October 2008
by Jerry McCoy
I have always liked numbered anniversaries of historic events that end in a zero. With awareness of a tenth, twentieth, or thirtieth anniversary of an event I quickly know what year it took place and usually where I was and what I was doing on the Road of Life. As I get older, tenth anniversaries feel like they happened yesterday and with fortieth anniversary events my recollections get a little hazy as I was only ten-years old.
by Jerry McCoy
I have always liked numbered anniversaries of historic events that end in a zero. With awareness of a tenth, twentieth, or thirtieth anniversary of an event I quickly know what year it took place and usually where I was and what I was doing on the Road of Life. As I get older, tenth anniversaries feel like they happened yesterday and with fortieth anniversary events my recollections get a little hazy as I was only ten-years old.
But for historians, who study and research historic events that took place fifty, one hundred, or even five hundred years ago, it can feel like s(he) was actually in attendance at the event. That is how I felt about the sixtieth anniversary of an event that took place here in downtown Silver Spring last month.
Looking north on the Washington and Brookeville Turnpike (today's Georgia Avenue) where it intersected at grade level with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks (today's Metro/CSX). A Washington, Woodside and Forest Glen Railway streetcar heads south to the end of the line at Eastern Avenue. Photographed June 21, 1917 by Willard R. Ross.
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