Bottle caps were first manufactured in Baltimore

The crown cork bottle cap was first manufactured here in 1892. I first found about this from this Instagram post.

When I grew up in Manhattan, we played skelly, a game with bottle caps with melted crayons in them.

The Copycat Building – see the Instagram posts above and below about a current tenant

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