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Gayety Tavern
Gayety Tavern, interior view with customers Baltimore ca. 1935 John Dubas (fl. 1904-1973) 8×10 inch acetate negative Baltimore City Life Museum Collection Maryland Historical Society Photographs...
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Baltimore’s National Premium Returns: “Lager of Love”
Lager of Love: One man’s unplanned quest to re-create Baltimore’s long-lost National Premium Beer By Edward Ericson Jr. (Baltimore City Paper, 8/8/2012) The Waldorf Astoria’s Art Deco lobby is...
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen (The Baltimore Sun, 8/30/2012) Whenever you drink a National Premium or Natty Boh, think of Jerome “Jerry” DiPaolo, the colorful National Brewing Co. salesman and executive...
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H.L. Mencken — All Aboard For Back River!
“Be a roughneck for once and ride down to Back River,” he suggested. “There’ll be rough stuff there if you want it, but you’ll he safe enough if you’re good.” By H.L. Mencken (The Baltimore Sun,...
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Poe Heroin Lean
two blue stars: “illustration for an in-class magazine spread on how to brand a city i.e. BALTIMORE gouache on shitpaper this would be more poignant if the bird had some vicious bird junk to exhibit...
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Prohibition Repealed… Celebrations Deferred
Celebrations Deferred Until Tomorrow Night (The Baltimore Sun, 12/5/1933) After fourteen years, four months and five days scenes reminiscent of the night of June 30, 1919, will be enacted at hotels and...
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Baltimore bars and their patrons celebrate Dec. 25 in a unique way
Enjoying the Christmas spirits By Gadi Dechter (Baltimore Sun, 12/26/2006) In a rowdy Bolton Hill tavern, they argued over whether the black bile spewing from kung-fu hero Jet Li’s mouth was really...
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Ocean City, Maryland Woman Beans Fiancee with Beer… and Beans
Beer, Bean Can Assault Suspect In Hot Water Again An Ocean City woman, arrested twice within a few hours two weeks ago on assault charges after first hitting her fiancé with a can of beer and later...
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Shit-canned: Remembering the Preakness Toilet Races
“You can’t kill stupid; you can only attempt to contain it. Like on a very large infield.” – (Source: “The Quotable Tom Warner Omnibus.”) “In 2009, the first year without B.Y.O.B., attendance plummeted...
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Remembering Memorial Day in Baltimore with crabs & beer
Local hero dreams of being back in Baltimore with hard-shelled crabs and beer. Today marks the 145th anniversary of Memorial Day, a day to honor those men and women, both nationally and right here in...
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Edgar Allan Poe, Interior Design Critic
What scared the author of ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’? Bad design. A room furnished according to Poe’s “The Philosophy of Furniture” for a 1959 exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum (Image: Brooklyn Museum...
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Les Bons Temps for a Baltimore Native
[Baltimore Or Less loves beautiful, talented people - they're so unlike us, yet allow us to live vicariously through their exploits. Jenny Campbell is one of those peeps we love - and now the Baltimore...
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Henry James wrote lavishly of Baltimore
By Jacques Kelly (The Baltimore Sun, 6/13/1995) Henry James in 1910. Wikipedia.org Henry James was one of the most respected writers of his day, but there was no fanfare when he stepped off a train at...
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Annapolis, MD Police Chief Claims 37 Died First Day of Marijuana Legalization...
Annapolis police chief apologizes for citing hoax story in testimony against marijuana legalization By Alex Jackson (Capitalgazette.com, 2/26/2014) Annapolis Police Chief Michael A. Pristoop listens to...
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George Feehley Has Surfed His Way Into The History Of Ocean City, Maryland
George Feehley, who passed away last weekend at the age of 87, is pictured tandem surfing. Photo by Ocean City Life-Saving Station Museum ‘George Feehley Has Surfed His Way Into The History Of Ocean...
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Are These Photos of Baltimore Lesbians in the 1920s?
I stumbled on these wonderful photos of 1920s Baltimore women on Ebay. Were they lesbians? Was one a drag queen? Were they dressing up for Halloween or a party? Were they expressing their lifestyle? So...
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A Women’s History Month Salute to Suzi Suzuki
Baltimore or Less honors National Women’s History Month by profiling the remarkable Suzi Suzuki, the San Francisco-based singer and retired adult film star who was featured in one of the most popular...
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