A Public Works program in 1935 provided for the paving of about 12 miles of city streets in Vitrified brick.  Today, a great number of streets once employing this paving have been paved over, only to emerge in spots, or exposed wholly when the street is striated for repaving in Asphault.  Interestingly, a number of spots once paved in brick still proudly display this paving, having done so continuousky for over 60 years or more.  Like the Belgian blocks, the bricks have come to embody a cerain quaint charachter unknown to concrete or asphault, and after a spell of sharp repaving, have begun to hold back the forces looking to cover them up.  In a few spots, entire blocks of streets have had their brick surfaces repaved in brick, and even had the addition of crossing metal drainage gutters implemented as well.  The hopeful result is that these survivors of days gone will continue to offer a fresh change from the Deep Gray and Sand colored standards that have replaced them in all too many places.

Ashburton Street offers a novel variety of the "buff brick" markers.  The street is paved entirely in red brick, but as it nears the intersection of Harlem Avenue, a short stretch of "Centerline" appears to guide traffic.  In addition, buff bricks also denote crosswalks at this intersection.  Brick at it's finest!	In a scene definitely reminiscent of old Baltimore, East Oliver Street at Lakewood shows classic brick with all the extras, a truly classic slice of Baltimoreana.  Thanks to Greg Spencer for the lead!
Eager Street, between Calvert Street and Guilford Avenue, shows the "Buff Brick" often used to denote lane markers on busier streets.  Aside from the patchs and the decayed portion of the street across from the van, the surface has help up pretty well for its age.	Bouldin Street in East Baltimore combines the tradition of brick and the "modernity" of "Formstone" to create this vignette of a classic Highlandtown side street.  This view looks North from Pratt Street.
Bricks as far as the eye can see... Change the lamp posts, replace the cars with classics from a different era, and you have a very convincing movie set from days long since passed.  This expansive brick scene stretches West on Fleet Street from Oldham Street in the area most commonly referred to as "Greek Town."	Another look one block West of the prior scene shows the street dead ending at a railroad track next to a brick warehouse.  It certainly screams movie set up to me.
Bricks in the Burbs?!?  While bricks rarely venture far beyond the city's early 20th Century boundaries, they can be found in limited use and survival in some areas.  For example, these soft red bricks on Strathmore Avenue near Hopeton offer proof that bricks are not simply an inner-city thing!  PHOTO COURTESY OF IRA WEXLER.	This unnamed street linking Lafayette Avenue to Trenton Street near Maryland Avenue shows pretty decent wear for its decades of service, much more than can usually be said for many streets paved far more recently.
FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD: Tiny litte Ignatius Street off of Remington Avenue could easily be mistaken for a driveway.  This "thorofare is actually a specimen of a tan toned brick street unlike the other red toned brick streets in the region.  While a couple of red patches have since been installed, the majority of the street retains the earthy tone.	A closer look at the Ignatius Street surface showing the many hues that grace this tiny little thorofare.