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Then-and-now pictures from Retro Baltimore

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Colts fans huddle under umbrellas and sheets of plastic as they watch the Colts defeat the Minnesota Vikings 24-14 at Memorial Stadium in 1968.
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A pile of stumps smolders after trees were cleared near the Sheppard Pratt gatehouse during the rerouting and widening of Charles Street in 1957.
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Cars park along the carriage lane of N. Charles Street near 32nd Street in 1963. At the time, residents of the area were upset over a proposal to install parking meters.
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Arcade Pharmacy is seen at the corner of Hamilton Avenue and Harford Road in 1957. The pharmacy closed in 1997.
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Framed by the columns of the pavilion, a family walks through the snow in Union Square Park in 1941.
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Cars park along the 500 block of N. Stricker Street in the Harlem Park neighborhood.
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The former summer home of H.L Mencken overlooks the Jones Falls Valley from a hill in Mount Washington in 1979.
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A Western Maryland Railway bridge crosses Reisterstown Road in Owings Mills in 1944.
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Homes are seen in the unit block of Admiral Boulevard in Dundalk in 1963.
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Young boys sit on the Baltimore city line marker at the corner of Hanover Street and Jack Street in Brooklyn in 1937.
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The Mechanic Theater closed in 2004 and was razed ten years later. The France fountain was redesigned with a nautical theme in 1998.
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Sagamore Farm's oval-shaped training barn and indoor track is seen along Belmont Road in Reisterstown in 1955.
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East Baltimore Street in 1917 featured a view of the iconic Tower Building, the Rivoli movie theater and Newark Shoe store.
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Shops line York Road in Cockeysville near an underpass of the Northern Central Railroad in 1939.
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Cars back up on East Mt. Vernon Place at St. Paul Street in 1937 as traffic was diverted from Charles Street while foresters removed an ancient Ash tree.
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A pair of single family homes along Pennsylvania Ave. in Towson frame the Ridgely Condominiums high rise under construction in 1974.
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Trains of the Union Bridge-based Maryland Midland Railroad now use line that passes over Reisterstown Road.
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Downtown Towson is seen looking south on York Road from Shealy Avenue in 1922.
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The 51-foot tall Male/Female sculpture stands at the entrance to Pennsylvania Station above a parking garage built when the south-side tracks were removed.
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Two-way traffic and a street car move along Charles Street above the south-side tracks at Pennsylvania Station in the 1930s.
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A vest pocket park is formed by the intersection of Park Ave, Liberty Street and Fayette Street in the early 1900s.
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Horse drawn carts travel alongside street car tracks on Howard Street in 1905.
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A variety of stores fill the Cherry Hill Town Center. The Cherry Hill Branch of the Enoch Pratt Library moved to the shopping center in 1998 into space formerly occupied by the Hill Theater.
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Snow blankets Federal Hill along Key Highway in Baltimore's Inner Harbor after a storm in 1958.
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The Washington Monument stands in the center of a dirt covered Charles Street shared between horse drawn wagons and early cars in 1904.
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Police direct traffic on South Hanover Street at the intersection with Cromwell Street in Port Covington in 1949.
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Traffic moves on South Hanover Street through the intersection with Cromwell Street in Port Covington.
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A pedestrian crosses East Lombard Street above S. Chester Street in 1962.
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Cars are parked along East Monument Street at St. Paul near the Loyola College and High School building (left) in the 1920s.
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The Winans mansion, designed by architect Stanford White in 1882, has been used as a school for girls, a funeral home and doctors' offices. Now it is used as office space for Agora Inc.
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Dark Lane was officially designated a street in 1817. Two hundred years later, the glorified alley is a bit darker, surrounded by tall buildings on three sides.
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Homes line West Hoffman Street at Park Avenue near the Fifth Regiment Armory in 1937. Deemed a blight by the Mount Royal Association, the homes were razed for a park.
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Businesses are seen along Main Street in downtown Sykesville in 1953.
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The Wade Wing of the Foster-Wade Building is seen in 1928 a few months after its completion on the Spring Grove Hospital campus. The Foster Clinic, seen with columns, was built in 1914.
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Engine Company No. 46 is seen on Reisterstown Road in 1975. The fire station was built in 1919.
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Residents walk down Cooksie Street in Locust Point in 1941.
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Visitors enjoy the annual Holiday Train Garden at Baltimore Fire Department's Glen Avenue station in 1976.
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Two-way traffic moves along South Street looking north from Water Street in 1917.
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The Ray of Hope Baptist Church recently celebrated its 40th anniversary at the corner of Harford Road and Parkside Drive.
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Trees now line much of East Lombard Street as part of the city's long term effort to increase the urban tree canopy.
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Construction of a culvert that would eventually box in the Jones Falls is seen near Penn Station in 1958. The Jones Falls Expressway, constructed above the river, was completed to Guilford Avenue in the early '60s.
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Emma's Tea Spot now occupies the former Arcade Pharmacy at the corner of Hamilton Avenue and Harford Road.
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Traffic and streetcars cross the Hanover Street Bridge in 1940.
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National Central Bank, once known at The German Bank of Baltimore City, is seen at the northwest corner of Baltimore and Holiday Streets in 1931.
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Cars fill the parking lot at Memorial Stadium during the first Orioles Opening Day in 1954.
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Surrounded by Baltimore rowhouses, the home, built in 1848, is one of the oldest in Bolton Hill.
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Johns Hopkins Hospital (top right) and East Baltimore is seen looking down East Fayette Street from the Shot Tower in 1943.
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Traffic travels south on the Jones Falls Expressway passing The Baltimore Sun building.
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Once the center of upscale department store shopping in Baltimore, Howard Street stores have been largely abandoned or repurposed over the last fifty years.
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Cars park along the 500 block of N. Stricker Street in 1945.
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Howard County's first firehouse at Church Road and Main Street is now the Firehouse Museum. The museum's collection of firefighter memorabilia and displays is open to the public on weekends.
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Roman-style brick architecture typical of many homes in Charles Village is seen on the Northwest corner of 25th Street and Calvert Street in 1969.
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The businesses have changed but Eastern Avenue still the economic center of Highlandtown.
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Over the years Towson Plaza was enclosed and expanded, incorporating much of the original shopping center into what in now the four-story Towson Town Center.
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Tracks damaged from flooding in Hurricane Agnes are seen outside the Sykesville Train Station in 1973. The station on the B&O Line was designed by architect Ephraim Francis Baldwin.
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Businesses are seen along Main Street in downtown Sykesville.
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A pedestrian crosses Charles Street near Read Street. This section of Charles Street became one-way Northbound in 1963.
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St. Ambrose Catholic Church added a convent and rectory in 1955. The street car line stopped running on Park Heights Avenue in 1949.
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HarborView and The Pier Homes at Harborview are seen along Key Highway after Baltimore received a dusting of snow on Wednesday.
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The three-way intersection of Englewood Avenue, Gwynn Oak Avenue and Windsor Mill Road is seen in Woodlawn.
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The Charles L. Benton Jr. Building now occupies the corner of Baltimore and Gay Street. The Tower Building disappeared from the city skyline in 1986.
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A crowd gathers by the toll plaza for the opening of the new Susquehanna River Bridge in August 1940.
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The Jacob France Memorial Fountain is seen in the center of Hopkins Plaza shortly after its construction near the Morris A. Mechanic Theater in 1967.
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The No. 9 trolley line runs along Ellicott City's Main Street in 1955. The line, which traveled back and forth from Catonsville Junction and began running in 1899.
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Traffic moves along Hanover Street past the Baltimore city line marker (right) in Brooklyn. The stone in was placed in 1919 after a general survey of the city's boundaries.
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The back of the Sunpapers building is seen on Guilford Avenue in 1975 during the construction of the Jones Falls Expressway.
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Soap box derby cars speed down the starting ramps on the 2400 block of E. Baltimore St. in 1950 during a heat in the Sunpapers Soap Box Derby.
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The Johns Hopkins Hospital campus now fills much of the East Baltimore skyline.
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Mulberry Street runs alongside of the Central Enoch Pratt Free Library in 1948. In the distance at Park Avenue is the heart of Baltimore's Chinatown community.
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Traffic moves East through the center of Essex along the 400 block of Eastern Boulevard in 1964.
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A crew of postal employees sort Christmas mail by hand at Baltimore's Main Post Office on Calvert Street in 1956.
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A northbound Amtrak Acela crosses the Susquehanna River Bridge at Havre de Grace.
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Seen during Wednesday's snowstorm, this section of Holiday Street in front of City Hall is now a parking lot. Streetcar service ended here in November 1963.
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The mansion of millionaire Ross R. Winans stands near the southeast corner of Preston and St. Paul streets in 1967 shortly after the neighboring Donaldson mansion had been torn down.
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The home, formerly known as Jencks Mansion and more recently the Hackerman House, was reopened in June by the Walters Art Museum following a four-year, $10.4 million renovation.
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The Lord Baltimore Hotel is seen through a small gap in the canyon of gray office buildings formed by Bank of America Center (right), the G.H. Fallon Federal Building and the Garmatz Federal Courthouse (not pictured) along South Hanover Street.
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The mill dam now known as Round Falls is the main surviving element of the Timanus Mill which was torn down in 1933. The19th Century iron-work arch bridge was replaced in the 1970s in order to span the Jones Falls Expressway.
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Traffic crosses the 101-year-old Hanover Street bridge between Port Covington and Cherry Hill.
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Delivery trucks line up in front of businesses along Eastern Avenue at Eaton Street in Highlandtown in 1940.
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Sophie Lericos gets a kiss from the Oriole Bird, then know as Big Bird, on Opening Day at Memorial Stadium in 1981.
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Several inches of snow coat the Barye Lion Statue and the park at West Mount Vernon Place in 1938.
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Lynne Brick's Belvedere Square gym occupies the majority of the former Hochschild Kohn department store building on York Road.
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Residences along Druid Park Lake Drive are reflected in the Park's reservoir in 1933.
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The carriage lane of N. Charles Street near 32nd Street remains unmetered today with parking limited to two hours for those without a residential permit. Curbside parking along the main lanes of Charles Street is metered.
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Strainer's Cafe and row homes are seen along the 1600 block of Clinton St. in 1940. The block was known as Copper Row, and was housing for workers from the Baltimore Copper Smelting Company beginning around 1850.
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Orange cones and barrels line much of Central Avenue during the second phase of the long term streetscaping project.
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Sherwood Episcopal Church, an 1830s gothic revival style church, overlooks businesses along York Road in Cockeysville in 1939.
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A Baltimore & Ohio train passes above a crew beginning construction on a new bridge over Loch Raven Road in 1957 prior to widening the roadway.
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The train yards are gone but the 1728-foot long Orleans Street Viaduct remains a primary route for drivers traveling between East and West Baltimore.
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Paddlewheel steam ships and fireboats are docked at a pier at the end of President's Street on Baltimore's inner harbor in 1939.
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Liberty Dog Park fills a block-long, narrow greenspace between Liberty Street and Park Avenue in downtown Baltimore. It is bounded by Fayette Street on the north side and Baltimore Street on the south.
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Homes are seen in the unit block of Admiral Boulevard in Dundalk.
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The colonial style Baltimore Federal Savings and Loan building is seen at 19 E Fayette Street in 1951. In 1989, the bank, then known as Baltimore Federal Financial, failed and was taken over by the government.
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Canton National Bank is seen on the corner of S. Clinton and Elliott streets after a robbery in 1963.
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The Jencks Mansion, as it was know as in 1953, is seen on Mount Vernon Place.The mansion was built around 1848 by Dr. John Hanson Thomas.
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Towson Commons replaced the stores along the 400 block of York Road in 1992. After struggling in recent years, the retail space is working on a turnaround. New owners have secured several tenants including L.A. Fitness, Chipotle and CVS pharmacy.
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Homes are seen on the 6700 block of Brentwood Ave. in Dundalk.
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Ships fill the piers at Bethlehem Steel along Key Highway in Baltimore's Inner Harbor after a snowstorm in 1958.
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Hochschild Kohn department store is seen on the corner of Belvedere Avenue and York Road in November 1983, a month before it closed. It had opened in 1948 as the company's second suburban location.
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Filled with shops and entertainment venues, Baltimore's Inner Harbor is now one of the city's main attraction for tourists and residents.
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The Coast Guard cutter Eagle unfurled its sails and skimmed out of the Inner Harbor below the new construction of the Outer Harbor Bridge in July 1976. The bridge opened for traffic in March 1977 as the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
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With the conversion to cashless tolling, drivers no longer have to stop at the toll plaza at the Thomas J. Hatem Memorial Bridge. The bridge over the Susquehanna between Perryville and Havre de Grace was named for Hatem, a longtime Harford County politician in 1986,
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Cars park along Dolphin Street near the Fifth Regiment Armory. Congressional Medal of Honor Park now occupies the area where Hoffman Street and Park Avenue once intersected.
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A woman stands along the street car tracks near St. Ambrose Catholic Church on Park Heights Avenue in 1948.
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Tracks of the Western Maryland Railway's Port Covington Yard lead toward the Gould Street Generating Station in South Baltimore in 1940.
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The high rise buildings of Harbor East have replaced much of the industrial landscape once found at the end of President Street.
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The Timanus Grist Mill is seen along the Jones Falls near the Cedar Avenue Bridge in the early 1900s.
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The University of Maryland School of Medicine campus (right) now occupies much of the west side of downtown Baltimore.
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Fifty years later, an opening day crowd of 44,182 watches the Orioles lose to the Yankees in Oriole Park at Camden Yards, 8-4.
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In 1964, Baltimore's inner harbor was a bustling industrial waterfront with freighters filling the piers along Pratt Street.
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The Foster-Wade Building is the oldest surviving patient care building on the Spring Grove Hospital Campus. Founded in 1797, Spring Grove is the second oldest continuously operating psychiatric hospital in the U.S.
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Traffic passes below a train on the CSX freight line on Loch Raven Road near 25th Street.
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The U.S. Coast Guard barque cutter Eagle sails below the Francis Scott Key Bridge on its way to Baltimore for Fleet Week.
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Edmondson Village Shopping Center has struggled in recent years due to area crime and competition from larger shopping malls, but continues to host an eclectic variety of stores.
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The 188-year-old Sherwood Episcopal Church was built on five hillside acres in Cockeysville donated by Frances Thwaites Deye Taylor.
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Cars fill the parking lot near the U.S. Public Health Service hospital in Wyman Park in 1959. It was built in 1934 as the Baltimore Marine Hospital.
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An A&P grocery and the Hill Theater bookend a shopping center in Cherry Hill in 1946.
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Seen in 1950, Dundalk's Shipping Place is the commercial heart of the old neighborhood. The pair of brick commercial buildings, the Dunkirk (left) and the Dunleer, were built in 1929 and 1930.
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Standing on a roundabout in the center of Charles Street, the Washington Monument has been a focal point in the Mount Vernon neighborhood since its completion in 1829
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Traffic moves along East Mt. Vernon Place between St. Paul Street and Charles Street.
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Looking North on Roland Avenue, traffic passes the entrance to Gilman School.
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The Gould Street Generating Station is seen beyond The Baltimore Sun plant which began printing at the former rail yard site in 1992.
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Looking south from 11th Street, Baltimore Avenue appears relatively empty for a July day in Ocean City in 1943.
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St. Paul Street crosses the Jones Falls Expressway near Penn Station in Baltimore.
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The National Central Bank building was razed with several other buildings in the late 90s to build a full block parking garage originally intended to keep Alex Brown Inc. in the city.
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The New Bethel House Of Prayer now occupies the former fire station space at 5116 Reisterstown Road. Engine Company 46 moved into a new station at 5500 Reisterstown Road in 1980.
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One of several parking lots are seen as Orioles fans climb the stairs to the upper deck at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
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Fayette Street at Pearl is now part of the University of Maryland at Baltimore campus. The Baltimore VA Medical Center, left, was completed in 1992.
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A southbound double-decker bus drops a passenger at the corner of Read Street and Charles Street in 1938.
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Converted to a four unit apartment building, the Mount Washington summer home of H.L Mencken was was recently listed for sale by owner.
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A driver turns left onto northbound York Road from Chesapeake Avenue in Towson in 1964. Shops in the 400 block of York Road included Smrcina's dry cleaners, Wilson Electric and the Towson Bootery.
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The Central Avenue canal, seen in 1954, once served as a corridor to transport goods down to the harbor.
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The Central Enoch Pratt Free Library, which opened in 1933, is nearing the completion of a $115 million renovation.
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Nested up against a turn in the Pennsylvania Railtoad, row houses line the 1700 block of Ellsworth Street in 1944.
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A widened section of Roland Avenue is seen under construction near the entrance to Gilman School in 1915.
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The Rodman Guns, installed in 1866, still adorn the ramparts of Fort McHenry. The statue of Col. Armistead now stands near the visitor's center on the other side of the fort.
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The York Road underpass, built in 1930, became obsolete when the trains stopped running. It was removed in the early 90s.
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A pedestrian crosses East Monument Street at St. Paul up the hill from Center Stage which moved into the former Loyola College and High School building in 1975.
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A child stands on Oella Avenue below the streetcar bridge at Ellicott City in 1939. The No. 9 streetcar ran on the line that was originally part of the Catonsville and Ellicott City Electric Railway Company.
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Stephanie Nitti of Canton dances with the Oriole Bird during the 7th inning stretch at Oriole Park during the home opener against the Minnesota Twins.
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The statue of John Eager Howard in Mount Vernon shows a coating of snow during a storm in 1934. The statue was erected in 1904 on land that was once part of Howard's estate.
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The Canton House (right) replaced the billboards at the corner of South Street and Water Street when it was built in 1923.
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A motorist drives East over the Fort Avenue bridge over the Locust Point rail yard toward Fort McHenry.
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A dusting of snow coats Federal Hill and the Ritz-Carlton Residences along Key Highway in Baltimore's Inner Harbor during last Friday's storm.
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Petroleum Fuel & Terminal Company storage tanks now occupy the former site of Copper Row on Clinton Street.
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With many of the long abandoned homes razed over the past few years, the 1700 block of Ellsworth Street today consists entirely of vacant lots,
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Seen in 1948 from the corner of Broadway and Eastern, the Broadway Market (center) has been a focal point for the Fells Point neighborhood for more than 200 years.
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The columns of the 1850 Greek Revival Pavilion frame last week's snowy scene in Union Square Park.
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In 1950, heavy equipment pulls old pilings that supported Light Street piers . A section of the old Baltimore Basin was filled and a parking area, called Sam Smith Park, was added. The filled area also included a new entrance to Calvert Street.
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A woman walks past Howard County's first firehouse at the intersection of Main Street and Church Road in Ellicott City in 1951. The building, built in 1889, was discontinued as a firehouse in 1923.
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Several inches of snow coat the Barye Lion Statue and the park at West Mount Vernon Place after Wednesday's snowstorm.
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The Ridgely Condominiums high rise catches the early morning sun near a vacant lot where the houses along Pennsylvania Ave once stood. Several new condominium projects are currently in the works in Towson.
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Street car lines are seen over Fayette Street looking west from Pearl Street in 1946.
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Traffic moves along the 5400 block of York Road in the Govans neighborhood in North Baltimore.
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Cars are seen parked along Dark Lane between St. Paul Street and Calvert Street in 1923.
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Trinity Assembly of God Church is seen at the corner of Harford Road and Parkside Drive in 1948.
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Postal employee Tru Wright separates packages from letters before feeding a belt for automated sorting at the Baltimore's Main Post Office at the start of the biggest week of the year for shipping.
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The Canton National Bank building at the corner of Elliott and S. Clinton streets is now a private residence.
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The statue of John Eager Howard on Charles Street in Mount Vernon shows a coating of snow during Thursday's winter storm -- the first of the season.
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Homes are seen under construction on the 6700 block of Brentwood Ave. in Dundalk in 1955.
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Traffic passes the historic Sheppard Pratt gatehouse on Charles Street in Towson. The gatehouse was renovated in 2013 to be used as a guesthouse for visiting staff and lecturers.
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Liberty Street (left) and Park Avenue are seen looking south from Fayette Street. Park Avenue now ends at Baltimore Street.
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Football fans cheers as the Ravens take the field in the rain prior to defeating the San Francisco 49ers 20-17.
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Streetcars are backed up seven deep in front of City Hall during a snowstorm on March 3, 1960.
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After the Public Health Service hospitals were closed in the 1980s, the Wyman Park Building continued as a private institution serving military families. Today, Johns Hopkins Community Physicians provide outpatient services on its lower floors, while the upper floors are used for university academic and administrative offices.
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A statue of Col. George Armistead, commander of Fort McHenry during the War of 1812, overlooks the Patapsco River alongside a battery of Rodman Guns in 1928.
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A pedestrian walks along Eastern Ave. at the intersection of Broadway. Fells Point's historic Broadway Market in the background is undergoing a major renovation and is expected to reopen this year.
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A small green space now occupies the north side of Lexington Street at St Paul. The surviving building on the right is now the Public Defender's Office.
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The home of Edward and Nancy Venable is seen on West Lanvale Street in 1956. Poet and diplomat William Force Stead, also lived at the home, known as Villa Caprice.
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While Ocean City has grown dramatically over the years, this stretch of Baltimore Avenue still has many home built in the 1940s.
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Built in the early 1900s, homes on Northwest corner of 25th Street and Calvert Street are characteristic of the Charles Village neighborhood.
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Southbound Pennsylvania Railroad steam engines pull coal cars over the Susquehanna River Bridge between Havre de Grace and Perryville on a winter day in 1951.
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The Wayside Cross, a 99-year-old monument (left), dedicated to Baltimore Countians who served during World War I, still stands at the intersection of York Road from Shealy Avenue in downtown Towson.
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Commercial office buildings are seen along the north side of Lexington Street at Saint Paul in 1917.
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Traffic moves East through the center of Essex along the 400 block of Eastern Boulevard.
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Workers put the finishing touches on Preston Gardens along St. Paul Street in 1919. The park replaced a neighborhood that Mayor James Preston considered a slum and was the home to many African-Americans.
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Visitors enjoy the 64th annual Holiday Train Garden at Baltimore Fire Dept. Engine Co. 45 on Glen Avenue. The display will be open to the public through January 5.
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A resident walks his dog down Cooksie Street in Locust Point.
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A motorist drives East over the Fort Avenue bridge over the Locust Point rail yard toward Fort McHenry in 1960. The bridge was torn down and replaced later that year.
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A crowd of 36,100 sits in Memorial Stadium in 1969 in perfect baseball weather as Red Sox edged the Orioles in 12 innings, 5-4.
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Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank purchased Sagamore Farm in 2007, renovating the property including the historic training barn.
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Baltimore's changing skyline is seen from the west side of downtown from a high-rise on Freemont Ave in 1967.
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Baltimore County's Woodlawn's business district had its own bank, Equitable Trust, a drug store and a branch of the old Fulton Laundry in 1963.
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Towson Plaza, seen along Fairmont Road in 1975, was an open-air mall built in 1952 near Goucher College.
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Druid Lake is now surrounded by equipment during the construction of two underground storage tanks that will hold more than 50 million gallons of drinking water.
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The Edmondson Village Shopping Center, seen here in 1951, opened in May 1947. It contained an eclectic group of businesses over the years, including a bowling alley, the Dugout Restaurant and a Hess Shoe store with live monkeys on display.
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Traffic crosses the Orleans Street Viaduct in 1955. The bridge was built in 1936 to a pass over the Pennsylvania Northern Central Division rail yards and the Jones Fall Valley.
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A Baltimore County school bus travels east on Edmondson Avenue at Dutton Avenue near the former trolly transfer point at Catonsville Junction.
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A stone abutment is all that remains of the trolley bridge over Oella Avenue in Ellicott City. The former streetcar line was converted to a walking trail in the 1990s.
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Dundalk's Shipping Place, now part of the National Register of Historic Places, continue to be used as street level storefronts with apartments above.
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Walgreens is now the primary tenant of the former Baltimore Federal Savings and Loan building at the corner of Fayette and St. Paul.
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Traffic moves along the 5400 block of York Road in the Govans neighborhood in North Baltimore in 1973.
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Sykesville Station is now Baldwin Station, an upscale restaurant that opened in 1997. CSX trains use the repaired tracks up to 10 times a day.
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Traffic flows through the intersection of Liberty Street (left) and Park Avenue looking south from Fayette Street in 1937.
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A streetcar sits at Catonsville Junction, the terminus of streetcar lines 8, 9, and 14, in June 1953.
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A No. 19 streetcar heads north along Hanover Street between Pratt and Lombard in 1941 while the Lord Baltimore Hotel is visible in the distance. Hanover Street was lined with wholesale produce merchants.
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Cars travel on Main Street in Ellicott City today. The popularity of automobiles eventually led to the trolley's demise on June 19, 1955.
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Nearing its 100th anniversary, Preston Gardens recently reopened after a $6.75 million renovation.
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The 2400 block of E. Baltimore St. hasn't seen a soap box derby in decades, but Arbutus has been hosting an annual race since 1966.

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By Baltimore Sun

PUBLISHED: October 1, 2018 at 12:42 p.m. | UPDATED: February 24, 2021 at 3:36 p.m.

Baltimore and the surrounding area sure has changed a lot in its centuries-long history. But many traditions and landmarks from decades ago are still around today, give or take a few variations.