Driving East 33rd Street in Baltimore

past the site of Colts & Orioles Memorial Stadium in Baltimore City, Maryland

[@centuryrox]

Oh how I miss the "old grey lady", aka Memorial Stadium! So many good times there. It might not have been the nicest stadium, with all the bells and whistles of Camden Yards, but it had a personality all it's own. And everyone who attended games there felt like they owned a small piece of the place. "TIME WILL NOT DIM THE GLORY OF THEIR DEEDS"

[@qsfoxx]

At 26:18 mark... I lived in that house from 1948 to 1963. In 1948 there was an old wooden stadium that was soon replaced with a single deck concrete structure when the Orioles played in the International League. A second deck was added when the Colts came to town, offering a great opportunity to make some money parking cars in our driveway for a buck each. I spent the third grade in the Montebello School on Harford Road, but because of overcrowding, the Montebello Annex was established on the first floor of Eastern High School, right across 33rd street from my house. On weekends we could walk the eight blocks to the Waverly shopping area where we could visit the Waverly Theatre for a cowboy movie plus two cartoons, News of the Day, and a preview of coming attractions. Or we could spend our allowance at the Woolworth or Crown Five and Dime Stores.

[@qsfoxx]

The 26:18 index mark may be off a bit. My house was located at the corner of 33rd Street and Ednor Road - right across the street from the east stadium parking lot. During my teens the excitement for the Sunday Colts home games would begin to build up by late morning as the fans arrived and would continue until the last car departed from the stadium parking lot. Question: What was the name of the stadium before it became Memorial Stadium? Answer: Babe Ruth Stadium appeared at the top of the front of the structure before it was changed. The portion of 33rd Street directly in front of the stadium had no median grass divider at the time and was then designated as "Babe Ruth Plaza."

[@ronnierussum4530]

Thanks for the drive ilived in Baltimore for 30 years and loved every day of it. Thanks again for the tour.

[@BaltimoreAndOhioRR]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@fairfaxcat1312]

Don't know how he could have fought off such sadness and depression to find the strength to hold a camera up and point it at the hallowed grounds of our now lost beloved stadium.

[@BaltimoreAndOhioRR]

+Fairfaxcat it was hard

[@fairfaxcat1312]

BaltimoreAndOhioRR On the very few occasions I drive through Waverly I still expect to see the unbricked concrete sitting atop the beautifully bricked facade, the view into the upper concourse and the white backs of rows leading to the sky. Oh Memorial Stadium I miss you.

[@PGHammer21A]

@@fairfaxcat1312 - Morgan State University is just north of the area (Loch Raven Boulevard and Belair Road form the eastern and western boundaries of the campus, while Argonne is the southern boundary). The HBCU is how the Loch Raven Shopping Center has managed to survive (same with Belair Road Shopping Center - and the Safeway therein) - students aren't exactly rich.

[@stephenkunst7550]

I find this one of the most difficult stretches to drive. The out of sync traffic lights and the locals have a way of driving which ignores most traffic rules. Same in Higlandtown.

[@mouchiecat1]

About 80 percent of the signals in the city are out of sync and no one cares. They can only add speed & red light cameras and turn the streets into obstacle courses known as bike lanes. It’s pathetic.

[@bocfan53]

What a dark, dreary day to film a drive. I'm from Seattle, if I had been in Baltimore the day this was filmed, I would have felt right at home!

[@BaltimoreAndOhioRR]

bocfan53 several of my driving vids seem like this. I guess md is more like seattle than I thought!

[@troytroy9958]

North east Baltimore, one of the nice parts of the city, not as ran down as north west or west .

[@kenlucas6385]

The neighborhood surrounding memorial stadium seemed like a wealthy area back in the early 60's

[@larrymbs]

It was

[@AuthorTyLeishiaDouglass]

Now you done took me back! I know about Lake Ave. It's a short street just before you get to the light at Erdman Ave. and I knew the family that originally owned one of those houses to the (r) many years back. Wow! also used to before they remodeled Montabello Lake walk around there several yrs back....also, the Baltimore Orioles Stadium was not far on the other side. I have family that live in B'more and I grew up in B'more so I am a Native Marylander indeed.

[@PGHammer21A]

On the other side of the old Memorial Stadium is Eastern (Baltimore) High School. Two MTA busses pass through enroute to Baltimore Penn Station- MTA 33 (Eddie Murray) and MTA 3 (Cal Ripken Senior). The "Iron Bird" (MTA 8) serves York Road and Towson. Why/how? The MWTC is in east Baltimore on Argonne - between Belair Road and Loch Raven Boulevard - in 2000 it was still a residential facility and thus had students from all over Maryland. (I was a student there from April-August 2000 - because I did not drive, I became REAL familiar with MTA and usage thereof.)

[@larrymbs]

Once a year us kids would have to spend a weekend with our "wealthy " great aunt.Strict Baptists , my uncle and I would walk three blocks and go to a game. Had to endure a little church stuff at the house but it was a beautiful time

[@wbeard358]

I still glance over that way looking for the light towers anytime I’m in the area

[@donaldwhitten2438]

I used to live on old York rd.accross from the church at 3400 then moved to 3402 back in the 70s

[@ingridgott]

i enjoy the ride thanks my friend

[@darrylbogier4013]

My home sweet home!

[@BaltimoreAndOhioRR]

[@rockvilleraven]

The last baseball team to play in Memorial Stadium was not the Orioles but the Bowie Baysox who played there the season after the O's left. In 1994, they played their home games at 4 different locations, Frederick, Maryland's Shipley Field where they help pay for the light to the facility and the Naval Academy for a 3 game weekday afternoon series where they couldn't charge admission before moving to a half built Prince Georges County Stadium in Bowie. That was finally finished in October.

[@BaltimoreAndOhioRR]

interesting! thanks for the info!

[@rockvilleraven]

For the Baysox games, they closed off the upper deck. The reason they couldn't use Memorial in 1994 was the Baltimore CFL Colts/ Football Club was using the stadium and had to take out the outfield fence so they could fit as close to a Canadian sized field as possible.

[@BaltimoreAndOhioRR]

oh yeah! I forgot all about the CFL team!!!

[@rockvilleraven]

BaltimoreAndOhioRR One more thing, Major League II was filmed in both ballparks, Camden Yards was the Indians home stadium, Memorial was the road field in 1993.

[@BaltimoreAndOhioRR]

rockvilleraven really? I hadn't heard that!

[@eliesiobragabraga3886]

Beleza de passeio valeu👏👏👏👏

[@MrChessie69]

You made an illegal right hand turn onto Highland ave. near Monument street then you made a right turn and then went up a Do Not Enter alley behind Highland ave. But it was a great video.

[@HomerEddie1]

Nice, liked

[@donaldwhitten2438]

Wasn't that giant food store AT ONE POINT A a and p store on old York rd and 33rd

[@ihbarddx]

Took me back too when you went down Montpellier street. I lived there in the Watergate era. Worked at John Gach Bookstore by day, and on Geenmount Ave tending bar by night. At the end of Montpellier street was (then) a bar called The Green Door. Never barred anyone, so everyone barred from every bar on the Ave would hang there. I'd have to pass people I had personally barred every evening. Actually got to be a joke, but there were always broken windows or plywood where the door should be, violent place that it was.

[@BaltimoreAndOhioRR]

+ihbarddx Thanks for commenting!

[@Handiman544]

+ihbarddx I lived on  Montpelier Street in 1957, 58, and 59.  I went to Clifton Park Junior High School.  I went to Montebello Elementary.  These streets bring back a  lot of memories for sure.  I remember when the Stadium was still there.  City College is on the right and Eastern High School.  Then the bus made a right turn and headed toward Bel Air Road. The good days of my youth.

[@BaltimoreAndOhioRR]

J kK Thanks for your comments! Glad I brought back memories! (ps this isnt a bus, tho)

[@Airman241]

When you shift the camera is that where Memorial Stadium used to be

[@BaltimoreAndOhioRR]

Correct. I did it for that reason 😉

[@RobertBrown-jz4qj]

Yes

[@TheMotorolaman]

thought you would like to know but the red unit of Ringling should be through MD sometime monday evening im on the road with them ill give you a update when we get close

[@TheMotorolaman]

thought you would like to know ringlings red unit will be through MD sometime monday evening on our way to Philly Pa

[@TheMotorolaman]

ill keep you up to date where are along the way

[@BASH953]

That guy in the White van cut you off twice

[@128redskinz1]

are you in a dump truck...i hear that diesel engine...nice video.

[@BASH953]

Ha, At 22:07 you drove by Goetzes Candy Co, I used to work there in the 80's

[@qsfoxx]

I used to ride the school bus to McDonogh with Randall Goetz - the current president of the candy company.

[@timjones3476]

I used to do this when i drove a truck

[@ter521fad]

At what point in this video did you drive past the site of Memorial Stadium?

[@BaltimoreAndOhioRR]

+Sum Dewd Sorry for the late answer, yes, it's there , where the camera turns

[@ihbarddx]

+James McKeon From about 7:30 to about 8:15

[@ihbarddx]

+ihbarddx It's on the left

[@timjones3476]

You could have avoided the road closure on edison hwy if you would have just went straight to Erdman.

[@timjones3476]

i see at 5:27 that was a tight street

[@RobertBrown-jz4qj]

That was Montipeier St. 7 or6 hundread block.