My Most Important Picture Flickr user gerwise used to own a photo supply store on the 2000 block of E. Monument Street. Back then, the neighborhood was a much different place than it is today. The expansion of the Johns Hopkins Campus has prompted some fixing up of the area… but back in 1972, the area was mom-and-pop retail and formstone rowhomes — much like McElderry Park, Collington Square and Madison-East End that surround Monument Street today. Back in the day, gerwise was getting robbed a lot, and always by the same guy. To catch a thief, he rigged up a motion picture video camera and a couple Leica rangefinders, and focused them on the till. When the thief robbed him again, he was ready with photographic evidence. This is a Baltimore Sun article from 1972 that runs down Mr. Wiseman’s ingenuity, and how it put a criminal behind bars for 15 years. Please click through for a larger version. (via gerwise)

My Most Important Picture

Flickr user gerwise used to own a photo supply store on the 2000 block of E. Monument Street. Back then, the neighborhood was a much different place than it is today. The expansion of the Johns Hopkins Campus has prompted some fixing up of the area… but back in 1972, the area was mom-and-pop retail and formstone rowhomes — much like McElderry Park, Collington Square and Madison-East End that surround Monument Street today.

Back in the day, gerwise was getting robbed a lot, and always by the same guy. To catch a thief, he rigged up a motion picture video camera and a couple Leica rangefinders, and focused them on the till. When the thief robbed him again, he was ready with photographic evidence.

This is a Baltimore Sun article from 1972 that runs down Mr. Wiseman’s ingenuity, and how it put a criminal behind bars for 15 years. Please click through for a larger version.

(via gerwise)

1 year ago
  1. spelledanote reblogged this from fouroneoh and added:
    Reason #374 why I love Baltimore:...dapper-looking thief
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