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Category Archives: 1950s
Play Ball with the Orioles
Play Ball with the Orioles [preview clip] Described as the “parade of the century”, on April 15, 1954, civic organizations, manufacturers, merchants, and breweries form Baltimore designed elaborate floats and marched from Johns Hopkins, south down Charles Street, west on … Continue reading
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Flea-market Renoir Allegedly Was Stolen From Baltimore Museum; Auction Canceled
By Ian Shapira, (The Washington Post, 9/27/2012) The lore of the landscape was as irresistible to its owner as its beautiful brush strokes: Renoir had painted it, Baltimore collector Saidie May said, for his mistress on a linen napkin at … Continue reading
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“Rock ‘n Roll Girl” Rumbles the Gayety (1956)
Gayety Raid Changes Aim Of Take-Offs Charges Laid Against 2 After Audience Shows It’s Not Slow (The Baltimore Sun, 6/25/1956) Two hundred patrons at the Gayety Theater took off in a hurry yesterday afternoon when the police rackets division raided … Continue reading
Posted in "The Block", 1950s, Burlesque, Crime, Gayety, Inner City, Nightlife, Strip Clubs
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Damaged Greyhound Bus
Damaged Greyhound bus Baltimore, Maryland Hughes Company March 10, 1950 Hughes Studio Photograph Collection, ca. 1940-1956 Maryland Historical Society Photographs (mdhsphotographs.tumblr.com)
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