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By Jacques Kelly | November 2, 2009
Peter Michael Yagjian, a restaurateur whose Mount Vernon Stable and Saloon brought baby back rib platters to Charles Street, died of a heart attack Tuesday at his Fells Point home. He was 64. Customers said that at his restaurant's peak, lines would form at its door on weekend nights. Mr. Yagjian, as the host and greeter, would dart around tables trying to accommodate one more party in his crowded and noisy bistro that featured a reproduction Egyptian mummy case and other eclectic decorations.
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By Jill Rosen | November 10, 2006
A diner owner paid $1.57 million yesterday for Fells Point's historic Horse You Came in On saloon, which the owner decided to sell after more than 30 years in business. Ioannis Korologos of Ellicott City, who owns six area Double-T Diners, beat out a handful of bidders at the auction, held at the bar at 1626 Thames St. "I thought it would be a good investment," said Korologos, who plans to keep the site a bar - with a few cosmetic improvements. "I'll definitely keep the name and the atmosphere."
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By Jill Rosen | November 9, 2006
If anyone was paying attention, which they probably weren't after a few sips, all they needed to know about the Horse You Came In On revealed itself in the saloon's first hour of business. That's when a silver-haired dude in a black hat rode a horse through the front door and up to the bar. And nobody minded. It was Aug. 7, 1972, the waterfront streets of Fells Point weren't yet synonymous with bar-hopping, and Ken Piaskowski, a friend of the new saloon's owner, was happy to help. "We got a little crazy," Piaskowski says, still proud of how he paid $20 to borrow the pony.
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August 6, 2005
On August 2, 2005, ROBERT CARL ARMOUR, of Randallstown, MD, devoted husband of Carol Armour, loving father of Samantha Nicole Armour and Travis Nash, he is the brother of Carol Wagner and Gayle Turek, he is the former owner of the Salty Dog Saloon (Captain Bob). Relatives and friends are invited to call Loring Byers Funeral Directors, Inc., 8728 Liberty Road (2 miles West of Beltway Exit 18B) on Saturday, August 6, 2005 from 4 to 7 P.M. and Sunday, August 7, 2005 from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Funeral Services will held at the Funeral Home on Monday, August 8, 2005 at 9:30 A.M. Interment to follow at Garrison Forest Veterans Cemetery.
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August 6, 2005
On August 2, 2005, ROBERT CARL ARMOUR, of Randallstown, MD, devoted husband of Carol Armour, loving father of Samantha Nicole Armour and Travis Nash, he is the brother of Carol Wagner and Gayle Turek, he is the former owner of the Salty Dog Saloon (Captain Bob). Relatives and friends are invited to call Loring Byers Funeral Directors, Inc., 8728 Liberty Road (2 miles West of Beltway Exit 18B) on Saturday, August 6, 2005 from 4 to 7 P.M. and Sunday, August 7, 2005 from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Funeral Services will held at the Funeral Home on Monday, August 8, 2005 at 9:30 A.M. Interment to follow at Garrison Forest Veterans Cemetery.
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By Lynn Marie Honeywill | July 31, 2005
When Alicia and John Horn bought their Fells Point bar, they opted to eliminate a late-night commute home. Instead, after closing they climbed the stairs - to their home on the two floors above their Scotch whisky bar. "We thought, who's going to drive home and chance it? Why have two places when you can live [and work] in one?" said Alicia Horn, proprietor of Birds of A Feather. Her bar is on the first floor of the 203-year-old brick rowhouse she and her husband, now deceased, bought 23 years ago. There aren't many merchants like Horn left.
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August 16, 2004
As visitors descend on Baltimore during the summer tourism season, staff writer Larry Bingham offers an occasional look at how the city has been portrayed by writers over the years. Today, an excerpt from Baltimore native and newspaperman H. L. Mencken, lamenting the changing city in the 1920s. "I was glad I was born long enough ago to remember, now, the days when the town had genuine color, and life here was worth living. I remember Guy's Hotel. I remember the Concordia Opera House. I remember the old Courthouse.
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By Antero Pietila | January 26, 2004
If you're the drinking kind, hoist a glass to old-line neighborhood taverns. Their numbers are shrinking in Baltimore. The reasons: People are not boozing as much as before, and many aging neighborhoods are emptying out. In the smaller working-class neighborhoods around the Baltimore waterfront, where most of the city's liquor licenses are, taverns are fighting for survival. Or they are as long gone as the Drydock taproom on Key Highway, where condominiums replaced a shipyard, and Gandy Dancer, a McHenry Street bar that witnessed Baltimore's rise and fall as a railroad capital.
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By Lynda Gorov | November 18, 2000
VIRGINIA CITY, Nev. - The freshly paved parking lot behind the Bucket of Blood Saloon is marked with footprints, literally and figuratively. Today, the small lot is crowded with cars, circa 2000. But 125 years ago, it was packed with people looking to drink, to dine, maybe even to dance. Back then, the recently excavated site was home to a saloon that archeologists and historians hope will tell them much about the life of blacks in the Old West. Known as the Boston Saloon, the bar in the heart of Virginia City's entertainment district was owned and run by a black man from Massachusetts named William A. G. Brown.
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By Joe Nawrozki | November 29, 1999
P. Austin Dolan, who operated a family-owned saloon on Greenmount Avenue, died Wednesday of heart failure at Oak Crest Village Care Center in Parkville. He was 80.Mr. Dolan was a partner in Dolan's Bar and Grill in the 1900 block of Greenmount Ave."My father pretty much ran the place," said Peter A. Dolan Jr. of Catonsville.Mr. Dolan, a Baltimore native, received his high school diploma from Calvert Hall College and enlisted in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He served in the United States as a B-29 crewman and was honorably discharged in 1946.