Category Archives: Decades

Now Playing in Baltimore: Saturday, June 6th, 1972

(The Baltimore Sun, 6/6/1972)

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Towson Priest Busted With Pants Down in Adult Theater

By Evann Gastaldo (Newser.com, 1/23/2012) Father Mark Stewart Bullock went from priest at the Church of the Immaculate Conception to creepy guy standing around pants-less in a porn shop, Baltimore cops say. Police say they responded to complaints of indecent … Continue reading

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The Original Flagpole Sitter (Alvin Aloysius “Shipwreck” Kelly)

1929: `Shipwreck’ Kelly inspired 20 Baltimoreans to engage in what Cosmopolitan termed `competitive imbecility.’ By Frederick N. Rasmussen, (The Baltimore Sun,11/20/1999) It was perhaps the last giddy excess of the Jazz Age when, during the summer of 1929, Baltimore for … Continue reading

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Memories, music and a meal for Morris

“Oh, Mon Dieu! Those mouse turds, too!” by Fern Shen and Mark Reutter (Baltimore Brew, Jan. 16, 2012) The people Morris Martick screamed at, cooked with, cooked for, fired, rehired, insulted and nurtured – in other words, the people who … Continue reading

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