Category Archives: Dundalk

Schocking Dundalk

The Go-Go’s Gina Schock was Dundalk born and bred as evidenced by this “Evening Magazine” clip from the 1980s produced by Tom D’Antoni. Baltimore accents are aplenty with her parents and Edith Massey chiming in. The Go-Go’s Notebook: Gina Drumming … Continue reading

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Wild Bill Hagy: The Irrepressible Human Manifestation of “Oriole Magic”

(Baltimore Magazine, 1/2008) Wild Bill Hagy defied the conventions of celebrityhood. He achieved an unlikely renown—hounded by autograph seekers, meeting Presidents Carter and Reagan, featured in The New Yorker—by leading his signature “O-R-l-O-L-E-S” cheers from Section 34 in the upper … Continue reading

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Gino’s Hamburgers TV Commercial (70’s)

Gino’s Hamburgers was a fast-food restaurant chain founded in Baltimore, Maryland, by Baltimore Colts defensive end Gino Marchetti and running back Alan Ameche, along with their close friend Louis Fischer, in 1957. Continue reading

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Stop Picking on Dundalk!

“The people in Dundalk are true Americans,” says Grace Lamana, in her letter to the Baltimore Sun. But will the world listen?

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