Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

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had them down there. And right below Bayshore was another
little park and during World War I the government built con-
crete ships; they were built of concrete, and they were used
to ship grain and stuff in towed to different places. The
last time I was down at that little place park down there,
the ferry used to come over from the Eastern Shore and pick
you up there coming into Baltimore, and
they had sunk them concrete ships down there for bulkheads.
And we had a lot of fun an those picnics; as I say, it
was something to look forward to. In those days when you
got in the horse and buggy and rode up as far as Greenspring
Avenue and Old Court Road, you had ta stop and have your
picnic and it was time to turn around and come back. So it
meant a big thing in those days - that was what our picnics
were all about and places we went. And old Light Street was
cobblestone. Everybody had their baskets with picnic food
in them. Everybody ready to go to bed when you got home
around nine or ten o'clock; when they get home - they didn't
have to be rocked to sleep, they were tired.
And people were very congenial; never had no trouble,
don't remember ever having any trouble, even though in those
days I wasn't old enough to buy but You could buy beer on the
boat . . .soft drinks wasn't such big sellers in them days,
it wasn't as many of them around as there are today; same as
ice cream.
Of course, some people want to go back to the good old
days; I think these good days we got right now - they can