Dear Beverly, Thanks for your personals insight and links to history about Washington Village/Pigtown. My great grandparents (George Dallas and Elizabeth (nee Brown) Scharf) lived at 1012 Scott Street at the beginning of the 20th century. My ggrandfather started life as a huckster (working with his father William J. Scharf), but learned to be a boilermaker. My grandfather Scharf and his new bride of two years also lived for awhile with his parents on Scott Street according to his 1918 WWI registration card. My dear uncle Thomas Marion Scharf (US Army at Normandy and Battle of the Bulge) was born at this house. My great aunt Nellie May Scharf Strube lived at 1025 West Barre. Her husband worked for the B&A RR. I visited the neighborhood a few years ago and marvelled at our close it was to downtown and the new stadiums. After I stopped by the public library on Washington Blvd and did some reading I learned a bit more about this area of Baltimore and could add extra dimensions to my genealogy research and understanding of my family. Thanks for the links -- very helpful!! Cynthia -----Original Message----- >From: bevann@cablespeed.com >Sent: Aug 5, 2006 11:14 PM >To: MD-BaltimoreCity-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [MD-BaltimoreCity] Re: Baltimore "Confectionary" > >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AFB.2ACI/4718.2 > >Message Board Post: > >Cathy, I can tell you this, as a child I lived about 5 blocks away from 1273 Washington Blvd. This area of town is known as "Pigtown" because of days long, long ago pigs ran through the streets on their way to be slaughtered at the slaughter house. I lived in this section about 2 years, then we moved to a community where 2443 Washington Boulevard is located. This area is called "Morrell Park". I lived here until I got married and moved away about 20 years later. I know both of these areas like the back of my hand. Morrell Park was classified as Baltimore City but it was more suburban than Pigtown. The 2400 block of Washington Blvd was all row houses and as I recall there wasn't any stores in this block. As for the 1200 block of Washington Blvd, in that area it was very common to see these little confectionary stores, it seemed like there was one on each corner. They were the "good old days" when you could take 10 cents into the store and come out with a brown lunch bag! ! > almost filled. Candy was 1 cent each and some 2 for a penny, maybe even 3 for one cent. I used to love getting the candy cigarettes and the wax lips or wax false teeth. I noticed on your uncle's draft paper he had a Gilmore exchange for his phone number. As I recall Morrell Park had these phone exchange names: Gilmore, Milton, and I think Edmondson was another name. >This would make sense, he probably had his store in Pigtown and lived in Morrell Park. I hope this helped a little. > Beverly Manalo > > >============================== >Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >