I'll try it here. Maybe this is a better place. :)

Please. Everyone. Chit-Chat about Baltimore here. Thank you.

Now let me start off by saying, "I Love Baltimore!!!". :D

Well I don't know how hard it will be to draw people from the other thread, so here goes.

People will be stocking up on bread, toilet paper, and milk on Friday as the first major snowstorm of the season is predicted for Saturday, about 5-10 inches. It's a Baltimore tradition to act like the world is ending everytime it snows!! :eek2: :eek2:

Wow, you'd think they all would be used to it by now! ;) :D

I will be walking to work tomorrow if need be. I love living in town. Plus all the local taverns will be open so it will be just like normal life, but not because the car dependents will be shut in. God I hate the car.

Just so folks understand why I urged you to consider spreading talks out a little... There's an alterior motive here folks. Since we have to dump threads after 500 posts now, that means the Baltimore thread would have to be redone every few weeks as fast as you folks post. And with numerous other such threads to tend to, I just try and do things which keep threads broken up just enough that they don't get closed and replaced too quickly.

Also, it is done in the hopes of actually encouraging more discussion. You folks have an entire subforum at your disposal, dont just shut yourself into one thread. The NE forum is definitely the slowest, and you guys are really what keeps it going at this point. So thanks!

Wow, you'd think they all would be used to it by now! ;) :D

You WOULD think. But, the first one of the season is always a panic. We had a false alarm earlier in the week when we got an inch of snow, but the media have spent the rest of the week telling us about the upcoming "blast of frigid breath of mother nature" that is approaching (as though it hasn't ever happened before). By February we will take it in in stride.

I would get aggravated except that I have been further south during snows and realize that it is much worse there. I was once in Richmond VA durng a one-footer and I witnessed highway dept guys in pick-ups driving around shoveling sand onto the snow, while everybody else seemed to be aiming their cars at the nearest bridge abuttment. I hear that one inch in NC this week resulted in 1000 wrecks. Coming from Minnesotan ancestors, I think this is pretty silly, but I guess it's all relative. My theory is the equal-winter theory, i.e, a -40 blizzard in N Dak = 8 inches and 20 degrees in Baltimore = 1 inch and below freezing in Raleigh... same level of misery relative to local expectations.

I will be walking to work tomorrow if need be. I love living in town. Plus all the local taverns will be open so it will be just like normal life, but not because the car dependents will be shut in. God I hate the car.

Fortunately, I too live within a short, snowy walk of food, booze and videos, so I guess I will probably survive.

I will be walking to work tomorrow if need be. I love living in town. Plus all the local taverns will be open so it will be just like normal life, but not because the car dependents will be shut in. God I hate the car.
Can't do that myself...I live in Brooklyn Park and work in Annapolis.. I talked with someone during work Friday who lives in Minnesota. She said that the low a couple days ago in a little town called Embarrass (no I'm not making this up) was a bracing -46F!! And that it had warmed to a balmy 0!! Know what they call a 30 degree day in Minnesota? Summer :D

Fortunately, I too live within a short, snowy walk of food, booze and videos, so I guess I will probably survive.
LOL!!! :D :laugh:

"Know what they call a 30 degree day in Minnesota? Summer :D "

I know all about that myself. I used to live in upper Michigan. Newberry, Michigan to be exact. :D It was always COLD!!! 7 months of winter and 3 months of summer 1 month of fall and 1 month of spring. Lived there for over 5 1/2 years! ;) Don't miss the cold, but the land was beautiful! :)

Just a thought. Why don't we post questions here and if anyone has news about a development post it on the main thread. It would save the main thread from being archived so quickly. Its almost time again to have it archived so lets all make an effort. No lone line post or duplicate post. Just a thought. Maybe it will get the adminstrator off our back.

I was just watching CNN when a headline featured Martin O'Malley! He has some things to say about how Bush's budget plans are going to affect cities like Baltimore. It's coming on soon, so check it out! :)

I was just watching CNN when a headline featured Martin O'Malley! He has some things to say about how Bush's budget plans are going to affect cities like Baltimore. It's coming on soon, so check it out! :)

I liked Mayor O'Malley until he started aspiring to higher office.. now hes a go to guy for putting down the President and especially the govenor.. kind of annoys me..

Did you guys get to check out the Travel Channel's new special: "The Once and Future City: Baltimore."?
It was great! It lasts an hour and is done quite well. Great shots of the city and all of the neighborhoods. It should come on again soon. Check out the Travel Channell .com
and you should be able to find out when it comes on again. It's definately worth watching! :D

I think O'Malley's a man on a mission, frankly. I agree, he's done a lot of good things for the city, but I think he's thinking way too lofty too early. He needs to smooth it out a little, because he's not the governor yet, he's the mayor.

I'd like to see that Baltimore special sometime if it ever comes on again. :)

Maybe this is hoopla on one note, but it is a sigh of relief, I think. Considering that the homicide rate was spiraling in January, things have really tapered off since then. According to the good old City Paper, this year's rate is now behind the homicide rate of exactly one year ago.
http://citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=9760

31 in January
15 in February
6 in March (at this rate, only 11-12 by the 31st)

Let's hope the trend continues and we see less than 200 for the year. Even if the murder rate ticks up a little, as it probably will, it could still happen. ;)

I think O'Malley's a man on a mission, frankly. I agree, he's done a lot of good things for the city, but I think he's thinking way too lofty too early. He needs to smooth it out a little, because he's not the governor yet, he's the mayor.

I'd like to see that Baltimore special sometime if it ever comes on again. :)

Maybe this is hoopla on one note, but it is a sigh of relief, I think. Considering that the homicide rate was spiraling in January, things have really tapered off since then. According to the good old City Paper, this year's rate is now behind the homicide rate of exactly one year ago.
http://citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=9760

31 in January
15 in February
6 in March (at this rate, only 11-12 by the 31st)

Let's hope the trend continues and we see less than 200 for the year. Even if the murder rate ticks up a little, as it probably will, it could still happen. ;)
Didn't realize the rate had dropped so dramatically since the first of the year.

Here's something to consider: Not to make light of the war, but Baltimore's dangerous areas, on a per square mile basis, is more hazardous than Iraq. Since the war began, about 1,500 servicemen have been killed there and nearly 600 people in Baltimore. So a serviceman on leave, if he happens to be walking thru the hood, may be more likely to be killed than with his unit in Iraq.

GULP!!! :eek2:

personally, i'd never live in baltimore city. been there, done that. i grew up on monroe street and i couldn't wait to get away from it. But i really have to applaud the "downtown efforts" in revitalizing the city a bit. they're doing a superb job in that. Maybe my view of the city as a whole will change in the next 3-4 years or so. who knows?:)

I'm sympathize with you on the Monroe street thing. If that's all I knew of city life, I'd have been out of here long ago. My mother was raised in Pigtown, but luckily got out in her teenage years when her parents moved to Riverside Avenue.

I'm sympathize with you on the Monroe street thing. If that's all I knew of city life, I'd have been out of here long ago. My mother was raised in Pigtown, but luckily got out in her teenage years when her parents moved to Riverside Avenue.


But on the flipside about monroe street, they're tring to make a serious comeback with the emergence of Montgomery Park, SoBoChris. I've been inside there & if i must say so myself, I was HIGHLY impressed. It's a great compliment to carroll park being that it's right across the street from it. Check it out when you get a chance. If you've been in there, tell me whatcha' think of it.

Have any of you ever seen this map of Baltimore? It's from 1869 and by far the most detailed map I have ever seen. Here's the link. If it doesn't work, its located at the Library of Congress in the maps area of the American Memories section. It's definitely worth taking a look! Try to find places that still exist today.

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/map_item.pl?data=/home/www/data/gmd/gmd384/g3844/g3844b/pm002540.sid&style=gmd&itemLink=D?gmd:5:./temp/~ammem_EMzZ::@@@mdb=gmd&title=E.%20Sachse,%20%26%20Co.'s%20bird's%20eye%20view%20of%20the%20city%20of%20Baltimore,%201869.

Found my house.. err.. my block :)
my house wasnt built until 30 years later

http://img345.imageshack.us/img345/2772/mapimagepl9nh.gif

I've lived in Pigtown (Barre Circle) the past three years, and I think overall its making a great comeback. Houses are being bought and revamped. I think what we have is a spill-over from Federal Hill here and its improving the whole area.

BTW: can you just go into Montgomery Park? I have a coupon for Mama Illardo's which apparently is inside of there, but I didnt think you could just walk up and go in.

http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/6703/mapimage3fi.gif (http://imageshack.us)

The line represents approximately where my street will be once it is built in 1889. The circle is the Maryland White Lead Co., which still exists and is now known as the "Foundry on Fort". The wide street in the middle is Fort Avenue.