Just a picture that I enjoyed from the former bank that is now a dentists’ office in Glyndon, a place you may remember from our picture of the town’s train station, which is now a post office.
August, 2010
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Aug 10
Sunset
One more picture from Ocean City, this one is looking west from Northside Park, which affords some amazing bay views to the public.
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Aug 10
Tubes!!!
Spending some time in Ocean City this past weekend, I have plenty of pictures to help the MDP community celebrate the summer. I couldn’t help but take a picture of these inner tubes.
As a child, the concept of an inner tube as anything other than a pool toy seemed foreign to me. The days of passenger tires with inner tubes had come and gone. It wasn’t until I had my first flat bike tire that the “inner” in “inner tube” ever made sense.
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Aug 10
Quarry
What is this? Where is this Grotto? Believe it or not, it’s in the middle of Howard county. I’ve mentioned this place before but never shown a picture . This is the site of the quarry in Guilford that was formerly the reason for the existence of the truss bridge pictured here. It looks amazingly welcoming. You would never know that it was surrounded by office parks and by route 32. In fact, it’s so inviting, I can see why someone would be tempted to go closer. However, as with most abandoned quarries (although not all–as will be shown in later posts) it is best not to trespass or to swim.
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Aug 10
World Building
If you guessed it was the World Building in Silver Spring, you were correct. The unique building only has windows on one side (which faces north, not to the South where a window would show the Washington monument and the Capitol Building.) It has this one giant wall because they believed there would be another building next to it that would block it’s view. Obviously that didn’t happen. So in place of another building or a wall of windows we get an unbeatable branding opportunity.
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Aug 10
Boring Railroad
I remember from my childhood a day when my father came home from a business trip with the tourist book from the town he had visited. He didn’t have much to say about this place and I remember that in the tourism guide there was a picture of railroad tracks, which were made to be a major attraction. To this I remember my father saying something along the lines of this: when a town is so boring that they have to promote it with a picture of railroad tracks, it’s probably not somewhere you want to go.
To that end, even though I’m showing you the tracks becasue I’m out of highlights and because the retaining wall of old railroad ties is pretty cool, I still have to say that Boring MD is far from the most boring place I’ve ever been.
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Aug 10
Boring Post Office
It’s hard to confirm this outside of the internet, so if you have any knowledge you should feel free to add to the discussion. However, I understand that this building, which is today the post office (the sign from which you saw earlier) was the train station for the Western Maryland railway, around which the town of Boring grew.
