A Big THANK YOU DAN, you have inspired me to quit smoking, i,m 76 and smoked for over 50 years, it has only been 6 days but that is equal to me walking 100 miles in 1 hour, i kept telling myself "if Dan can do it so can you," i will persist i suffer with COPD and my chest and breathing already feel better, so thanks again , Love you ,from England 🥰
@@DanBellFilmIt I am ashmed to say i have never done an email ,i wouldnt know how, i am just so thrilled and i feel honoured that you have replied, thank you ❤
@@bbernard1981 I AM STAYING STRONG, SOME DAYS I WANT ONE ESPECIALLY WITH MY COFFEE SO I HAVE CUT DOWN AND DRINK MORE WATER, IT IS ALL THANKS TO DAN THAT I STOPPED, I SAW HOW HE WON HIS BATTLE AND WAS DETERMINED TO DO THE SAME, 🥰
Dan, you were making my mouth water watching you savor the taste of your crabcake. I worked for BG&E downtown from the early 1970s to early 1980s, and used to walk up to Lexington Market many times for lunch. Faidley's has been around a long time. They also used to have a stall in the old Wholesale Fish Market at Market Pl. & Water St. In the Fall, I'd take a half day vacation now and then and bring a cooler to work in the car trunk. I would drive to the Fish Market after getting off at lunchtime and buy some oysters in gallon cans, like the ones you showed up on the shelf. Faidley's would toss a shovel full of ice in the cooler for me to keep the oysters cold driving home. Miss those days...
The good ole days! I wonder if Faidley’s would still sell you a bucket of oysters no shell? I bet they would. It would be like buying beluga caviar i this day and age. $6400 please. 😂
Thanks Dan, never thought I would see that hallway again. My Grandmothers friend worked there and her office was on the second floor. Miss looking out over the market with all the hustle and bustle below. Thanks so much for filming this.
I'm surpised you touched that dirty pay phone! Wow I haven't heard those beeps from a phone since i was a teenager. 😮 This explore is RAD! Great job Dan!❤️
I have only visited Lexington Market twice, but Faidley's is absolutely the best crabcake I have ever had. They are incredible. The way they walled off, and carefully taped up the rest of the market makes me think they may be doing asbestos or lead abatement.
I worked as an electrician over a decade here in one of the crab places. The client said he had to throw a keg to scare the rats away. I have never seen a panel so full of dead roaches. Did not eat there.
Businesses moving to new sleek, clean, and soulless surroundings is sad. And the new spot never really builds character with time. It just gets dirty and worn out. Modern design doesn't age gracefully I guess.
Thanks for the tour! I love that the pay phone still works, and I’m old enough to remember the phones like that with the three volume levels button as “the fancy newer pay phones”. The light fixtures, the yellow subway tile, the old signs with those fonts… so nice.
Exactly. I’ve been going here since i was a kid. I HATEEEE the new building. The old building had character. It was Baltimore through and through. The new place looks like Portland. 🤮
@@DanBellFilmIt I was born and raised in Dundalk when I work downtown. I always got lunch at Lexington market a lot of times parks fried chicken. Those were the good days.
Have a ton of great memories about that place. I've been gone from Bmore since 2017 and could REALLY use one of their crab cakes right now. Thank you so much for making this vid!
There's a haunting beauty being in an old place that's not only frozen in time but also about to disappear forever. These old charmers represented an energy from an era long gone. They will eventually be replaced by their modern counter parts and the cycle will repeat itself in the years, decades and generations to come.
I used to work at a supermarket inside a building just like that, it had a bunch of other businesses but what kept it alive was the USPS office, sadly once USPS left the local government decided to demolish as no other business could afford to pick up the slack from USPS leaving. I really liked it because pretty much only locals would visit because of the location and size, people were getting used to Walmart and began going less and less to places like that.
I just finished lunch and yet those crabcakes are making me hungry all over again. What a cool market I've never seen anything like it. Thank you for sharing~
Classic and fun exploration video dan. Funny enough one of the local libraries here in KY used to have 8 payphones in the hallway (it's located in shopping center) and has dwindled down to a single payphone that works at complete random
Faidley's looks like such an interesting place. I bet it smells amazing. Ive found the online reviews and most people rate the place as excellent. It's too bad they're having to move, but better that they're moving than going totally out of business'. I hope their new space does well. once it finally opens.
Omg, that food looks so delicious 😋 Nothing better than good seafood. It is amazing the payphone still worked. Sad the seafood market is moving, such a colorful place. Thanks for the tour Dan. 🐟🦀
Downtown Baltimore was so much better when I was younger in the 70s and 80s. Before they built the new addiction in the 80s, Lexington Street went all the way up to Paca Street and on the corner was a toy store. Across the street where the subway is now, used to shops. There was a jewelry store on the corner and few doors down was the shoe store where all the kids got there Chuck Taylor Converse because Nike, Adidas, etc. weren't a thing yet.
Completely disagree. The old Lexington Market had character and significance to Baltimore and the people. The new Market is just the same modern cookie cutter crap that there are already 20 of in Baltimore.
Hey Dan.. Its always sad seeing businesses like Faidleys have too close the doors at the location in wich their name became a staple through the good times n bad. Only now to fall to the look and design of a new building that has 0 character.. Thanks for the tour Dan.
i hate it when they suck out the character out of a place and make it totally generic. they tore down and rebuilt the old miami beach benihana, and it looks like a p.f. chang’s. don’t get me wrong, the furnishings and building were in serious need of renovations, but the ambiance is completely gone
Thanks for the tour! Love these old markets. We still have one called the Adelaide Central Market in my home city (in Australia). Sadly it's about to get a soulless $400 million overhaul/redevelopment "showcasing the very best of South Australian food, produce and wine." When you hear those statements, you just know everything that made it great is about to be gone forever.
The crabcakes look so good all that food looks good people that I work with said the new part of the market is open they said that it’s really nice that pay phone is wild ❤
Not sure if I’m the first one to say it but after another dirty room and some of the other dives you’ve explored I don’t think this is the first time you’ve encountered crabs in a video 🤣🤣🤣 On a side note though. Most of the best food is at out of the way restaurants in the city. You know they’re paying less rent so can actually afford to spend more on food. Take care mate Marty Australia
I have seen the rats crawling all over everything in there in videos of the old market. Hard pass. Never did get to try a crabcake there because of that.
A Big THANK YOU DAN, you have inspired me to quit smoking, i,m 76 and smoked for over 50 years, it has only been 6 days but that is equal to me walking 100 miles in 1 hour, i kept telling myself "if Dan can do it so can you," i will persist i suffer with COPD and my chest and breathing already feel better, so thanks again , Love you ,from England 🥰
I am so touched by your comment. Please send me an email dan@thisisdanbell.com with your mailing address. I’d like to send you something. -D
@@DanBellFilmIt I am ashmed to say i have never done an email ,i wouldnt know how, i am just so thrilled and i feel honoured that you have replied, thank you ❤
I'm going on year 4 congrats keep it up.
@@bbernard1981 I AM STAYING STRONG, SOME DAYS I WANT ONE ESPECIALLY WITH MY COFFEE SO I HAVE CUT DOWN AND DRINK MORE WATER, IT IS ALL THANKS TO DAN THAT I STOPPED, I SAW HOW HE WON HIS BATTLE AND WAS DETERMINED TO DO THE SAME, 🥰
Did he finally quit?
You should have called someone from the pay phone Dan just to say, "I'm calling from a pay phone!!" 😂
Dan, you were making my mouth water watching you savor the taste of your crabcake. I worked for BG&E downtown from the early 1970s to early 1980s, and used to walk up to Lexington Market many times for lunch. Faidley's has been around a long time. They also used to have a stall in the old Wholesale Fish Market at Market Pl. & Water St. In the Fall, I'd take a half day vacation now and then and bring a cooler to work in the car trunk. I would drive to the Fish Market after getting off at lunchtime and buy some oysters in gallon cans, like the ones you showed up on the shelf. Faidley's would toss a shovel full of ice in the cooler for me to keep the oysters cold driving home. Miss those days...
The good ole days! I wonder if Faidley’s would still sell you a bucket of oysters no shell? I bet they would. It would be like buying beluga caviar i this day and age. $6400 please. 😂
Thanks Dan, never thought I would see that hallway again. My Grandmothers friend worked there and her office was on the second floor. Miss looking out over the market with all the hustle and bustle below. Thanks so much for filming this.
that view out over the market was always so cool.
You film things as if I was there looking around myself and I very much so appreciate that.
You truly are AMAZING at what you do.
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Thank you!
I'm surpised you touched that dirty pay phone! Wow I haven't heard those beeps from a phone since i was a teenager. 😮 This explore is RAD! Great job Dan!❤️
I have only visited Lexington Market twice, but Faidley's is absolutely the best crabcake I have ever had. They are incredible. The way they walled off, and carefully taped up the rest of the market makes me think they may be doing asbestos or lead abatement.
THE BEST 🦀 cake
I worked as an electrician over a decade here in one of the crab places. The client said he had to throw a keg to scare the rats away. I have never seen a panel so full of dead roaches. Did not eat there.
That is the cleanest the market has ever been. Unfortunately it’s another Baltimore landmark gone
THAT PAY PHONE FROM THE 80S SOUNDED LIKE IT WAS FROM A HORROR MOVIE YOU SHOULD OF TRIED TO MAKE A PHONE CALL👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Businesses moving to new sleek, clean, and soulless surroundings is sad. And the new spot never really builds character with time. It just gets dirty and worn out. Modern design doesn't age gracefully I guess.
Thanks for the tour! I love that the pay phone still works, and I’m old enough to remember the phones like that with the three volume levels button as “the fancy newer pay phones”. The light fixtures, the yellow subway tile, the old signs with those fonts… so nice.
Dan looks inside this horror movie-ish elevator:
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“Uh I think I’ll pass on this one” 💀😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂💀
" its cute though " lmao
WOW the phone!!!! I haven’t heard that sound in a long time.
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Thank you, Danielle!!!
One of my fondest memories of visiting Baltimore was of Lexington Market. I've had oysters at Faidley's too, good times!
You should have called someone from that phone, the 'ASMR/Backroom' audio from that would be priceless.
It is so sad as historic places like this disappear forever, or return in a 'modern' form, never to be the same experience again.
I love the old market, even though it was gritty it was Baltimore
Exactly. I’ve been going here since i was a kid. I HATEEEE the new building. The old building had character. It was Baltimore through and through. The new place looks like Portland. 🤮
@@DanBellFilmIt I was born and raised in Dundalk when I work downtown. I always got lunch at Lexington market a lot of times parks fried chicken. Those were the good days.
Dean & Deluca's! Where's the caviar? 💀🤣
Hol up, they sell trash panda and muskrat at that market?! I'd expect to find that being sold in some shack in Mississippi
Have a ton of great memories about that place. I've been gone from Bmore since 2017 and could REALLY use one of their crab cakes right now. Thank you so much for making this vid!
Literally waited until tonight to put this on so I could watch it while having dinner 😊 thanks Dan!
There's a haunting beauty being in an old place that's not only frozen in time but also about to disappear forever. These old charmers represented an energy from an era long gone. They will eventually be replaced by their modern counter parts and the cycle will repeat itself in the years, decades and generations to come.
It is a fascinating thing to look at this market through your eyes, Dan 😍 . I wish we'd got time to do Faidleys when we were there 😃
Damn you aussies!!! I wondered if you went or not. Next time!
There's a restaurant in Livingston, Tx that still has a working payphone inside. My nieces were so gobsmacked and taking pic of it
I used to work at a supermarket inside a building just like that, it had a bunch of other businesses but what kept it alive was the USPS office, sadly once USPS left the local government decided to demolish as no other business could afford to pick up the slack from USPS leaving. I really liked it because pretty much only locals would visit because of the location and size, people were getting used to Walmart and began going less and less to places like that.
I just finished lunch and yet those crabcakes are making me hungry all over again. What a cool market I've never seen anything like it. Thank you for sharing~
You have the coolest job…. I miss the old dirty hotel episodes.
Thanks for this, haven’t been there in so long!
Thanks for the new video, Dan! Excited to watch it 🎉 greetings from Switzerland 🇨🇭
The "event space" and the overhead shots were some of the coolest things you've captured!
Classic and fun exploration video dan. Funny enough one of the local libraries here in KY used to have 8 payphones in the hallway (it's located in shopping center) and has dwindled down to a single payphone that works at complete random
Faidley's looks like such an interesting place. I bet it smells amazing. Ive found the online reviews and most people rate the place as excellent. It's too bad they're having to move, but better that they're moving than going totally out of business'. I hope their new space does well. once it finally opens.
Its not that the phone works that is mind boggling its that it isn't vandalized.
Omg, that food looks so delicious 😋 Nothing better than good seafood. It is amazing the payphone still worked. Sad the seafood market is moving, such a colorful place. Thanks for the tour Dan. 🐟🦀
muskrats, racoons, they sell crocodile and iguanas? is there anything americans don't eat?
@@cuteandfunnyearthlings2863 Just like the Chinese, lol 🐲
How many pay phones are actually still working in America now? 😮(Maybe it takes those parking garage tokens?)
I should’ve tried!!! 😂😂😂😂
@@DanBellFilmIt LOL Dan, yes! And it’s like that pay phone was hovering in a weird parallel dimension anomaly...
Im so glad I left that part of the US. Thanks for the memories.
Awesome Dan 😎👍📸 thanks for sharing. Stay safe from the weather.
Discovered you from General Sam love your content
This was a awesome video. Food looked so good. Thank you Dan.
I'll never forget being in the parking lot with the old ladies coming up trying to sell their bottles of methadone.
Should have brought that bacteria test kit and used on that phone receiver 😂
Another Dirty Market 😅
Downtown Baltimore was so much better when I was younger in the 70s and 80s. Before they built the new addiction in the 80s, Lexington Street went all the way up to Paca Street and on the corner was a toy store. Across the street where the subway is now, used to shops. There was a jewelry store on the corner and few doors down was the shoe store where all the kids got there Chuck Taylor Converse because Nike, Adidas, etc. weren't a thing yet.
As much as I liked the old Lexington Market, we really needed a new building. The old building, unlike Belvedere Square, was just not sanitary.
Completely disagree. The old Lexington Market had character and significance to Baltimore and the people. The new Market is just the same modern cookie cutter crap that there are already 20 of in Baltimore.
Perfect timing Dan always have loved your content
I agree Dan Lexington market really encompasses Baltimore as a whole.
Love this place. Back in the day there was a drug dealer selling pane glass window outside of Lexington market. Still have no idea what that was
Window pane is a type of LSD. It looks and feels like glass.
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3:30 Anyone else ever see a scenery that vividly looks exactly like a dream you've had before? Because I'm really feeling it now.
Look up liminal spaces.
Reminds me of the Farmers Market that's in the same set of Buildings as the NSCAD Port Campus and Pier 21 here in the HRM.
We ate up on that balcony when my son had a field trip here way back...
Hey Dan.. Its always sad seeing businesses like Faidleys have too close the doors at the location in wich their name became a staple through the good times n bad. Only now to fall to the look and design of a new building that has 0 character.. Thanks for the tour Dan.
6:07
Uh-oh! Dan has no-clipped into the backrooms!
"every subsequent crabcake will be measured from here"
Is this the place where McNulty gets his kids to follow Stringer Bell in season one of The Wire?
I was wondering the same thing ?
Yes!
Well spotted
9:19 _ A Working Pay Phone! I would react the same way too! 😮😮😮😮😮
10:35 A fine archaeology find! I haven't seen one in years........................
Nice video again Dan!
The old world is fading fast.
I guess the Matrix needs I couple pay phones still in service lol.
WTH I’ve been outta MD for 6 years I didn’t even know they closed it 😮
Some things should not be replaced. I wish that some things would just stay the same. It is all about change anymore 😢
Faidley’s needs to open a shop in the County.
Because I m not coming to Charm City.
i hate it when they suck out the character out of a place and make it totally generic. they tore down and rebuilt the old miami beach benihana, and it looks like a p.f. chang’s. don’t get me wrong, the furnishings and building were in serious need of renovations, but the ambiance is completely gone
Thanks for the tour! Love these old markets. We still have one called the Adelaide Central Market in my home city (in Australia). Sadly it's about to get a soulless $400 million overhaul/redevelopment "showcasing the very best of South Australian food, produce and wine." When you hear those statements, you just know everything that made it great is about to be gone forever.
The crabcakes look so good all that food looks good people that I work with said the new part of the market is open they said that it’s really nice that pay phone is wild ❤
The fan to get the aroma out to one and all😅
I love that place too, but that crab cake was NOT all lump. It had filler.....
Dan's the man.
he really is
I'm from Western Maryland and just saying you can't beat Baltimore crab cakes.
I was there back in 94
Omg was about to go to bed, guess 1 more video.
You should have made a call.
Lovely video as always and a fascinating place, or should that be plaice? 🐠😂
One thing about Baltimore I miss...crabcakes. Nothing like them here in San Diego.
And this is why i dont watch food network, thanks Dan, now im hungry 😂😂😂
Perfection per ushe ❤️🔥
Dan were the hells my print I ordered !!! 😄
Two week turn around at this point. Working everyday to fulfill all the orders. Send me an email and I can expedite you. dan@thisisdanbell.com
Love crab cakes, wish I had access to seafood like that.
Drat! No phone number on the pay phone, so I can't call it.
Wow
Genuine double take when I saw a guy making a call from a payphone near my place the other day
The couple of times I’ve been to the new market, it just doesn’t have any charm. The old one had some problems, but it sure was fun.
I think they filmed here for The Wire in an episode
I read somewhere that Lexington Mall was a drug hub downtown Btmore
Laverne DeFazio working the parking garage.
muskrats, racoons, they sell crocodile and iguanas? is there anything americans don't eat?
Not sure if I’m the first one to say it but after another dirty room and some of the other dives you’ve explored I don’t think this is the first time you’ve encountered crabs in a video 🤣🤣🤣
On a side note though. Most of the best food is at out of the way restaurants in the city. You know they’re paying less rent so can actually afford to spend more on food.
Take care mate
Marty
Australia
Did they not just redo and invest millions into renovations for Lexington market?
What a shame.
Dan Bell Medai
Is Cross Street still opened ?
Cross Street Market.
Yes. They tried the same bullshit, modernized and sterilized the look and half of the damn place is now empty. smfh.
I have seen the rats crawling all over everything in there in videos of the old market. Hard pass. Never did get to try a crabcake there because of that.
Yummy lunch!
Caught you early. hooray
Very nice ❤❤
Wait
Did that say Medai?
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I had a dream Dan picked me up and showed me the ruins of Baltimore.But woke up and it was only a dream 😢
that’s a nightmare, robert.
@@DanBellFilmIt Right on!
Id pay to explore with you
The Fishrooms