Ocean City, MD - 5/29/2012
DAY 021: Saturday, January 21st, 2012.
Headed into work, exciting night - Dru Hill played that night.
Things I learned from their performance: It’s 2012 and they still have their great dance moves. I need to step it up, STAT.
It was an amazing show. You missed out if you didn’t go. Earlier in the day, I was singing to Dru Hill’s sound check “Never Make A Promise”, only to realize it was just Sisqo sound checking and Nokio was in somewhat of an earshot of my wonderful serenade. I don’t know if he knew it was me singing it, but I’m an embarrassment. At least he knows he still has fans!
I noticed a lot of my friends do not know who Dru Hill is, it’s a shame you are from Baltimore and don’t know! It’s Sisqo of “Thong Song” fame, original R&B group. For those of you who don’t know any of the jams, I made a beginner’s mix for all things Dru Hill and Sisqo. Maryland pride!
https://www.facebook.com/music/playlist/How-Deep-Is-Your-Love-Single-Version/10150516459687858
(I hope the link works - it’s on Spotify and it’s the “How Deep Is Your Love” mix!
Cumberland City Lights by Cash Valley Photography & Imaging on Flickr.
I miss my friend from Kindergarten! Must plan a visit soon, maybe the beginning of spring break!
Baltimore Street
600 block east, Baltimore, Maryland
ca. 1876-1893
Unidentified photographer
Subject Vertical File (Baltimore City-Streets)
[SVF]Full image and detail. Click to enlarge.
This MdHS photograph is featured in Part I of the Ken Burns/Lynn Novick PBS documentary, Prohibition.
this is so saturated, holy shit. that fountain/sculpture/swimming pool in the summertime is hardly even blue anymore, let alone that blue!
It’s amazing what editing and stuff can do. I should look more into that.
Sorry Mufasa, we must wait until Disney re-releases The Lion King for a billionth time and it’s 4-d, maybe then I can take my pet lion to the movies.
HAVE YOU SEEN THIS SPECIAL-NEEDS DOG?
A SPECIAL-NEEDS CANINE HAS BEEN MISSING FOR FIVE DAYS.
Chilly Dog, a pit bull, was found frozen in a snow bank with no vital signs five years ago when he was a puppy. A veterinarian was able to revive him, but he suffered brain damage. Chilly Dog is a special-needs canine, and he has been missing since Wednesday.Have you seen this dog?
Owners Kathy and Tom Soul of White Hall, MD are frantic.
The Souls have been rescuing and rehabilitating pit bulls for a long time, and they didn’t turn away from fostering Chilly Dog (Chilly for short).
Chilly’s strange behaviors resulting from brain damage didn’t faze the Souls, but his quirks did make it difficult to place him in a forever home.
“We found him a home, but his special needs made it impossible for the family to deal with him,” Kathy said. “He has odd behaviors, like drinking huge amounts of water and urinating huge amounts of urine. He pees in his crate every day even though he’s potty trained and knows how to go outside. He spins to the right when he’s anxious. He never goes left. It took him two years before he would let me pet him. He’s afraid of being touched.”
So the Souls kept him, and loved him. Chilly is now about 6 years old.
“Sometimes we end up keeping the un-adoptables like Chilly, because we know we’re the only people who can deal with them,” Kathy said.
But a few days ago, Chilly vanished on the Northern Central Railroad Trail on Weisburg and White Hall roads, in Baltimore County. The Souls not only put up signs all over the area, they also employed a tracking dog to try to follow Chilly’s scent. The tracking dog followed the scent from the Souls’ property, to their next-door neighbor’s property, to the White Hall post office and then north on the trail.
That’s where the scent trail ended.
“We’re thinking since there haven’t been any sightings, and the tracking dog lost his scent on Weisburg Road, someone may have taken him by car,” Kathy said. “Our hope is that after spending a few days with him, they’ll realize he’s too difficult to handle and they’ll drop him off at a shelter.”
The trail gets heavy use from hikers, joggers, bicyclists and even horseback riders from all over the county. The trail, recently renamed the Torrey C. Brown Trail, “extends 20 miles, stretching from Ashland Road in the Hunt Valley area to the state line,” according to the Department of Natural Resources website.
And it’s popular.
Chilly could have been taken by someone well-meaning from any nearby area—Lutherville-Timonium, Pikesville, Hunt Valley, Towson and even Baltimore City. The animal shelters and veterinarians in all these areas have been notified about Chilly, as have vets and shelters up into Harford County and Pennsylvania.
“We’re both walking around like zombies,” Kathy said. “It’s a terrible feeling, not knowing. He’s a special-needs kid and we need him home.”
After the hurricane, the signs for Chilly all came down, and the Souls went right out and put more up. It wasn’t an easy storm to weather for the Souls—Chilly is scared of the rain.
“Chilly is terrified of thunderstorms and bad weather,” Kathy said. “Rain makes him panic. We’re absolutely sick about it. We haven’t slept since he went missing.”
Chilly is a neutered, microchipped pit bull, on the small, stocky side. He is white with gray spots (see photo). His right ear goes up, and his left goes down. He has on a blue collar with an ID tag. He’s always anxious, obsessed with food and water, and barks at shadows.
“He will come if you shake a bowl of food or squeak a toy,” said Kathy. “He’s gentle, harmless and afraid. He’s just an odd little fellow and we want him to come home safely.”
Kathy and Tom can be reached at 410-905-5603 or 410-357-8389.
PLEASE REBLOG, YOU NEVER KNOW, SOMEONE IN THAT AREA MAY BE FOLLOWING YOU - HANDSOME BOY NEEDS TO FIND HIS WAY HOME!!!!!!!!!!
BALTIMORE FRIENDS, REBLOG. keep an eye out for this gorgeous pup and help get him back home.
Opening 1 month after Disneyland, Maryland’s Enchanted Forest (10040 Baltimore National Pike, Ellicott City, MD) once drew up to 300,000 visitors yearly to the storybook-inspired park. It closed around the time John Waters filmed Cry-Baby there but remnants still survive. Some are still hidden behind the Enchanted Forest Shopping Center built in it’s place while others have been restored and moved to Clark’s Elioak Farm (10500 State Route 108, Ellicott City, Maryland 21042).
Hippodrome Theatre
North Eutaw Street, Baltimore, Maryland
ca. 1916-1918
Photographer unknown
8 x 10 inch black and white glass negative
Glass Plate Negative Collection
Maryland Historical Society
Z9.1077.PP11Tonight is Baltimore Magazine’s Best Of Baltimore party at the Hippodrome! This Tumblr-er will be there representing the Best Tumblr Feed category.
