Category Archives: Essex / Middle River

Triple Shootin in Essex

WJZ reportin’ ’bout a shootin’ (via buckleyworks.blogspot.com)  

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Stein’s Hotel, Essex/Middle River, MD Postcard

Stein’s Hotel. Later to become the Sea Gull Inn, then the River Watch Restaurant.

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…Essex looks drained of life, with weedy sidewalk and vacant shops (1973)

(The Baltimore Sun, 7/31/1973) Source: r.ebay.com viaBaltimore on Pinterest   “Eastern Ave. in Essex looks drained of life, with weedy sidewalk and vacant shops.”

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H.L Mencken on Essex, Maryland

Hollywood Park was located in Essex, Maryland near the Back River Bridge. Tags: hollywood park

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Amazing Sim rendering of Baltimore’s Back River Poop Plant

Simtropolis user Fribe created these fantastic 3-D simulations of Dundalk’s shit plant for Sim City 4. (Not Baltimore-related but he also did a fabulous 3-D rendering of Hank’s Look-Around Cafe.) Tags: shit plant

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