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Anand Pandian posted an update in the group
a year agoBaltimore’s Jones Falls The Jones Falls actually blew up in flames in 1926! Fascinating and disturbing account of the history of pollution and neglect of the JF (from the Sun in 1991), down to promises to rid the city of an “eyesore” with the JFX.
“A sheet of flame 40 feet high in places spread along the open portion of the river from Baltimore Street to Pratt Street, setting fire to the roof of the Folly burlesque theater, the wooden understructure of the Lombard Street Bridge, and the abutments of the Pratt Street Bridge.”
