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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting post. In the 80's Baltimore was going under serious gentrification. The Inner Harbor was a date destination, leisurely walk over to Little Italy where the Nanas still sat on their front porches, the Aquarium had new exhibits (sea horses!) and there was a huge, live music venue in a power plant (name escapes me now, was it just the Power Plant?).

After the rioters destroyed the city (what was the point of that riot anyway?|, it's continued to go downhill.

Baltimore was wayyy ahead of DC in gentrification in the 80's. I worked in a DC office overlooking Franklin Park at 14 and K in the late 80's. The park was known as needle park and johns, pimps, and prostitutes mingled with the druggies 24/7. Wasn't safe to cut through the park in daylight, due to crime, needles, homeless camps. [/quote]

I lived in Baltimore in the 80s too. There are plenty of places that are now gentrified there, that were not then.  Hampden was not artsy or hip at ALL in those days.  Yuppiedom faded out around Cross Street Market, now it  takes in almost all of South Baltimore and Locust Point.   It was a thin strip of Canton, now its all the way to Brewers Hill.

Gentrification has certainly continued these last 30 years in Baltimore.  Just its only been in formerly white working class areas. For the most part the areas that near AA nabes that had already transitioned have stayed transitioned, but little added transition in AA areas, for good and ill. [/quote]

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