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I have lived in Catonsville, Baltimore, Woodlawn, Ellicott City, Glen Burnie, Stevensville on Kent Island, Still Pond and Chestertown. My uncle had a cottage in Deep Creek Lake where we spent many summer months and we went to Ocean City every year. Here are some Maryland memories.

The beautiful Bromo-Seltzer Clock Tower my mother looked out on from her hospital bed the night I was born

Medders Store (across the street where we once lived in Still Pond, MD)

Deep Creek Lake

B & O Station in Ellicott City

Oil painting by Robert Knudsen

Ocean City Amusements

Oil painting by Robert Knudsen

Gwynn Oak Amusement Park

The Enchanted Forest entrance

Places I Remember

• Harvest Festival at Catonsville Elementary School
• Watching the fireworks at Catonsville High School
• Shopping at Hess Shoes - the monkeys is the window - the horse rides in the shoe store - walking across the bridge
• Shopping at the Hecht Co at Edmondson and eating in the cafeteria
• Shopping at the Westview Mall
• Taking the No. 8 bus from the Junction in Catonsville to Baltimore to shop at Hutzlers and Stewarts
• Women in their fur pieces, gloves and hats shopping downtown
• The bargain basement at Stewarts
• The lunch counter at Hutzlers
• Wilton Farm Dairy
• The egg man delivering fresh eggs
• The milkman delivering milk and leaving it in the silver colored box outside our kitchen door
• Skimming off the cream from the top of the milk and shaking the milk to mix it
• Going "down the ocean" (Ocean City) for as long as I can remember
• Staying at the Commander Hotel in Ocean City
• Salt Water Taffy
• Trimpers on the boardwalk (especially the carousel)
• Five Oaks Swimming Pool
• The Enchanted Forest
• Forest Hill Swim Club
• Dolly's Ice Cream Parlor
• Father's Gay Nineties in Catonsville
• Westview Cinema
• Westview Drive-In
• Watermont Pharmacy and the Watermont boys
• The graduating class at Howard High School "decorating" the water tower
• Watching football games at Howard High
• Reads Drug Store
• GEM
• EJ Korvette
• The Heritage House
• Dunloggin Farm
• Children's Opera at Maiden Choice
• The swinging bridge in Catonsville
• 9 mile hill
• Westview Lounge
• Howard Place
• Meetcha at Ameches
• Ginos hamburgers
• The Hippodrome Theater
• The Chinese Laundry on Ingleside Ave (the men wore queues)
• Patapsco Inn
• The Senator Theater
• Dances at the Ellicott City Armory every Friday night