16 Jan
2013
16 Jan
'13
4:48 a.m.
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013, David Riley wrote:
I grew up in Baltimore and lived there for 25 years
(and am
quite familiar with the Bromo-Seltzer tower), but I've never
seen the drink in any form. Old Bay and Berger cookies, alas,
are inescapable there (Berger cookies, for the uninitiated, are
inexplicably popular confections that are 50% cookie and
70% frosting, and are endemic to the Baltimore region).
The last time that I was there was 40 years ago. At that time,
the harbor was full of LARGE rats (bigger than cats), not tourists.
US40 ran through the city, with cobblestones in some areas,
and a few remaining horse-drawn rag-picker carts. All along
US40, almost everything was condemned. There was a unique
demolition style - they would romove all of the interior doors
in a building, and nail those together to create a fence. For
block after block after block, the entire block would be a fence
of nailed together doors, punctuated at regular intervals by marble
doorsteps.
I've heard that the city changed soon after that.
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