Time Machine: This week in Pocomoke 100 years ago, 2003, 1897, 1960, 1995, and local history author's TV segment on the butter fire of 1989.

 

                                                      

                                                                               

October, 2003

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Salisbury Daily Times

Footnote: The proposed revision was unanimously approved by the Pocomoke City mayor and council.

February, 1897

Baltimore Sun

January, 1960

Salisbury Times

*February, 1995

The News Journal (Wilmington)

Butter Fire of 1989

Throwback Thursday w Jim Duffy Butter Fire of 1989 - YouTube

(Reader recalls an unusual fire in Pocomoke:) 

 Anonymous said...

If my memory is correct it was sometime between 1995 and maybe 2005 when two young men were in the potato chip aisle in the Pocomoke Wal Mart. For some reason they set fire to the corner of a bag of potato chips. Of course the bag burned but when the flames reached the oil-covered chips inside the bag a real conflagration ensued. The fire spread from bag to bag and the amount of smoke released was beyond anyone's imagination. I think Wal Mart had to close for almost a week just so the smoke damage could be cleaned up.

 Anonymous said...

Correction....my better half says it was maybe 2012 or 2013. Time flies when you get old.