The Instagram post below reminded me of the two Gunning’s restaurants, both long gone. There was the one in Brooklyn (the southern part of Baltimore). It wasn’t fancy but the crabs were great, Then there was the suburban one that, as a friend said, had the personality of an airport lounge. The food was good, though.
Category: food
Corned Beef Row photos from the 1940s and 1970s
Baltimore’s Corned Beef Row (1000 block of East Lombard St.) is in the area where Jewish settlers originally moved. There are still a couple of delis left – Attman’s and Weiss’s. I had heard the area called Jewtown so I guess they cleaned up the pejorative aspect of the name by renaming it Corned Beef Row.
I remember walking along Lombard St. in the 1970s and peering into a storefront where they had live chickens.
There are now two delis left on Lombard St. – Attman’s and Weiss’s. Attman’s looks like it did in the 1970s when I moved here. Look at the photos of old politicians in the inside pictures on Yelp.
At Attman’s, you go through a cafeteria-style line to order. You can eat in a small dining room.
Attman’s has a new location at Harbor Point. It’s very modern with a bar and waiters. It’s more expensive but the food is still excellent.
The other deli is the Weiss Deli Weiss’s has all the atmosphere of your high school cafeteria. See the Yelp photos. Unlike Attman’s, they are not on any delivery services as far as I can tell. The menu is much smaller but the food is good.
National Noodle Day 10/6/24
Instagram post on different styles of pizza
I remember Polock Johnny’s
I was surprised to find a restaurant chain called Polock Johnny’s when I moved to Baltimore in 1976. There are a few left. Sausage is the featured item.
Here are three Polock Johnny’s items that I got in the 1970s or 1980s.
A small lunchbox, cup and plastic drink bottle



McDonald’s had a ‘McCrispy’ ad next to a crematorium
Goldfish crackers were released in 1962
The Caesar salad was invented in Mexico
The first Taco Bell
This isn’t the first one but it sure looks similar:
YouTube video on the history of SpaghettiOs
I recently learned about the origins of SpaghettiOs from an episode of the History Channel series The Food That Shaped America.