Linda Grace Morris: Baltimore Boomer Tales from the Hood
Baltimore was the place to be in the 1950s and 1960s, bustling with all the industry and social change about to come. For African Americans, it was a jobs magnet with all the major manufacturers. Those living in Turner Station and Sparrows Point, the company town built to host the Bethlehem Steel Company, had the highest per capita income for African Americans in the nation. Cherry Hill, the only planned community built for African Americans by the Federal Government, lifted many Baltimore Boomers into the middle class. This podcast walks down memory lane through the neighborhoods and good times--despite segregation--that those growing up there can never forget.
Linda Grace Morris: Baltimore Boomer Tales from the Hood
Cherry Hill's Daddy Logan's Daughter: Francesca Brooks
Daddy Logan was a man before his time. He came to Baltimore from NC to work at the Bethlehem Steel plant on Sparrows Point in Baltimore County to save up money for his own entrepreneurial opportunity--creating a mobile grocery store for the families in Cherry Hill and other parts of Baltimore City. His wife, Estelle, managed the brick and mortar grocery store they purchased in another part of south Baltimore. Daddy Logan's school bus grocery store was a welcome sight to children who saved their pennies to buy the wide variety of candy he carried. Miss Dorothy P., 93, an early resident of Cherry Hill who was a celebrity herself with a set of triplets born in Cherry Hill in addition to four other children, remembers Daddy Logan. "I loved Daddy Logan. He was a friend to everyone. What I remember most is how he treated people. We were young with families, our husbands not making a lot of money. Not one person who went on Daddy Logan's bus came off empty handy--whether you had money or not. Those were the days when we shared and gave to each other. Daddy Logan was known for his goodness. What a man! I'm 93 and still remember his kindness to all. Best days of my life. Daddy Logan was one of the kindest men I have ever known."
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