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Monday, February 25, 2013

When Prince George's Plaza Was Topless

Historic photographs bring back the days when Prince George's Plaza was an open air mall.

If you've walked through a the Mall at Prince George's, you've probably had to deal with one particular architectural annoyance unique to the shopping center: the vertical support columns which line the main hall.  For an unaware shopper, the columns can become an unwelcome surprise if you happen to walk into one while distracted by conversation or an idle glance at your smartphone.  But it wasn't always this way. When the mall first opened in 1959 as Prince George's Plaza, shoppers had a lot more room to maneuver because the mall didn't have a roof.  For the first 18 years the mall was in existence, it operated as an open-air shopping center. It wasn't until 1977 that the mall was enclosed. With the roof, came the support columns, …

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The Mall At Prince Georges

Joe

5:45 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013

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Friday, August 17, 2012

Local Residents Help Restore WWI Image

Email lists in Hyattsville, Mount Rainier and Brentwood lit up to help decode some degraded text on a historic image.

Subscribers from a number of area neighborhood email lists helped a local business restore a historic photograph earlier this week.  It all began when Upper Marlboro resident Cheryl Fountain sent a message to email lists in Hyattsville, Brentwood and Mount Rainier asking for help deciphering some text on a badly decomposed photograph from World War I.  In her message, Fountain included a striking sample of the image highlighting the degraded text which she needed help reconstructing. The image itself was a panoramic group shot of a so-far-unknown American artillery unit taken in 1917. The image provided by Fountain showed steel eyed soldiers wearing ranger caps, kneeling, standing and sitting cross legged while staring intently into the …

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