This week I was tasked with scouring the 1950's Baltimore Sun Archives in search of past businesses for our "Main Street" project. For Curtis Bay I searched for information on both Curtis Avenue and Pennington Avenue. My search on Curtis Bay lead me to thousands of classified adds that were mostly helpful. The amount of results was a tad overwhelming and the print was a little difficult to read at times but I was able to pull out a few addresses.

So far for 1950's Pennington & Curtis I Found
1529 Filbert Street & Pennington Ave: Bus Office “suitable for doctor or dentist, in the heart of town on main hawy”
4629 Pennington Ave: Confectionary & Shelp Grocery
4913 Pennington Avenue: Pennington Theatre “Rental Includes projectors, air conditioning, screen, 600 seats etc. Complete and ready to operate. Splendid opportunity for good management.”

5300 Pennington Ave: site of public auction

5619 Pennington Ave: Restaurant

3716 Curtis Avenue: Pool Room

For 1950's Patapsco Ave: 

1 South Patapsco Ave: Lasting Paint Store

120 Patapsco Ave: American Legion Auxiliary

237 Patapsco Ave & 130 Fort Ave: Funeral Home McCullg…

425 Patapsco Ave: James O. Pumphrey, Jr. Rug & Linoleum  

731 Patapsco Ave: Dwelling (Display Ad)

1701 Patapsco Ave: Fairfield Chemical Division Food Machinery & Chemical Corp.

Experienced Salesman wanted at Patapsco Ave & 2^nd Ave

For My Project: 

In addition to the Bmore Sun research that I was doing I also had time to think about where I wanted to go with my project and how I could incorporate it into the class project. While I want the focus of my project to be the history of the garden. I would like explore its connection to the history of food in Brooklyn/Curtis Bay and more specifically food that was available on our main streets. In my Sun searches I did see some classifieds for grocery stores so in the next week I'd like to zero in on food service establishments.