Saloon

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.

Hours after the black-tie New Year's Eve party at McGarvey's Saloon in Annapolis, a three-alarm fire struck the downtown landmark. Only one section of the business was damaged, and there were no injuries."

The Fells Point Corner Theatre production ofEugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh" is being staged in the right Baltimore neighborhood, because the entire play takes place in a bar. This is such a hard-drinking play that the word-drunk characters only shut up when they pass out, and even then they mumble in their sleep. Let's just say that the personally troubled, Pulitzer- and Nobel-prize winning playwright knew his down-and-out characters well, because O'Neill is completely persuasive in depicting their boasting and their brawls.

For years, James E. Cary would meet with his buddies at the Mount Vernon Saloon downtown, sip his favorite Sabuka beer and have a ball.Cary and his friends, who called him "the mayor of Mount Vernon," would drink, laugh and share stories -- just to have a good time. They were like family.Yesterday afternoon, the gang was all there at the North Charles Street bar, but not Cary.The 35-year-old mail handler was gunned down Wednesday night in the 600 block of N. Charles St. as he walked from hisjob at the U.S. Post Office on Fayette Street.

Just past nightfall, as the neon lights flashed on and doormen emerged from under the awnings to hustle the gathering crowd, two men wandered into the smoky darkness of the Plaza Saloon.In the narrow basement bar, Sparkle twirled about on stage and pulled off her sequined top. Bunny, in a red string bikini, offered to "explain the rules" for a $20 drink. If either of them wanted to pay her $40, she said, she would have sex with him.The men -- two undercover vice officers -- needed little further explanation.

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.

For 60 years, Souris' Saloon has been a Towson landmark. And for nearly 58 of those years, its founder, Chris Souris, and members of his family ran the business.It's been about two years since members of the Souris family decided to sell to a group who gave the place a face-lift, and business is booming. The new owners include Pat and Jim Koliha -- he was in charge of the renovations and is the keeper of the books, while Pat and their daughter Mary Beth Protzman supply the restaurant with homemade desserts and find the time to run M. B.'s Creative Catering.

WESTMINSTER -- Shannon's Saloon left no doubt who the best team was in the travel division of the Carroll County Lacrosse Association Summer League.After a scheduling problem had forced the Greene Turtle team to forfeit the title game earlier this month -- thus awarding the championship to Shannon's -- Shannon's agreed to reschedule the finals on Thursday at the Carroll County Sports Complex.This time, it was Shannon's who struggled to find enough players -- having only 10 (just enough to field a team)

Crouching to examine the contours of a gleaming Ferrari 360 Spider convertible Monday afternoon, 21-year-old Daniel Giron couldn't help but imagine himself as owner of the luxury car, seized by the U.S. government from Byron Keith Brown, a Maryland man convicted last year of wire fraud and money laundering. After admiring the car at a vehicle auction site in Elkridge, Giron whipped out his phone, leaned in close to the cherry-red exterior and snapped a couple of pictures of his face next to the Ferrari logo.

A 24-year-old Iowa woman was charged with battery and disorderly conduct in connection with a fight at McGarvey's Saloon near City Dock in Annapolis early Tuesday.Amy Elizabeth Kelly was accused of breaking a mug and cutting Christopher Richard Landrie, 25, of Annapolis on the hand. The fight began about 1 a.m. when Mr. Landrie told Ms. Kelly to stop blocking an aisle, police said.Ms. Kelly was being held in the county jail on $975 bond. Mr. Landrie was treated at Anne Arundel Medical Center and released.