My Parents’ Records — an Update

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A favorite breakfast place in Baltimore — and y’all will all be coming for Bouchercon 2008, right? — is the Golden West on 36th Street. The menus are all placed inside old album covers, which also have been used to decorate the walls in the bathrooms. I ordered from a Lester Scruggs album, while my dining companion was given a Pete Fountain.

And in the ladies room . . . yes, there was “First Family”!

Breakfast quesadilla, huevos rancheros, and Frito pie highly recommended, along with lime-aid and sopapillas.

Look for it on the Tess Tour of Baltimore (she eats in its original incarnation in By a Spider’s Thread) when I post it to my website in, say, December.

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8 thoughts on “My Parents’ Records — an Update”

  1. I am very excited about the Tess Tour. I live 25 minutes from Baltimore(in Silver Spring) but almost never go there- shamefully. The Tess Tour will be a definite item for me and my daughter during winter break.

    Thanks
    Andrea
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  3. Andrea, you’ve inspired me. I won’t put it off anymore. November’s letter — The Annotated Lippman, which is actually more about The Annotated Lolita — is almost done, but I promise the Tess Tour for December.

  5. Hmmmm, wonder if Tess ever makes it over to Security Boulevard?

    I love the idea of a Tess Tour. Baltimore is such a great city for eating in, especially if you have an insider as a guide.

    Oh, there should be an Omar Tour too….

  7. I’m so oooooooooooold media. I’m actually tinkering with an idea for a new blog in 2006 that would follow a very specific New Year’s resolution about reading. (I was inspired last night by a lecture on Don Quixote at Baltimore’s incredibly gorgeous Peabody Library. The lecture focused on how Cervantes’ true topic was reading.)

    Then again, as I recall the newspaper biz, we usually started our planning for various holidays about 48 hours before they happened. Christmas caught us by surprise almost every year.

  8. Restaurant bathroom decor is essential to a B’more tour. I’m quite fond of the handicap bathroom at Paper Moon. It has a lucite box on the door with a wheelchair Barbie inside. I don’t recal which outfit she was wearing.

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