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Category Archives: Nightlife
Baltimore Rappers air local infomercial at Main Event Night Club in Essex, Maryland
The Main Event was a night club in Essex, Maryland whose heyday was the late 70s/early to mid 80s. In the late 90s Street Legal Entertainment / Down Low Productions briefly aired a rap show on Comcast’s leased access channel. … Continue reading
Posted in 1990s, Baltimorons, Essex / Middle River, Music, Nightlife, Nightspots
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Rock Around the Block: Music Videos Featuring Baltimore’s Sex District
Bright Lights, Big City; Urban Blight, Big Titties! Sex & Drugs & Rock and Roll: it’s all here in Baltimore’s infamous red light district, “The Block,” and local bad boy rockers love to show themselves celebrating life’s more lascivious pleasures in … Continue reading
Posted in "The Block", Baltimore Babylon, Music, Nightlife, Roadside Attractions, Sex, Uncategorized, Vices
Tagged bootcamp, Flamingo Lounge, Fudgie Dobson, garage sale, Jennifers, Jim Holenbaugh, MTV, music videos, Neal Coty, Ravagers, the block, Tommy Tucker
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RIP Gayety Theatre’s John H. “Bud” Nickel, Jr. (1971)
Rites Set For J. H. Nickel, Former Operator Of Gayety (The Baltimore Sun, 4/8/1971) Funeral services for John H. Nickel, Jr., who with his sister owned and operated one of the city’s landmarks, the Gayety Theater and Nightclub on The Block, … Continue reading
Posted in "The Block", 1970s, Burlesque, Gayety, Obituaries, Strip Clubs
Tagged bud nickel, marian mckew
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John Waters’s Favorite Stripper: Lady Zorro
The Butch Local Girl Who Looked Like Victor Mature By Burlesque Babes (burlesquebabes.wordpress.com, 2/26/2015) Her real name was Sheila Alberta Bowater. Get by with a little help from my friends… A reader kindly posted a helpful comment to my original … Continue reading
Posted in "The Block", Baltimore Babylon, Baltimorons, Burlesque, Dreamlanders, John Waters, Nightlife, Roadside Attractions, Sex
Tagged burlesque, Crackpot, exotic dancers, john waters, lady zorro, role models, strippers
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