Mallards Has Closed

(Salisbury Daily Times)

Pocomoke City's Mallards on the River closed its doors permanently over the weekend. 

Owner John "Johnny Mo" Morrison announced the closure on the restaurant's Facebook page Sunday, Jan. 13. The eatery opened in 2017 after taking over the $1 million restaurant building in downtown. Previously the building housed Riverside Grill. 

"​It is with extreme regret that I am announcing that we will be permanently closing our newest location, Mallards on the River on Sunday January 13, 2019," Morrison wrote in the Facebook post. "After a 13 month run it has proven to be unsuccessful. It is an accumulation of too many reasons to list, one of them being the long commute from Melfa, VA."

PPE FOOTNOTE:

Long before the time of the Riverside Grill and Mallards On The River a retired ferry boat, The Emerson C. Harrington, was brought to the north side of the river at Pocomoke City in 1938 and used as a hotel and restaurant.

TIME MACHINE: 2001, 1987, 1907, 1925.

December, 2001

The Daily Times (Salisbury)

January, 1987

The Marylander And Herald

November, 1907

Baltimore Sun

October, 1925
(referencing Pocomoke City)

Worcester Democrat

The Time Machine is a weekly feature I've enjoyed researching and compiling on The Pocomoke Public Eye since 2011.  I have fond memories of growing up in Pocomoke City and welcome reader contributions we can share about things you've read, remember, or were told relating to our Pocomoke/Eastern shore area...a sentence, a paragraph, or more all fine. Just email it.

Just In Case...

Here on Delmarva we never know for sure how Mother Nature will treat us, regardless of the forecast. If it should turn out that we'll be dealing with a wintry scenario remember to take extra care if you're on our roadways.

Worcester County has its first female State's Attorney

(from The Dispatch)

SNOW HILL – Veteran prosecutor Kris Heiser was sworn in as the first female state’s attorney for Worcester County this week.

(full article:)

https://mdcoastdispatch.com/2019/01/08/heiser-sworn-in-as-worcester-countys-first-female-states-attorney/

TIME MACHINE: 1938, 1905, 1914, 2004, 1955, 1889.

September, 1938

Footnote:This was the era before automatic pin setters when "pin boys" set the pins. Newspaper articles in the early 1940's reported on competition in an eight team Pocomoke bowling league at Bunting's. The Peninsula Building was located near the foot of Market Street at the northeast corner of Market and Front Streets. A 1935 newspaper article concerning the garage/auto dealership building across the street (now the Delmarva Discovery Center building) made mention of a section of that building having been used as "a pool and bowling parlor" for a short period of time. 

Worcester Democrat

January, 1905

The Democratic Messenger

June, 1914

The Evening Sun (Baltimore)

May, 2004

The Daily Times (Salisbury)

September, 1955

The Crisfield Post

February, 1889

The Critic (Washington, D.C,)

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And Time Goes On!

Former Radio/TV Personality Remembered

Many of us who were around in the 1950's and 1960's remember WBOC's radio and TV personality George Hack who passed away a couple of days ago at age 91.

George was a popular morning show host on the radio often sharing the microphone with Lanny Layton and later with Tom Maguire.  He was seen on numerous WBOC-TV programs such as What's The Answer, Let's Go To The Races, and Eastern Shore Today (a public affairs program he created and hosted), and perhaps best remembered by many as host of a live teenage dance program from the WBOC television studio on Saturday afternoons.  

George (aka "Little Georgie Hack") shared the spotlight with Dick Clark when Clark visited Salisbury to host a teen dance to raise funds for tennis courts at a Salisbury school. Clark, by the way, had often visited the Eastern Shore in yet earlier days driving down from Philadelphia when his future wife attended what was then Salisbury State College.

George worked in radio in Atlantic City before coming to Delmarva for a radio job in Seaford and then at WBOC. He once accepted a job at WBAL radio in Baltimore but later returned to the Salisbury station.  After WBOC he spent some time as manager of WDMV in Pocomoke. In years before his retirement George hosted a Saturday morning Big Band Show on a Salisbury radio station.  

(Picture credits: Single pictures from Salisbury Times ads. Dance Party ticket and picture with Dick Clark from Stephen Decatur Alumni Facebook page.)

Time Machine: 1950, 1927.

December, 1950

 The Salisbury Times

Footnote: Christmas, 1950, was on Monday.


January, 1927

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