Vol. 13, No. 5, 1954 January 28 to February 3

This collection is comprised of seven issues of This Week in Baltimore: The Playboy Magazine published by Bernie Lit. Promoted as the “complete and official after-dark leisure time guide,” this weekly magazine was an events calendar that included advertisements and listings for nightclubs and lounges; restaurants and bars; burlesque and cabaret shows; as well as musical acts, theatres, and motion pictures. The location of many of the venues listed in these issues are on "The Block," Baltimore's infamous stretch of adult entertainment clubs and bars on East Baltimore Street. Additionally, several of the issues in the collection also contain nightlife listings for Washington, D.C. as well as Baltimore and Anne Arundel counties.

Some of the notable establishments and performers featured in the various issues include Jimmy Wu's New China Inn located on the 2400 block of North Charles Street and advertised as "Maryland's Only Chinese Restaurant;" The Jolly Jax, credited as "Baltimore's Top Sepia Musiguys;" burlesque star Fanne Foxe; and the Bettye Mills Nite-Club, "the First Lady of Baltimore Nite-Life, with her Sexiest All-Girlie Show in Town!"