TIME MACHINE: Way, Way Back!

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June, 2010

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The News Journal (Wilmington)

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TIME MACHINE: 1892, 1975, 1936, 1923, 2007.

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July, 1892

The Morning News (Wilmington)

December, 1975

The Daily Times

February, 1936

The Pantagraph (Bloomington, Ill.)

August, 1923

The News Journal (Wilmington)

Footnote:  There was stock car racing at the Pocomoke Fairgrounds track in the late 1940's and early 1950's.

ACROSS THE USA

July, 2007

The Ithaca Journal (Ithica, NY)

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A February Mission

What brought the Goodyear dirigible on a 1936 Eastern Shore mission, and with the possibility of army bombers to follow?

It's one of the Time Machine items this Sunday here at The Pocomoke Public Eye.

TIME MACHINE: It's 2000 And Pocomoke City Is Looking Ahead.

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December, 2000

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  In this case, the highway is the Route 13 bypass, a four lane divided highway used by an average of 18,000 cars a day that pass the usual array of fast-food restaurants, car dealerships, gas stations, motels and strip shopping centers.

  Business leaders say the downtown district pretty much held its own through rapid development along the highway in the 1980's, but the opening three years ago of a 147,000-square-foot Wal-Mart accelerated the closing of shops downtown.

  "Free enterprise is free enterprise, and what it tells us is that we have to adapt if we're going to be successful," says Marc Scher, a third generation merchant whose family opened a downtown clothing store in 1933.  In recent years, Scher has switched focus, concentrating  on a bridal business that attracts clients from as far as Baltimore.

  "I don't think we'll ever see the era when downtown was a big retail center," Scher says.  You have to specialize if you are going to get people to come to you.  I just hate to see an empty store, whether its an office, retail or whatever.  You just want to see the lights on."

   The Baltimore Sun

 
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TIME MACHINE: 1959 DISTRESS FOR LOWER SHORE BUT OPENING FOR A FUTURE GAIN.

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January, 1959

As a young Navy pilot former President George H.W. Bush was stationed at  the Chincoteague base for a few months in 1943.  As reported in various published accounts he flew low over an area of Crisfield where a circus had setup nearby and a frightened elephant broke away, in turn frightening nearby residents.  Reports were that Bush's low fly-over was an attempt to impress a young Crisfield woman he had met at a USO dance at Chincoteague.

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TIME MACHINE: 1854, 1997, 1983.

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OCTOBER, 1854

Richmond Dispatch (Richmond, Va.)

March, 1997

The News Journal (Wilmington)

November, 1983

The Star Democrat (Easton)

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TIME MACHINE: 1947 Pocomoke City.

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JUNE, 1947

Alertness And Enterprise In A Thriving Town

By FRANK HENRY

Sketches By Col. James P. Wharton,

USA (Retired)

 

 

Beverly, on the Pocomoke River some miles from Pocomoke City, home place of the Dennis family for 150 years.

Entrance to Pocomoke City on Rt. 13 is a drawbridge over the Pocomoke River, deep stream dyed dark brown by the cypress trees growing near it.

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