Kevin Dayhoff: National Bohemian Commercial Classics Click HERE to Bring Up Full Post

Many thanks to Kevin Dayhoff for his recent link to Crablaw and a MAJOR HAT TIP for an awesome piece of Maryland history and culture: National Bohemian movie trailer ads consolidated by Atomic Books ("literary finds for mutilated minds") onto YouTube. Kevin also provides a history of the administrative and judicial proceedings involving Maryland's Board of Censors, which once had prior restraint power over all films shown in Maryland, even during my early lifetime.

National Bohemian is strongly associated with old Baltimore, hairspray Baltimore, the one back when the Orioles and Colts played at 33rd Street in old beat-up Memorial Stadium, when Chuck Thompson would exclaim "Ain't the Beer Cold!" (and you KNEW what beer he meant) and Brooks and Frank Robinson played, when the Orioles finished above .500 regularly and usually had the best 20-30 year record in baseball, better even than the infamous, disgusting Yankees.

I did not grow up in the City, but the whole area lit up in 1979 when the Orioles played the Pirates in the World Series, then won it in 1983 against the Phillies. Now the Orioles are in an 11 year drought from winning, and they don't even make Natty Boh here any more. Maybe that's the problem.

Well done, Kevin - a classic.