February, 1961
The Salisbury Times
Footnote: The Sunday Blue Law sought to prohibit various sporting and entertainment functions at times that might conflict with religious activities. The above bill permitting an exemption for bowling was passed later the same month.
January, 1962
The Salisbury Times
Footnote: During its first year Colony Lanes (now Eastern Shore Lanes) was the site of two perfect games. Achieving a 300 score were Tom Wescott of Pocomoke and Lester Crockett of Crisfield. When Wicomico Lanes in Salisbury opened in the mid-1950's a big attraction there, and a first for the Eastern Shore, was automatic pin setters. Wicomico Lanes was located on North Salisbury Boulevard and offered both tenpin and duckpin bowling. Its competition at that time was Shore Lanes on Route 13 at Delmar. In earlier decades, dating back to the 1920's, the popular Arcade Bowling Alley in Salisbury provided league and family bowling. Newspaper articles in the early 1940's reported on competition in an eight team Pocomoke bowling league downtown at Buntings located in The Peninsula Building.
Worcester Democrat
The Peninsula Building was located near the foot of Market Street on 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. In the 1930's there were some bowling lanes in Princess Anne.
August, 1891
The Richmond Dispatch
January, 1930
The Evening Journal (Wilmington)
Footnote: The Market Street building graduated Pocomoke area students from the early 1930's until the late 1950's when a new high school was constructed at the current location. The Market Street building was then used for elementary grades for many years until it was claimed by fire. Its twin school building in Snow Hill still survives but not as a school.
January 1, 2000
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Baltimore Sun
(PPE reader comment)
In the late 90s Jeff Trader, Jr. (son of Jeff Trader the firearms dealer and father of Jeff Trader the state trooper) lived in an isolated area of the Pocomoke Forest just off of Fleming Mill Road. He was not so sure what was going to happen with this "Y2K" event and he told me that on December 31, 1999 he went to bed with a .357 revolver in his right hand and a 10" Bowie knife in his left hand.
1959 .. End of the line for Chincoteague Naval Air Station-
1981 .. Something new. They're called Post-It Notes.
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.
