Stopped by 26th Street in Baltimore to see how they were making out fixing the cave in.
Looks like they're still fixing a hole where the rain gets in...They seem to have doubled the width of the cut, and are backfilling it at a more reasonable slope. I wonder if the street will be restored to its original width?
Elsewhere, I did some more research for my East Baltimore layout...
A positively dreadful update of a once beautiful rowhouse...
A nice weathering study of an abandoned industry
Some urban store front treatments... corrugated... lots of corrugated!
Lots of rowhouse details
and caught a crew dismantling a warehouse off of Haven Street. I believe this was one of the receiving areas for the old Esskay meats plant. Hard to see here, but a track curves in front of the building, then crosses Haven Street here.
The main plant was on the other side of Haven, long gone. Note the grade of the street changing abruptly at the railroad track.
And I stopped to get some better pictures of the mural on Lucky 3 Dog Grooming, the building used in the original Hair Spray as the Turnblad residence.
Maybe one of you photo shop literate people can render some assistance on some decals...
The less common but still plentiful rowhouses with porches and bay windows...
And Mr. Boh sitting on his throne of lies. This used to be the largest brewery in town. Now it's an office building full of yuppies, clinging to its heritage even though no beer has been produced here in 30 years. Feh.
Another relic. This used to connect the bottlery to a refrigerated warehouse, which succumbed to the wrecking ball many years ago. It's a great landmark, though, and it looks like it will be preserved, if not put to any useful purpose (like making beer).
All the really cool manufacturing bits stood where this parking lot is, including the rail spur which came in to the left of the older brewery building there on the left. There were grain bins, conveyors, and another older brewery building here. Now there's a bunch of Hondas and Kias driven by people who wear Mr. Boh T shirts and order Natty Boh at TGI Fridays, and imagine they're drinking a local beer, which of course they are not. Bunch of shills.
This is the old Gunther brewery across the street, which looks very little like it did back in the day. The more modern building in the front was updated when Schmidt's of Philadelphia bought out Gunthers, but the old brew house in the back is more or less original. It too has been gutted and added onto to create overpriced apartments.
The view down O'Donnell Street toward St. Casimir's, easily the most recognizable landmark in Canton.
And finally, an homage to the 1960s, complete with aluminum awnings, Formstone, and an interesting geometric treatment of the display window!
