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{weblog_name} - Riding The Bus
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When I was 17 years old, I would walk from my Brookhill Road home a short block to Reisterstown Road at the Plaza and take the No. 7 bus downtown to my summer job. The bus traveled along Reisterstown Road south by the Druid Hill section onto Pennsylvania Avenue and into town. I’d get off the bus somewhere around Charles Center and walk the three blocks to the night club where I worked. Yes, night clubs do have day shifts. Here’s what I saw along the way. When my voyage started, the bus would go from majority white passengers and would become majority black passengers by the time we hit Belvedere. The bus passed places that are almost legend-like in terms of the old Jewish neighborhood. But this wasn’t so old. It was 1970-71, two years after the race… read more