In September, 1928, editor Hugo Gernsback of "Radio News" magazine helped foresee a future in which we could all sit around in velvet smoking jackets watching television while smoking a pipe and wearing spats.
The 1988 Baltimore Orioles were the worst team in our memory, but there was one midseason Sunday when Tom Selleck, in town to shoot the movie "Her Alibi" with costar Paulina Porizkova, showed up at Memorial Stadium to take batting practice. If he had stayed around to play in the actual game against the Twins, he might have done as well or better than '88 mainstays Jeff Stone and Tito Landrum.
At last! A clothes dryer that will tell you that your clothes are not just dry, but really dry AF!
Forest Stump.
Our County used to have a room down in the basement of the courthouse where a mainframe computer ran all the traffic signals. They replaced it with a PC (it used about 1/5 of the computer's memory) and hauled the old contraption for scrap metal.
I did not know this, but there is an active contingent of greasers in Japan who worship our 50s culture and pompadours and leather jackets and all that. Hey, why not?
This is a section of the ancient Roman aqueduct system that brought water to Italians of long ago. It looks a lot like our current system of pipes and mains.
Four Seasons in Maine.
You have to admire a museum that goes out of its way to present a realistic experience.
Just a year after her noble stand about where to sit on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks delivered her message here in Baltimore. The very beginnings of the civil rights struggle came through our town.
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