How Old Are You?

[$tevie]

RgrF wrote:
Back on the local theme:
Boston Ballroom
Haystack Calhoun
Killer Kowalski
Adventure Car Hop & Arnie "Woo Woo" Ginsburg

Sally Star
Gene London
Chief Halftown
Uncle Pete Boyle
Happy The Clown
(I'm not originally from Baltimore!)

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Bobo Brazil (Headbut!)
Mil M@scaras*
Freddie Blassie
John Tolos (Who looked a *lot* like John Astin)

"Romper, stomper, bomper boo
Tell me, tell me, tell me do
Magic Mirror, tell me today
Did my friends at home have fun at play?"

Sheriff John
Engineer Bill
Hobo Kelly (My first crush)


* Can anybody tell me why the forum software lists the word "M-a-scaras", without the hyphens, as a banned word and throws up a warning when you try and use it?

[RgrF]

$tevie wrote:
[quote=RgrF]
Back on the local theme:
Boston Ballroom
Haystack Calhoun
Killer Kowalski
Adventure Car Hop & Arnie "Woo Woo" Ginsburg

Sally Star
Gene London
Chief Halftown
Uncle Pete Boyle
Happy The Clown

(I'm not originally from Baltimore!)
How could you be, nothing original (aside from TV crime drama concepts) come from Baltimore. Philly on the other hand...

edit: twice in memory of Gutty

[$tevie]

RgrF wrote: How could you be, nothing original (aside from TV crime drama concepts) come from Baltimore. Philly on the other hand...

Oh, Roger, Roger, Roger, you are so far off base.

First professional sports organization in the United States - Maryland Jockey Club

First US stage coach route - Baltimore to Philadelphia

First Post Office System in the United States

First independent corps in the Revolutionary War Army- organized by Count Casimir Pulaski

First dredger in the world - the Baltimore Mud Machine, was invented by Andrew and John Ellicot.

First balloon ascension in the US with a person on board - Edward Warren

First Methodist church in America- Lovely Lane Meeting House

First general meeting of the Quakers

First church of the United Brethren

First Catholic diocese in the U.S.

First Roman Catholic seminary in the U.S. – St. Mary’s Seminary

The first monument to Columbus in the United States

First water company chartered in the United States - Baltimore Water Company.

First Sunday newspaper in America- Monitor

First sugar refinery in the U.S. - founded by Garts and Leypoldt

First US war ship to capture an enemy vessel - Constellation

First fort built by U.S. Government – Fort McHenry

First investment banking house in America- founded by Alexander Brown

First electric refrigerator- invented by Thomas Moore

First stationary store- Lucas Brothers

First U.S. company to import and consumer package teas – Martin Gillet and Company

Birthplace of the Star Spangled Banner - written by Francis Scott Key at Fort McHenry

First manufacturers of silverware in the United States - Samuel Kirk Company

The first permanent monument to George Washington was built.

First city to illuminate streets with hydrogen gas

First independent Unitarian church- formed at 21 Hanover Street, home of Henry Payson

First annual conference of the African Methodist Episcopal church

First Odd Fellows lodge in the U.S.- organized by Thomas Wildey and others

First gaslight company in the country- Gas Light Company of Baltimore

First canning of oysters- by Thomas Kennett

First American umbrella factory - William Beehler

First railroad for commercial transportation of passengers and freight B & O railroad

First black Catholic religious order of nuns- Oblate Sisters of Providence

First coal burning steam locomotive built - Tom Thumb

First operating railroad depot in the US - Mt. Clare Station

First national nominating convention for President of the United States

First regular steam vessel to cross the Atlantic from the U.S - “City of Kingston”

First car ferry used in the U.S. was built in Baltimore for the Susquehanna River

First commercial canning of corn

First dental college in the world- Baltimore College of Dental Surgery

First steam boating company in the U.S. - Baltimore steam packet Co.

First public supported high schools for girls - Eastern High School and Western High School

World's first telegraph line established between Baltimore and Washington - Samuel Morse

First ice cream freezer - patented by W. G. Young

First teachers college for women - Baltimore Female College (Goucher College)

First Radial heater for the home - at Mansion Alexandrffsky

First Jewish Community Center I the U.S. - (YMHA) Young Men’s Hebrew Association

First Elevator to be operated by electrical power - invented by James Bates

First YMCA - Pratt and Schroeder Streets

First American horse drawn street car line was done so in Fell's Point

First black labor union - Colored Businessmen’s Association, organized by Isacc Meyers

First candy factory to produce licorice - J.S. Young Company

The first monument to Edgar Allan Poe

First animal welfare association - American Humane Society

First synthetic sweetening agent - Saccharine, developed at Johns Hopkins University

First public financed vocational school in the U.S. - Baltimore Polytechnic Institute

First typesetting machine in the world - invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler

First commercial electric street car line - Baltimore to Hampden

First public Library System with branches - Enoch Pratt Free Library

First steam tanker built in America The Maverick by W.T.Malster

First commercial stomach antacid seltzer - Bromo-Seltzer, made by Captain Isaac E. Emerson

First bottle caps with crown cork in the U.S.- Crown Cork and Seal

First Ouija board - invented and patented by Isaac and William Fuld

First Catholic college for women - Notre Dame College

First electronic railway locomotive in the world - put in service by the B&O

First Multi-store shopping center building in the country - Roland Park Marketplace

First country day school in the U.S. - Gilman School

First practical submarine in the US - "Argonaut," invented by Simon Lake

First time duck bowling introduced - at Diamond Bowling Alleys

First woman professor at a U.S. medical School - Dr. Florence Rena Sabin

First city magazine- Baltimore Magazine

First international women’s volunteer organization - Hadassah, founded by Henrietta Szold

First portable electric drill with pistol grip - Black & Decker

First municipal orchestra supported by public funds - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

First gas station with pumps enabling a driver to see the amount of gasoline being pumped

First factory to manufacture stainless steel - Rustless Iron & Steel Company

First National Guard Air Squadron started - Logan Field

First black musical on Broadway - written by Baltimorean Eubie Blake, Shuffle Along

First nationwide presidential radio broadcast - by President Warren G. Harding

First triple combination fireboat in service - operated by Baltimore City Fire Dept

First producer of venetian blinds in the United States - Eastern Venetian Blind Company

First black newspaper chain- Afro-American Newspaper

First photograph of earth from space - produced at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

First Mobile microwave television tower

First Permanent Building in the U.S to have a revolving restaurant - Holiday Inn, Downtown

First baseball player to be named MVP in both leagues - Frank Robinson

First African-American to serve on the US supreme Court - Baltimorean Thurgood Marshall

First native born U.S. Citizen to be canonized as a saint - Elizabeth Seton (born 1809)

First African American wax museum - The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum

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