1960s
Streetcar photographs, newspaper front pages and accounts of the 1968 riots record a decade of Baltimore life. Music and baseball have their place here, too.
An October 8, 1967 Baltimore Sun item previews the Doors’ planned appearance at the Lyric Theater the following Friday.
These streetcar photographs include a view on East Fayette Street dated November 2, 1963.
Two clips are presented as footage of the Orioles and Yankees on August 25, 1962, including batting practice.
National Archives footage shows Baltimore during the unrest following Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination.
A photograph shows fans celebrating the Orioles’ 1966 American League pennant.
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Old footage shows the streetcars that once ran through Baltimore, before the system closed in 1963.
In a 1964 advertisement, Occident Federal offered mortgages of up to 80 percent of a property’s value, with terms as long as 25 years.
A 1961 photograph shows children outside a suburban Baltimore home after a snowfall.
This front page of The Baltimore Sun appeared a few weeks before President Kennedy’s assassination.
Verda Welcome won election to the Maryland Senate in 1962. The Baltimore civil rights leader survived an assassination attempt in 1964.
A photograph shows Number 8 streetcars in Towson in October 1963, shortly before their replacement by buses.
An April 1969 Baltimore Sun advertisement lists new apartments available in the Baltimore area that summer.
A photograph records damage after the 1968 riots, with a caption identifying Bentalou Street at Edmondson.
A 1964 photograph shows Al Packer’s Ford dealership in Baltimore.
A Gino’s Hamburgers advertisement recalls the chain founded by Baltimore Colts players Gino Marchetti and Alan Ameche.
Kennedy visited Baltimore in October 1962. A newspaper report described a threat and the detention of a man police could not link to the call.
An old photograph shows Baltimore’s Century Theatre at 18 West Lexington Street.
Two photographs show Baltimore streets during the unrest that followed Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in April 1968.
A map from the Johns Hopkins collection shows Roland Park in 1961.
This front page shows the news Baltimore Sun readers encountered on September 14, 1963.