What a shame.

I will never forget the split & grilled hot dogs and great French fries but most of all the chocolate sno-balls. I grew up riding my bike to fields. Whenever I returned to Baltimore from my home in Los Angeles I went to fields. Til the day she passed away, it was my mom's favorite place for lunch. I don't get back to Baltimore very often but I will miss fields. It's like a member of the family has passed.

This makes me sad I love the milkshakes. Grew up loving the little treat of getting some stickers and a shake when I was little. Pikesville will not seem the same.

I know that this is a sad time for my family and especially my mother, brother and sister-in-law. While Fields was a meeting place for several generations of Pikesville residents as children it was our second home . Our parents loved building the business and providing a service to the community. My father was known as "Doc Levin" and was probably the only business man who allowed customers to charge money. At times he would personally deliver prescriptions and other necessities. My beautiful mother, Ruth (Levin )Hollander has been an inspiration to me. She was a creative business woman who had a vision ahead of her times. On her own she convinced top cosmetic executives that their high end products could be sold in a "drugstore". She was right and the cosmetic counter at Fields has been successful for many years. My sister-in-law was able to expand this by providing spa services and treatments. Of course I cannot speak about Field without mentioning the fountain shop. Every patron knows about their crab soup, shrimp salad, the fabulous hot dogs with boloney, great milk shakes and snowballs with or without icecream. Through out the years we have had the good fortune to have loyal employees who have helped our family and Fields be a vital part of a wonderful community. Times are changing, but I know that a store like Fields will be missed!
Susan Levin

I've been in this neighborhood for 30 years, and saw "Fields" as a staple.
Why, my son even worked there...Everyone came in for their special snow-
balls...I fould perfume here that I could not find everywhere else...I am very
sorry to hear that Fields is closing it's doors...Virgie McQuay

"That is so sad :( we would go there every year on the first day of school to buy supplies and eat grilled cheese sandwich with tomato with my mom and grandma!!" wrote Cheryl, on Pikesville Patch's Facebook page. She also recalls Fields was the first place she knows of that made snowballs with ice cream in the middle.

What a shame. I know how it feels, my business was 106. Thanks great american economy and large institutionalized of everything. I am sure they did wrong thing just as I but they are still a calamity of BO the man who believes gov't helps businesses

This is very sad news. Fields was a Pikesville landmark....everyone that grew up here has fond memories. Needless to say the ladies at the Pikesville Senior Center will be greatly saddened. My mom and her "lady friends" will miss lunching and "shmoozing" over B.L.T's and shrimp salad sandwiches. Fields, you will be gone but never forgotten!

Although I moved away many years ago ,I always stopped at Fieids on my visits back to Baltimore. I had to have a shrimp salad sandwich and a snowball at every visit. As a child my mother and I would visit the lunch counter to pickup my prescription ice cream cone after a doctors visit . My mother would stop by Fields for an afternoon snowball in the summer well into her 80's. I will really miss Fields. Judy Kramer

In my 1960s childhood, there was the ritual of back-to-school clothes shopping at Millison's in the Pikesville Shopping Center across the street followed by lunch with my mom at Field's; in more recent years I occasionally lunched at Field's with my dad while in town to visit him, always finding it jarring how much the place had changed!

Sorry to hear that Fields is closing. Although I haven't been there in many years, I will always remember the grilled cheese sandwiches and milkshakes.

How sad. I remember going there with my mom to buy perfume and always got my chocolate snowball. Although I moved away years ago I also would stop there whenever in town to get my chocolate snowball.

To Dani and Jeff and the whole Levin family I and my husband Mark will miss this store so very much. I love Fields. It was like walking into a time capsule and I felt like it was from a different era... a time where you got excellent customer service and excellent products and great food all at a great price. These are hard economic times indeed and unfortunately the mom and pop shops suffer the most. God bless you and I hope Jeff and Dani turn up somewhere soon so that we can continue our patronage.

I remember trying to buy 5-cent candy when I was a little girl and being ignored by the cashier. I was wearing my little Catholic school uniform from St. Charles School in Pikesville. Wonder if that had anything to do with me being denied service!

Awww, so much has changed over the years that I've been away from my hometown but Field's was always a constant when I come back to visit. So many memories from childhood to adulthood at Field's. Very sorry to hear this. Good luck to The Levin's

Pikesville is going the way of the dinosaurs......extinction of the small business-asaurus.!

It was a wonderful mix of items and services. I was in there many times for a magazine, make up, last minute gift when I lived near by. The variety of sale items, the range of people in the store and at the lunch counter made it feel cosmopolitan. Thanks for the memories.