I met my wife at Maryland Casualty in 1954. It was a good place for young people to work for there were always activities taking place at the clubhouse. We even had a softball team that played at Clifton Park for the Bankers/Insurance League. My wife and I will always remember our friends from Maryland Casualty.

When I was a kid, I made snack money carrying grocery bags to people cars out back. The little delay made really good hot dogs. Later, my dad taught me to work a clutch in that same parking lot.

I use to shop for my grandmother at the Giant Food and Rite Aid there. Then I would walk home to Chestnut Ave. The hill behind the Rotunda was a great place to use a snow sled.

The Maryland Casualty was an example of how businesses cared for their employees back in the day unlike today where companies provide things only to attract an keep talent. Back then it was truly to take care of their employees well-being. Zurich kept that same feeling but the split after the purchase of Farmers destroyed that on the Farmers side. I image Zurich is still a pretty good place to work although I can't say from personal experience. Farmers could not wait to close Baltimore operations, they did not like the culture Zurich kept here from the Maryland days and made sure you knew it. All water under the bridge , the building is still beautiful!

Spent some of my early years around the corner in Hoes Heights (worthy of its own video) so my family shopped over there a lot. Some of my earliest memories are of the Giant and Gordon’s Booksellers. It had, to me, some of the old arcade feel. I remember going in Brown’s Arcade a few times into the mid 80s (I watched that video, too)

Thank you for your excellent podcast and keep up the great work

Can you do a video on Mason & Carter Insurance? It is family owned since 1901 and in the Inner Harbor!

a lot of windows to wash and who were the archetects

How about the vinegar plant on Pulaski hwy?

Can you do a video on WMAR Tv