Category Archives: Gayety

The Block Survives Despite Fires and Police Raids

Posted on December 12, 2010 by atomictv

City’s historic adult entertainment strip continues to prevail by Peter Hermann (The Baltimore Sun, 12/11/2010) The city’s adult strip known as The Block, as seedy as it is historic, is, if nothing else a survivor. Civic leaders long ago erased … Continue reading →

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Arson In Gayety Theater, Warehouse Fire Suspected (1969)

Posted on December 8, 2010 by atomictv

The Evening Sun, 12/22/1969

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Burlesque and the Girl on the Sign at the Gayety Theater

Posted on December 7, 2010 by atomictv

I Remember… Burlesque and the Girl on the Sign at the Gayety Theater By John H. Nickel, The Sun Magazine, 5/31/1970 I don’t have much heart to go down to The Block anymore. The flavor of it has been gone … Continue reading →

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B-Belles of Burlesque

Posted on August 19, 2010 by almosthipguy
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