Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

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one that was - the people down in that block on Falls Road
north of Maryland Avenue, where Falls Road comes there was
houses there from Maryland Avenue down to Lafayette and then
from Lafayette down to Mom and Poppa's Station, and there
was another saloon down there; there were all Italian people
lived down there.
Of course those days saloons had to all close at twelve
o'clock and closed Sundays. Nobody could sell any booze an
Sundays; package stores - there was no such thing as package
stores. And the county when they had oyster roasts and crab
feasts at these different parks - Herring Park and those
kind of places, they could serve beer and stuff to drink.
Butthat was out in the county at those special affairs.
Different people sponsored those affairs, especially German
a£ fairs,
It was like Gwynn Oak when the Germans had their big day
out there; there was plenty of beer brought in out there -
none sold - but they was allowed to bring it in and, of
course as most people know, most German people who drink
beer know how to handle it. And there was always a lot of
singing and one thing and another - Gwynn Oak and Germans
they was out there.
Harvey: Well, how did that local option work here? Why
was it that beer ar any kind of liquor couldn't be sold
in Hampden?
Lewis: Because the mills . . . when they bought the property
out here to build the mills, had that incorporated in it
because they knowed drinking only bred trouble. Of course,