A swimmable, fishable harbor: Or, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 
Jasón Roland – “The Place to Be” 
Remembering Steeltown
by Evan on Apr.26, 2010, under Nostalgia
Having read today’s totally amazing blogoentry by Sam Sessa featuring a promo video for the defunct Hammerjack’s, I find my brainstrings stretching far and wide enough to remember another club that was sadly not long for this world: Steeltown. Steeltown was a gargantuan, 32,000 square foot bar/restaurant/concert venue with an industrial theme, presumably an homage to Bethlehem Steel, Sparrow’s Point, that sort of thing. I remember eating there once after playing Laser Tag – er, sorry – PHOTON at a shopping center in Dundalk. It was bizarre, since the actual restaurant portion of the place was called The Bomber Cafe, and it had airplanes hanging from the ceiling. Even as a child I asked “What does this have to do with steel?” Then there’s the stage area, known as THE BLAST FURNACE. Awwwww yeah you just KNOW shit’s gonna get awesome in there!! 98 Rock would plug the ever loving crap out of the place constantly – I swear I must have heard at least a thousand times on the way to school how Great Train Robbery or Laughing Colors were playing there pretty much every week. At any rate, Steeltown didn’t make the long haul and shuttered a few years later, and today I’m pretty sure it’s a Walmart or something.
I couldn’t find anything nearly as awesome as Hammerjack’s video, but here’s a video featuring the Funk Junkies at Steeltown, with bonus guy-playing-a-guitar-with-a-chicken goodness!
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April 26th, 2010 on 2:05 pm
I love how the Funk Junkies are actually an alt-rock/metal band. YOU DIDN’T SEE THAT COMING DID YOU, BALTIMORE?!?!?!
Also, I’m going to do some digging and see if I can find out more about this place.
April 26th, 2010 on 4:50 pm
I have no recollection of this at all, although as a kid I used to go to the movies at North Point sometimes, and remember playing photon a few times too.
April 27th, 2010 on 10:40 am
Years from now, we’ll all die of inoperable brain tumors caused by exposure to Laser Tag. IT WAS WORTH IT
April 27th, 2010 on 11:20 am
Hey man, I played PHOTON. Totally different and 100% safer. Science proved it.
BONUS PHOTON COMMERCIAL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYamJAuwyEA
April 27th, 2010 on 2:16 pm
I remember Photon and Steeltowne, I worked at AL Gators in Pasadena from 92-96, the good ole days.
April 27th, 2010 on 3:23 pm
Gators is still around, right? I think I might just have to take a field trip there.
April 27th, 2010 on 4:31 pm
A.L.Gators, was on Ft. Smallwood Road, it is now a CVS. It used to be Sandbar, Network, A.L. Gators, then Daytonas. 4 clubs in 20+ years, not bad.