As the city razes more of Baltimore’s once-grand shopping district, travel back in time to when it was bustling with proud small business owners
For those who have only known Baltimore’s Westside as a dilapidated ghost town, here’s a video snapshot of what it was like 25 years ago, when shocked merchants and business owners learned the city was condemning their buildings in the name of economic development.
Drycleaners, hair salons, the third generation owners of a men’s hat store, many of them immigrants and people of color, all appear in this short film made by Baltimore Heritage and Preservation Maryland…