Lived in Baltimore for 30 years , been gone 40 years , it's not the same

Laying my dear cousin to rest in old Baltimore in 3 days. We will miss you Albert Wayne Johnson Jr. 😓🙏💜🙏

These are photos are a beautiful reflection of human industriousness and creativity in erecting architecture alongside and with the assistance of horsepower derived from horses and steam engines.

Martin Middle River, GM Broening Highway, Sparrows Point Mill and Shipyard gone.

I miss the wholesale fish market on Market Place. Used to get oysters there at lunchtime during oyster season and take them home in a cooler packed with ice. My mother used to tell me about Lexington Market when it was still just open stalls as in the photo. She said you could see rats running all over the stalls when walking by the market in the evening after it closed. Yes, you could walk around downtown at night without worry of getting killed. She used to walk all the way across North Ave. from Poplar Grove St. in west Baltimore to Milton Ave. on the eastside to visit her grandmother. I miss the big downtown department stores and the old streetcars. Most of what I loved growing up in Baltimore in the 1950s and '60s either no longer exists or is in a museum. Only some of the ornate brick rowhouses dating back to the late 1800s/early 1900s still exist that I've loved since early childhood.

My 3rd Great Grandfather, Valentine Rehberger, immigrant from Darmstadt-Hesse, immigrated in 1836, started the first Huckster business in Baltimore in 1866. He was also one of the founders of Knights of Pythias and is in the front row of the Knights of Pythias photo at the meeting in Washington D.C., also in 1866. His Huckster business operated out of a building on Hull Street. He later bought a House on Hudson St, don't want to say where but his House is still there but now modernized apartments. My 3rd, 2nd and great grandparents were all "laid out" in that House. Two of his grandsons graduated from Johns Hopkins and one had a career in the Military and was a surgeon with Roosevelt in Cuba. I grew up on Hudson St, also lived on Pratt and Madeira, South Elwood, one house up from Elliot across from Mr. Steve's grocery store. Lexington Market, Ice Milk and Potato Quarters with the skin. In the 70's my cousin and I used to Shuck Oysters at the Fish Market. My mother was also a member of "The Committee" on the Buddy Dean show back when that was on.

Beautiful...back then

Baltimore does have a lot of history.

Baltimore has beautiful architecture. Every time I see the courthouse I'm in awe,the marble brass woodwork, Eutaw place Aucantrolly Terrance, Druid hill.

No trash, better days.

that was awesome

I was born in Baltimore in 1957. It’s very different now than in my formative years

Thanks for posting!

The cathedral is called the Basilica of the Assumption

Looks awesome

Those pics were awesome 👌

Then: Give me some bricks and I will build you a city. Now: Give me a city and I will give you broken bricks.

Beautiful picture I'm still here and it's a big change

I love that these photos are before and after the great Baltimore fire in the early 1900’s

That music's driving me crazy..🙄 love the photos though.😌

Cool. Some buildings show signs of buried lower levels from mud flood.

In the beginning it said business district and you can see the sign that says "Gayety" which is now the infamous "Block" Baltimore's Soddom and Gamorah.

Nice reflections for me

What happened to this once jewel of Americana?

Super

Lexington market actually looks nice, wow.

3.03 looks like Baltimore st. Looks strange like the train station having no Charles st.

I have to say I was somewhat depressed watching this slide show. When you visit Baltimore today, it's a fucking cesspool. 60 years of Democrat control.

Ay Hon I think dat chestnut vender wuz Ronnie and Lil' Butchies Great Granfodder..aint dat sumtin!? He youzed to live on Ford ave

Was mt royal station flooded?

Sad that now it looks like the ghetto.Every city was once Beautiful.

Loved the music! Does anyone know the name of this piece?

1:31 i live a block from this building now....looks the same...charles street and eager street.

Nothing last forever-not even life

It was in better condition over 100 years than it is today! Hmm I wonder what the difference could be....

sounds about me...

All those people on street are history

A typical antic Tartarian city covered by early 19 century mud flood. All lower floors are half visible. They can't build this type of buildings today. It was a high civilization totally different from today's gray stuff

RIP Baltimore.

Democrats KILLED and trashed Baltimore!!!

several mudflood bldgs

Happy Black history month. Geez, why can't Christmas be a month long. 😫 nah just kidding, no holiday should be a month long.

Damn my ancestors was slaves

Sad what a few decades of blacks can do to a city.