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| Baltimore has been an industrial
city for much of it's past, and while much of the industrial base has
left, plenty of reminders can be found all over town. Sure there
is plenty of industry left in Baltimore today, and there are still some
big plants in town, but over the years, in a changing world, many of the
old factories have closed down or moved to where things can be done cheaper. While we list this page as " Factories ", you find all types of Baltimore's Industrial past here. Let me know what you think. |
| Baltimore Factories |
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| In a 1931 Industrial Plant publication for Baltimore City, listings are found of industrial plants that produced just about everything, right here in Baltimore. Here is just a sample of some of the trade names found in that Directory of items made in Baltimore back then : "Absorbia" Meal," B-B Perfectly Brewed Near Beer" ," Baltobelt" Leather Belts," Baltoblue" Clothing, " Bear for Wear" Auto Tires," Best on Earth" Fertilizer, "Betsy Ross" Pickles, " Better Kind" Insecticides, " Big Boy " Cigars, " Big " C" Fish Meal, " Bingo " Insecticide, " Born in Baltimore , Raised Elsewhere " Umbrellas, " Brush-Nu " Paint Brushes, " Bug - Go " Insecticide, " Bully " Motor Oil, " Chillblaster " Air Conditioners, " Chipso " Soap, " Cinderella " Washing Machines, " Cleeno " floor cleaners, " Climax " Clothing, " Da-Lee " Mouth Wash, " Dandee " Pickles, " Drinkwell " Coffee, " Dirtdown " Sweeping Compound, " Everyday" Coffee," Fairy Gold" Mayonnaise," Farmer Brown " Work Shirts, " Faultless" Pajamas, " Footguv" Shoes, " Harvey's Instant Death " Insecticide, " He-No-Tea "," Hi-Ball" Ginger Ale, " Hold-Em " Traps," Instant Death " Insecticide, " Institution X " Soap, " It " Shoe Polish," Mammy's " Favorite Coffee, " Mad O War " Clothing for Girls, " Moon White " Laundry soap," Never Split " File Handles, " Old Pal" Coffee, "Old Reliable " Horse Radish, "Rid-O-Bug" Odorless Fertilizer, "Robust " Shirts, " R-Good " Pretzels, "Refresho " Ice Cream, " Sea Gull " Baking Powder, "Shed-No " Tooth Brushes, "Shum Shum" Cooking Oil, " Skidoo-Bug " Insecticide, " Sticktite " Envelopes, " Sunnyland " Coffee, " Tip Top " Bread, " Trusty Friend " Canned Goods, " Try-Me " Beverages, " Uneeda " Biscuits, " U-Rub-I-Shine " Shoe Cream, " Witchcraft " Boats, " Yur-Own " Tacks. And while many of those old companies are long gone, many of the old factory buildings still stand . |
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Dairies and Ice Cream ..............................................First US Ice Cream Plant was in Baltimore in 1851. Armen Co ( The ) 18 - 26 West 20th Street " Lozak " Milk circa 1931 |
| Arundel Ice Cream Company 302 North Smallwood Street ( in 1931 - 1501 West Baltimore Street - 1949 reference Smallwood Street ) .. 
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| 27 - Locations counted in a listing for 1949 |
| Bettar Ice Cream Company
25 South Catherine Street |
| Brimer's Ice Cream
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| Clark Ice Cream Company
1702 Druid Hill Avenue ad circa 1921 From the best of what I can find, the building,a three store house, is still there .By the 1930's, I could not find a reference for it anymore. |
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| Cloverland Farms 1910 Windsor Avenue Monroe Street and Windsor Avenue The building is still there, but is now a day care center. |
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| Delvale Ice Cream
2030 Harford Road Had one store listed in 1949 at 4808 Roland Avenue A Family Dollar Store is currently on the site. ..... 
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..........\Delvale Ice Cream served at Towson Teacher's College, circa 1961. |
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| Filston Farm 520 - 4 North Calvert St circa 1901 Directly across the street from where the Sunpapers building is now. The building was torn down years ago from what I can tell. By the 1940's, no listing at all could be found for it . |
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| Greenspring Dairy
1020 West 41st Street Back in the day, we had our milk delivered by the Greenspring Dairy. Delivery of milk is not longer done in Baltimore, and the old dairy building was vacant for years, before being torn down in the 1980's, and a shopping center went up on the site. ......... 
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| Hendler's Ice Cream
1100 East Baltimore Street The Hendler Building still stands to this day on East Baltimore Street. It had been used for a variety of uses over the years, and I believe the City currently owns the building. |
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| Koontz Dairy 5600 Reisterstown Road ( "Reisterstown Road near Academy Avenue ") Koontz Dairy was torn down for the construction of the " new " Northern Parkway , a thruway that replaced Belvedere Avenue. , at the intersection of Reisterstown Road. There is no trace of the building at all today. ........................................ ................................ ........... 
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| Kress Farm Dairy East Preston at Gay Street ( Listed in 1931 as 2416 East North Ave - currently a parking lot ) The building still stands to this day, although a church on the southside of the block was recently razed. |
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| Lord Baltimore Ice
Cream A small ice cream company that operated in Baltimore back in the 1920's. By the early 1930's, Lord Baltimore had an address of 203-211 North Vincent Street, in West Baltimore, near West Lexington Street. I don't believe the building still stands. |
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| Maryland Creamery AKA - Jersey Ice Cream Products 1726 West Pratt St Circa the 1920's. I checked the area and nothing remotely resembles this complex. The name was listed as of 1931 but not for 1940 in any Directories I could find. ............. 
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| Royal Farms Dairy
Baker Street @ Braddish Streets Office at 3701 Woodbine Avenue ( now residental ) Driving around Baltimore these days, you'll find a Royal Farm store just about anywhere in town. Apparently the chain has roots to this small building on Baker Street, which is currently used as a small mechanical shop to this day.Known as the Royal Dunloggin Dairy in 1949, and trademarks were the Square top bottle and the Baby-top bottle. |
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| Supreme Ice Cream
1224 - 1228 Greenmount Avenue The Supreme Ice Cream Company was located in Greenmount Avenue, in the area of the City Jail. As you might of guessed, the building is long gone. ....... 
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| Western Maryland Dairy
AKA - Fairfield Western Maryland Dairy Linden Avenue and Dolphin Street In my daily searches of old Baltimore buildings, I really expected to find this still standfing, but a drive by shows no trace of the Western Maryland Dairy complex at all. A modern Bolton Hill neighborhood stands on the site today. ............................................. 
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| Willow Farms
Dairy 1424 Reisterstown Rd I believe that Willow Farms was further out on Reisterstown Road, in Pikesville. Besides the image from a ad, I have found little on the Willow Farms Dairy so far. I have have a reference to the Wilton Farms Dairy however, located on Frederick Road at Longwood. The investigation continues........... |
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| Still working on, and hope to update
soon...... Benjamin F. Bealor - 1700 Madison Avenue ( Ice Cream ) < May have been a Ice Cream Parlor > Biemiller's Dairy - 6003 Eastern Avenue Chesapeake Creameries - 516 West Lexington Street Chestnut Farms Dairy - and National Dairy Products - Walker Gordon Lab. ( Fairfield Western Dairy ) R.E. Chew - 1837 Vine Street ( Ice Cream ) - An empty lot today. Cooper's Ice Cream - 1206-8 Light Street ( Ice Cream ) < May have been a Ice Cream Parlor > Davis Brother's - 941 Madison Avenue George Doebereiner - 29 East North Avenue Dolles Ice Cream - 2304 East Monument Street - < May have been a Ice Cream Parlor > East Baltimore Dairy - 1718 East Baltimore Street Eckes Ice Cream & Dairy - 2336 East North Avenue - See Rosedale Dairy below. F.S.Fiske - 701 West North Avenue Miller's Dairy - 5 Lloyd Street ( I believe the building is still standing, with other uses ) Nun's Dairy - 15 East Montgomery Street ( Part of upscale Federal Hill - Residential ) Rosedale Dairy Co - 2336 East North Avenue ( I believe the building still stands, well off of North Avenue proper ) Springfield Dairy Co - 2222 East Madison Street ( Residential ) Surrey Farm Dairy - Hamilton Avenue and 34th Street ( Street renamed ) Timber Grove Dairy - AKA Cloverland J. Will Co. - 2016 Fleet Street - Wilton Farms Dairy - Wilkens Avenue and Maiden Choice Lane and Longwood and Frederick Rds. |
| General Bakery
( Bread ) Harford Rd and North Ave NW Corner The General Bakery closed down years ago, I believe in the 1970's. For years, the building stood, and the basement was used as a second hand clothing store for years. A Walgreens's is now on the site. |
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| Holzman's Bakery Baltimore ad Circa 1945 |
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| Kolbs Bakery 2509 ( 2523 ) Pennsylvania Avenue Located on Pennsylvania Avenue, just north of North Avenue. It would have been right next to the old Metropolitan movie theater, on the east side of the street . The building was torn down years ago, likely for the subway station. .....................................................//////// 
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| Kunkel & Haverstick
804 ( 806 ) Light Street A South Baltimore bakery, on Light Street, just south of Montgomery Street. Listed back in the 1940's, the block, over the years also housed a small movie house , and a car dealership. A office building can be found there today.Str |
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| Meade Bakery
1107 Aisquith Street I believe there are no traces of the Meade Bakery surviving today. Listed from atleast the 1920's into the 1930's. The location is currently a housing complex. |
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| Pariser's Bakery 2304 Pennsylvania Avenue @ Cumberland This building stands today, used as a plumbing supply company. |
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| Rice's Bakery 4128 Hayward Avenue 400 North High Street ( 2nd Image ) It appears that the High Street location has been razed, which was in the location of where the Orleans Viaduct now passes over head., as much of High Street in that area is more or less a parking lot. A recent check on the Hayward address finds that building to still be standing, although for other uses.. ................................ 
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| Schmidt's Bakery 1301 Laurens Street AKA - City Bakery Laurens and Carey Streets Circa 1920's To this day, the City Bakery is still standing and operating on Laurens Street. |
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| Schumann's Bakery
4904 Ritchie Hwy & other addresses 1950's era bakery |
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| Superior Bakery
1821 Aiken Street It appears that an empty lot is all that remains of the Superior Bakery these days. .......................... 
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| Crescent Candy Company
222 West Camden Street |
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| Foos Candy Company
1505-07 West Baltimore Street Chocolate penny goods, marshallows, etc. |
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| Falter Candy Company
942 North Gilmor & Mosher Streets |
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| Martha Washington
Candy Company AKA - Elie Sheetz Candies Co. 210 North Liberty Street Much of Liberty Street disappeared over the years for Charles Center and the Civic Center. I have seen mentions of the Martha Washington Candy, but today this entire block is long gone. In the 1940's, a branch was mentioned at Myrtle and Cushings Streets. |
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