Continuity And Change In Silver Spring, Maryland

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #247

Last week I wrote about a store in Silver Spring, Maryland: Dor-Ne Corset Shoppe. It first opened in 1932, in Washington, D.C., migrated to Silver Spring, Maryland in the early 2000s, and is now closing.

I was struck by how long that actually is—nearly a century—and by how much of America’s urban history is told by that story. It’s a store that predates …