Baltimore History Channel

Welcome to Baltimore History Channel. On this channel, we will travel back in time to show you some vintage, old-school news videos that cover the Baltimore/Maryland region.

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The Blizzard of '79 in Baltimore
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Baltimore City street images (late-1940s) #baltimore #baltimorehistorychannel #maryland #oldbaltimore

📸 Photos courtesy of @baltimorecityarchives

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New video out today. Click the link below to view the video, and please don't forget to like, comment, subscribe, and share it.

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Who Y'all Think Is Going To Win Today's Football Game?

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Who remembers Shapiro's supermarket???

"Shapiro got into the business more than 35 years ago when he joined his father's supermarket in the Hilltop neighborhood of northwest Baltimore. They weren't making much money at first. The supermarket made little direct appeal to the Jewishness of the area, he said. "They didn't want ham or pork."

So Shapiro turned the Hilltop supermarket kosher in 1958 and expanded the concept to two other supermarkets. After Shapiro closed family supermarkets at Hilltop and on Liberty Road in the mid-1980s, the store at Old Court and Reisterstown roads continued what had become a tradition. Since 1964, it has offered kosher meat, delicatessen items, fish, baked goods and frozen foods. "A lot of Jewish people don't keep kosher, but they like Jewish things," Shapiro said. Volume would triple for Passover.

None of this was obvious when Shapiro first took the business kosher. "To close up on Friday night and Saturday, that was a heck of a chance to take," said Rae Schreiner, who started working for the Shapiro family after school in 1950, when he was 11. Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, also is one of the biggest shopping days of the week.

There were compensations, however. When Maryland's blue laws were in force, Shapiro's used to be one of the few businesses allowed to open on Sunday, Shapiro said, because he had already closed one day for his Saturday Sabbath.

Although the area already was served by more than 50 kosher butchers when Shapiro started, he said, a kosher supermarket could offer lower prices and one-stop shopping for a range of other products." (1990)

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Once Upon A Time at Lexington Terrace Projects. Here's a throwback photo of two black queens on a playground at Lexington Terrace Projects in West Baltimore (1950's) 💯🔥💎 #baltimore #baltimorehistorychannel #maryland #oldbaltimore

📸 Photo submitted by; @misstd_ 🙏

https://youtu.be/K6K2gFiDBTU

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In 1947 WMAR the 1st TV station in Baltimore transmitted from the top of this building in downtown Baltimore. WMAR ceased broadcasting from this tower many years ago. The antenna is still there on what used to be the tallest skyscraper south of New York City.

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