Friday, July 17, 2020

Time Machine Preview

This Sunday here at The Pocomoke Public Eye:

1961  ..  Looking ahead.. will the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel  bring a boom to the Eastern Shore?

1924  ..  Treasurer's appointment is causing quite a stir in the Pocomoke City Council.

1995  ..  News from around Pocomoke High.

1902  ..  (Ad) "Pocomoke's Shoe Man" promotes the big Fair and his store.

Sunday, July 12, 2020

Time Machine: 1921, 2010, 1983, 1943.





January, 1921


(Some of the front page headlines)







(Some of the front page articles)





Footnote:  The Empire Theater was located on the southwest corner of Front and Market Streets and escaped the devastating Pocomoke City fire of April, 1922. This picture is looking west across Market Street with The Empire in the background. The current Marva Theater opened about five years later. -tk


  


July, 2010
Daily Times (Salisbury)



Nov, 1983
The Star Democrat (Easton)

ACROSS THE USA
1943





1966  ..  Orioles-Dodgers World Series-


(Reader comments)
 Anonymous said...


I was a patient in Peninsula General Hospital just prior to the 1966 World Series. At that time almost all patients were two to a room and my roommate loved to talk baseball. Every day he insisted the Orioles were toast because of the great pitching staff or the Dodgers.

"They've got Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale and Claude Osteen. What do the Orioles have?"

Over and over, all I remember is, "Koufax, Drysdale and Osteen. Koufax, Drysdale and Osteen."

BTW, Mayor Dawson Clarke had box seats for Game 5, scheduled for Sunday in Baltimore. He obviously never got to use them.



Anonymous Anonymous said...


In 1966 box seats in Memorial Stadium went for $3.00. Upper reserved were $2.50 and the bleachers in right and left field were 75 cents!

1979  ..  At the movies-





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.