Tochterman鈥檚 ostensibly sells fishing tackle but owners Tony and Dee Tochterman鈥攖he third generation of the Tochterman family to run this Eastern Avenue institution鈥攁re part of a hundred year long history of customer service that few other…

When Baltimorean William Painter invented the bottle cap in 1891, it didn鈥檛 take long for beverage companies (beer brewers in particular) to realize its value, and for Painter to realize he needed to build significant manufacturing facilities to…

The first Patterson Theater to occupy 3136 Eastern Avenue opened in 1910. In 1918, Harry Reddish purchased the building to renovate and redecorate it. He reopened it two years later and renamed it the 鈥淣ew Patterson鈥. The Patterson Theater housed a鈥

Completed in 1912, the Eastern Avenue Sewage Pumping Station opened as a critical engine of Baltimore鈥檚 then brand-new sewer system. City engineers built the station to house enormous steam-driven Corliss pumps capable of pumping up to 27,500,000鈥