Category Archives: Neighborhoods

Lost City: The Regent Theater

(Maryland Historical Society, 3/21/2013) The theaters, night clubs, and restaurants that once made Pennsylvania Avenue Baltimore’s center for African-American entertainment are today a receding memory. In the segregated Baltimore of the early to mid twentieth century, the Avenue was where … Continue reading

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Triple Shootin in Essex

WJZ reportin’ ’bout a shootin’ (via buckleyworks.blogspot.com)  

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Five Years after The Wire… Baltimore is still Poverty-Plagued City

Five years after The Wire left screens, the TV set remains… how the real Baltimore is still poverty-plagued city of series By Katie Davies (The Daily Mail, 4/10/2013) They are images which wouldn’t be out of place in the opening … Continue reading

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Stein’s Hotel, Essex/Middle River, MD Postcard

Stein’s Hotel. Later to become the Sea Gull Inn, then the River Watch Restaurant.

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