P. Hewitt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1572992619699-HYJV68MQ1CLS8FJ6PPF6/postoffice-3-frank-hewitt.jpg Post Office Gallery - Early Civic Leader “A place by the side of the road” is how Frank L. Hewitt (1877-1944) described Silver Spring when he arrived in 1903, establishing Hewitt Real Estate & Insurance. He also served as Silver Spring’s second postmaster (1906-14) and founded Citizens Building & Loan Association (1928) in addition to being active in the Maryland National Guard, Silver Spring Lion’s Club, and Silver Spring Chamber of Commerce. Ca. 1920s photo courtesy Nellie Hewitt Stinchcomb. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1572992461038-ANDCBKYP3MW6VBKMJSXN/postoffice-3-postcard-front.jpg Post Office Gallery - Post Card Perfect A civic landmark, the Silver Spring post office was featured on a “linen”-textured postcard published 1946 by Curteich–Chicago. Collection of Jerry A. McCoy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1572992500199-CAT9QKWXBZZDVXC2OBTQ/postoffice-3-postcard-back.jpg Post Office Gallery - Greetings from home The postcard’s message was written by Harold W. Thatcher, who lived in Silver Spring on Greenbrier Drive, and mailed to his son Sanford who was away at camp. Collection of Jerry A. McCoy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1572992787818-E7VEDYJHU6GH2F1YN8AA/postoffice-3-100yr-commemorative-env.jpg Post Office Gallery - Century Marks A souvenir envelope features the 100th anniversary postmark commemorating the 1899 establishment of Silver Spring’s post office. Cachet and postmark were designed by Jerry A. McCoy. The 15¢ airmail stamp was first issued in Silver Spring May 3, 1963. Featuring Montgomery Blair, who served as President Abraham Lincoln’s postmaster general, the stamp commemorates the International Postal Conference centennial. Initiated by Blair, son of Silver Spring’s founder Francis Preston Blair, the I.P.C. established uniform mail rates and weights between nations. Collection of Jerry A. McCoy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1572992666890-PGKGKJUBW4UG7X90CIB0/postoffice-3-sligo-village-sketch.jpg Post Office Gallery - In the beginning A village named Sligo, established in the 1830s by Chesapeake & Ohio Canal workers from County Sligo, Ireland, was located at the crossroads of the current Georgia Avenue and Colesville Road. This is a preliminary sketch for a 1937 mural, “The Old Tavern,” by artist and Russian immigrant ­Nicolai Cikovsky, commissioned for the post office . Courtesy of Silver Spring Historical Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1572992643826-9MS0GTXM4USSI45UN3QM/postoffice-3-sligo-village-mural.jpg Post Office Gallery - Total Recall Artist and Russian immigrant ­Nicolai Cikovsky interviewed 79-year-old Blair Lee, former U.S. Senator (D-Md.) and born here in 1857, for this mural called “The Old Tavern.” Lee had many memories of what the community, then called Sligo, looked like. The main crossroads of Sligo were Washington & Brooke­ville Turnpike (Georgia Avenue) and Ashton, Colesville & Sligo Turnpike (Colesville Road). The Eagle Inn, on the right side of the mural, stood on the south­west corner of the intersection. Photo by Chip Py. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1572992552320-P2NRI673UU0SH0VKLREG/postoffice-3-mural-install-1937.jpg Post Office Gallery - Final Preparations Workers apply finishing touches to the mural “The Old Tavern” in December 1937. Post office murals were traditionally installed above the postmasters’ office doors. Collection of the National Archives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d4800f09ca4a7fd670f5f/1572992578025-6FE5H5XFOH6MG9KZBPXJ/postoffice-3-mural-unrolling-1994.jpg Post Office Gallery - Handled With Care Removed from the Silver Spring post office in 1981, the mural was located by Silver Spring Historical Society founder Jerry A. McCoy in 1994. When postal employees unrolled the mural for the first time, it was covered with Japanese tissue paper to protect the painting’s surface. Friends of the Silver Spring Library raised $25,000 to conserve the mural, rededicated at the Silver Spring Library on Colesville Road, July 7, 1997. As of August 2018, its new location is by the post office on the ground floor of the library building at Fenton St. and Wayne Ave. Photo by Jerry A. 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