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How Baltimore Quietly Became the Coolest City on the East Coast
Travel and Leisure ^ | July 26, 2017 | David Amsden

Posted on 07/28/2017 6:41:10 AM PDT by C19fan

There's much more to Charm City than what you've seen on The Wire. Even as racial tensions make headlines in this famously blue-collar town on the Chesapeake, slick waterfront projects and farm-to-table dining have arrived along with a new, younger generation of residents set on building the place they want to live in. One native Marylander travels to the city he first knew as a kid to meet the doers and dreamers driving Baltimore's next act.

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TOPICS: Local News; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: arson; baltimore; clickbait; corruption; fantasy; freakstate; freddiegray; looting; maryland; obamalegacy; race; rawlingsblake; rioting; spacetodestroy; thugculture; tourism; violence
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To: C19fan

Famous for crab cakes...


21 posted on 07/28/2017 7:13:20 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: C19fan
Baltimore may be cool. But the CVS there? Very Hot!

Image result for baltimore riots cvs

More....

22 posted on 07/28/2017 7:14:48 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Steely Tom

Ya, I heard about that . They had girl jail guards there, and somehow they got pregnant from the prisoners they are guarding. What the heck???


23 posted on 07/28/2017 7:16:38 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: C19fan

As the publisher of a golf and travel publication all I can say is follow the money. Anything in a lifestyle magazine/website is total BS.

My media kit...
Gold sponsorship:
Skyscraper and/or banner
Flash video ad
Sponsor/presenting links
Native ad/review
3 Press releases
Podcast interview
Inclusion in Top 50 Places To Visit This Season


24 posted on 07/28/2017 7:19:14 AM PDT by nhwingut (Trump Pence 16 - Blow Up DC)
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To: C19fan

Yeah, if you’re the kind of person that enjoys doing laps in the septic tank.


25 posted on 07/28/2017 7:20:21 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: C19fan

As they aptly graffiti’d on The WIre - “Bodymore, Murderland”.


26 posted on 07/28/2017 7:20:23 AM PDT by Hat-Trick (Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
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To: caltaxed

Baltimore was when I grew up there, 40s and 50s. Will always call it home, miss the old days, skinny dipping below the little dam at Lock Raven at night, so many more fun times.


27 posted on 07/28/2017 7:20:56 AM PDT by boomop1 (Term limits is the only way to change this failed government.)
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To: C19fan

Well, in what ways is it “cool”????

Cool for tourists down at the Inner Harbor??

Cool for people who live there?? What neighborhoods though??

Cool for people who ride public transportation there??

Cool for people who work downtown??


28 posted on 07/28/2017 7:23:02 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: C19fan

You mean like this kind of cool? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3572566/posts


29 posted on 07/28/2017 7:28:47 AM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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To: caltaxed

I’ll never ever go back. The Inner Harbor was a festering crap hole with bums and rude people.


30 posted on 07/28/2017 7:29:26 AM PDT by Snowybear
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To: C19fan
It was probably ok fifty or more years ago, when it was a blue collar port and manufacturing city. The Barry Levinson movies Avalon and Diner capture that era. But the days of his characters or of H. L. Mencken a few decades earlier are long gone.
31 posted on 07/28/2017 7:29:49 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: KeyLargo

Nike should stop sponsoring riots.


32 posted on 07/28/2017 7:33:37 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Leaning Right
I wonder if this wasn’t a “sponsored” article.

Tryin' to attract ther gentrifiers and hipsters that can't afford Brooklyn.

33 posted on 07/28/2017 7:34:50 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: Hammerhead
The whole city should be firebombed and pushed off into the Chesapeake Bay...

Nuked into a smoking crater and then salted. I was born, spent my early childhood, and worked there. Pure evil. Degeneracy, perversion, drugs, and soul-less killers. Every city has some of these things, but Baltimore has all of them, and not just in the hood, but even into the county. I've travelled a lot, to some very bad places, but the feeling of pure unadulterated evil in Baltimore is like no other.

34 posted on 07/28/2017 7:37:11 AM PDT by LambSlave
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To: C19fan

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yhdh8kSM7lY


35 posted on 07/28/2017 7:40:21 AM PDT by ex91B10
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To: C19fan

Can’t stop laughing at that article.

Before going to Baltimore I consult a friend who used to live there. He gives me a street map with safe and unsafe areas highlighted.

“Detroit with Crabcakes” as I affectionately call it.


36 posted on 07/28/2017 7:42:14 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: C19fan
Baltimore

Oh boy, what a dance I saw, down yonder in Baltimore,
Done to a brand new tune.
In most every caberet from Dixie to Frisco Bay,
They'll all be doing it soon.

There's a dance, got 'em Like Black Bottom called Baltimore
Oh baby, that step has got a rhythm that's hot.
When they start playin, then you start swayin' like an old seesaw,
When you start steppin' about, get up and shout, "Hey!"
First you count the beat and double it,
Then repeat, and then you just
Slide your feet right over the floor.

There's a dance, got 'em like never did before.
No sir, that new twister called
Baltimore!

--Fred Rich

37 posted on 07/28/2017 7:52:00 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: C19fan

Baltimore is a cess pool. Pure and simple. I attended a convention there right next door to Camden Yard. Security addressed us the first day and advised us that no one could guarantee our safety after dark and the best advise was to stay in the hotel. No kidding.


38 posted on 07/28/2017 7:54:04 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Roccus

Actually Pittsburgh is currently the “coolest city on the East Coast”, and that is NOT a good thing.

It is attracting too many Millenial hipsters who love all things gay to move here. They vote for Liberal kooks who are gradually turning us into San Francisco on the Mon.


39 posted on 07/28/2017 7:57:55 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: C19fan

Cool in the sense of a lot of bodies becoming room temperature through the high murder rate.


40 posted on 07/28/2017 8:01:15 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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