Archive for the 'Famous Silver Spring People' Category
Rambo and Rocky’s Childhood House for Sale in Silver Spring
April 28th, 2008 Categories: Famous Silver Spring People, Houses in Silver Spring, Montgomery Hills, Real Estate, Real Estate Market, Silver Spring Neighborhoods, old houses, silver spring real estate
A house that Sylvester Stallone lived in as a child and young teen is on the market in the Montgomery Hills Neighborhood of Silver Spring. The Cape Cod House on Seminary Road was built in 1952. Sly’s parents owned the home sometime between 1952 and 1962, when the Stallone’s Sold it.Â
The 4 Bedroom 4 1/2 Bath House is Listed by the King Farm/Rockville Office of Long and Foster. The Asking Price is $699,899 Smackeroos.
Click the following URL to see the listing with lots more details and many many photos of the interior
http://matrix.mris.com/Matrix/Public/Email.aspx?ID=24670174438
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Stevie Nicks - Fleetwod Mac Connection to Silver Spring
August 21st, 2007 Categories: Downtown Silver Spring, Famous Silver Spring People, Silver Spring Neighborhoods
The song Silver Springs was written by Stevie Nicks.   Legend has it that she got the idea 
while riding in a limo on the Capitol Beltway after a concert and seeing the sign for the Silver Spring, Maryland Exit.Â
Die-Hard Silver Springers and native residents will tell you they hate it when anyone makes Silver Spring plural. That extra S drives a lot of us crazy (especially when a public offical makes this Mistake!) if you listen carefully to the song Stevie never uses the plural or the dreaded extra S in the song. The only place you’ll find that extra S is in the title of the song.
More evidence of this legend that the song came from the beltway sign is the fact that the sign is a “blue green” color mentioned in the song?  A lot of other people believe this legend.
                                           Watch Stevie Wail out this song LIVE
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Lewis Black Coming Home to Silver Spring, Md on June 29th
April 13th, 2007 Categories: Famous Silver Spring People, Houses in Silver Spring, Silver Spring Neighborhoods
Lewis Black comes home! 
Springbrook families, staff and alumni - For one night only, one of our school’s most famous alums (or infamous, depending on your perspective) is returning to 201 Valley Brook Drive for a very special benefit show. Yes, the madly comic and comically mad Lewis Black, Class of ’66, will play SHS on Friday, June 29. And you’re invited to be there, but only if you move fast. Download and read the attached announcement. Print the ticket order form, make out your check and get both in the mail ASAP. We expect tickets to sell out quickly - very quickly. Hope to see you in June, in an auditorium filled with more than four decades of Blue Devils! Download announcement and order form (pdf) here. Click here to read Examiner articleÂ
 Lewis Black’s Childhood Home in Burnt Mills Knolls
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The Oldest House in Silver Spring?
April 4th, 2007 Categories: Famous Silver Spring People, Houses in Silver Spring, Real Estate, Silver Spring Neighborhoods, Woodside
This old farmhouse sits at the highest point on a hill overlooking Colesville Road from the top 
of Greyrock Road and Harvey Roads in The Woodside Park Neighborhood of Silver Spring. Built in 1833, it is by far the oldest house I have ever encountered in Silver Spring.
Surrounded now by homes built in the 1940’s on Harvey Road and Greyrock Road, it looks to me like before these homes were built around it, it must have looked out on Colesville Road and down at Mrs K’sTollhouse with lots of acreage around and 
probably had a Colesville Road address. The address now is 9315 Greyrock Road, Silver Spring, Md 20910, the street address is at the back of the 3/4 acre property. The front of the property (front of the house with the porch) is at the end of Harvey Road.Â
I was surprised to find out that this was the home of David and Elizabeth Scull. They purchased it from the Watson family in 1949 and Elizabeth Scull lived in the house until her death in 1981. Elisabeth L. Scull was a descendant of the Blair and Lee Families of Silver Spring and had a tremendous career on the Montgomery County Council. I found it cool that she was a Champion of Affordable Housing and Housing for the poor in Montgomery County.Â
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Silver Spring, Md Famous People’s Houses - Nora Roberts’ House
March 30th, 2007 Categories: East Silver Spring, Famous Silver Spring People, Houses in Silver Spring, Real Estate, Silver Spring Bussiness', Silver Spring Neighborhoods, Takoma Park
Romance Novelist Nora Roberts aka J.D. Robb grew up in this adorable bungalow off of Sligo Avenue near the heart of Downtown Silver Spring.  This area used to be known as “Takoma Park” and is now known as North Takoma Park with a Silver Spring Address.Â
Nora Roberts’ real name is Eleanor M Robertson and her 85+ year old mother still owns this house.  She grew up the youngest and “an only girl”, with a slew of brothers, who still live in the area.
                   
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Nora went to Parochial School, probably Saint Michaels Elementary, and then for High School she attended The Academy of the Holy Names (a girls High School on Pershing Drive which is now the Chelsea School) When she transferred to public school, the Old Blair High School, she met her first husband.Â
The family still owns and runs a very successful business, R&R Lighting on Silver Spring Avenue that her parents started in 1963, out of their home.
Nora Roberts still lives in Maryland, since leaving Silver Spring in the late 60’s she has lived in the quaint “off the beaten path” town of Keedysville, Md.- a far cry from the current Downtown Silver Spring Area!
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