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From: "Michael Mullikin" <>
Subject: Re: [MD-BALTO-CUL-] Re: I didn't realize . . . .
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 01:24:18 -0400
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Lee,

When I was little my Dad would wait until we all went to bed on Christmas
Eve then put the tree, trains and garden up. It too sat on a platform with
the tree in the middle and the garden and trains all around. We always
thought Santa brought the whole thing. My parents would fall into bed about
4am and my brothers and I would get up at 5am.

I have a peach cake recipe--Baltimore Peachcake from the Baltimore Sun.
Give me a little time and I will send it. I am going to a family reunion in
Baltimore this weekend, so it might be next week before I can send it.

Monica
----- Original Message -----
From: Lee <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 11:00 PM
Subject: [MD-BALTO-CUL-] Re: I didn't realize . . . .


> At 08:18 PM 9/12/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >Lee wrote:
> >
> >> Another think people do not understand is a Christmas Garden... I guess
> >> that was unique to the Baltimore area..
> >
> >If by a Christmas Garden you mean a train layout, I don't know of many
> people who do
> >that here in Rochester, NY.
> >The local model train association puts a layout in a downtown office
area.
> But I
> >don't know of any set up in fire halls like I remember in the 60's.
>
> Well every year about November the trains went up..we had a fancy set up,
6
> volts lights strung in series lighted up little paper and plastic houses,
> streetlights, etc. usually some "Plastic snow" on it that got all over the
> place and it was always a Christmas Garden..(not a train layout) In fact
> the ones I see in pictures of when I was too little remember, the
Christmas
> tree was in the middle of the platform with the trains running around it..
> but it was just a Christman season thing, the trains came down and went
> back in the attic like all the other Christmas decorations..The name for
> the trains was a "CHRISTMAS GARDEN" I guess that is a Baltimore thing..
>
> ALso yes there was a lady that had the sno-ball machine in their basement
> of their house around the Block (Academy Heights in Catonsville) and they
> had lots of flavors of syrups and marshmellow topping so we troop to
their
> house and they would shave down a big block of ice and make them for you
I
> guess it was 25 or 50 cents in 1960... also the local drug store made them
> too..
>
> Lee
>
>
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