Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

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have those kind affairs. In those days people attended
their churches; boys and girls in those days had no choice.
You know they either went to Sunday School and church or
you didn't go out and play on Sunday. Today you don't have
that and, of course, church attendance is falling off and
people don't go The churches here, all the
churches in the neighborhood now - probably get, one church
could accomodate, two at the most, all that goes. In those
days we needed a13 the churches because people went to
church.
Harvey: You mentioned earlier that there was no beer in
Hampden .
Lewis: No beer in Hampden until after prohibition.
Harvey: They called that local option.
Lewis: Local option, and the company houses;.beer companies
had wagons delivered beer in this neighborhood, but they
couldn't deliver any on the company property. The closest
place you could get beer to Hampden was Huntington Avenue
below 23rd Street. It was a saloon about halfway dawn the
block. You go across through the park to Fultdn Avenue, or
you could go up Falls Road the othes side of the railroad
tracks at Bear Bill, Or you go out on Greenspring Avenue
north of Avenue was called ~oach's Park. Or you
could go out Park Heights Avenue, which was quite a ways to
go a Of course after you got below 23rd Street there was
saloons on North Avenue, Howard Street, There was also a
saloon at and Falls Road; a man by the name of
Stocksdale run it. And halfway down the block was another