From 1968 to 1969, the Baltimore Bullets went from worst to first

Recalling the unsolved murder of ‘the angel of Reservoir Hill’

Then and now photos: Central Avenue

The Central Avenue canal once served as a corridor to transport goods down to the harbor. Today it still flows beneath the pavement of Central Avenue. 

Then and Now photos: Union Square Park

The fluted iron columns of the 1850 Greek Revival Pavilion frame a snowy scene in Union Square Park in 1941 and 2019.

Then and Now photos: National Central Bank

The corner of Baltimore and Holiday Streets, once home to the National Central Bank building, is now a full block parking garage.

The Sun Front Page: March 1, 1994

The Sun Front Page: Feb. 28, 2004

From the vault: College dorms

From the vault: Memorial Day

From the vault: Solar eclipses of the past

From the vault: The annual Chincoteague Island pony swim

From the vault: Camp David, Maryland’s presidential retreat

Remembering straw hat season in Baltimore

Retro Baltimore Trivia: Along with Martin O'Malley, who were the other two candidates elected in 1991 to the Baltimore City Council, representing the 3rd District?

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: Along with Martin O'Malley, who were the other two candidates elected in 1991 to the Baltimore City Council,...

Retro Baltimore Trivia: U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings credits what African-American female politician in Maryland with launching his political career?

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When Baltimore's Cassie Mackin changed the face of national TV news

The recent death of Sylvia Chase, a pioneering ABC female news broadcaster in the 1960s, recalls an era when such reporters as Lesley Stahl, Connie Chung, Judy Woodruff, Andrea Mitchell, and Baltimore native Catherine “Cassie” Mackin were changing the face of the male-dominated TV news business....

Retro Baltimore Trivia: Baltimore-born jazz singer Ethel Ennis provided the singing and speaking voice for what animated character on MPT's '70s children's show "Book, Look and Listen"?

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It looks like a video game, but it's not. It's a 3D map of the buildings, roads and land in 1815 Baltimore, created by UMBC

In the early 1800s, you could walk the city of Baltimore in an evening. Thanks to researchers from UMBC, who have created a 3D digital model of Baltimore circa 1815, you can see an approximation of what that walk would have looked like — building-by-building, block-by-block. If you didn’t know...

Retro Baltimore Trivia: What Sparrows Point High grad and University of Maryland alum made a stunning diving catch to vex the Orioles in the 1969 World Series?

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Forget flowers and candy: In Baltimore, you could buy your loved one a pothole for Valentine's Day

Now here is a Valentine’s Day gift that is as romantic as it is practical. In the 1980s, Baltimore launched a Valentine’s Day “adopt-a-pothole” campaign in which citizens could pay to have a pothole filled in their sweetheart’s name. A pink or red heart was stamped in the asphalt by the repair,...

Looking back at (Fred) Valentine's day(s) with the Orioles

With Valentine’s Day here and Spring Training hard upon us, who better to revisit than former Orioles outfielder Fred Valentine? A native of Clarksdale, Miss., and a star shortstop (and quarterback) at Memphis’ Booker T. Washington High School (class of ’53), Valentine was signed by the Orioles...

From the vault: Along the Jones Falls and the early days of the expressway

Valentine's Day romance didn't come cheap in turn-of-the-century Baltimore

Baltimoreans, it seems, were serious about their Valentine’s Day cards back in the 1890s — serious enough to spend as much as a third of their weekly salary on one. In an “I Remember...” column that ran in The Sun of Feb. 12, 1956 (just two days before Valentine’s Day), August M. Roth recalled...

Jacques Kelly: The Great Fire of Baltimore will not die out

The Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 is one of those city tales in which the reality is greater than the myth. The blaze began innocently enough, Sunday morning, Feb. 7, 1904, at the John E. Hurst warehouse, a structure that stood on the site of what is now the Baltimore Arena, at Liberty near Baltimore...

Retro Baltimore Trivia: What was the amateur baseball team Reggie Jackson played for in Baltimore in the summer of 1965? And where in town did they play?

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Alex. Brown & Sons building, survivor of the Great Baltimore fire, still stands 115 years later — now as a restaurant

Sometimes it pays to be short, even for a building. The 1901 Alex. Brown & Sons building at 135 East Baltimore Street was at the center of the conflagration that erupted in downtown Baltimore on February 7, 1904. Despite temperatures estimated to be 2,500 degrees at the southwest corner of Baltimore...

Retro Baltimore Trivia: On Jan. 20, 1984, Baltimore Colts owner Bob Irsay angrily told reporters at a news conference: "I haven’t any intention of moving the team." Where was the news conference?

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Diehard horse-racing fans, hardy jockeys and horses braved the snow and cold at Bowie Race Course

Bowie Race Course seldom bowed to the elements. In its 28 years of winter racing, until the track closed in 1985, hard-core (and sometimes frost-bitten) railbirds braved snow, sleet and hail to bet on the nags that ran at the stark, no-frills oval. Jockeys steered their mounts around 4-foot snowbanks...