December 15, 2025
Tag: shot towers
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Shot Towers
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Is it some sort of munitions testing facility? Why build it in downtown Baltimore? There’s a reason for everything, and then I found out there were lots of them, and some are still around, almost 200 years and several technological revolutions later.
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October 12, 2023 2 Comments
Hy Mirampolski’s series, “Give My Regards to Broadway” continues with Act 3, in a search for a national theatre. In this episode we learn the history of several theaters built north of 42nd street at the dawn of the 20th Century. The path we follow leads to Lincoln Center.