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The venerable North Howard Street theatrical costumer A.T. Jones & Sons Inc. that has kept Baltimoreans and environs dressed as ghouls, ghosts and in other guises for more than 150 years, now faces an uncertain future since the death of its owner, George F. Goebel, 88, who was also a well-known magician and illusionist, earlier this month.
- The building at 130 S. Central Ave. sits at a cross section of neighborhoods, a reminder of the now-extinct cable car system that once moved Baltimoreans around the city.
- The Clippers were gritty hockey club laced with characters.
- The market has changed several times, but none was as rapid and dramatic as the one that leveled it in the early morning hours of March 25, 1949.
- It would be nearly three years before Lee McCardell reunited with his wife and three daughters. In 1942, a homesick McCardell, like other Americans engaged in the war effort, was away from home for the first time at Christmas.
- Unlike the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which was approved for emergency distribution in less than a year, it took over two decades after 1918′s H1N1 virus had run its course for an effective flu vaccine to become available to the American public.
- For decades, the Baltimore Colts’ first NFL championship — a 23-17 win over the New York Giants in sudden-death overtime in 1958 — has been touted in football as “the greatest game ever played.” The victors knew otherwise.
- The ads appeared for Hendler’s eggnog ice cream this time of year while the well known East Baltimore frozen dessert maker was dominant in the field.
- While you’re waiting out the pandemic at home, here are 15 more questions to test your knowledge of Baltimore and Maryland — a little history, a little trivia, some sports, a dash of politics — and, as in earlier editions, we made all the questions multiple choice.
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- From 1936 to 1966, the Toytown Parade was Baltimore's answer to New York City’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
- Is pumpkin pie a “vile pretender” of a dessert, whose flavor profile hinges upon the spices strewn about the innards of a dissected gourd? Or is it a mouth-watering delicacy that couldn’t possibly be delivered via mail, lest it be gnawed at by “rascally postmasters” and arrive half-eaten?
- When horse-drawn wagons were the preferred method of transportation on York Road and telephones and electric lights were relative novelties, a copper beech tree was sending its roots deep into the rich earth.
- Sean Connery, the actor who recently died at age 90, starred in a film partially set in 1960s Baltimore. There is no record of his actually working here on the film, but its director, Alfred Hitchcockcq liked Baltimore’s marble steps, which appear in the completed film.
- As the second wave of influenza surged in the fall of 1918 which would culminate in November as the deadliest month of the pandemic, one of the lesser remembered casualties was public gatherings of Halloween revelers in Baltimore. Well, sort of.
- The outfit is a riddle. Well-tailored but garish. Expensive, but nothing that a wealthy man would have chosen to wear. The coat’s label: “Tilghman Davis 1888.”
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- Baltimore has converted two of its recreation centers to serve as temporary shelters for women and couples experiencing homelessness when wind chill temperatures hit freezing or below this winter.
- In a year dominated by politics, protests and a global pandemic, The Baltimore Sun’s visuals staff was there to document every moment. Here are some of the most memorable pictures they captured.
- Fuku, a fried chicken spot from New York celebrity chef David Chang, is set to begin operations in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.
- Baltimore has converted two of its recreation centers to serve as temporary shelters for women and couples experiencing homelessness when wind chill temperatures hit freezing or below this winter.
- The Black Lives Matter Interfaith Coalition, a group of 33 churches, synagogues and social justice groups, lead a 100-car caravan through Baltimore in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Black lives.
- This sunny Victorian is where investment broker T. Rowe Price grew up. Price’s physician father built this residence originally as a summer home and wedding present for his bride.
