Five Minute Histories: Inner Harbor & Harborplace

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Baltimore’s Inner Harbor is gorgeous and we cherish our connection to the water. How did our city get the Inner Harbor and later Harborplace? Join us today as we start the story back in the 1730s. Thanks for watching and see you next week with another Five Minute Histories video.
This is our series called "Five Minute Histories." Every week, we’ll record a short video about a different historic place in Baltimore and post it on our Facebook page and RU-vid channel.
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14 окт 2024

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@heatherscarlatelli77 7 месяцев назад

My first “real job” was at Mundo Latino in the Light St Pavillion. I’m so glad to have had that experience. The thought of private residences being built there makes me so very sad. This area needs to be kept public and open not blocked off by condos with great views of what used to belong to everyone.

@rckrtcrg1246 7 месяцев назад

This presentation reminded me that planning for the 70's and 80's changes to the Inner Harbor were thought through over time (although I know some felt at the time even those changes were too fast). But development through the years has mostly maintained a sense of place. I think so many planners and architects are disappointed with the current proposal because it looks like design ideas were quickly thrown together and for the most part don't seem to represent what makes this location so special.

@bonnicrisfulli1872 7 месяцев назад

I loved Harborplace and would go often back in the 70s and 80s. It was one of those icons that one would never think would deteriorate. Yet, my heart broke when I saw that it has followed the lead of many "dead malls" and is now a "remember when" location for many, largely due to greedy investors and property management firms that were clueless in how to manage a venue like this, thus running it into the ground. I think that a Baltimore based development firm should take it over and with the collaboration of the historical and resident groups in Baltimore restore it to its original purpose with local eateries and stores that made it a prime tourist attraction. Since they knew the original vision, the development should be relatively easy, provided they don't charge exorbitant rent prices for vendors like most dead mall owners did.

@shortliner68 7 месяцев назад

Having been born in Baltimore back in 1950, I remember when the inner harbor area was piers and old warehouses, with a sprinkling of homeless people. We used to love going to Connelly's and Phillip's seafood restaurants. When the B&O RR was still operating from Mount Clare to President St. Stations via Pratt St., the crews used to stop the engine in front of Connelly's to go in and have dinner.

@ilovesk810 7 месяцев назад

Loved Connelly's!

@dalesworld1 7 месяцев назад

1. I love the motto "Connecting the City to the Sea." We all need to keep that in mind as we go forward. 2. The last time I was in the harbor was a few months ago. I had lunch at Fogo de Chao. Johns, you are a wealth of knowledge and a treasure to Baltimore City.

@Lumotaku 7 месяцев назад

talking about moving low income families there just means crime so yeah no ill pass the city has been plagued with crime and talking about giving this and that to people based on skin color. So they steal my tax money but dont fix potholes. Yeah no thanks I won't spend a dime.

@baltimoreheritage1006 7 месяцев назад

Thank you so much!

@calliecooke1817 2 месяца назад

I was born and raised in PG county and always considered myself a Washingtonian. But I moved to Laurel 37 years ago and started working more in the Baltimore environs. Most of my work(I put on metal roofs) is still in NW DC, but I've done some pretty neat projects in Baltimore. I take pride in my Maryland heritage even though my family is all from VA. Your series has taught me so much about Baltimore. Thanks.

@jacquelinecapel5282 7 месяцев назад

I adored going to Harbor Place.I had wonderful memories of walking and working there.

@lindafoster1703 7 месяцев назад

This was your best video yet- I look forward to each one- Thank you Johns

@baltimoreheritage1006 7 месяцев назад

Thank you for watching!

@lookzcpf 7 месяцев назад

I moved to Baltimore a couple of years ago from a city with great connection to the sea, and I always thought Inner Harbor as the place in town with most potential. IMHO, the whole marketplace area (or at least most of it) should be torn down to make room for bigger open spaces. It's already bad enough that we have that hideous WTC building by the water completely cutting the flow of people in that area... Just imagine that beautiful park by Fed Hill all around the harbor...

@michaelbrand8279 7 месяцев назад

I used to enjoy the annual BGE Light Festival Art Walk along Baltimore's Inner Harbor when I used to live nearby in Laurel.

@michelehumphrey852 7 месяцев назад

I used to love going to Phillips Seafood at the Light Street pavilion after Orioles games. Great view of the harbor 🦀

@moonchild7456 7 месяцев назад

I hope Baltimore Heritage will use its voice and platform to save the Inner Harbor for the benefit of the public.

@marshax 7 месяцев назад

I love how they decorated the jury waiting rooms at the courthouse with posters from the past City Fairs, including a copy of the one featured here!

@moonchild7456 7 месяцев назад

Yes! I saw that myself while serving and felt a nostalgia even though never having experienced the fairs. A re-enactment would be awesome.

@baltimoreheritage1006 7 месяцев назад

This is wonderful!

@samfeldman1508 6 месяцев назад

I worked in the inner harbor in the 80’s & 90’s. The good people of Baltimore got me through College and to my first full time job and for that, I will always be grateful.

@thurstonpowell8687 Месяц назад

I do appreciate the old motto "The city that bleeds"

@michaelanatole9672 7 месяцев назад

I am not so much concerned with the commercial amenities the new development will bring as having welcoming and beautifully accessible public spaces. Johns is right. Being near the water was the "special sauce" for me.

@levilam522 6 месяцев назад

It was beautiful in the 70s when they finished the harbor area... all the tall ships in 1976, good times..

@darrylthornton5377 7 месяцев назад

Johns do you have segment on the Old Fish Market down near the Power Plant?

@wallismeeks9420 7 месяцев назад

I remember watching the first Pride of Baltimore being built at the end of Harbor Place, over where the Science Center is today.

@nclarke372 3 месяца назад

I was last there in 2002. As I commented in another video (The Baltimore Cemetery) , I have a family connection to the inner harbor. My 2d Great Grandfather owned a ship joining company (Clarke & Co.) at the foot of Henry St, the location of the present day park just behind you in the video.

@baltimoreheritage1006 3 месяца назад

Very cool that your family goes so far back in Baltimore!

@nclarke372 3 месяца назад

@@baltimoreheritage1006 Sorry I did get a chance to reply before now. I only recently discovered your 5 minute and have been working my way backward through them. I have enjoyed them very much, thank you. Some of the information will be helpful when write the Clarke Family narrative. Yes it is cool, I'm very proud of my Baltimore and Maryland heritage. I have been doing family research for many years. On my father's side we go back to at least around 1720 mostly PG County. However I believe they may even go back to the 1640s. The Baltimore City roots where planted in the 1840s. Some of them came up from King & Queen County VA. King & Queen County was a major trading partner with that area with Fright and passenger service to and from Baltimore. Maybe a future subject, Baltimore boat that carried fright and passages up and down the bay. Through My Family I'm connected to Baltimore Ship Building, the Baltimore And Ohio Telegraph (owned By the B&O RR), The Great Baltimore fire, Ship Building at Sparrows Point in WW I as well and many other events. I am a Retired US Navy Sailor and have not lived in Maryland for 34 years, but I still have a love for Maryland.

@wilminasydnor8141 7 месяцев назад

Could that have been a young Johns looking out over the harbor at the end of this excellent video?

@ms.donaldson2533 7 месяцев назад

I miss old Baltimore! I watched the Inner Harbor get constructed from the windows of the News American building. It caused a lot of traffic for their delivery drivers 😂

@shortliner68 7 месяцев назад

I remember when the B&O RR would deliver boxcar loads of newsprint paper to the rear of the News-American building via their Pratt St. trackage.

@JB-hl1qx 7 месяцев назад

Harbor could be a beautiful place. A museum, a giant ferris wheel, restaurants, wedding venue, bars, hotels ect. Make it like Annapolis with mixing retail and restaurants with old history and Baltimore traditional aspects.

@HachiMatt 7 месяцев назад

oh boy, it's the big one!

@paultully4489 7 месяцев назад

Baltimore should be managed bye a city manager and you sir knowing the history of Baltimore would make a great Mayor of Baltimore

@thurstonpowell8687 Месяц назад

The days when everything was derelict property were so much more exciting. I recall the final few actioned off the men in suits and ties and ladies walking amongst chucks of concrete and scrap wood.

@brucemihalick4117 7 месяцев назад

My home! Harbor East

@BmoreIrish 6 месяцев назад

So the parking lots worked because they became public space for fairs and other events, not because they provided parking. There’s a lesson there.

@redstaper2414 7 месяцев назад

It all went downhill when McCormick Spice shut down their spice factory!

@ms.donaldson2533 7 месяцев назад

It smelled GREAT down there when McCormick was there ❤

@Gadfly2025 6 месяцев назад

The aquarium was $3.50 admissions I think . Now how much ?

@MrJohn21713 7 месяцев назад

Climate change, sea-level rise and flooding must be primary concerns for any new development in this area.

@jimmyday9536 24 дня назад

Baltimore has recovered from fires and other natural disasters, emerging stronger than ever. Unfortunately, Harbor Place succumbed to crime and a negative socio-economic factor in the city. I myself, a Baltimore native of 67 years, was accosted and beat by a squeegee kid in 2020; tourists will not come here because of the real issue of crime. The mayor and city council seem unable, or unwilling, to do anything, and so the once-beautiful Harbor Place (Pratt St. and Light St. pavilions) have decayed into the ghetto landscape, and it is sad. And this crime problem will not magically go away by tearing these structures down. I travel a lot, and whenever someone asks about Baltimore, MD, I simply say that whatever bad things you hear about Baltimore are too kind.