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Highlandtown, arguably the very quintessence of Baltimore, was once a small town outside the city limits. The look and feel of the area still belies these beginnings. Much like the surrounding areas of Canton and Fells Point, Highlandtown feels like a small town trapped in a big city. The brick rowhouses with their marble stoops are typical of the architecture seen in Baltimore City. The corner bars, no matter how much they look like dives, are always populated by locals. Although Highlandtown had been seen as "going downhill," the area is now resurgent -- many young couples are buying and fixing up homes, and many businesses (both small and big) are moving in along the main drag on Eastern...
Highlandtown, arguably the very quintessence of Baltimore, was once a small town outside the city limits. The look and feel of the area still belies these beginnings. Much like the surrounding areas of Canton and Fells Point, Highlandtown feels like a small town trapped in a big city. The brick rowhouses with their marble stoops are typical of the architecture seen in Baltimore City. The corner bars, no matter how much they look like dives, are always populated by locals. Although Highlandtown had been seen as "going downhill," the area is now resurgent -- many young couples are buying and fixing up homes, and many businesses (both small and big) are moving in along the main drag on Eastern Avenue.
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Community graced by touch of glass
Sun ReporterSunshine enters the back windows of Viki Keating's Riva home and penetrates an assemblage of colored glass. As light is refracted from every angle, Keating thinks back to her childhood. She wanted to be an artist for as long as she can remember. In...Tags: Annapolis, Academic Progress, Indiana
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Harry B. Smith
Sun ReporterHarry B. Smith, a former Westinghouse Electric Corp. executive who was known as the "father of pulse-Doppler radar," died Friday of a stroke at St. Agnes Hospital. He was 86. Mr. Smith helped develop the radar system for high-altitude surveillance...Tags: Death and Dying, National Government, Electronics, Maryland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Good press for a free ride
Turns out the Bush administration hasn't cornered the market on pay-for-puff journalism. The city of Baltimore has offered free trips to Portland, Ore., Los Angeles, Phoenix and Seattle to reporters willing to write positive stories about public...Tags: Los Angeles, Maryland, Regional Authority, Bronx (New York City), New York
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Residential areas need protections
The night life bill proposed by City Council President Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake combines two ill-fitting ideas ("Night life focus of bill," July 21). The first idea is to establish a city office to license and coordinate live entertainment venues...Tags: Federal Hill, Cherry Hill
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Good points keep stacking up at the Hudson Street Stackhouse
The DeSantis family has another hit bar on its hands. The new Hudson Street Stackhouse, owned by son Dominic DeSantis, brings together the industrial feel of a warehouse and the warm, welcoming atmosphere of your favorite corner bar. The Stackhouse,...Tags: Federal Hill, Building Material, Venice, Metal and Mineral, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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Baltimore's underground sound
Sun reporterIt's not the kind of music heard at the dentist's office - unless, of course, it's a very hip and hard-core dentist. It's Baltimore club music, and it has made another rare appearance in the mainstream news after the Monday death of one of its most...Tags: New York, Artscape, Music, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Popular Music
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Matilda B. Wolfe
Matilda B. Wolfe, a retired secretary and former Dundalk resident, died July 9 of gangrene at a nursing and rehabilitation center in Waterloo, Iowa. She was 89. Matilda Belton was born in Baltimore and raised in Highlandtown. She was a 1936 graduate of...Tags: Nazareth, Iowa, Work Relations, Dundalk
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City weighs banning plastic grocery bags
Sun reporterBaltimore moved a step closer to becoming one of the first cities in the nation to ban plastic bags at grocery stores and retail chains after the proposal skidded through a critical City Council committee vote yesterday. Intended to keep the hard-to-...Tags: Annapolis, Sheila Dixon, Safeway Inc., Transportation, Groceries
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007 makes a 'Grand' showing
Sun reporterFor more than 90 years, until it was demolished on a snowy January day in 2004 to make way for the Enoch Pratt Free Library's Southeast Anchor branch, the glorious Grand Theatre stood on Conkling Street as the pride of Highlandtown. With its Saturday...Tags: Enoch Pratt Free Library, Alfred Hitchcock, Spider-Man, Theater, Sean Connery
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Old Haussner's in Highlandtown hid a trove of Cortes treasures in plain sight
Your eyes never quite knew where to gaze at art-filled old Haussner's Restaurant in Highlandtown. But if you looked toward the ceiling, near the lights and the ventilation system, a long row of paintings in heavy gilt frames seemed to be the extra...Tags: New York, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Dwight David Eisenhower, Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia), Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania)
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Merchants to expand on former GM site
Sun ReporterThe 80-year-old Merchants Terminal Corp. is expanding with a $25 million development of a new perishable foods distribution warehouse in Chesapeake Commerce Center, the former site of the General Motors van assembly plant on Broening Highway in...Tags: National Government, Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia), General Motors Corp., Duke Realty Corporation, Government
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John P. Rockstroh, 69
John P. "Rocky" Rockstroh Sr., a retired Bethlehem Steel Corp. supervisor and a senior partner in a firm that specialized in helping businesses reorganize, died Tuesday of lung cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The Sparks resident was 69. Mr. Rockstroh...Tags: Death and Dying, National Government, University of Maryland, Maryland, Perry Hall
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