Category: Baltimore

Baltimore’s Highway to Nowhere

Hopefully, this new federal program can do something about the Highway to Nowhere.

Highway to Nowhere: Baltimore to get $85 million to help transform blighted section of roadway

— Baltimore Banner (@thebaltimorebanner.com) 2025-01-07T17:00:44.728Z

Buffalo’s $1 billion cautionary tale for Baltimore’s ‘Highway to Nowhere’

— Baltimore Banner (@thebaltimorebanner.com) 2025-05-29T10:00:22.342Z

Baltimore Sun article didn’t mention terrible Hogan decision

The article says (with my bolding):

Long-term goals include reforming the structure of the Maryland Transit Administration to include more local oversight, implementing an east-to-west rapid transit plan for Baltimore, adding more railroad stations in the metropolitan region and providing faster and more frequent commuter MARC trains between Baltimore and Washington, D.C.

There was a plan called the Red Line – Governor Hogan killed it.

The world premiere of Double Indemnity (1944) was in Baltimore

I was reading about Double Indemnity today when I learned that the world premiere was at Keith’s Theatre in Baltimore (which has been demolished) on July 3, 1944. James M. Cain, author of the novel it was based on, was born in Annapolis, MD and had worked at the Baltimore Sun newspaper. Bill Haley and the Comets played at Keith’s on its last day in 1955.

Battle Cry (1955) also had its world premiere in Baltimore. It was at the since-demolished Stanley Theatre. Leon Uris, author of the novel, was born in Baltimore.

Modern directors from Baltimore John Waters and Barry Levinson have had world premieres of their films here. I saw Polyester (1981) at the Charles Theatre on the world premiere day. John Waters and Divine were there.

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.