These Days: A Tale of Nostalgia on Baltimore’s ‘Block’
The Baltimore Post-Examiner is pleased to present an excerpt from the novel These Days: A Tale of Nostalgia on Baltimore’s
Read more
At age 16, Margo Christie landed on Baltimore’s World-Famous Block, the teenaged girlfriend of a charismatic older man. There, she made the acquaintance of many a retired burlesque-queen-turned-barmaid. “It was an interesting time to be on the Block,” she says of the adult-entertainment strip that was once a world-renown burlesque destination. Today, Christie lives in Denver, Colorado where she writes and still occasionally performs burlesque.