Old Ads & Classifieds

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...

Does anyone recognize where this would be today? This advertisement is for real estate back in 1909 in The Baltimore Sun. Source: Proquest

Here's an advertisement for the Southern Hotel opening in 1918, printed in The Washington Times. The building was located at 14 Light St., but sadly...

Here's an interesting old advertisement that we dug up in The Baltimore Sun. This was printed on December 30th, 1839.  

I came across this ad from 1969 for a restaurant chain called Gino’s Hamburgers. The fast food chain was founded in 1957 by Baltimore...

Now this is totally fascinating. This is an advertisement that we found in The Baltimore Sun printed on February 13th, 1912. And, as you can...

Great! They're so mild, they don't get your wind ... so smoke 'em if you got 'em!

This is an advertisement from The Baltimore Sun printed on January 8th, 1844. It's shocking, repulsive, and still unbelievable that we used to live as...

1869 was not a good time to be suffering from Diarrhea (no time is good really). Well, if you were suffering back then, this...

Here's an old advertisement from The Washington Post, printed on September 6th, 1909.

Looking to rent an apartment in Baltimore 75 years ago? Check out these prices from the classifieds section in The Baltimore Sun. Do you see...

Here's an old advertisement from 160 years ago today, printed in The Baltimore Sure. This is for the Giles' European Hotel at 124 Baltimore Street.

This is an ad that we dug up in The Baltimore Sun from January 7th, 1951.

Here's an advertisement that we found in The Baltimore Sun, printed on January 7th, 1951. Source: Baltimore Sun