Category Archives: Decades

Baltimore Pastor’s Wife Launched John Waters’ Hitchhiking Trip

Posted on May 30, 2012 by atomictv

By Jill Rosen (The Baltimore Sun 5/30/2012) Sarah Finlayson’s morning routine is fairly set. Wake up early. Workout with a trainer. Call her twin sister. Picking up a hitchhiking John Waters? That’s not part of it. Yet the minister’s wife … Continue reading →

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“Hons” Force Baltimore To Be Rated Third Worst-Dressed American City

Posted on May 30, 2012 by atomictv

(Travel + Leisure, June, 2012) HONfest – www.honfest.net

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Best’s “Tilt” Showroom, 1978-1997

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Violet LeVoit

I only remember visiting the BEST store at the corner of Putty Hill Avenue and Goucher Boulevard once, but I sure said something about it to my mother every time we drove past: “It looks like Godzilla stepped on one … Continue reading →

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Desperate Living Set Dismantled, 1977

Posted on May 29, 2012 by atomictv

(The Baltimore Sun, 3/27/1977) “On a farm near Hampstead, a block-long set costing $7,000 was built for Mortville, the queen’s ragtag capital in ‘Desperate Living.’ The set also included the wicken queen’s castle.” Notes from back of photo: “Worker dismantling … Continue reading →

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