Jim SpathPeace love and a pretty sunset from the Canton waterfront park last Saturday. #baltimore
Mike Loves Baltimore
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I'm just a man that loves Baltimore, buses, choochoo trains, urbanism, from an underdog city that is better than anyone gives it credit for. I can bench press 30 bushels of crabs, and can leap the Washington Battle Monument in a single bound. Reverend Boh is my grandfather.
Tom based his artwork on the trail maps from the 1960s/70s, which to me resemble the work of #Baltimore Sun cartoonist Yardley, but it was a style.
Scanned from old paper copies, which were printed on mimeograph machines if I'm not mistaken.
A quarter-page map/drawing called "Trail No. 1" showing the Patterson Park Observatory (Pagoda), and some long-defunct ship-building and dry dock near Fells Point.
I don't know when we'll come to terms with it but just because we bulldozed our cities and rebuilt them wrong, doesn't mean we need to keep up the sunken cost mistakes of our foreparents. #baltimore shouldn't put a single red cent towards increasing the level of service for auto traffic. Every penny for it is a gross misallocation of public funds and a promise of a worse future. Do the hard things now and give us a chance to have a better city tomorrow.
We will sell tickets to go have Bohs at his weirdly highly detailed feet. Expected positive ROI about 200-300 years
Colossus of Rhodes in the inner harbor but it's Reverend Boh. Colossus of Bohs. I am now asking for 40 million in start up capital. #baltimore #nattyboh #dreambig #urbanism
One of the most prominent features of "successful urbanism" is a concept known as a "sense of place". A cohesive setting that is distinct, discrete, and unique. One such place is #Baltimore inner harbor. One such feature of a place are its landmarks/monuments. In the harbor the main focal element is the harbor itself. Why do we not have an installation of a significant monument or statue in the water itself? A fountain of two crabs fighting? We have the constellation but Suggestions please.
Radical Graffiti
Other amazing additions "LAKE OF THE WOODS" and "ORANGE" JUST ORANGE. COME ON!
Props to #virginia for having the fakest sounding place names ever. Old Tavern, Wolf Trap, Mechanicsville, Stony Creek, Goochland, Bridgewater, Centreville, SUMMERDUCK?!? Did your places get named by surprise? Like did someone ask "what's this place called?" and the owner in a panic was like "There are ducks here in the summer so.... SUMMERDUCK?"
Paul Proteus