Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

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paid respect to them and all the Grand Army and even
the Spanish Wax - they always had a L ittle American flag on
every one of the graves and you be surprised just how many
veterans are buried up there.
Harvey: Bow about those outings that the m ills had?
Lewis: Well, they used to have an outing; m ost of them used
to go to Tolchester, and sometimes they went to Dreamland,
went to Chesapeake Beach, which is now known as South Beach.
And Dreamland we used to leave a-t the foot of Broadway.
But that was mostly a boat ride; you only had a couple hours
there and to get into the beach down there you had about a
mile to walk on the pier. The water was that shallow there,
the boat couldn't get any closer. And time you got in and
looked around a little, it was time to get on the boat and
come back up. Where at Tolchester you go down and you had
five or six hours at Tolchester and then you also would run
moonlights down there. Sometimes they would run moonlights
and the churches did that, too, and also the churches out
here used to take picnics to Gwynn Oak.
Very few picnics went to Riverview because they sold
beer down there and at Gwynn Oak they didn't sell beer
[laughs]. Before prohibition, of course, and of course
Riverview was nice because they had the old German band, "oom
pah" band played down there every Saturday and Sunday after-
noon and all holidays. Had plenty seats down there could
listen to the band. In late years a couple of them had their
picnics at . . . down below Sparrows Point, Bayshore. They