An oldie but goodie from the Baltimore Or Less Christmas archives. Happy Holidays!
Shriners ride miniature vehicles, the crippled children’s float, and the most surreal float of all: The Vietnam Vet “Reindeer Hunter” float.
The Mayor’s Annual Christmas Parade in Baltimore, Maryland takes place every year on the first Sunday after Thanksgiving in Hampden on Falls Road and 36th Street (The Avenue).
An oldie but goodie from the Baltimore Or Less Christmas archives. Happy Holidays!
Mink Stole & Her Wonderful Band – “Happy Birthday Jesus”
The Burl Ives classic, “Happy Birthday Jesus,” performed by Mink Stole & Her Wonderful Band (Scott Wallace Brown – keyboards, Walker Teret – bass/guitar, Skizz Cyzyk – drums), December 12, 2009, at Creative Alliance, Baltimore, Maryland.
Camera: Tom Warner. Sound: Adam Cooke. Lights: Natasha Tylea.
An oldie but goodie from the Baltimore Or Less Christmas archives. Happy Holidays!
Suzanne Muldowney, better known as “Underdog Lady,” sings “Silent Night” (in both Latin and English!) accompanied by “The Awkward Sounds of Scott & Skizz” at the 2006 Mayor’s Christmas Parade in Hampden, Maryland.
No Underdog Christmas appearance is complete without Suzanne sniping at Santa Claus: “The Unseen but Ominipresent Record-keeping Behavior Monitor.” Atomic TV’s Tom Warner files his first-hand report along with a photo gallery of the parade (including pix of the much heftier Underdog portraying the “Fairy of the Golden Snow”) over at Accelerated Decrepitude,
An oldie but goodie from the Baltimore Or Less Christmas archives. Happy Holidays!
When penguins, monkeys, x-ray shoe measurements and Santa Claus in the basement made for a memorable Christmastime adventure
By Mark Birkelien (Dundalk Patch, 12/18/2010)
HESS MONKEY TOWN print by Charlene Clark charleneclarkstudio.com
There was a time when the local, tired, poor huddled masses gathered together outside in frigid weather and took simple pleasure in watching penguins swim and play.
I’m talking about the Eastpoint Shopping Center before it succumbed to early 1970s modernism and was converted to the enclosed Eastpoint Mall we know today.
This was the old, outdoor Eastpoint Shopping Center that was anchored on one end by Hutzler’s and on the other by Hochschild-Kohn, each founded in Baltimore, in 1858 and 1897, respectively.
Eastpoint Shopping Center, Baltimore County Legacy Web, Photo by Blakeslee-Lane Studio, 1960
When I was a kid a trip to Eastpoint was a real event, not only at Christmas, but any time.
Penguins were on year-round display in a corner window at Hochschild’s, and real-life monkeys could be found gallivanting around at the Hess Shoe Store.
Continue reading “Remembering Christmastime at the Old Eastpoint Shopping Center” at DundalkPatch.com.
A little further down Eastern Boulevard, in Essex, Eastern Pet shop owner Herman Panowitz shows off Magilla the chimpanzee at a young age in the mid to late 60’s.
