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Section 4: General Subject: Sophie Msg# 1148226
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| Indeed a small world. My Aunt, Ann Hennessy, wrote a book “The Zieglers of Pigtown“ about my Grandmother and her 9 siblings growing up there. It has many memories of the bathhouse there and the children taking their weekly Saturday baths and doing their laundry there as they had no indoor plumbing. Another relative Lou Schuler ran the old feed store on Washington Blvd near Scoot Street. My great aunt Lillian operated a small convenience store out of her home at the corner of Cross and Callender street. She was a community activist in Pigtown and convinced Mayor Schaefer to build a tot lot there, prevent the City from building the expressway thru Pigtown, convert the abandoned bath house on Washington Blvd to a senior center and got Bon Secour Hospital to establish a health center there. Mayor Schaefer and her neighbors always addressed her as “Miss Lil”. | ||||||
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: Yes. Small world. Pappas Super Market. Nick’s Subs. Columbia and Eureka movie houses. Dime store. Public bath house. The 300-seat Eureka Theatre was opened in 1908. In 1913 it was enlarged to seat 450. In was closed as a ‘white’ theatre in mid-1951, and re-opened December 23, 1951 as an African-American theatre. It finally closed in 1952. It operated as a church for many years, and was demolished in 1973 to clear land for Martin Luther King Boulevard.  The columbia was one of the old neighborhood houses demolished during the 1970’s. It was demolished to make way for a boulevard (Martin Luther King) from SW Baltimore to the Howard Street Corridor. |
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