Shortly before the Ottobar opened on Davis St. the punk/indie dive of choice was South Baltimore’s Memory Lane. More of a neighborhood bar that agreed to do shows than an actual rock club, Memory Lane was the place in the mid-1990’s to see everybody from Napalm Death to Lungfish.
I’m going to try and dig up the City Paper article about the last days of Memory Lane, I hope to have that up soon.
Here is a great pic from the last show in May 1997. How many soon-to-be music scene luminaries can you i.d. from this photograph ?
