Category Archives: 1970s

Hip Shops In 1965-68 Baltimore, Beatniks, Mods, and The Psychedelic Propeller

Posted on April 23, 2011 by atomictv

By David Robert Crews (Magic City Morning Star, 5/13/2008) Those longhaired lads in this 1967 era photo are The Psychedelic Propeller Rock n’ Roll band. They are sitting on the railroad tracks behind the house where I grew up-in Dundalk, … Continue reading →

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Bum on “The Block” Named “Big Ed” Fights Over Bottle of Natty Boh, Stabbed to Death With It (1975)

Posted on April 4, 2011 by atomictv

Man stabbed to death during fight on The Block over bottle of beer (The Baltimore Sun, 6/5/1975) A man police could identify only as “Big Ed” was stabbed to death with a broken beer bottle yesterday afternoon during a fight … Continue reading →

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Devo plays Painter’s Mill, eats shrimp cocktail in Pikesville and talks about John Waters (1979)

Posted on April 1, 2011 by atomictv

Five men in spacesuits plug into your ‘Devo’ By Eric Siegel (The Baltimore Sun, 1/7/1979) Jerry Casale, Devo guitarist and chief spokesman, paused between bites of a shrimp cocktail and sips of white wine in the dining room of the … Continue reading →

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Giant Mechanical Blue Crab

Posted on February 9, 2011 by atomictv

Does anyone remember the giant blue crab at the Maryland Science Center? Does it still move? Buy this crab print and other moments in Baltimore history captured by Sun photographers at The Baltimore Sun Store.

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