Category Archives: Neighborhoods

36 Hours in Baltimore

By Charly Wilder (New York Times, 9/19/2012) “You can look far and wide, but you’ll never discover a stranger city with such extreme style,” John Waters once noted about his hometown. Maybe that’s why Baltimore’s trumpeted glass-and-steel Inner Harbor development, … Continue reading

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The New York Times Travels to Baltimore, Predictably Mentions Beehive Hairdos

By Rachel Monroe (Baltimore Fishbowl, 9/20/2012) The last time the New York Times travel section covered Baltimore, they portrayed the city as a Hon-tastic place full of “beehive hairdos and wacky museums.” Well, better than the Wire-retreads that the European travel sections tend to prefer, … Continue reading

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Tastes Like Cohcolate

McDonald’s, Middle River, Maryland. (Photo by Scott Copinger via Only’In Essex) View Larger Map

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Labor Day on the Ocean City Boardwalk, 1977

(The Baltimore Sun, 9/2/1977) “Honky-tonk signs line the boardwalk as merchants try to unload stocks as the season ends.” Sunpapers photo by George H. Cook.

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