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Category Archives: Nightlife
Baltimore As It Was: The Work Of Photographer Tom Scilipoti
Photographic Memory: Tom Scilipoti has been documenting Baltimore for over 50 years By Rafael Alvarez (Baltimore City Paper, 10/23/2013)“…In 1966, Scilipoti was taking his camera everywhere, capturing images of a once-thriving and long-gone manufacturing city: coal-fired tugboats, burly stevedores unloading … Continue reading
Posted in "The Block", Gayety, Photographs
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G-Stringers
Editor’s note: Cleaning out my house after a recent move, I came across a box’s worth of old “Go Go Gazettes” I collected back in the ’90s when the old Atomic Books on Read Street carried this strip club trade … Continue reading
Posted in 1990s, Baltimore Babylon, Decades, Nightlife, Sex, Strip Clubs, Vices
Tagged atomic books, fred folsom, go go gazette, go go girls don't cry, jeff krulik, night shift, shepherd park, strip clubs, strippers
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Blaze Starr’s Wild Animal Acts
I’ve been reading Behind the Burly Q: The Story of Burlesque in America by Leslie Zemeckis, who also directed the hit documentary film of the same title. It’s an oral history of American Burlesque “as told by the performers who … Continue reading
Posted in "The Block", 1950s, Baltimorons, Burlesque, Entertainment, Nightlife, Sex, Strip Clubs, Uncategorized, Vices
Tagged animals, behind the burly q, blaze starr, panthers, strippers
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Carl Easterwood, Flamingo Lounge Owner, Baltimore’s Block, 1983
Photo by Irving H. Phillips, Jr. (The Baltimore Sun, 11/5/1983) via Pinterest. Click to visit site and enlarge. Carl Easterwood, who owns the Flamingo on East Baltimore street, views patrol method used by The Block’s new officers as a “sort … Continue reading
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