Tag: 1940s

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...

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...

Check out this great photo of Baltimore Harbor from the fall of 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...

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...

Here's a beautiful photo of Baltimore row houses from 1940, before World War II. You're looking at Washington Blvd. at Bayard St. Source: Shorpy Here's the...

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...

Check out this great photo of workers on the street corner waiting to be picked up during World War II.

Below is a photo from 1943, showing crowds of people getting off the trolleys from Bethlehem Fairfield shipyard.

We came across this article from November 19th, 1944, when the Baltimore Bullets beat the Washington Capitals basketball team by the depressed score of...

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...

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. Thanks to...

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....

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 Congress