Retro Baltimore

Think you know your Baltimore? Try answering our weekly trivia question.

By Lori Sears

Nov 27, 2019

Fifty years ago, the city’s three major league teams — the Colts, Bullets and Orioles — all strode into the post-season with title aspirations. Yet that trio, favorites all, fell flat on their collective keisters to teams from — dare we say it? — New York.

By Mike Klingaman

Nov 27, 2019

A brief history of Baltimore's Edmondson Village, among the East Coast's first suburban shopping centers, that was heavily damaged in a Nov. 22, 2019, fire.

By Chris Kaltenbach

Nov 22, 2019

Think you know your Baltimore? Try answering our weekly trivia question.

By Lori Sears

Nov 21, 2019

The legendary Baltimore and Ohio Railroad china is back. Well, at least one piece of it, and it's paper. The reproduction is the brainchild of retired CSX executive E. Ray Lichty, who, with his wife, Judy, also collects the real thing.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Nov 21, 2019

In 1964, Baltimore's inner harbor was a bustling industrial waterfront with freighters filling the piers along Pratt Street. Filled with shops and entertainment venues, Baltimore's Inner Harbor is now one of the city's main attraction for tourists and residents.

On a clear, crisp fall day in 1927, Navy and Notre Dame clashed in football for the first time at Baltimore’s Municipal (later Memorial) Stadium.

By Mike Klingaman

Nov 14, 2019

Think you know your Baltimore? Try answering our weekly trivia question.

By Lori Sears

Nov 7, 2019

Blogger Joe Manning has been tracking down descendants of people photographed by Lewis Hine, the investigative photographer who traveled the country documenting child labor in the early 1900s. One of Hine’s subjects was 8-year-old Baltimore-born Marie Kriss. Blogger Manning tracked down Kriss' granddaughter, Sandra Beaugez, to show her a picture of her grandmother.

By Christina Tkacik

Nov 7, 2019

Think you know your Baltimore? Try answering our weekly trivia question.

By Lori Sears

Oct 31, 2019

A look back at the tours of the Westminster catacombs, one of Baltimore's eeriest traditions.

By Chris Kaltenbach

Oct 31, 2019

Forty-six years after attending the opening of Columbia City Cinemas, Tom Brzezinski remembers it well — though not for the spiffy lobby or gum-free seats.

By Mike Klingaman

Oct 29, 2019