Category: Baltimore

Baltimore Penn Station

Baltimore’s Penn Station is being renovated

The Wire is 20 years old – 6/2/22

I have lived in Baltimore since 1976. I didn’t have cable or satellite until 2007 so I missed The Wire when it was new. I watched it on DVD later on. It’s great.

Justin Fenton, an excellent writer then working for the Baltimore Sun, took pictures in 2014 of the present state of The Wire locations.

Films shown at Baltimore City Jury duty

This is great. They show films in the waiting rooms during Baltimore City jury duty. Some of the ones I remember are Hitch, Sabrina (Harrison Ford version), and It’s Complicated. They’re on the list already. Great job by the Twitter posters.

Historic Homes of Baltimore on the Sellers Mansion (demolished 2/24/23)

Historic Homes of Baltimore on Instagram and Baltimore Heritage on YouTube both do a great job on Baltimore architecture.

It was destroyed by fire on 2/24/23.

I lived on a block with a house of prostitution

There was a house of prostitution on my block (which only had six houses) near downtown Baltimore in the late 1980s. I asked the guy next door to it how he knew. He said he saw five guys coming and going over a five-hour period. There were frequently people hanging outside late at night. How come I didn’t know? I said I only got the pizza and Chinese food flyers. They weren’t there long. My understanding is that they didn’t pay the rent. I called it the house that was a house, not a home.

Bad news for Baltimore’s Inner Harbor

The Gallery is closed and the Light Street Pavillion of Harborplace only has one tenant.