For Baltimoreans of a certain age, the former Greyhound bus station on Howard Street is a place that triggers memories – as a starting point for distant travels, the first stop for visitors arriving in town, the only downtown landmark with illuminated dogs on the side of the building.
For U. S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume, it was a place to get a job.
“I shined shoes on these floors in 1965” at age 17, he recalled this week. “My mother died when I was very, very young. You either shined shoes or you worked up at Lexington Market and carried bags to make money. So this place has a special significance to me.”
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