Here's a cool old advertisement that we dug up in the Sunday edition of The Baltimore Sun from October 17th, 1948. It's a program spurred on by Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro -- also known as the father of...
Featured, Notable People & Places / 13.05.2015
Earl Weaver Loses It In 1980
This is classic Earl Weaver. Thanks to our friend Marty for sending this in some time ago. We're just now getting around to sharing it with the community. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6cmqUTPn08 ...
This is what Baltimore looked like some time in the 1940s. The first one below is labeled Guilford and Fayette. Source: Flickr user Kevin Mueller This second...
Here is a series of photos that we fond on Flickr that show Baltimore as it looked in the 1980s. The photos below were taken on November 25th, 1987 Baltimore's Business and Government...
Here's a great series of photos of the Baltimore waterfront from the early 20th century. Source: Library...
Featured, Other Cool Stuff / 19.02.2015
Gunther Beer 1954 Orioles Schedule
What a cool find! This is the Orioles' inaugural schedule for the Major Leagues in 1954.
Featured, Other Cool Stuff / 14.03.2014
Baltimore Bullets Beat Washington Capitals; Take First Place
We came across this article from November 19th, 1944, when the Baltimore Bullets beat the Washington Capitals basketball team by the depressed score of 33 to 32. Washington, Nov. 18 (Special) -- The Baltimore Bullets took first...
Wow. This is amazing. Click on it for a much larger version. Source: Johns Hopkins Sheridan Library...
Check this out. It shows Teddy Roosevelt in Baltimore on September 28th, 1918 for the fourth Liberty Loan campaign at the old Oriole Baseball Park. He's wearing a mourning armband for his son Quentin, who was...
How cool is this? What a great find on Ancestry.com. We came across the Bambino's 1920 application for a passport that fall, because he was traveling to Cuba to play in some barnstorming games. According to sources...
Now this is pretty cool. We were trolling the Internet and came across this old $1 bill from the Baltimore Savings Institution. ...
This is an incredible photo from 1936, showing the Hindenburg floating over Baltimore. Nine months later came the horrific accident in New Jersey. Make sure you share this one with family and friends on Facebook.
Faces & Places of Yesterday, Featured / 01.11.2013
Municipal Baths
Would you go take a bath in this place? Yeesh. Any idea where these buildings are (were)? Source: Library of Congress...
This is a terrific old photo of the ol B & O coal pier in the Baltimore Harbor. There's no date on this, but I'm guessing it's somewhere around 1900. B & O...