Description
This vintage postcard showcases Fallsway, Baltimore, MD, a wide street with cars, a bridge, and buildings in muted earth tones. The image depicts the Jones’ Falls millstream, once prone to destructive freshets, now tamed by underground tubes carrying water harmlessly to the harbor. This beautiful postcard, published by Magazine Service, Inc., is from approximately the 1930s (or undated if not visible).
Front Text (cleaned):
FALLSWAY, BALTIMORE, MD.
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Back Text (cleaned):
PUB. BY MAGAZINE SERVICE, INC., BALTIMORE, MD.
THE FALLSWAY
A beautiful millstream, known as Jones' Falls, resented civilization with freshets; it tore away bridges and flooded streets. Several years ago it was subdued—three closed tubes in the bed of the stream suck in the waters so strongly that the freshet is carried harmlessly into the harbor. Above the tubes a wide street has been built.
Pulling it on in a big minute. I might dine in New York this week.
5207 Tramow Rd.
McKees Rocks, PA.
