Sizzlin’ Summer
Snowbal-timore
Vital Summer information furnished in the Public Interest
Release party for Snobaltimore: A Guide To Baltimore Area Snoball Stands by Bruce Blume, Katie Lambright, and Sara Tomko, representing The Baltimore SNowball Collective, will be held Friday, May 27, 7-9 p.m., along with the Baltimore Time Travel comic Anthology, at Atomic Books, 3620 Falls Road, facebook.com/AtomicBooks. Sno-balls will be served, in case you were wondering. Go to snobaltimore.com for the Baltimore Snoball Collective’s interactive sno-ball map.
Download a large, pdf version of the snoball map
Published: May 18, 2011
The Baltimore Snoball Collective seeks to solidify the community surrounding Baltimore’s summer sno-ball trade. Accordingly, it is attempting to catalogue and map all of the area’s sno-ball stands. This map, complete sno-ball stand listings, and more will be available online and in its publication, SNOBALTIMORE: A Guide to Baltimore Area Snoball Stands available beginning May 27. The Collective is a collective project and encourages your participation, get it?
More impotantly, the Collective seeks a deeper understanding of the role that the sno-ball, a culinary idiosyncracy, plays throughout the city and its periphery. Sno-balls effectively amalgamate independent local economies, regional working-class histories, and Baltimore’s contemporary identity. The Collective hopes its cartographic efforts will help to strengthen these relationships between cultural and economic communities and foster further discussion. How has the evolution of sno-ball stands reflected the evolution of Baltimore? Does our identity as a post-industrial city affect our culinary nostalgia?
Ultimately, the Collective presents Snowbaltimore as a celebration of summer in Baltimore and hopes it will be a convenient aid to your seasonal snacking.
TOP FIVE FAVORITE SNO-BALL STANDS
Friendly Snowballs
3419 E. Joppa Rd., Parkville
We appreciate Friendly’s ample outdoor seating (including a romantic, semi-secluded bench that’s kind of in the woods), ice cream-sno-ball combo options, carefully prepared chocolate sno-balls, and extensive flavor menu.
Stouten’s Shaved Ice Snowballs
817 Wise Ave.
A sno-ball stand with friendly staff, drive-through window, picnic tables over looking the water. Enjoy the beautiful sunsets, while enjoying a sno-ball with tons of flavoring.
Walther Gardens
3501 Southern Ave.
Walther Gardens has been serving up sno-balls for more than 80 years. The owner is a true sno-ball aficionado and has been known to make his own flavors. Bonus for a flower/plant nursery round back.
SnOasis
30 E. Padonia Road, Timonium
SnOasis is expensive, sure, but you get what you pay for! It has been open since the 1970s and the stand sort of resembles a makeshift tropical dessert hut, complete with a boardwalk, out-of-place suburban palm trees, and a huge menu with many diet flavors.
Dean’s Shaved Ice
8492 Harford Road, Parkville
Dean’s is operated by a really charming couple, they’re not stingy on the syrup, and patrons can watch Harford Road from umbrella tables in a really adorable gravely courtyard that’s even illuminated by Christmas lights in the evening.
North Baltimore1. Table Stand 2. Table Stand 3. Table Stand 4. Backyard House Stand 5. Snowball Stand 6. Front Porch Stand 7. King’s Grilled Kabob/King’s Pizza & Subs 8. S’ghetti Eddie’s 9. Falls Road Carry Out 10. Friendly Snowballs II 11. George’s Snowballs 12. Sensational Snoballs 13. Elizabeth & Ziggie’s 14. Snowball Stand 15. Snoball Stand 16. Pete’s Chicken & Fish (& Snowballs) 17. Cheezy’s Pizza & Subs 18. Uncle Wiggly’s 19. SnOasis II 20. SnoBro’s 21. Snoball Stand 22. Chimichurry Grill 23. Chapel Hills Nursery |
East Baltimore24. Icy Delights 25. Broadway Diner 26. The Glass Grill 27. Patapsco Flea Market 28. Parrot Ice 29. Moochie’s 30. S.L.O.B.S. 31. Icy Delights 32. Bayside Snack Shack 33. Front Porch Stand 34. Bengies Drive-In Theatre |
South Baltimore35. Renie’s Sno-Ball Stand 36. Duval’s Produce 37. Snowball Stand 38. B & B Snowballs 39. Royal Hawaiian Snowballs 40. Backyard Stand West Baltimore 41. Snowball Stand 42. Candy Box 43. Ice Cream Cottage 44. Hawaiian Snowball & Ice Cream 45. Opie’s Soft Serve & Snowballs 46. Snowball Stand 47. Tasee Zone 48. Snowball Stand 49. Snowball Stand 50. The Snoball Stand |
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