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The moment this year’s Kentucky Derby results became official, Clinton Pitts Jr.’s phone rang. And rang. And rang. For two days, the onetime Maryland racing steward fielded calls from folks asking for Pitts’ take on the first Derby in which the apparent winner was disqualified for a bump-and-run....
Once a bustling street full of wholesale produce merchants, the 200 block of South Hanover Street is now an isolated canyon of gray office buildings.
Readers: Think you know your Baltimore? Try answering our weekly trivia question. Some weeks will be ridiculously easy, some weeks a bit more challenging. Here’s last week’s trivia: QUESTION: What do Eager Street and Howard Street in Baltimore City have in common with Howard County, Maryland? ANSWER:...
Baltimore and the surrounding area sure has changed a lot in its centuries-long history. But many traditions and landmarks from decades ago are still around today, give or take a few variations.More
On May 10, 1869, the ceremonial golden spike that was driven into a polished cypress crosstie at windswept Promontory Point, Utah, marked the completion of the transcontinental railroad — or what was then called the Pacific Railroad or Overland Route. The railroad, linking Omaha, Neb., to Sacramento,...
Mayor Catherine Pugh, who announced Thursday that she was resigning, is not the first Baltimore mayor to take that path. Or even the second. Or the third. Actually, 11 others have pulled the plug on their mayoral careers and for a variety of reasons — including to become governor. James Calhoun...
There was a popular joke in the ’70s. “Did you know Mickey Mouse wears a Spiro Agnew watch?” Perhaps 50 years have killed the punch line. See, Vice President Agnew, who began his career as a Baltimore County executive, was considered to be somewhat dim. So dim that even a cartoon mouse would wear...
Shots of Baltimoreans enjoying lemon sticks at FlowerMart have been a favorite subject of Baltimore Sun photographers through the years. Browse nostalgic images from The Sun's archive.
Readers: Think you know your Baltimore? Try answering our weekly trivia question. Some weeks will be ridiculously easy, some weeks a bit more challenging. Here’s last week’s trivia: QUESTION: When the Towson Bicentennial Celebration (a precursor to the Towsontown Spring Festival) was held in 1968,...
As golf courses go, Font Hill was quaint, quirky and quick to play. How long could it take to go 18 holes when 17 of them are par threes? Nestled on 55 acres west of Ellicott City, near the now-gone Enchanted Forest, Font Hill opened in 1961, a cozy concoction of short fairways, hairpin turns and...
Readers: Think you know your Baltimore? Try answering our weekly trivia question. Some weeks will be ridiculously easy, some weeks a bit more challenging. Here’s last week’s trivia: QUESTION: For what reason did a plane full of celebrities, including Bob Hope, Jimmy Stewart and Zsa Zsa Gabor, land...
The records that turn up in the vintage vinyl shops were once new, sealed in cellophane and sold in Baltimore’s department stores and specialty shops. One of the largest old Baltimore record merchants was Ben Glass, the father of composer Philip Glass. His store at 222 W. Baltimore St., opposite...
Readers: Think you know your Baltimore? Try answering our weekly trivia question. Some weeks will be ridiculously easy, some weeks a bit more challenging. Here’s last week’s trivia: QUESTION: In 1948, Mary Sue chocolates was founded in the basement of a Southwest Baltimore rowhouse, by partners...
It’s April 18, 1919, and Oriole Park is all abuzz. Despite chilly winds, more than 2,000 fans have settled in and are craning their necks to see Babe Ruth, the hometown boy who, at 23, has made it big in the major leagues. Ruth, whose pitching and slugging led the Boston Red Sox to the 1918 world...
Next time you hear John Denver warbling “Take Me Home, Country Roads” — or hear the group Spank perform it in the trailer for the video game Fallout 76, a version that has become a hit and an earworm over the past year or so since it came out — keep in mind that it wasn’t anywhere in West Virginia...
Readers: Think you know your Baltimore? Try answering our weekly trivia question. Some weeks will be ridiculously easy, some weeks a bit more challenging. Here’s last week’s trivia: QUESTION: On Opening Day April 6, 1979, the Oriole Bird mascot was “born” (“hatched” out of a giant egg on the field)...
Former Baltimore Mayor William Donald Schaefer lives! And so does his inflatable rubber ducky. After losing a bet, the longtime mayor and two-term Maryland governor once donned a Victorian-era bathing suit and the aforesaid inflatable water fowl to immerse himself in the unfinished National Aquarium’s...
About 10 years ago, Kara Mae Harris found a recipe that began a years-long obsession. It was an entry for “Maryland white potato pie” in her mother’s old “Southern Heritage” cookbook. Sweetened with sugar and lemon juice, white potato pie was a staple of the lean months in Maryland before the summer...
There was a time in Baltimore when a functioning ballpark once fit into two neighborhood blocks. The old Oriole Park, which hosted the team from 1916 until it burned in 1944, sat where Waverly, Charles Village, Abell and Harwood meet. Baltimore had the dropped down to the minor leagues and competed...