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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

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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 Baltimore

1. Table Stand
Greenmount Avenue and 31st Street
Type: pop-up

2. Table Stand
North Charles Street and North Avenue
Type: pop-up

3. Table Stand
North and Homewood avenues
Type: pop-up

4. Backyard House Stand
Kirk Avenue and Abbotson Street
Type: pop-up

5. Snowball Stand
Monroe and Lanvale streets
Type: stand

6. Front Porch Stand
922 E. Preston St.
Type: pop-up

7. King’s Grilled Kabob/King’s Pizza & Subs
907 W. 36th St.
Type: annex

8. S’ghetti Eddie’s
410 W. Cold Spring Lane
Type: annex

9. Falls Road Carry Out
4100 Falls Road
Type: annex

10. Friendly Snowballs II
Joppa and Waltham Woods Roads
Parkville
Type: stand

11. George’s Snowballs
Loch Raven Boulevard and Amuskai Road
Parkville
Type: stand

12. Sensational Snoballs
Loch Raven and Glen Keith boulevards
Parkville
Type: stand

13. Elizabeth & Ziggie’s
2486 Putty Hill Ave.
Parkville
Type: stand

14. Snowball Stand
7751 Harford Road
Parkville
Type: stand

15. Snoball Stand
Harford Road and Hillcrest Avenue
Parkville
Type: stand

16. Pete’s Chicken & Fish (& Snowballs)
6620 Harford Road
Type: annex

17. Cheezy’s Pizza & Subs
1637 Joppa Road
Towson
Type: annex

18. Uncle Wiggly’s
6911 York Road
Type: annex

19. SnOasis II
Joppa and Falls Roads
Lutherville
Type: stand

20. SnoBro’s
2111 York Road
Timonium
Type: stand

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