This Week in Marblehead History: 1950

Every week, Marblehead Patch digs through the Marblehead Messenger microfilm archives at to find out what was happening on this week in local history.

In 1950:

Re-Elected Selectmen Welcome Stacey; Appoint Officers: The organization session of the Selectmen in their Abbot Hall quarters last night was short and harmonious. Town Clerk William Bragdon opened the meeting by swearing in the new board, after the reelected members had welcomed the new Selectman, Donald Stacey. John A. Davis will serve as chairman.

New Hospital on Town Warrant: On article 41, Mr. Stevens moved that $359,000 be appropriated to build a new 25-bed hospital including equipment etc. that would be needed in addition to that now owned by the town at the Mary Alley Hospital. The money was proposed to be raised by a tax levy of $9,000 and the rest or $350,000 by an issue of bonds to be sold by the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectman.

Druggist Advertisement: Eaton Druggist on Atlantic Avenue took out a front-page advertisement for a sick room supply sale.

• Absorbent Cotton
• Adhesive Tape
• Atomizers
• Baby Scales
• Paper Handkerchiefs
• Throat Bags
• Rubber Sheeting
• Drinking Tubes
• Hot Water Bottles
• Syringes

Edmonds Television Service: Located "on the Avenue" Edmonds Television Service ran an advertisement about color TV. "WHEN COLOR? TV is having enough trouble with its black and white transmissions. The really only successful color TV has been of laboratory experimental level, like the MIT experience conducted in the 30's with black and white. Then the war came along and pushed ahead experimental work on TV."

Now Showing at the Warwick:

• "The Secret Garden" starring Margaret O'Brien and Herbert Marshall
• "Indian Agent" starring John Holt and Nan Leslie
• "Intruder in the Dust" starring David Brian and Claude Jarman
• "Tension" starring Audrey Tetter and Richard Basebart
• "On the Town" starring Gene Kelly and Vera Ellen
• "Streets of San Francisco" starring Robert Armstrong and Mae Clark

Sale at Marblehead Meat Market:

• Boneless Sirloin Roast Beef - 79 cents per pound
• Fresh Killed Fowl - 43 cents per pound
• Roast Pork Rib Cuts - 43 cents per pound
• Sirloin Steaks - 79 cents per pound
• Top Round Steak - 89 cents per pound

Were you a Marblehead resident in 1950? Do you recognize any of these people, places or events? Let us know in the comments section below.