voc ep 85: Tony & Laura Norris

“It all began when Tony Norris, an instructor of classical guitar at George Washington University, Wash. D.C., and his wife Laura Norris, a violinist and music instructor, also at George Washington, teamed up with a friend to buy a decrepit bar in the backwater area of Fell’s Point, Baltimore. The bar at the time was called “The Lone Star”.  The Fell’s Point area of Baltimore was a neglected, rundown neighborhood of old bars, warehouses and 18th and 19th Century buildings lined by rough cobblestone streets. The neglected waterfront area seemed to attract a very creative crowd. Tony and Laura purchased a stained glass memorial window in a Baltimore junk shop, this window was dedicated to the memory of a Bertha E. Bartholomew.” (Excerpted freely from the Bob Eney history of Bertha’s at berthas.com.)