Time Machine: 1961, 1924, 1995, 1902.

May, 1961

Baltimore Sun 

May, 1924

The Evening Times (Salisbury)

April, 1995

 

 

 Daily Times (Salisbury)

August, 1902

The Peninsula Enterprise

1964  ..  Top tennis players in the world come to Salisbury.

1975 ..  Popular TV shows..

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.

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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.

Minotaur Launches From Wallops

(WESR/Shore Daily News)

View more:
https://shoredailynews.com/headlines/minotaur-launch-at-wallops-a-success/

Weather Looks Good For Wendesday Wallops Launch.

(WESR/Shore Daily News)

https://shoredailynews.com/headlines/minotaur-rocket-to-launch-nro-satellite-from-wallops-wednesday-morning/

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 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.

Chincoteague wins national "10Best" award.

(WESR/Shore Daily News)

View news article: 

https://shoredailynews.com/headlines/chincoteague-island-wins-usa-todays-10best-competition/

Counting Down To Minotaur Launch From Wallops.

(NASA)

View info from NASA:
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/07/nrol-129-launch-from-mars/

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This Sunday here at The Pocomoke Public Eye:

1921  ..  Front page headlines and articles from an edition of The Worcester Democrat.

2010  ..  (Picture) Pocomoke City Police Department receives grant from Youth Foundation Fund to help in purchase of back to school supplies for Pocomoke students.

1983  ..  The girls of Pocomoke High's field hockey team are Bayside Conference Champions.

ACROSS THE USA 
1943  ..  (Ad) The war effort prompts Bell Telephone appeal to public for limitations on Long Distance calls.