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...
This cool old image of Baltimore shows an elevated streetcar. Source: Library of Congress From my Googling around, it looks like this is near the 200 block of Guilford Ave....
Faces & Places of Yesterday / 09.08.2016
1948 View of Baltimore Harbor
Check out this great photo of Baltimore Harbor from the fall of 1948. ...
Historical Events, Notable People & Places / 01.08.2016
President Truman’s Whistle-Stop Campaign in 1948
We came across a great photo of President Truman on a train in Baltimore, so we did a little digging. Here's the article that we dug up in The Baltimore Sun on June 19th, 1948. Remember that...
Here's a photo of Baltimore from June 8th, 1940. You're looking at the 200 block of S. Caroline St., north of Gough and south of E. Pratt. 200 block of S. Caroline St....
Here's a beautiful photo of Baltimore row houses from 1940, before World War II. You're looking at Washington Blvd. at Bayard St. "Row houses, Baltimore, June 1940." Medium format safety negative by Jack...
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...
Check out this great photo of workers on the street corner waiting to be picked up during World War II. April 1943. "Baltimore, Maryland. Third shift workers waiting on a street corner to...
Below is a photo from 1943, showing crowds of people getting off the trolleys from Bethlehem Fairfield shipyard. Continuous stream of trolleys carrying workers from the Bethlehem Fairfield shipyard to downtown Baltimore disgorges...
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...
This is a great post that we're sharing on our sister site, Ghosts of DC. Airline traffic was getting too heavy for National Airport to handle by the end of the 1940s. The region's second airport was...
We Love Maps / 28.02.2014
1941 Map by the Roland Park Company
Check out this great old map of Roland Park in 1941. Source: University of Maryland This is what it looks like today, courtesy of Google. [googlemaps https://maps.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m14!1m12!1m3!1d3084.9451597669!2d-76.62279438153462!3d39.35747848195301!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1393200166891] Thanks to the awesome collection available at...
This is a beautiful old photograph from 1925 showing a home in Catonsville. And, it's one that makes you wonder who the people are. What are their names, and what did they do? This is a...
Here's a photo from the 1940s showing a crowd of people lined up outside a movie theater. Anyone recognize this theater? Source: Library of...