Category Archives: Inner City

That Guy’s On Heroin: Laundry Day in Baltimore

Patterson Park Avenue and Preston Street, Broadway East, Baltimore, MD. Continue reading at That Guy’s On Heroin.

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The Illegal Dirt Bike Gangs of Baltimore

By Jamie Clifton (Vice, 7/3/2012) There is something undeniably American about biker gangs, from the quintessential images ingrained in our mind of the 60s-era Hell’s Angels made legendary by the writing of Hunter S. Thompson and The Rolling Stone’s film … 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

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Is the Edgar Allan Poe House haunted?

By Anthony C. Hayes (Baltimore Post-Examiner, 5/11/2012) Jeff Jerome is often asked if he’s ever spent a night in The Edgar Allan Poe House. His answer has always been a whimsical, “No.” But any lingering regrets on the part of … Continue reading

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