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Article: Polish Home Hall in South Baltimore opens its doors again
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- The Daily Record (Baltimore)
- Article date:
- June 3, 2009
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Looking out over the abrupt slope of Filbert Street in Curtis
Bay, South Baltimore's once-great manufacturing district, the view
is one of faded industrial glory. The staggered coal piers of a CSX
shipping terminal rise from a mix of active and vacant port and
chemical industry-related businesses, and beyond that, the
Chesapeake Bay and the Key Bridge.
Up here on the hill, at the corner of Filbert and Fairhaven, sits
the Polish Home Hall, at various times in history an ethnic
community center, a union hall and a ballroom for the wedding
receptions of members of the community, many of whom worked in
factories and shipyards below.
Community leaders here are trying to cast a bright spot on ...