Category: Baltimore

More Instagram posts on Cicada Parade-a

I got the black t-shirt and it’s great!

Clancy Haskett has been serving drinks to Baltimore fans for 47 years

Every local sports fans knows who Clancy is and has probably been served by him. He’s great!

On Orioles’ would-be Opening Day, vendor ‘Fancy Clancy’ Haskett waiting for return to normalcy

Catching up with Orioles beer vendor ‘Fancy Clancy’ Haskett

The ‘Larger Than Life’ Legend Of The Ballpark Beer Guy

https://twitter.com/moneyline_cover/status/1685800795172741120?s=43&t=rIYxMSgaBTiASp7yrXMpjA

Baltimore’s Domino Sugars sign has been completed

LEDs have replaced neon. This is a huge sign visible from the Inner Harbor.

Cicada Parade-a in Baltimore

This is great – using the cicadas to inspire art.

https://twitter.com/OpenWorksBmore/status/1396798161642049536?s=20
https://twitter.com/jmsummers/status/1395541128892592129?s=20
https://twitter.com/Bill_Waverly/status/1382449710758293509?s=20

more Baltimore cicada art

6/4/21

John Waters PSA

John Waters recorded a “No Smoking” PSA many years ago that was used in movie theaters. I was reminded of it when I saw this tweet – I haven’t seen it in years. As one of the comments notes, it was shown at the Charles Theater in Baltimore which is where I know it from. I’m guessing I first saw it in the late 1970s or early 1980s.

To show you what a small town Baltimore can be, you can get signed Waters books, DVDs and Blu-rays and send him fan mail at a local bookstore, Atomic Books.

I saw Polyester at the Charles on the world premiere day. John Waters and Divine were there.

Hundreds of John Waters fans, including the former Lorena Bobbitt, gather in Hampden for a four-hour book-signing

Salt box update 5/25/21

Baltimore Salt Box Wooden Set

Baltimore Hebrew Orphan Asylum

Baltimore’s Hebrew Orphan Asylum is another large building that was abandoned but finally saved and renovated. Baltimore Heritage made a video history.

Southway Builders

American Brewery Building – Baltimore

The American Brewery Building is a unique huge building in a residential neighborhood on the east side of Baltimore. It was opened as a brewery in 1887. It was empty for decades before it was renovated for a non-profit organization. Baltimore Heritage has written about it and made the video below.

I worked nearby in the 1970s and passed it on the bus hundreds of times. There was a full page photo if it in the outstanding book America’s Forgotten Architecture (1976).

The building was also in David Mamet’s 1991 film Homicide.

Historic American Buildings Survey

I had saved this picture on my phone – I don’t recall where it came from so I can’t give credit to the photographer at this time