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It's the 'feelin' hot, hot, hot' edition of 'The Rundown.'

 

Good Monday, Rockville! Welcome to another workweek. 

It’s 90 degrees at 7 p.m. And it’s only supposed to get hotter, according to the National Weather Service. Keep cool, Rockville.

Last week we brought you a “Q&A” on the proposed Rockville Town Square grocery and asked Patch users to suggest names for the new market.

We received several suggestions with local connections including “Monroe Gibbs,” from Twitter follower @couponomics. “Monroe Gibbs Market” would be a take on the approach used by the proposed owners at their Ellwood Thompson’s Local Market in Richmond, VA, where the namesake is the cross streets where the store is located.

Councilman Piotr Gajewski seems to like the idea of including the Gibbs name, commenting that “William B. Gibbs' story is so powerful and it connects Rockville to American history as Gibbs was represented by Thurgood Marshall, a later Supreme Court Justice.”

Another commenter, “Doug in Rockville” went with two other names from the city’s history, suggesting “Beall Dawson.”

Jim Coyle, a former Rockville mayor and councilman, suggested another kind of “hometown” variation on the Ellwood Thompson name: “How about abbreviation of Company's name: ET? There [sic] motto can be ET Come Home!” Coyle wrote.

What do you think? Do you like any of the proposed names? Got one of your own in mind? Chime in by posting your picks in the “Comments” box below.

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Jeff Hawkins

11:56 am on Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Hi Sean,
I guess in the interest of clarity, I was the culprit who suggested the "Beall Dawson" market name. "Doug from Rockville" agreed and liked it!

I like the Monroe / Gibbs name too, although we may be experiencing a Gibbs burn-out with a new school in, street, and artwork all being recently named for him.

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Sean R. Sedam

1:07 pm on Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Jeff:

Thanks for clearing that up. Credit where credit is due. I read all the way through the comments and when I went back to them I guess I didn't follow the thread carefully.

I hope to post more on this, but at last night's City Council meeting Robin McBride of Federal Realty said that the Ellwood Thompson's owners seem set on going with a Rockville-oriented name for the new market. So keep those suggestions coming.

Jeff Hawkins

1:47 pm on Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Thanks Sean!

In addition to the names already mentioned there was a gentleman named George Baker who later became known as "Father Divine". This area of Rockville was once known infamously as "Monkey Run", a poor mainly black area.
George Baker rose from this humble start to make quite a name for himself and helped alot people.
I know the name "Monkey Run" is enough to make people cringe and rightly so, but it is a part of Rockville history, it basically encompassed the area between Middle Lane and Beall Ave.

Maybe a Baker / Gibbs or Gibbs / Baker market?

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