For example https://www.flickr.com/photos/mvjantzen/5709224258/ and https://www.flickr.com/photos/mvjantzen/5709229552/ (also curious about the missing stoop in the 1st photo!).
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SilverProduce0 t1_j089q5f wrote
That’s what my landlord calls them too. I never heard that term until I moved here.
PuebloEsNoBueno t1_j089qrc wrote
They are sally ports
Previous-Cook t1_j08bisq wrote
when i was a kid i remeber people who had one just said "my alleyway"
squiddydc OP t1_j08bzrq wrote
Thanks! I found one in DC, in Georgetown: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mvjantzen/52561516377/ - very rare for DC; common in Baltimore, it seems.
SonofDiomedes t1_j08ec79 wrote
Sallyport and breezeway both used
shebang_bin_bash t1_j08iyfc wrote
That’s deliciously medieval.
markmano33 t1_j08jmfi wrote
For the cows to move back and forth between front and back, correct?
Or your trash cans.
wizardvibez t1_j08jqnq wrote
The murder hole - ancient predecessor to the glory hole… are you still talking to the castle?
NewrytStarcommander t1_j08kzex wrote
Sallyport. Very common, can see them in Fells, Canton, Fed Hill to name a few places that have them pretty much every block.
bocachicalounge t1_j08pu07 wrote
In Scotland, they call them winds or wynds
Naive_Concentrate710 t1_j08q028 wrote
It is a Sallyport and was usually used by nightsoilmen for removal of waste for an outdoor outhouse for both houses..
S-Kunst t1_j08w27n wrote
My neighboring house has a sally port, as we are in the center of a long block. It is not the usual sallyport as once you pass through the arched opening it widens a couple feet. There is a door on the side of the building and the sally-port allows one to access the 2nd floor and go to the back yard. Started life as a 6 room 3story row house turned into a bakery. When I first moved in about 4 young guys were renting the house. They threw wild parties. After one of these wild gatherings it seems that one of the roomies, who was home alone died due to too much fun, but he was stuck in the Sallyport, between the next person's wall and the 2nd floor staircase. Not sure how the fire department got the body out. The body had been there through the weekend.
gafftapes20 t1_j08wvg5 wrote
I have heard the term “close” and the term bakers alley for these.
umbligado t1_j08x1iz wrote
DiscoDeadhead t1_j091m3a wrote
Sally port or breezeway
DiscoDeadhead t1_j091sja wrote
The city is trash cans are too wide for most Sally ports
WillieKeeler96 t1_j092vi2 wrote
You’d think someone would have pointed that out before they ordered 100,000 of them
KierkeBored t1_j095k0m wrote
Thanks. I love etymology.
umbligado t1_j095skw wrote
Hey fam!
notworkingghost t1_j098dle wrote
Drug store?
yeahyeahyeahyeah t1_j09ctlh wrote
Mugger's alley
guldenshuh18 t1_j09cyrc wrote
Troll hole.
Status_Editor_5084 t1_j09g1g8 wrote
Area-way, pronounced “airy-way”
Vi_Capsule t1_j09gc1s wrote
Too much fun as a cause of death ☠️
KnowOneHere t1_j09hmw5 wrote
I'm a native and have never heard "sallyport". How is that possible?
amberthemaker t1_j09pt0x wrote
You gotta pay the troll-toll
narwhalDavidson t1_j09tbz7 wrote
TIL. Thank you for this.
Obasan123 t1_j09tfk6 wrote
Do you live in Canton? Sounds like you're talking about the house we lived in on South Clinton. We had a sally port.
Special-Literature16 t1_j09x09j wrote
We called it a hideaway.as a kid we hung out there in those summer days in the 60s. This one looks familiar.
Regolith_Prospektor t1_j09y38t wrote
Spare me the nightsoilman’s breeze!
quasimoto127 t1_j0a1cei wrote
A_Damn_Millenial t1_j0a60wt wrote
I suppose there are worse ways to go.
BmoreInterested t1_j0aay4a wrote
Hundreds of years of designs all over the city, so it's unsurprising to not know it all... Especially if they aren't in the homes in your neighborhood.
ccbmtg t1_j0alkuh wrote
it's almost as if they were built before widescale trash pickup was a common thing... 🤔
DiscoDeadhead t1_j0amgft wrote
But you would think someone at the city would’ve been knowledgeable enough to know how narrow they are so people don’t have to leave the cans in front of their homes 24/7
mister_ronski t1_j0avs21 wrote
'Airy-way'
S-Kunst t1_j0b3md4 wrote
No, on the edge of Mt Vernon.
Oldladyweirdo t1_j0b5w1u wrote
Sally ports are the holding areas between door openings when you walk into a jail. One door opens, you walk forward. That door closes. You’re closed in the Sally port. Then a different door ahead of you opens and you can then go forward. The port is a holding area to prevent anyone from walking through the door and out of the jail. I always heard breezeway was the term for this in the row houses.
StinkRod t1_j0b9z73 wrote
Death by misadventure.
KruztyKrab69 t1_j0bbxhb wrote
When you walked through these you knew the party was about to be lit
Interstate8 t1_j0bv4mx wrote
I love bugs too
TerranceBaggz t1_j0cawq3 wrote
Sally port
covidcares t1_j0cbuls wrote
A good time
DMelanogastard t1_j0ch5ut wrote
If a mugger is staking out an alley theoretically used only by you and your neighbor, you have some serious problems
MazelTough t1_j0d1pn4 wrote
You can exchange your big ‘un for your little ‘un
MazelTough t1_j0d7fg4 wrote
You know you can mini ones right?
RealName1234567890 t1_j0dd0ch wrote
And a prime suspect.
Noumenon72 t1_j0e2ykr wrote
Apparently they should have said, "my sallyway"
Jrbobfishman t1_j0ee0k0 wrote
Yeah, I’m a little perplexed by this also. Sally way is more common
styrofoamboats t1_j1zh54s wrote
Watch out for Boo Radley in the Boo Alley
ThatguyfromBaltimore t1_j089arf wrote
Sallyports. At least that's what I have always heard them called