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| | Baltimore's Bawdy Block |
 | | From then on he was known as "the Judge" by "The Block." But the honor was short-lived as someone got to the governor with the suggestion that Max wasn't quite the type, and the latter rescinded the appointment. |
 | | THE OLDEST, lushest, bawdiest tenderloin in the United States today is that back-of-the-waterfront area of Baltimore, Maryland, known as "The Block." Actually the district covers about three blocks along East Baltimore Street, one block down from the great Patapsco River docks that have made the Maryland metropolis America's second port in tonnage. |
 | | As time went on, the center of the tenderloin shifted slightly westward along Baltimore Street, never getting more than a block from the docks until, by the late 19th century, it was occupying its present location between Holliday Street and the Fallsway (old Fells Point). |
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