G-Pa at "Da Moorket Place"

That's how they would say it in Bowie now. Back then it would have just been the market Place. Anyway, this is an OLD picture that was just published in the illustrious Bowie Blade newspaper. My grandfather is the second from the left. He used to own Belair Liquors in the Market Place shopping center. The store was back by the movie theater/arcade area, although I guess both of those are gone now too. Back then the shopping center wasn't enclosed in the center. Just kind of an open courtyard in the middle. The merchants from the shopping center gave gift certificates to the 4,000th Belair family to move in to Bowie. I think now when you move to Bowie they give you some complimentary body armor.