Category Archives: “The Block”

Porn Again

Posted on October 3, 2012 by atomictv

Satanic texts, dirty readers, and radical manuals make a potent library By Baynard Woods (Baltimore City Paper, 10/3/2012) A few years Ago, when the peep booths over at Sweden Books on the Block switched to DVD, Kevin I. Slaughter happened … Continue reading →

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Gayety Theatre, 1935

Posted on August 23, 2012 by atomictv

(Md. Historical Society Photographs, 8/22/2012) Gayety Theatre 405 East Baltimore Street, Baltimore ca. 1935 John Dubas (fl. 1904-1973) 8 x 10 inch film negative Baltimore City Life Museum Collection Maryland Historical Society MC9253 .1

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Hard-core Nostalgia: R. H. Gardner Remembers Old Baltimore

Posted on July 6, 2012 by atomictv

By Peter Kumpa (The Baltimore Sun, 12/12/1990) There was once a Baltimore where one could walk the streets without worrying about getting mugged, where one traveled by street car, when real people lived in the city and those in Glen … Continue reading →

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“Rock ‘n Roll Girl” Rumbles the Gayety (1956)

Posted on July 3, 2012 by atomictv

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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