Brooklyn Park: Feisty and Spunky: Longtime Resident Loves Life, Family
Maryland Gazette › September 11, 2009
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Before the housing developments and shopping centers come to north county, there was a drive-in movie theatre on Ritchie Highway where there now stands a Lowe's home improvement store. The land surrounding the Motor Vehicle Administration building was once farm land. And there was a grocery store in Brooklyn Height called Pumphrey's.
This is the way it was when Irene McCartin came to town around 65 years ago. Her late husband James McCartin worked at that drive-in theatre while she worked at Pumphrey's.See the full content of this document
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Brooklyn Park: Feisty and Spunky: Longtime Resident Loves Life, Family
David McCartin shared this history of his mother, who celebrated her 90th birthday on Sunday, and talked about the vivacious tales of a longtime fixture in the Brooklyn Heights community.
She is as feisty and spunky as someone half her age. This ...See the full content of this document
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