Not looking like a tourist!

[BayouBaxter]

Yeah, yeah, inner harbor.

I waited tables at the inner harbor in my late teens. Work uniform was: white shirt-sleeves, khaki shorts, white socks, black sneakers.

Now there's a memory I hope one day to outlive.

Gorgeous aquarium there though; best I've seen.

[USbongLord]

fridays and saturdays down there,its really easy to get in a fight..all ya gotta do is look at someone for more then a second.....stupid kids...get ya shot/..., i stay far away...

[Sir Niall of Essex-sire]

fridays and saturdays down there,its really easy to get in a fight..all ya gotta do is look at someone for more then a second.....stupid kids...get ya shot/..., i stay far away...

There's a really good book written about Baltimore called The Corner. It's about the Fayette Street corners and the people who live on them man, you should check it out.

[Uncle Ron]

Off topic:
Hey USBL, have you seen the series 'The Wire'? If so. how well did it represent Baltimore, all things considered (TV and all that)?

I used to go to Baltimore quite often when I lived in Laurel (assigned to Walter Reed AMC). Besides the occasional derelict, which can be found in any city, my experiences in Baltimore were good. Fondest memory - taking a water taxi to Fort McHenry on a beautiful late summer day, enjoyed a picnic, and got smoked-out by the best kind of friend to have, one with weed. Indeed. ':)'

On topic:
Something that I find amusing is how sometimes we are able to pick out tourists in our country that are from our country. People from Florida, Hawaii, and NYC (to name just a few) know what I'm talking about. Real easy to spot the potato farmer from Idaho or the homemaker from Indiana, not to mention when they speak. ':lol:'

In the end, there is nothing left.

[Marco]

fridays and saturdays down there,its really easy to get in a fight..all ya gotta do is look at someone for more then a second.....stupid kids...get ya shot/..., i stay far away...

There's a really good book written about Baltimore called The Corner. It's about the Fayette Street corners and the people who live on them man, you should check it out.

They made a tremendous HBO show from the book, which lead to (IMHO) best tv series ever, The Wire......

Another great show about Baltimore: Homicide, Life on the Streets....

As a teen we used to drive to Balmer to cop and generally get in trouble. Really old school compared to DC....

Love to hear your stories usbl

[USbongLord]

at night fayette and calvert streets are generally packed with transvestites and knuckleheads after 3 ...cops know all the spots..its a revolving door at the po;lice station cause they dont wanna house the freaks...they uses to film some scenes from the wire on my block..the strip club...its really there its called the ritz...got tons of old vids of stripper chicks puking .blowing and peeing in my little alley...my old harleys in plenty of shots too...if ya could zoom in on my tag it would fry yer minds...BASJOE.....

[mrdcotor]

Funny thing, Italians are so easy to spot, right behind the English. May as well wear a flag-hat.

but one time a lovely dutch woman in a souvenir shop supposed I was spanish: I don't seem an Italian! Whooo Hoooo XD

Btw: don't want to look as a tourist? Walk fast, don't look around you like you work here and you seen so many times the city.You will ruin your trip bu, in fact, it's impossibile to be in Amsterdam as a tourist and don't look like while sooo high and fascinated from the sorrounding beauty (architecture, canals, girls.....) I suppose