[Chat] [Discussion] Welcome to Baltimore Sign--can you help?

[John Spurrier]

There was a guy known as The Hon Man who created a laminated sign that said "HON"
which he stapled to the Welcome to Baltimore sign in the median of 295. The public works
people who maintained the median would remove the sign whenever they noticedit. It became sort of a cat and mouse game. You could even purchase your ownlaminated HON sign at Cafe Hon when they were located on the south side of 36thStreet in Hampden (across the street from their present location). I would
recommend contacting Denise Whiting owner of Cafe Hon for her take on thematter.
 
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> From: langwidge at erols.com> To: marybeth818 at comcast.net> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:20:28 -0400> CC: Chat at charlesvillage.info; Discussion at charlesvillage.info> Subject: Re: [Discussion] Welcome to Baltimore Sign--can you help?> > Mary,> > I live in Baltimore and remember news about the sign.  > > I think someone taped a piece of paper with the word Hon on it to the sign.> I don't think the word was ever part of the "official" sign.> > I'm forwarding your message to the Charles Village list.> > Maybe someone on it can help.> > Christine Gray > > > -----Original Message-----> From: H-Net Discussion List on Maryland History and Culture> [mailto:H-MARYLAND at H-NET.MSU.EDU] On Behalf Of Mary Beth Corrigan> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 7:00 PM> To: H-MARYLAND at H-NET.MSU.EDU> Subject: Welcome to Baltimore Sign> > From: rizz0015 at umn.edu [mailto:rizz0015 at umn.edu]> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:16 AM> Subject: INQ: Welcome to Baltimore Sign> > Dear List Members:> > In 1994 there was a bit of a public brouhaha over adding the word 'hon' to> the Welcome to Baltimore sign on I-295. I'm researching this incident as> part of an essay that looks at tourism and the representation of> contemporary post-industrial cities. While I have numerous articles that> discuss the details of the debate, I can't quite figure out if 'hon' was> added to the sign or not. And if it was added, the last time I drove into> Baltimore, I didn't notice it (though that certainly doesn't mean it wasn't> there.. I was going 65 mph, after all).> > Can someone let me know--does the I-295 Welcome to Baltimore sign say> 'hon'? If not now, did it? And, boy, if someone has a photo of it they'd> like to share, that would be great.> > Thanks, as always!> > Mary Rizzo> rizz0015 at umn.edu> > _______________________________________________> Discussion mailing list> Discussion at charlesvillage.info> http://charlesvillage.info/mailman/listinfo/discussion_charlesvillage.info
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