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
Michael Eugene Johnson: Serving Popcorn and Nostalgia at the Pikes Studio Cinema
The Pikes Theater has been a landmark on Reisterstown Road since forever. It has gone through several iterations, the most recent being as a very intimate setting for viewing your favorite movies with food you choose to order from one of the nearby restaurants delivered right to your seat; or, as a unique venue for your next fundraiser when you rent one or both of the 45-seat theaters and bring in your own caterer. You can thank Michael for having the vision to repurpose the site for movie lovers of any age. Who knows, this could make the younger generations social again.
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