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Amanda (Lady Tim) choking Joe (Colonel Treize) at the Hooters in Baltimore. Lance is offscreen oggling I think ;)
Aerial of Baltimore City with the Patapsco River and waterfront buildings. Harbor East and Fells Point neighborhoods is shown on the left and the Tide Point neighborhood is shown on the right.
The submarine USS Torsk was built at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, and commissioned at the end of 1944. She came to Baltimore as a museum ship in 1944.
1988 July 13.
Lightship "Chesapeake," Baltimore. At one time there were more than 110 coastal "stations" where US lightships were assigned. These were replaced gradually with buoys, offshore towers and even onshore lighthouses. The last active US lightship was decommissioned in 1985.
1988 July 13.
...Otaku Madness. Cosplayers galore. This is what the lobby at the Baltimore Convention Center looks like when Otakon is in town.
The Baltimore Aquarium was started in 1978 and opened in 1981. It was built as a centerpiece of the redevelopment of the business center and the Inner Harbor. It is now the largest tourist attraction in Maryland (by annual attendance).
The name was changed to "National Aquarium in Baltimore" in 1979, before opening. The Baltimore facility and the older National Aquarium at Washington, DC operated jointly from 2003 to 2013, when the Washington facility was closed.
(I'm "almost" certain that the animal pictured here is a seal, not a sea lion, but I do not know the variety, e.g. harbor seal.)
1988 July 13.
Reflection off a skyscraper as we cross the foot-bridge from the harbor district back to the Baltimore convention center.
West Shore of Inner Harbor, Baltimore, from the "Top of the world, observation level.", World Trade Center building.
The building at far left is the Maryland Science Center.
The camera is facing southwestward.
1988 July 13.
Baltimore once had an image of an unattractive city - and no, I'm not writing this (only) because I was born in Philadelphia (!).
This image dates back to the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 February 7 - 8, which destroyed much of central Baltimore. Within an area of about 60 hectares (140 acres, 70 city blocks), more than 1,500 buildings were completely destroyed and an additional 1,000 suffered heavy damage.
(The estimated total of property damage was $100 million, about $35 billion at today's prices.)
The rebuilt city center was described as "unattractive" - and similar terms - for years thereafter, and this was attributed typically to the fire. (I have seen such narratives in publications dating back as far to the 1920s - and before.) The success of the Inner Harbor redevelopment attracted worldwide attention and brought about a sharp change in the city's image. Today, in spite of lingering problems typical of large US cities, Baltimore has become a tourist destination. This is a remarkable transformation from years past.
1988 July 13.
Inner Harbor, Baltimore, 1988. Visible near left (background) is the USS Constellation, a sloop-of-war launched in 1855. She was built at at the Norfolk (Virginia) Navy Yard, and was decommissioned and recommissioned several times before final decommissioning in 1955.
1988 July 13.
National Aquarium in Baltimore, Inner Harbor, Baltimore.
Redevelopment of the historic Inner Harbor area was carried out from the early 1960s to the 1980s. The deteriorated piers and warehouses were demolished and replaced by parks and plazas, surrounded by leisure destinations, hotels and office buildings.
(I have fading memories of what the Inner Harbor area looked like "before" redevelopment, and the difference between "then" and "now" is remarkable.)
1988 July 13.
Aerial view of the historic sloop-of-war "USS Constellation," in Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
The camera is facing westward, from the "Top of the world, observation level.", World Trade Center building.
1988 July 13.