Tag: 1950s

What was 1950s Baltimore like? Great photos and stories from Baltimore in the 1950s.

In this November 1950 picture Kniesche show a nighttime picture of the 3400 block of Eastern Avenue looking west in Highlandtown. (Robert F. Kniesche/Baltimore Sun)

1950s Eastern Avenue in Highlandtown

1954 Orioles schedule

Gunther Beer 1954 Orioles Schedule

The Aurora Theatre in 1953

1955 football

Polytechnic vs. Forest Park High Football Game

Read's on Lexington Street

Read’s Drug Store, a Part of the Civil Rights Movement

Baltimore Century Theatre

Century Theatre on West Lexington

Catonsville home advertisement

Catonsville Home for $57 Monthly Payments

This double-ended, 1918 vintage Baltimore Traction Company Brill streetcar has just begun its in-bound journey from Ellicott City, Maryland, heading east to Baltimore on the No. 9 line. Positioned here at 8304 Main Street, car 5706 is about to plunge down a fairly steep grade (about 5%) that bottoms out at the Patapsco River crossing seen here. It must climb a longer but less arduous slope on the other side.

Ellicott City Trolley (1955)

Frienship International Airport

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Towson Ranch Home for $19,800

The Catonsville Junction was the terminus for the Baltimore Traction Company's streetcar lines 8, 9, and 14. On this 1950s summer day, a light grey over pencil-yellow Pullman-built PCC (Presidential Car Commission) streetcar departs southbound on the private, quarter mile right-of-way that emptied onto Frederick Road and continued eastward into the city of Baltimore. The little Belgian block gabled structure on the right is still there today, as are the houses in the center rear. The Amoco structure has been replaced by a modern Seven-Eleven convenience store.

Catonsville Junction in the 1950s

Fallsway 1950s

Downtown at Fallsway in the 1950s

Then and Now: Intersection of Fulton, Hollins, and Frederick in 1954

Maryland Casualty clock tower in the distance (1950s)

The Maryland Casualty Clock Tower

1958 MLB All-Start game

1958 MLB All-Star Game at Memorial Stadium

Pan Am’s First Passenger Jet to Europe (1958)

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