City - Baltimore MD - That's just banana's 1905 - Side by Side
by Mike Savad
Title
City - Baltimore MD - That's just banana's 1905 - Side by Side
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Colorized Photo
Description
Colorized photo from 1905
Original Title: Unloading banana steamer
Photographer: Detroit publishing
Location: Pier 3 Baltimore, MD
What attracted me most to this one is that one guy on the left, eating the banana and staring right at us. He has a look on his face like, can you believe what's going on here, crazy right?
Imagine how many people slipped on all those peels by the ramp down, maybe that's what the look was all about.
People are bidding on banana's, so they can roll them out to their stores. These are called Michel Gros, compared to today's banana's, they are more durable and can travel well. They are sweeter and had a better taste. We would still be using them today but a blight took them all out, because banana's are basically a cloned fruit. If one goes they all go. And as a matter of fact the Cavendish, a delicate banana compared to the old ones, are also potentially on the way out. They also have some kind of blight and people are looking for a cure, or we may have no bananas.
I believe they had a 10 year span of when this was taken. In 1904 there was a huge fire, it wiped out most of the town, but some areas were spared if at least a little bit. By the next year a lot of it was cleaned and rebuilt. Some of the buildings in the background are or should be new. I made Pratt street in the background which I think was 1906, and I would have assumed that this was taken on that same day. But there was a sign missing in the background, a lot with awnings and other clues. There is a huge pile of rubble in the outline of a building. So I think its 1905.
This view is about where the aquarium is now.
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August 21st, 2019
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