Places I Remember

• Harvest Festival at Catonsville Elementary School
• Watching the fireworks at Catonsville High School
• Shopping at Hess Shoes - the monkeys is the window - the horse rides in the shoe store - walking across the bridge
• Shopping at the Hecht Co at Edmondson and eating in the cafeteria
• Shopping at the Westview Mall
• Taking the No. 8 bus from the Junction in Catonsville to Baltimore to shop at Hutzlers and Stewarts
• Women in their fur pieces, gloves and hats shopping downtown
• The bargain basement at Stewarts
• The lunch counter at Hutzlers
• Wilton Farm Dairy
• The egg man delivering fresh eggs
• The milkman delivering milk and leaving it in the silver colored box outside our kitchen door
• Skimming off the cream from the top of the milk and shaking the milk to mix it
• Going "down the ocean" (Ocean City) for as long as I can remember
• Staying at the Commander Hotel in Ocean City
• Salt Water Taffy
• Trimpers on the boardwalk (especially the carousel)
• Five Oaks Swimming Pool
• The Enchanted Forest
• Forest Hill Swim Club
• Dolly's Ice Cream Parlor
• Father's Gay Nineties in Catonsville
• Westview Cinema
• Westview Drive-In
• Watermont Pharmacy and the Watermont boys
• The graduating class at Howard High School "decorating" the water tower
• Watching football games at Howard High
• Reads Drug Store
• GEM
• EJ Korvette
• The Heritage House
• Dunloggin Farm
• Children's Opera at Maiden Choice
• The swinging bridge in Catonsville
• 9 mile hill
• Westview Lounge
• Howard Place
• Meetcha at Ameches
• Ginos hamburgers
• The Hippodrome Theater
• The Chinese Laundry on Ingleside Ave (the men wore queues)
• Patapsco Inn
• The Senator Theater
• Dances at the Ellicott City Armory every Friday night

Maryland Memories

I have been reflecting on my memories of growing up in Maryland and wanted to share some of those memories. Mostly this is just a random walk down Memory Lane. I was born in Catonsville, MD. My father was a builder and my mother was a teacher. We lived with my paternal grandfather in a stucco house he built until I was 5 and then moved to Ellicott City in Howard County (waay out in the sticks).

Rowhouses in Baltimore My paternal grandfather had a concrete business and built many of the steps leading to the street during the Depression


My early recollections are of visiting my maternal grandparents who lived on Edmondson Avenue. I loved going there. The streetcar ran right past their rowhouse (which would be called a townhouse now). I don't remember riding on the streetcar but I do remember looking through the Venetian blinds in my grandmother's bedroom and seeing it coming down the street with cars on either side.

I could walk to the end of their block and there was the Seven Up Bottling Company. If I walked in the other direction, I could go to the corner and wait for my grandfather to come home from Camden Yards. He was Superintendent at Camden Station for the B & O Railroad. I remember him coming home in his suit and always wearing a hat.