This is Bobby Vaught with his fuel oil truck on Moss Street. Bobby always had a big smile and wave for everyone throughout Chesapeake City. I bought my oil from him. His daughter, Betty, sent this photo to me.

Hattie’s Inn, on Chesapeake City's North Side, a popular bar and restaurant in the 40s and early 50s, located near town on Biddle Street Extension. People are mostly members of the Van Den Heuvel family—Photo courtesy of Nancy and Harry Van Den Heuvel.

Jack and Dick Titter’s Texaco Station, Summer of 1950

First Photo: The building has been renovated and is now called the “Eagle’s Nest.” It is located on Rt. 213, across from Bohemia Manor High School. The Model A Ford at right next to the building belonged to Ellison Ireland, and the 1936 Ford next to it belonged to Helen Titter.

Second Photo: This is inside Titter’s Texaco station about 1951. The men, Left to Right, are Hawky Reynolds, Mr. Critchley, and Jack Titter. During that time My father used to take his car there for service.

Dolph Wharton’s Taverns with Dolph and Family

First Photo: This is Dolph Wharton’s first tavern. It was the second building from the corner of Basil Avenue and Randalia Road. Dolph  Wharton was a very successful local tavern owner and a generous man. He owned a good bit of land in the area and ended up donating the lot that the current VFW is located on. Second Photo: Here’s his more recent tavern that he had built after the over-head bridge was completed. It was located about where the post office is now on Route 213. Third Photo: This is Mr. Dolph Wharton posing with his wife, Bessie, and adopted son, Willard P. Heverin, who was killed serving our country in WW ll. I’ve been told that, in his youth, Dolph lost a leg in either a boating accident or a motorcycle accident. As a boy, I recall seeing him descend with effort from the steps of his first tavern.

Rio Theater with Poster and Ticket

First Photo: Here’s a close-up of the Rio Theater and Jumpin’ Jim’s barber shop. Second Photo: This is local businessman, Walter Cooling holding an advertising poster for the Rio Theater. Walter was kind enough to go outside so I could take a good picture. Third Photo: Here’s a program for the theater and below it is a ticket. Ester Luzetsky gave me the program and the ticket is courtesy of Tommy Vaughan.

 

Shine’s Service Station with Shine Crawford and Cassy

First Photo: Here’s a view of some notable buildings on George Street, circa 1955. In the foreground notice Jumpin’ Jim’s barber shop and the Rio Theater, and above that are Walt Coleman’s pool hall (now the Shipwatch Inn) and Sydney (Shine) Crawford’s service station. Can you recognize other buildings?

Second Photo: This is Shine Crawford with Cassy, posing in front of Shine’s icehouse, circa 1950.

Postell’s Newsstand, with Janet Pyle

First Photo: This building was owned by Mr. Lupher at one time, but when I was a boy it was a newsstand, soda shop, and small grocery store run by Luther Postell. “Postell’s Corner” was where we know-it-all teenage boys used to hand out whenever we could. The building is now the very popular, “Bohemia Café.”

Second Photo: Here’s an inside view of Postell’s, with pretty soda clerk, Janet Pyle, who, with me, graduated from Chesapeake City High School in 1954. I remember jumping up there on the stool to order a cherry coke or milkshake. I think the milkshake was about 15 cents then.