I was a camera man at WAAM/Ch 13 at the time Helen Bentley did this series I also enjoyed many wonderful meals at Haussner's Restaurant with family and friends.Sorry to say, there never will be another place with such delicious food and good taste in art.
I’ve heard so much about this place! My Great Aunts(Whom Acted as our Grandparents) went there a lot. They were two sister out 5 kids, 1 boy and 4 girls lol. My Grandfather being the only boy. They stuck together, living together in their family home in Curtis Bay and traveling all over the world and had a hell of a social life! They never had their own children, so they took care and looked out for all of their siblings kids, and then all of us. They were closer to some of us more than others. But they loved ❤all of us. Oh yeah and back then and up until the mid 1990’s their street was maintained by all of the older ladies, still scrubbing their stoops! ❤
No reservations, waiting line around the block. My dad and his buddies would leave the women/children in line and go to the men's bar. They hang there until we showed up at the stairs. Sometimes the waiting line would go into the basement and back up the stairs. There were several suits of armour in the basement. Like eating in the National Museum of Art. Oysters Rockefeller.
Those walls were legendary. I still remember the night my parents took us to Haussner's in the 70's when I was about 12 and I ordered rabbit. Never lived it down.
Haussner's was a high quality restaurant that catered to the rich and not so rich clientele. On weekends especially there was always a line of people lined up outside waiting to get in to enjoy a meal there.
One of the Great places to take out of town relatives who were from the burbs and only know chain restaurants. The other German eateries gone too, and the Suburban House in Pikesville.
I lived in Highlandtown in the 1950's and my wife and I would visit Haussner's for lunch and dinner on a number of occasions. My favorite dissert was the banana cream pie.
😳 I Do! I always Voted for Hellen Bentley! She was very nice to me and I work for her and Bill Bentley they were in the Antique Business too! 😳 Very good customers! and I'll never forget them.
Thanks for this evocative time capsule. Well I remember waiting in line with my parents (usually in the chilly months!) for a filling dinner at Haussner's. Equally vivid is the memory of Ms. Bentley on WMAR-TV. Nice choice of music in this re-creation, especially the segment beginning at 1:23. Library track?
My grandmother was a waitress when they opened and she and Miss Frances were good friends.. I was taken there by my parents all the time . My dads favorite place next to Maria’s in Little Italy . Then my husband and sometimes friends would join us for dinner. We had many celebrations there, as well . I also saw one of my Grams good friends still waitressing, Rita Debilous ... oh my what memories ....Daddy loved the frog legs and my mom and I favorite was lobster dainties. For the good days !
"…a fella puts down his mind to it" Soooo Baltimore…I'm going to reincorporate the word fella into my daily vocabulary…if it takes off, remember you heard it here first"
We went there once in the late 60s or early 70s. I wasn't that impressed with the food I must have been in my early teens at the time. My brother ordered a turtle soup. He was sorry he did.
The Eager House had turtle soup. Had some and it was spectacularly good. Once my grandparents in East Baltimore cooked the front part of a tortoise. The back end kept moving for a day. It's one of the stories that made me a vegetarian and environmentalist.
