Gil Sandler's Baltimore Stories

Thursday, Nov. 25, 1962 (Thanksgiving Day)Miller Brothers Restaurant--then on Fayette and Hanover Streets--was packed. Diners had turkey on their mind,…

In the early afternoon of Thursday, March 9, 1933, in the heart of the Great Depression, the popular department store Hochschild Kohn's and the teachers…

On the afternoon of October 10th, 1945 the streets of downtown Baltimore were packed with people. 50,000 had come out to cheer Baltimore native and hero…

Every year Baltimoreans hear about the National Spelling Bee where 12-year-old contestants are successfully spelling such esoteric words as tenebrous,…

December 7, 1962: Baltimore's City Hall was flag-draped. Outside bands are playing. Inside in the ceremonial room, officials busied themselves. TV cameras…

Gil tells us about the last dinners to be served at Marconis restaurant, a Baltimore institution that was in operation for 85 years.

How a December 1948 trip to a pumpkin patch broke a spy case wide open.

Famed movie star Dorothy Lamour married no less than a descendant of John Eager Howard and took her place among the city's elite in 1944. Baltimore high…

Up into the 1970s, Baltimoreans could tune in on their radios to station WCAO at midnight and listen to—poetry! It was an hour of readings, to the…

When Congressman Tommy D'Alesandro, Jr. married Nancy Lombardi, Little Italy - where they were both born and raised - became one vast, day long party of…