Tag: 1950s

This photo shows Highlandtown way back in 1950. You're looking at the 3400 block of Eastern Ave. Click on it for some amazing details. Here's...

What a cool find! This is the Orioles' inaugural schedule for the Major Leagues in 1954. Source: Digital Maryland

This is a view of the Aurora Theatre sometime in the 1950s. And, after doing a little digging, we see that The Tall Texan, with...

Here’s an old picture of a football game between Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and Forest Park High School at Memorial Stadium. Source: Kilduffs

Read’s Drug Store was a Baltimore based chain of drug stores founded in the 1800’s by William Read. The downtown store was one of the...

Here’s a picture of one of the many popular Century Theatres located in Baltimore before the 1950s.The theatres lined the blocks of Lexington, Charles...

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

Here are a couple cool old photos that we dug up on Shorpy. It's a vintage 1910s streetcar running in 1955. Source: Shorpy Source: Shorpy

Now this is some excellent trivia for you. The first flight to use the airport was Eastern Air Lines en route from Atlanta to...

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

This is an excellent old photo of Catonsville Junction, the terminus of the old Baltimore Traction Company's streetcar lines. Source: Shorpy

What a cool photo. We dug this one up on Flickr. Source: petespix75

Check out the 1954 image of this intersection ... Source: Flickr user hoteldennis ... And take a look at the Google Street View today.

Is there something so identifiable with a city that, when you visit, you just have to see it? Such as New York and the...

The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game to be held in Baltimore was in 1958, four seasons after the Orioles arrived in town. The...

This is a cross-post from Ghosts of DC. Aviation has a strong history in the Washington area. Following on...