1938.. Recollections by Chincoteague Island's salty centenarian Ben Scott.
2005.. Remnants of tropical storm Cindy make a call to the lower Eastern Shore.
1900.. (Picture) The Hotel Pocomoke's new quarters.
ACROSS THE USA
1975.. Concern about prospects of gas prices rising to $1 a gallon!
I remember when Bill Simon was Nixon's "Energy Czar" and in early 1974 Simon predicted that the price of gasoline could reach as much as $1.00 per gallon.
ReplyDeleteThe reaction of most of the country was, "What has this guy been smoking? It's just fear-mongering and will never happen."
I remember when we were headed west on Route 50 toward the western shore and stopped for gas in Cambridge. To my amazement the gasoline price numbers on the pump were turning faster than I had ever seen. The price had reached $1.00 per gallon but the pump didn't have a per gallon price that high so it was apparently calibrated to run twice as fast at a rate of 50-cents per gallon.
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