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The less he spoke the more he heard / why can’t we all be like that wise old bird?”

First-time visitors to the Owl Bar may be amused by the appearance of a nursery rhyme embedded in stained glass above the antique back bar at Baltimore’s landmark Belvedere Hotel. More than a quaint decoration, however, the rhyming couplet is actually a nod to the Prohibition-era legacy that the bar’s feathered mascots played a
major part in.

Even Prohibition could not dim the lights and the nights at the Owl Bar. Over one hundred years later we’re still the spot to see.