Marlow Heights History

MARLOW HEIGHTS

Marlow Heights History
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MARLOW HEIGHTS

These pages will have historical information and images about Marlow Heights and vicinity. Anyone with information related to the history of Marlow Heights, as well as images thereof, please email me here. Check out this area map from 1971 (courtesy of Steve DePalma’s site http://genetics.med.harvard.edu/~depalma/steve/md/). If you look closely, you’ll see that Olson Street and Raleigh Road don’t connect. Up until that time, there was a foot bridge as the only means of crossing over Barnaby Run creek. Soon after the “tunnels” were put in, allowing Raleigh Road to extend and intersect with Olson Street. Kind of hard to view in most web browsers, so you might want to save the file and open with any image viewer.

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Marlow Heights in the early to mid-fifties. This is actually a picture a reader took of a large (3 feet x
4 feet) photo his Dad had in his basement for many years, thus the serious scars in the photo. The rest of the photo shows St. Barnabas Road up to about where the bowling alley is now.

History of Hillcrest (including Marlow Heights). This is from a Harvard link, believe it or not, but contains some good historical information on Hillcrest Heights and Marlow Heights. I didn’t know that Marlow Heights began as a subdivision in 1953! It also references Deer Park Heights, my old neighborhood.

The Italian section of Hillcrest Heights was around Holy Family Church and Shugart Jr. High. All the houses in that section were built by the families that developed the area (Carozza, Tenaglia, Antonelli, Amatucci), and were built around 1955. Hillcrest Heights Shopping Center had G.C. Murphy, closed in 1981, became a Peoples Drug, then CVS, now vacant. Lots of ice cream at Highs. At one time there was also a Carvel that came and went - an elderly person stepped on the gas instead of the breaks when parking and drove through the front of the store. Carvel didn’t reopen. John and Nancy bakery took the spot when the Safeway expanded and wiped out a lot of stores (Candey Hardware, Official Cleaners, public library, etc)
. [Courtesy Gary, www.dcgrocery.com]

History of Silver Hill/Morningside. Thought I’d include this as Silver Hill was not only down the road from Iverson Mall, but the name of our Boy’s Club back then. Also, Morningside evokes memories of WPGC (“Am and FM, Morningside!”

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