Contents: Preface and AcknowledgementsIntroductionI ARTIFACTS1 Look Up Here! 2 Reminders of the 1930's 3 They're Off and Running at Pimlico 4 "Separate but Equal," So They Said 5 Eating Out 6 All That Jazz 7 Days of Delight, Nights of Magic 8 Small-Town SportsII SOUVENIRS9 Getting Away 10 Getting Around 11 Overnight Stays 12 The Home Front 13 That's Entertainment 14 Scents and SensibilityIII MEMORIES15 Simple Pleasures 16 True Sports 17 Signs of the Times 18 Fond Farewells Noted in Passing Index
This 'album of memories' guides us from Baltimore's distant past through the middle years to recollections of the 1950s and 60s. With vignettes and short stories, Gil Sandler affectionately brings out Baltimore's appealing provincialism and home-grown innocence. -- Barry Levinson, Filmmaker Baltimore has always been a sensory town full of color, smells, loudness, smooth jazz, jagged emotions and watery ways. Ethnic neighborhoods add to the excitement and cacophony of Baltimore. Small Town Baltimore goes beyond the veneer of the Harbor and brings all the inner senses to light. -- Camay Calloway Murphy (Cab Calloway's daughter), Executive Director of the Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center, Baltimore, Maryland
Born and raised in Baltimore, Gilbert Sandler has been published in the Baltimore Sun, the Jewish Times, and Baltimore Magazine and has been editor of Generations, the journal of the Jewish Museum of Maryland. He is the author of Jewish Baltimore: A Family Album, also available from Johns Hopkins, and The Neighborhood: The Story of Baltimore's Little Italy.
Gilbert Sandler is our great rememberer. Small Town Baltimore is an absolute delight-not only memories of distant times and vanished places but details that bring every corner of the old town back to life. Baltimore Sun
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