English: The original Johns Hopkins APL facility on Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland, where the Laboratory opened during World War II and operated in the early Cold War era.
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Silver Spring Laboratory - 8621 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, Md. See "First Forty Years", p. 3 - Caption: "The Wolfe Building, complete with its "Used Cars" sign, fIrst housed the APL staff...occupied on May 1, 1942, added the adjacent Navy building in 1943 and built two more stories on the main building and a central section to join it to the Navy building in 1944."
The Applied Physics Laboratory began operations on March 10, 1942, three months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Photo print scanned for use in a video project and APL News Flashback, and the 60th and 70th Anniversary posters. APL News photo negative # 127.