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Baltimore was the place to be in the 1950s and 1960s, bustling with all the industry and social change about to come. For African Americans, it was a jobs magnet with all the major manufacturers. Those living in Turner Station and Sparrows Point, the company town built to host the Bethlehem Steel Company, had the highest per capita income for African Americans in the nation. Cherry Hill, the only planned community built for African Americans by the Federal Government, lifted many Baltimore Boomers into the middle class. This podcast walks down memory lane through the neighborhoods and good times--despite segregation--that those growing up there can never forget.
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Send us Fan Mail Who knew that an experience at a Glen Burnie car dealership in 1971 when Charles McCoy was 13 would lead him on his entrepreneurial journey to Mr. Charles Limousine Service. One day when his mother and father went to this dealership, one of the salesmen showed Charles a Rolls-Royce limo on the lot and let him sit in it. The salesman even talked money with Charles telling him how much the limo cost and what monthly payments would be. That experience inside that limousine was t...
Send us Fan Mail When I tell you that early Cherry Hill children were kept busy, that is no understatement. The Community Building, the churches, and the schools had more than enough activities to keep our minds from being idle. For James Adam Dow, that meant building and flying model airplanes and mastering the tenor saxophone. To this day, at 85, he continues to be involved in both. He currently has ambitions of building a remote racing car league for young people of all races and ethniciti...
Send us Fan Mail Demetrius Washington had a farm . . . . However, before he had a farm, he was a member of the Balsa Super Sonics model airplane club. Demetrius also spent 34 years driving buses for Baltimore's Mass Transit Administration. And now, he is a turkey farmer. You have got to hear his story! Make every moment count! E-mail me at [email protected] and tell me in 25 words or less why I should interview you.
Send us Fan Mail John Balsom is a British photographer I met at the July Montford Point Marine Convention in Baltimore. He and his camera showed up at the ceremony awarding Montford Point Marine families with the Congressional Gold Medal, authorized by President Barack Obama in 2012, their loved ones earned as the first African American men who trained to integrate the United States Marine Corps. Most of these men served in the European and Pacific theaters during WWII, and John was unaware t...
Send us Fan Mail What do you get when you come together with a retired fireman, a retired bank examiner, a retired FBI agent, a retired Baltimore City Public School administrator, and a retired MTA bus driver who is currently operating a 102-acre turkey farm in Charlottesville, Virginia? Give up? You get great memories from some of the charter members of the Balsa Super Sonics Model Airplane Club. This club, consisting of African American teenagers from Cherry Hill, formed in 1958 and compete...
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