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Answers to the Lutherville Quiz

Listed below are some Lutherville trivia questions. Come back for new questions as we will update this list after each newsletter is published.

1. What was the Maple Rest? Where was it?
   Answer: The Maple Rest was a Mom ‘n Pop Restaurant/Diner at the corner of York and Bellona now Nationwide Kia. They made the best milk shakes.
   
   
2. Who were the first residents of Country Club Park to have an in-ground swimming pool?
   Answer: Garland and Mabel Hogge (pronounced hoag) at 701 Morris Avenue.
   
   
3. There was a gas station on the southwest corner of Bellona Avenue and York Road. What kind of gas did they sell? What was the corporate logo?
   Answer: Sinclair Gas. The logo was a dinosaur (they called the gas Dino and Dino Supreme).
   
   
4. Where was "Miller's Store"?
   Answer: The little convenience store was just about where the Lutherville Animal Hospital is now.
   
   
5. Who was Miss Marie? What did she do?
   Answer: Marie Webb was Lutherville's “Snowball Lady.” Her snowball stand was right in front of her home at 513 W. Seminary Avenue. It just wasn't summer till she raised the flaps showing off 50 or more flavors of syrup.
   
   
6. The ranch houses in the 900 block of Morris Avenue (beyond Talbott) had a specific model name. What was it?
   The “Country Clubber”
   
   
7. What local television personality lived for many years near the corner of Goucher and Spring Avenues?
   WJZ-TV News Reporter and sometime anchor George Baumann.
   
   
8. Where was the Lutherville Lumber Company’s original hardware store?
   At the northwest corner of York and Seminary where the BP/Amoco station is now. It was a large white two-story residential-type building.
   
   
9. Lutherville’s Post Office had two homes in the 1950s before it moved to its own building (now Hollywood Video). What were the two previous locations?
   One was in the small addition on the left side of 325 Morris Avenue which was the Lutherville General Store. The other was the “front” of the Pollyette Store facing Seminary Avenue (now the Italian deli).
   
   
10. Where did the Toonerville Trolley pass under Seminary Avenue?
    Directly beneath 117 West Seminary Avenue
    
    
    
    

Look for more Lutherville triva questions in the next newsletter. If you wish to send some in for future publication, send them to newsletter@luthervillecommunityassociation.org.