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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 think that if you don’t know why the riot occurred, you are not credible in your other statements. The immediate cause was extensively covered in the media. And underlying causes have also been discussed widely. I’m a Baltimore City native and grew up during the height of the crack epidemic a few blocks from Penn North. [/quote]

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