Photography by David Robert CrewsThese kids are hangin' out across the street from Watersedge Park, which is one of Dundalk's waterfront parks. From where they are standing they can look across the waters of Bear Creek to see the old Bethlehem Steel Mill and former Sparrows Point Shipyard.
30 or so years before this photo was taken, I used drive by this spot on some Saturday or Sunday afternoons to see if any of my old schoolmates who grew up in Watersedge were hangin' out around there. Watersedge is a neighborhood where there are muti-generations of families owning their own nice homes, any of these kids who hang out here might be an old friend of mine's child or grandchild, niece or nephew. It's a good place for them to socialize in public, because the families who live in the homes along that street may know the kids or their parents or grandparents or aunts and uncles, or one of those families' kids might be out there with them, so there's little chance of any hooliganisms happening out there.ursusdavephotographydundalk marylandDavid Robert Crews
Photography by David Robert CrewsKevin Clash is the voice and soul of world famous Elmo. Kevin grew up in the Turners Station neighborhood of Dundalk, and he graduated from Dundalk High School. He comes back to his old neighborhood to visit his family a lot and once a year or so he puts on a free show and autograph signing event. Yep kids, that is really the real Elmo in this photo!!
Kevin has worked with so many famous people that he's probly lost count of the major film, TV, and music recording stars he knows. He's even had the leader of the United Nations, Secretary General Kofe Annan, on the Sesame Street TV show having fun with Elmo.
Photography by David Robert CrewsI took this photograph while standing in the front door of my Dundalk Townhouse.
Photography by David Robert CrewsHere's a typical summer weekday scene in one of the large waterfront parks in Dundalk. During warm weather weekends these parks have a lot of families and other groups having big picnics with lots of food and fun. The parks are well used by many people, well cared for by Baltimore County, and I have enjoyed spending time in them since the 1960s.
This photo was taken on a terribly overcast, hot and hazy day. I have more and better photos of this park, but I need to scan them into JPEG files.ursusdavephotographydundalk marylandDavid Robert Crews
Photography by David Robert CrewsWhen my family moved from the Bungalows in Sparrows Point over to Dundalk, during 1955, there was still a bit of active farmland there. There was a cattle pasture and dairy farm right across the road from where this property is today. Sometime after the dairy farm went out of business there, it had a horse boarding stable in the early 1970s. There have been horses living in this area almost constantly since the first Europeans arrived here. Now it's just these three horses left.
This photo is as much about an example of the nice open space that is in Dundalk as it is of anything else.ursusdavephotographydundalk marylandDavid Robert Crews
Photography by David Robert Crews
Photography by David Robert Crews
We have to bring back the business into Dundalk Village Shopping Center to bring back the tradition of having Ole Jack the Jehovah's Witness hanging out in front of the grocery store. It was kind of a more secure feeling walking near the grocery store when Jack was out there all the time greeting store patrons and passersby. He didn't push his religion on others, he just made it available for anyone who might be interested. Beings that no Hari Krishnas or other overtly religious individuals wanted their fair allotted time out in front of the store, Jack got to stay there and pass the time doing his thing.
I seriously doubt that he made any converts while he was out there.
Personally, I'm not religious, I'm spiritual.
The tolerance of all the shopping center patrons and store owners, who practice a different religion than Jack or have another way of dealing with life, who didn't complain much about Jack being out there, was a religious and spiritual experience in itself.
Photography by David Robert CrewsEvery spring, summer, and fall growing season the public gardens in Dundalk's Stansbury Park produce lotsa' vegetables for the local gardeners who get out of the house, away from the TV and computer, and do some diggin' and weedin' in their garden plot.
Photography by David Robert Crews
Photography by David Robert Crews
