 terminals in South Baltimore crossed the Middle Branch and runs east and west through the Westport community.Over the years, the industrial core of Baltimore faded and many residents moved to the suburbs, leaving neighborhoods like Westport and nearby Mount Winans, Lakeland and southwest Baltimore to fall into disrepair.Despite a concrete re-paving of the main commercial street of Old Annapolis Road and a planting of rows of new shade trees and new sidewalks & curbing in the early 1970s, by the later decade, numerous businesses, branch banks and other stores and shops closed along the commercial/residential strip, including a branch library of the Enoch Pratt Free Library at Old Annapolis and Waterview Avenue.