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December, 1964
The Carousel Hotel in north Ocean City was
advertising a Gala New Year's Eve party to welcome in the new year 1965. It
included a buffet preceding a New Year's eve party, with the party including
drinks, noisemakers, snacks and a bottle of champagne for the midnight toast,
breakfast immediately following the party, plus a night's lodging in an
oceanfront room. Total price for two.. $42.00.
December, 1941 (Time Machine Archive)
Town Tavern in Pocomoke was advertising informal dancing for
Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve with music by Slim Marshall's Orchestra.
Admission 75-cents per person.
December, 1966 (Time Machine Archive)
If you were planning to go out to welcome in the new year 1967
here's a look at some of the local New Year's Eve activities you could
consider:
A "Chop Hop" at the Pocomoke armory featuring music by the
Midnight Walkers and with master of ceremonies Choppy Layton and Wayne
Powell...The Orbits appearing at Salisbury's Northwood Bar...Dancing at the
Delmar Moose Lodge featuring music with Joey Welz...The True Tones providing the
music at Salisbury's Eastside Men's Club Dance...Richard Maltby's Orchestra in
Salisbury at the Civic Center's New Year's Eve Ball And Breakfast.
December, 1929
A special vaudeville show and a Fox "Super Special" singing and
dancing picture, "Words And Music," provided the late night New Year's Eve
entertainment at Salisbury's Arcade Theater.
December, 1929
(Salisbury Times)
N.Y. PREPARES FOR NEW YEARS EVE CELEBRATION
New York, Dec. 31 -(AP)- Predicting a noisier, more boisterous
welcome for 1930 than has been enjoyed by any of its recent predecessors, hotel
and restaurant managements today prepared to entertain thousands of New Years
eve celebrants.
Police Commissioner Grover A. Whalen announced that the curfew
will drown out the blare of jazz, tin horns and other noise makers in nightclubs
promptly at 3 A.M. Wednesday. Hotels, which are immune from curfew restrictions,
advertised "dancing until dawn." Cover charges will run as high as $20 a
person.
The management of the Hotel Ambassador announced that the
capacity of its three large dining rooms would be taxed with reservations for
more than 1,000. The Savoy-Plaza made ready to care for an equal number, and
other hotels and restaurants announced preparations for capacity
crowds.
Radio listeners may hear the New Years chimes as early as 7 P.M.
,Eastern Standard Time, tonight when because of the difference in time it will
be midnight in London and the peals of Big Ben, famous clock in the tower of
Parliament building, will be radiocast across the Atlantic and rebroadcast
throughout this country.
Special New Year's eve radio programs will include a series of
concerts by dance bands playing from New York, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco,
and Sydney, Australia.
January 1, 1901 (Time Machine Archive)
On the the first day of the Twentieth Century an Iowa newspaper,
The Davenport Republican, reported on the comments of speakers at its area
churches on the previous evening, the last evening of the Nineteenth
Century.
Some excerpts:
From a judge... "Certainly we have not yet gone too far in
strengthening the federal government. -- Somewhere, however, must be set the
limits of this centralized power, at some point the line must be firmly drawn
between the nation and the states. Where this line shall be fixed no one can
safely say in advance. It is one of the grave problems we must leave for
solution to the courage, wisdom, and patriotism of our children. -- There is
some little we may say with assurance of the future. It will be what our
children and their descendants make it. To such young people as hear me and who
shall take part in molding the coming century I wish to say that you will not do
so well as your fathers and mothers have done in life work unless you do better
than they did. You have advancement they did not possess. -- We have now in
every considerably town a high school where a course of study is pursued
equivalent to that of Dartmouth college when it graduated Daniel Webster in
1801. Our state with some others has made provision for establishing free public
library in every school district. This, with the university extension courses,
so popular throughout the country, and which are continually developing, mark an
era in advanced education. Eventually it will bring the college courses to the
door of every earnest seeker for knowledge."
From a lawyer... "By firing my imagination, giving it the reins
and allowing it to run rampant, I might predict that in 2000 the stars and
stripes will float in sole and unquestioned sovereignty from the North Pole to
Cape Horn. I might speculate on the downfall of monarchies and the rise of new
republics. I might be right, I might be wrong. I might be so bold and conceited
to announce to you that in the coming century men, with artificial wings, will
fly like birds through the air. I might contend that our whole system of
transportation will be overthrown and a new one put in action. I might even be
so rash as to predict that the day is not far distant when mankind will know no
disease, no sickness. Trusting in the blessed trinity of chance, accident, or
mistake for the fulfillment of my prophecy, I might say that the science of
medicine will be so revolutionized that medical assistance will be required only
to prevent disease, not to cure. I might be right, I might be wrong, it matters
not. Whatever speculation we may make upon the future, we at least know enough
to know the past. The world has learned that no man is good enough to govern
another man excepting by that other man's consent, and in my humble judgment
thereon hangs the destiny of the nations."
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