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This Sunday here at The Pocomoke Public Eye:

1940  ..  
                                         

1963  ..
                               

1977  ..
                             

2005  ..
                        

Delmarva Discovery Museum Hours

    

The Museum is now open!

Our new hours will be Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and Sundays from Noon to 3:30 p.m.

We will be practicing special distancing and taking extra steps to keep our guests, volunteers and staff safe.

  Everyone entering the building will be required to wear a face mask that covers both their mouth and nose during the entire visit.

Flight tests from Wallops this week may create noise.

(WBOC) 

View article:

http://www.wboc.com/story/42657490/loud-noises-expected-throughout-week-due-to-flight-exercises

Time Machine: 1961, 1962, 1891, 1930, 2000, 1959, 1981.

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
(excerpts)

Baltimore Sun

(PPE reader comment)

Anonymous said...

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.

Time Machine Preview

This Sunday here at The Pocomoke Public Eye:

1961  .. The Maryland Blue Law prohibits bowling on Sunday but changes are being sought.

1962  ..  Bowling Center opens in Pocomoke City.

1891  ..  A big old-time religious Camp Meeting is held in Accomac.

1930  ..  Construction will begin on a new Pocomoke High School building on Market Street.

2000  ..  The suspense is over. Y2K has arrived and....(?)

Parents and Grandparents mark your calendars.

 

Time Machine: 1993, 1985, 1910, 1881, 1962, 1973.

September, 1993

 Daily Times (Salisbury)

(PPE Reader comment)

 Anonymous said...

Pocomoke City had an earlier airport, located on Rt. 113 where the YMCA and Elks lodge are now located and was in use up until at least 1960.. The soil there was very light and sandy and not much good for field crops so an airstrip was considered the best use of the property. Preston Marshall and Luck Cowger kept aircraft there at one time. There was also a huge old farmhouse located on the hill in the rear of the property which seemed to be very mysterious with strange comings and goings.

In the spring of 1967 a large black Cadillac started making appearances around Pocomoke, especially at US 13 Restaurant. The car was always driven by a lady in her mid-40s or so, and there were always two younger blond girls in the back seat who appeared to be in their late teens or early 20s. When not out and about in town the Cadillac was always parked at the mysterious house at the "airport".

One evening in May of 1967 I was having dinner with my mother at US 13 Restaurant when the black Cadillac pulled in and I remarked to my mother about this strange vehicle. Mom's only comment was, "Just stay away from those people if you know what's good for you."

Five years later I was having a conversation with Don Malloy regarding locating a new Elks lodge on the old airport property and the subject of the old farmhouse came up.

"My God," exclaimed Don, "I thought everybody knew what that place was. That was Pocomoke's house of ill repute. The older lady was the madam and the two young blonds were her "working girls". The county sheriff was on the take so they never had to worry about being raided or having any kind of trouble."

 February, 1985

 Marylander And Herald

January, 1910

 The Crisfield Times

March, 1881

Democratic Messenger

1962  ..  The new Colony Lanes bowling center is opening in Pocomoke.

1973  ..  What's this?

They're calling it a barcode and it's probably going to be around for a while.

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.