Gil Sandler's Baltimore Stories

After that dark, snowy unforgettable night when the Mayflower trucks hauled away the Colts and the franchise and all that the team possessed, a furious…

In the early 1940s, in what was known then as the Sports Center Ice Rink at North and Calvert streets, it was the all-girls’ Spitfires against the…

On Saturday night, June 18, 2005, Marconi’s Restaurant on Saratoga Street was crowded with diners, wall-to-wall, and for good reason--this would be the…

This story begins on the night of February 22, 1960, on St. Paul Street near the campus of Johns Hopkins University—and we will never know the end of…

On the evening of September 25, 1953 a man on the FBI’s most wanted list was making a phone call in a phone booth on the mezzanine floor of the Town…

City Councilman Mimi DiPietro took pride in his style, the way he got things done for his constituency by always going “right to the top” to get a problem…

A story from Baltimore in 1935 - don't ask the ouija board a question you don't want the answer to.

Baltimore's used to have a "censor board" that tried to control what was shown in Baltimore's movie theaters.

The Locust Point Perry came to a bitter end on New Year's in 1938.

Gil tells the tale of the 1953 department store window that told city dwellers of the best Christmas gift of all.