Nostalgia $ The City That Breeds

The 3rd Annual Dwayne Stomp Memorial Day PSA Post

May 30th, 2011 | Add a Comment

Happy Memorial Day Baltimore, please to be enjoying a classic favorite (now with video!) frequently aired on 98 Rock in the 80s/90s, this beautiful message from Dwayne Stomp, lead guitarist for the megagroup Black Tooth. Audio And Video! … Read entire article »

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City That Breeds Bumper Stickers and The Rat Fishing Video Post

May 25th, 2011 | Add a Comment

After this interesting-to-me-only exchange witnessed yesterday on Facebook, I found myself remembering this slightly uncomfortable Youtube video filed under “Wait this is a thing?” shot in 1995, where a guy from DC interviews the Baltimore Association of Rat Fisherpersons, or B.A.R.F., as they hold their 3rd annual (and final) rat fishing tournament at Yellow Rose Saloon in Baltimore. The leader Chuck (that’s what I’d guess you’d call him) actually got a fair amount of text … Read entire article »

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Hey look, a big giant 100 year old map of the inner harbor

April 29th, 2011 | 4 Comments

Ok well, it’s only 99 years old but 100 sounded better. At any rate, while perusing the Big Map Blog last night I came across a massive 8300×5000 pixel hand-drawn map of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, courtesy of the Maryland Historical Society. If you so desire you can order prints of the map from the site, or download the 13.2MB image right up in this. The really nerdtastic part is loading 2011 Baltimore’s Inner Harbor into … Read entire article »

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The Obligatory Willie Don Memory Post

April 19th, 2011 | 5 Comments

Well here we are folks, the day has finally arrived in which we say farewell to Baltimore’s Weirdest Mayor, William Donald Schaefer. And since there’s nothing more to be said that wasn’t already put together months ago by the local media with their finger on the PUBLISH button, I’ll relay this little story of the two times I met Willie Don in person. The first time I met the man, I was a tiny child accompanying … Read entire article »

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A night at Sid’s of Pigtown

April 14th, 2011 | 3 Comments

Youtube brings it again: this completely awesome gem of a gem from 1978, an Evening Magazine spot about the shuffle bowl league at Sid’s over der in Pigtown. Sid’s most recently made some headlines and sparked a huge amount of discussion in the community when it was shut down about a year ago after a series of incidents involving the owner, Tareq Abdul-Ghani, including spitting on and assaulting an officer of the law (click through … Read entire article »

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