These events unfolded while the General Assembly was in session that year, and some Baltimore lawmakers responded to the popular sympathy for the sign maker by proposing that "Hon" be officially added to the "Welcome to Baltimore" sign on the highway. (If it was 1994 then it was an election year,
There was a guy known as The Hon Man who created a laminated sign that said "HON"
which he stapled to the Welcome to Baltimore sign in the median of 295. The public works
people who maintained the median would remove the sign whenever they noticedit. It became sort of a cat and mouse game. You co
Mary,
I live in Baltimore and remember news about the sign.
I think someone taped a piece of paper with the word Hon on it to the sign.
I don't think the word was ever part of the "official" sign.
I'm forwarding your message to the Charles Village list.
Maybe someone on it can help.
Christin
