Category Archives: 1970s

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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Former Catholic School Students Fight To Keep Child Rapist John Merzbacher In Prison

Posted on May 2, 2012 by atomictv

Court ruling could release teacher from four life sentences By Tricia Bishop (The Baltimore Sun, 4/28/2012) Standing under a stormy sky, Bill Stankiewicz got chills as he looked toward the old brick building that once housed the Catholic Community middle … Continue reading →

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BINGO!

Posted on May 1, 2012 by atomictv

Photograph by Lloyd Pearson (The Baltimore Sun, 9/4/1971) “BINGO — That’s what the photographer at Ocean City said, too, when he spotted Priscilla Lyn Knop.”

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A Night At Sid’s of Pigtown

Posted on April 10, 2012 by atomictv

Linnea Anderson hosts this TV story from 1978 which started out as a piece on shufflebowl but ended up as a slice of the kind of Baltimore strangeness that John Waters has been presenting to the world as fiction, but … Continue reading →

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