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In 1840, journalist and politician Francis Preston Blair discovered a sparkling mica-flecked spring that would serve as the centerpiece of his country estate, Silver Spring. In just over a century, this bucolic woodland, located across the border from Washington, D.C., became known as downtown Silver Spring, Maryland. Author Jerry A. McCoy, founder and president of the Silver Spring Historical Society and a special collections librarian at the D.C. Public Library's Washingtoniana Division and Peabody Room, offers readers a tour of this dynamic central business district and surrounds.
- Sales Rank: #2264691 in eBooks
- Published on: 2010-10-25
- Released on: 2010-10-25
- Format: Kindle eBook
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Title: Book opens new window into history of Silver Spring
Author: Alison Bryant
Publisher: Gazette.net
Date: 10/27/10
Panera Bread now fills the storefront once inhabited by Wright's Jeweler-Optician on the corner of Georgia Avenue and Colesville Road. McDonald's has replaced the Continental Oil Company. And The Portico Apartments mask the footprint of a row of bungalows on today's Fidler Lane.
Old and new images pair up, sometimes in stark contrast, in Jerry A. McCoy's new book of historic images titled "Then & Now: Downtown Silver Spring.''
"It's a good market to be able to educate these folks as to what makes Silver Spring unique and what things are important and what things we should hold onto and incorporate into a new, revitalized Silver Spring," said McCoy, president of the Silver Spring Historical Society.
The book takes the reader on a photographic journey through the history of Silver Spring, comparing images from the past with images of the present-day bustling urban center.
"It's an extremely compelling book with stunning images, and many of the photos show how then is now,'' said Marcie Stickle, longtime Silver Spring resident and advocacy chair of the Silver Spring Historical Society. "... We are luckily able to retain and repurpose many of our original buildings, especially along main streets, ... and that's very exciting,"
Shortly after McCoy published his first book, "Images of America: Historic Silver Spring'' in 2005, which documents the area from 1840 to the 21st century revitalization, he began receiving questions about why he excluded certain images, he said.
"I knew there was a lot missing from the first book that I did want to include," McCoy said. "It took about five years to accumulate enough new material, and I was very adamant. This was my own self goal that I didn't want to repeat any images in the second book that were in the first."
It took McCoy five years and significant historical detective work to complete his latest book. Tracking down historic materials involves contacting descendants of early Silver Spring residents and Internet research, McCoy said.
The online auction site eBay proves a valuable source for finding items that originated in Silver Spring, he said. Some of the Silver Spring Historical Society acquisitions fund goes to buying back bits of history for the community, he said.
"It's always magic to my ears when someone says, 'Oh, I have an old scrapbook of Silver Spring photos, and I never knew what to do with it,' " McCoy said. "It's really hard to find, though."
Digging up historic items from Silver Spring is no simple task, McCoy said, though he can't quite pinpoint why.
"I think it's a combination that we're not incorporated, and it's a very transient community where people are always coming and going," he said. "And, I hate to say it, but there's sort of a lack of pride in the identity of the community as a unique place."
Those of the World War II generation provide much of McCoy's material, he said. Now, many of those former residents live in Florida.
"I think there's probably more Silver Spring history in Florida than anywhere else in America," McCoy said.
The book aims to inform the community about what came before and inform new residents about the rich history of Silver Spring, he said.
"There's such new lifeblood moving into the community," McCoy said. "New couples, new singles, and they just have no concept or idea of what history evolved in Silver Spring. And these folks are very intelligent and probably very inquisitive, and they want to learn more about their new community and new neighborhood."
About the Author
Author Jerry A. McCoy, founder and president of the Silver Spring
Historical Society and a special collections librarian at the D.C. Public Library's Washingtoniana Division and Peabody Room, offers readers a tour of this dynamic central business district and surrounds.
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A Flaneur in Silver Spring
By Robin Friedman
A flaneur is a walker in the city -- a person who strolls and observes the passing life with both interest and detachment -- perhaps in the manner of Walt Whitman. The artistic medium of choice for the flaneur is photography. In a Wikepedia article, Susan Sontag is quoted as follows:
"The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of walking, conniseur of empathy, the flaneur finds the world 'picturesque'".
Nothing could interest a flaneur more than photos of places seen in the course of walking. I have lived literally next door to Silver Spring, Maryland for many years and have walked its streets incessantly. This is in part due to choice and in part due necessity -- I don't drive a car. Although it is a suburb of Washington, D.C. Silver Spring has little of the character of a sleepy bedroom community. It is a distinct urban environment with a sense of place of its own. Over the years it has changed many times, from an early period of prosperity, to a long period of disrepair and deterioration, to its current revitalization which began in the mid-1990s. It is a pleasure to walk up and down the streets, to see the bridges, parks, railroad tracks, facades, businesses, and homes.
Even though I have walked Silver Spring for many years, Jerry McCoy's new book, "Downtown Silver Spring" (2010) made me catch myself and look afresh with new eyes. This is the second time I have had such an experience with McCoy, the founder and president of the Silver Spring Historical Society, and Silver Spring. An earlier book of McCoy's "Historic Silver Spring" Historic Silver Spring (MD) (Images of America) had taught me to use my walks in a new way, and McCoy's new book served as a reminder. Both books are published by Arcadia Publishing, a firm which specializes in historical photographs of local history. McCoy's new book includes a pithy introduction by the noted Washington D.C. noir writer, George Pelecanos.
The book consists of approximately 100 pages of photographs in which a historic photo of a Silver Spring landmark is juxtaposed with a photograph of the site as it is today. The area covered in the book is relatively compact. Thus McCoy moves block-by-block, almost building-by building in showing Silver Spring as it was in the early years of the 20th Century and as it has changed. Indeed, the Silver Spring landscape changes constantly. Some of the businesses shown as current in the book have already passed away due to the continued vicissitudes of the economy and are the stuff of memory.
The book is in four sections covering four areas. The first and longest section of the book treats the historic thoroughfare of Georgia Avenue, which I walk in both directions, south into Washington, D.C. and north to the Silver Spring downtown. The photos begin with an old trolley stop on Georgia Avenue and Eastern on the District line and proceed northward. Many of the old buuildings and archways remain, and I saw through photos what I pass many times but perhaps miss in my walks. Other sections of the book include photos of Silver Spring's other main street, Colesville Road which intersects with Georgia Avenue to form the city downtown. McCoy gives the reader a tour from the site of the current Metro station to a lovely old historic restaurant, Mrs. K's Toll House, on the east side of Colesville Road a landmark where I have spent the past two New Years Eves. The two remaining sections of the book cover East West Highway and Eastern Avenue which intersects Georgia Avenue near where I walk to the grocery store, and an area of old homes and new shops known as Fenton Village, just east of Georgia Avenue.
When I was reading this book on New Year's Day, I noticed a photograph of a place unfamiliar to me: a historical boundary marker placed in 1962 commemorating the location of a 1792 boundary marker of Washington, D.C. placed by Benjamin Banneker. (p. 80) I hadn't noticed the plaque before and was unsure of the location. Thus, I took a little New Year hike of perhaps one-half mile. I found the marker at a location I have passed many times in front of what is a small, delightful local bakery that had never caught my attention. Thus, I found both a marker that had escaped my notice and an intimate, friendly community gathering spot. People were gathered in the cafe quietly welcoming the new year. The little bakery has a copy of this book in the window, opened to the appropriate page,
This book will intruigue readers familiar with Silver Spring. More broadly, the book will appeal to flaneurs who love to walk city streets, to stroll, and to observe.
Robin Friedman
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Excellent Read, a must have for Silver Springers
By Juancho
Like a trip down memory
Its crazy to think how much it has changed just in the last 30 years, I look forward to what will happen in the next 20 to 30 years
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Dowmtown SS
By Margaret Quinlan
This really brougjt back memories.
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