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Turkey Joe's Kitsch List

An Expert's Accounting of Things That Make Baltimore Baltimore

Sam Holden
Turkey Joe Trabert, perhaps the area's foremost collector of and dealer in Baltimore novelties, amid his collection of local color
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By Turkey Joe | Posted 4/15/1998

1. The Patterson Park pagoda

2. Rowhouse front-window displays in Highlandtown

3. Eastern Avenue

4. O-go's Sales Co. (a party store in Essex)

5. Striping (painting white lines on red paint to make it look like brick)

6. Painted screens

7. Marble steps

8. Formstone

9. Duckpin bowling

10. Growlers (oversize beer jars at local bars)

11. Woodlea Bakery's smear case (German-style, flat cheesecake)

12. Cohen's coddies (deep-fried potato and codfish cakes; coddies are still around, but Cohens' is defunct)

13. Sauerkraut at Thanksgiving

14. Gravy fries

15. Christmas gardens

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