Famous People from Baltimore

A little Baltimore trivia today. The crab you see above looks like from before the time when America started nose diving into bankruptcy. Then, every city in this nation had money to put fiberglass animals on every corner with some make up painted or sculptured by an artist with a lot of time to spare.

This crab is located two blocks from my house in South Baltimore (Please, don’t steal it. And, please, don't try to find my house if you find the crab). It is kind of an interesting one though. It shows 12 famous people related to Baltimore. The ones you see in the picture are:

. Cab Calloway ( Jazz singer and bandleader, Dizzy Gillespie boss for a while. ).

. Babe Ruth ( You know him. If you don’t, you got a mental health problem. ).

. Barbara Mikulski ( First female senator in Maryland – still working by the way. ).

. Eubie Blake ( Wrote and directed first Broadway music exclusively made by Africa-Americans. ).

. Frank Zappa ( I don’t know what is so great about his music, but he is a Rock Idol regardless of my opinion. ).

On the back of the crab:

. Billie Holliday (Don’t say that you don’t know her or I’ll slap you.).

. Kweisi Mfume ( Saved NAACP from bankruptcy. ).

. H. L. Meken ( His name is misspelled. It is supposed to be Mecken. He must be turning in his grave, because he was a big wig writer and English language scholar. Well known for his criticism of the “Monkey” trials too. Nickname: The sage of Baltimore).

. Thurgood Marshall (If you say that you don’t know him, I’ll slap you twice. ).

. Pam Shriver ( She won 133 top-levels tennis titles. Is human life long enough for that? I guess she was the female Tiger Woods of tennis ).

Now some more people related to Baltimore that didn’t fit in the crab:

David Abercrombie ( Abercrombie & Fitch ), John Astin ( Addams Family’s dad. As if it wasn’t enough having Edgar Allan Poe related to this city ), Michael Bloomberg (John Hopkins graduate), David Byrne ( Talking heads ), Ben Carson ( I don’t wanna talk about this ), Tom Clancy ( If you haven’t seen a movie based in one of his books, you must be blind ), Kevin Clash ( puppeteer of Sesame street’s Elmo. Not important, but cute ), Thomas D’Alesandro Jr (Nanci Pelosi’s father. Whatever.), Frederick Douglas (Abraham Lincoln’s African-American twin), Philip Glass (Why isn’t he on the crab? ), Louis Hamman ( Hamman’s sign, Hamman’s syndrome, Hamman-Rich syndrome. Creepy. ), Nanci Pelosi ( Are you kidding me?! I had no idea. ), Mike Rowe (Discovery channel’s Dirty Job’s host. He must be from Baltimore all right. ), Sargent Shriver (“Driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps.), Kathleen Turner ( UMD graduate ), Montel Williams ( Oh, please… as if there wasn’t enough tacky in this town).

OK. If you aren’t sick yet of reading names, you can click on the link below and find more famous people related to this Baltimore. As you see there aren’t enough crabs in the Chesapeake Bay to paint all these people on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Baltimore

Bye bye and so long. ( For today at least ).