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 ...that Baltimoreans have an odd fascination with their past. Whether it's the lamenting of the loss of the Colts team in 1984, the fond remembrances of evenings spent club hopping along Pennsylvania Avenue during the 1940's, or the frustration in knowing that one can no longer head Downtown to go shopping at Hutzler's Department Store any more, there is no denying that we Baltimoreans are a sentimental lot.  ...or is it? While one can no longer enjoy a ride on the whip at Gwynn Oak Park, nor take in a movie at the Ambassador, there are countless vestiges of the golden days of the city all about us. These "Ghosts" that haunt us offer evidence to just what life in the land of pleasant living was like before the present cycles of decay, demolition, and rebuilding changed the fabric of the city, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse.  Many of these "Ghosts" are on borrowed time, though others will survive for the ages to come. It's never all that easy to determine what will survive the coming year and encroaching modernization.  ...seeks to explore the area for remnants and relics of the area's past that presently survive. When possible, the "Ghosts" are researched to determine the changes which have occurred since the era in which they flourished.
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