Baltimore Street at Liberty Street (1960)

ID: 328 ~ Source: BG&E Collection, Baltimore Museum of Industry, BGE.35331B ~ Date: June 10, 1960

This file appears in: Baltimore Bargain House: Wholesale History at the Nancy S. Grasmick Building

View of the demolition on Liberty Street at Baltimore Street for the Baltimore Civic Center (Royal Farms Arena). The Baltimore Bargain House is visible in the background.

This file appears in: Baltimore Bargain House: Wholesale History at the Nancy S. Grasmick Building

Baltimore Bargain House: Wholesale History at the Nancy S. Grasmick Building

By Johanna Schein & Theresa Donnelly

One of the largest businesses on the West Side in the early twentieth century the Baltimore Bargain House—a mail-order wholesale business that employed over a thousand people and earned profits in the…