Time Machine: Holiday Season 1942, 1980, 1921, 1937, 1966, 1935, 1970.

 

December, 1942

Worcester Democrat

December, 1980

Daily Times (Salisbury)

  December, 1921

Democratic Messenger

December, 1937

Worcester Democrat

December 24, 1966- A seldom seen headline on the Eastern Shore..

A white Christmas on the Eastern Shore is more often than not just something that's dreamed about but it does occur occasionally.  In 1966, for example, Christmas was on a Sunday and a few inches fell overnight Friday into Saturday morning and left snow on the ground for Christmas day. The highest amounts were generally in Somerset County.  

December 26, 1935- A white Christmas dream became more of a nightmare.

Several inches of snow beginning on the 25th were whipped into large drifts that by the next morning were anything but a pleasant dream for those who had to take to the roadways.

   (Salisbury Times excerpts)

See a 2019 WMDT article about past times of a white Christmas on the Eastern Shore: 

https://www.wmdt.com/2019/12/our-last-white-christmas-story/

       

 Submitted by Kathy H. in 2013...

At Christmas time, my mind always goes back to about 1970.

 

I was young (20) and doing Christmas shopping in downtown Pocomoke City.  The air was crisp and cold and a light snow was falling.  The downtown area was lit up with Christmas lights in the storefront windows and Christmas carols were playing over a P.A. or loudspeaker system (I don't know what the technical term is) but I remember that it was beautiful.

 

At that time, you could do ALL of your Christmas shopping downtown - didn't have to go anywhere else. There was a 'five & diime' store, a 'dollar' store, a couple of department stores, a couple of shoe stores, a couple of dress shops, a men's clothing store, a couple of jewelry stores, a couple of catalog stores, a couple of hardware stores, a couple of pharmacies, a couple of banks, and a car dealer by the river.  Just turn the corner off of Market St. and go just one block down Clarke Ave. and there was a soda fountain shop, a couple of mom & pop grocery stores, and a fish market (I think). There may have even been a beauty salon on Willow St. between Second & Clarke (memory is fuzzy here). If you proceeded on to the next block down Clarke Ave., there was a second-hand store (clothing, etc.), a deli, and a small mom & pop clothing store.  Unbelievable isn't it?  Yes, all of those businesses were in the downtown area (at the same time).

 

I miss it when I get thinking about it.  It was different shopping like that than when you go into these huge chain stores and have to fight the crowds. Whole different atmosphere - the magic of Christmas has gotten lost in greedy commercialism.  Well, maybe that's a bit extreme, but right now I am savoring those wonderful memories of times gone by.

 

P.S.  You could shop without worrying about getting your purse snatched, or getting mugged or carjacked, etc.