pollock johnnys (Baltimore: live, oil, best)

[krakenten]

Indeed it was!

Remember his Radio Show?

Harley Brinsfield was a great authority on jazz music, and knew all the greats, mainly because, when Baltimore was still Jim Crow, he'd have the musicians who couldn't get hotel rooms stay at his house.

Last time I was at Lexington Market, the Pollock Johnnies was still there, and the sausages tasted about the same-I must admit a preference for Konstant's Chili Dogs.

[barante]

Sailing Down the Chesapeake Bay was the closing tune of Harley's jazz show, first on WBAL and then on WITH.
Here is the cover:
Sailing Down the Chesapeake Bay
Here is a sample of the original:
Amazon.com: The Scobey Story, Vol. 1: Bob Scobey's Frisco Band: Music
Here is a modern rendition of the tune:

YouTube - Muir Station Jazz Band - Sailing down to Chesapeake Bay
Here is another version, better in my opinion but no equal to the original

YouTube - Green's Fiddletown Bash - 2003 - Sailing Down to Chesapeake
Here is an entry from wikipedia. It says WFBR, but I'm sure that is wrong. It was WITH.
Harley Brinsfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[krakenten]

Thanks for the link!

I listened to him om WBJC, Sunday nights, as I recall-but I could well be wrong.

I know I found the show by trying to find Doctor Demento's truly disturbed radio outburst, great fun, that-and does anyone else fondly remember the old radio dramas and comedy on Sunday nights?

I miss that.

[236 rules]

Originally Posted by barante

Are you sure? They used to make the sausages in the West building but that operation has been gone for more than a decade. You can get an ersatz sausage with the works but it's not Johnnie's.
Carol Ott is right. The only PJ's is at Caton and Washington boulevard.-

I spoke to the proprietor at the Washington Blvd location a few years ago. He told me that the sausages are no longer made "in-house" and that Hahn's (..of Westminster - Carroll County fresh) makes them to Polock Johnny's recipe.

With all due respect to some of the other posters, there is no substitute for a Polock Johnny's.

[barante]

Can there be a grander way to enter this forum than by discussing Polock Johnny's in the very first post? I truly feel bad for all those who never had the opportunity to munch a Polock Johnny sausage, never could quaff some National Premium in its heyday or chase it with some Pikesville Rye. Gone also are terrapin soup (and steaks) and aspic (at Woman's Industrial Exchange).
I wonder what the younger people will be remembering by the time they reach their mid-60s. And I wasn't even born here.

[krakenten]

That was then, this is now.

Pikesville Rye is still around, and it still tastes like dog whiz.

Natty Boh and National Premium were never great beers-but they were cheap enough for guzzling(I know, for I have guzzled!)

Local and regional treats are becoming national, or extinct(Moon Pies and Goo-Goo Clusters are breaking out of the local markets!)

Change or die-it's a rule, says so in the Scriptures!(who knows where that comes from, eh? Mad, am I? Not so I don't know it!)

[rudy_d]

Pikesville Rye is still around, but it's been distilled in Kentucky for over 20 years. I've heard that the taste hasn't changed, though, which could be considered a good or a bad thing.

[236 rules]

Thank you barante. I stumbled on this site looking to see if some former employee had actually divulged a recipe for how to make the sausage. If this site talks about Baltimore food of yesteryear, count me in. I grew up on food at the Lexington Market. The wet roast beef sandwich at Charley's, Rheb's chocolate eggs, the Swedish fish at Konstant's, corned beef at Merry Mervis, horseradish ground while you waited by a man who seemed 100 years old and a Faidley's crab cake served between 2 crackers. Then, while waiting for the #19 bus to go home, we would pick up a ribbon cake at Arthur's bakery on some long forgotten corner near the market. The senses of taste and smell promote the most accurate memories.

[krakenten]

Oh, God! Ribbon Cake!

[lilypine]

Does anyone have a receipe for Harley Steak Sandwich????