Thanksgiving Special 1964

Father Charles Albert Whaley

Charles Albert "Bert" Whaley (1905-1986) was the son of Charles L and Anna Elliott Whaley.  He was born in Laurel, Delaware.  He would spent his life helping and giving direction to people.  He worked at the Ferris school for Boys in the 1920s and married Mary Elizabeth Hearthway (1909-2002) in 1926 while he worked at Ferris.  In the the 1940s he worked in Georgetown and lived in Rehoboth as the Chief Probation officer for Juvenile Court.    In 1951 the family moved to Delmar and lived at 407 E Pine street.  He had been confirmed into the Episcopal Church in 1937.  After moving to Delmar he was asked by Father Marvin Hummell to read the lesson and after that he became a Lay Reader.  At age 67 he was confirmed in as an ordained deacon.  At the same time he had served four two year terms as President (Mayor) of the Delmar Maryland commissioners.

above 1968
and at the same time he worked as manager of the restaurant at the Trailways Bus Terminal in Salisbury. 

The Whaleys had two sons James G Whaley and William Albert Whaley (1927-1991).  Both were school teachers.

The Last Doctor's Office

Since 1986 when Dr Robert C Ferber opened an office in this building (8 Grove street) there has been doctors in it but it may be coming to an end as you see the moving truck is there.

Last week I received the below

Now this isn't the last Doctor's office in Delmar as we have a couple of medical offices that must have MDs associated with them but the way it looks this office in this building may be the last. 

Laconia Industries Ho Gauge

The Barri Jay Dress Shop

above 1951

The Barri-Jay Dress Shop was run by Carrie Green (1917-1994).  Carrie was originally a Calloway, daughter of Benjamin and Sallie Gravenor Calloway.  She would marry Elton Woodrow Harrington (1912-1983) first and then Julius (Jay) Gilbert Green, a railroad worker who was killed  when he fell under a railcar in Hurlock, Md in 1949.  Her third husband was Frank Barry Sample (1917-1997).  The shop was named after her two sons; Barry Wood Harrington and Jay Gilbert Green.

The dress shop seem to go out of business around 1954, Carrie Sample would work as a manager at Deckers retiring in 1979. 

1951 Delmar High School Basketball Schedule

1951 Basketball Schedule from the Shirley Martin Collection

1940 Count Basie

1940 Advertisement for Count Basie at the Comedy Club in Salisbury Maryland.  The Comedy Club operated in the 1940s.   The owner James "Slim" Richard Marshall died in 1959.  He was from Tennessee, a World War One Veteran, He worked briefly as a laborer for the Erie railroad in Erie New York, a band leader of Smiley Billy Stewart Band, Leader of the Slim Marshall Orchestra (They had a spot on WBOC Radio in 1941), with his wife, Nellie, he was owner of the Blue Moon Restaurant and Night Club, manager and owner of the Maryland Clippers who played in the American Negro Baseball league,  and active in a large number of Negro organizations in Salisbury.

He played In Delmar at the Coliseum

His Night Club, The Blue Moon ,was over top Polan's 5 and Dime store and in 1958  it had a fire and after that he pretty well shut down.