OH: If you can’t buy your B&E tools at KMart you’re trying too hard.

Posted on Twitter over 12 years ago and archived here at /twitter/2014/01/22/tweet-426106680498061314/ in the Twitter collection.
Proximate posts in the Twitter collection
newer Twitter post from January 24, 2014, 426552962300018688 24 January 2014
this post Twitter post from January 22, 2014, 426106680498061314 22 January 2014
older Twitter post from January 21, 2014, 425449451704963072 21 January 2014
Proximate posts in the General collection
newer mdhsphotographs: Shot Tower (Phoenix Shot, Merchants’ Shot Tower, Baltimore Shot Tower)Southeast corner of Fayette Street and Front Street, Baltimore, Maryland1924Unidentified photographer4x5 inch glass negativeBaltimore City Life Museum CollectionMaryland Historical SocietyMC8232A, MC8232BThe Shot Tower was a lead shot manufacturing facility that operated from 1828 to 1892. From the National Park Service site: “Molten lead was dropped from a platform at the top of the tower through a sieve-like device and into a vat of cold water.” Once operated under the Baltimore City Life Museums, the Shot Tower is now administered by Carroll Museums, Inc. Read more about it on their site. Location on Google Maps Street View:  View Larger Map I drove down this part of Fayette past the shot tower as part of my commute from 2005-2008 from Canton. Almost 150 years earlier, In 1858, a great-great-great-grandfather (Dominic Oriani (1822-1873) -> Louis Oriani (1858-1936) -> Frank Oriani (1899-?) -> My grandfather ? -> my mother (not sayin’)) of mine, Dominic Oriani, lived at 26 East Street, there in Baltimore, about half a block from where this photo was taken, somewhere in between. 23 January 2014
this post Twitter post from January 22, 2014, 426106680498061314 22 January 2014
older Post #74025083326 21 January 2014