Scrubbing down the neighborhood (Baltimore, 1950s)
Scrubbing down the neighborhood (Baltimore, 1950s)
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Those are the cleanest, newest stoops I have ever seen.
When new stoops are built, they already look more worn out than this.
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Apparently they're marble!
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Like… solid slabs??
Worth more than the whole house.
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Found an article about them from a few years ago. https://www.wypr.org/2021-12-06/a-stone-cold-mystery
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Any extra information on the photo? The trees in the background would likely be Patterson Park.
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The picture has been making rounds, but I just found a research article that uses it while talking about the East side of Baltimore.
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Is this AI generated?
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Didn't look like it
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Yeah but like those stairs just scream unsafe. Like weirdly unsafe.
Even for the 50's.
Why are there no handrails?
AI is getting pretty good.
edit but this isn't AI, it's just weirdly unsafe. https://mdhsphotographs.tumblr.com/post/6113325836/scrubbing-the-white-marble-steps-baltimore
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Looks like Hamsterdam from the wire
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Beat me to it, Bubs. Was gonna say Hamsterdam is lookin clean here.
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An ADA lawyer would be filing an accommodation lawsuit for each unit. It'd cost the landlord $40K/unit on average.
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Should have spent some of the solid marble stair budget on simple wooden ramps.
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Ada wasn't til 1990. These would all be grandfathered in unless they were governmental stuff.
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Interesting. Condos were a thing in the 50s
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Nothing screams broken neck like soapy marble stairs. I can't imaging climbing them in the rain.
With no handrails, apparently.
Yeah this is the part that bothers me the most
you know how they say that safety regulations are written in blood? here's an early example of building codes, or lack thereof
That's not soap, they're holystoning the porch.
Maybe, but in the rain those would be slick. That was my point.
Holystoning is done to wood, not marble.