Archive image from page 49 of Dahlgren (1977). Dahlgren dahlgren00mcco Year: 1977 40 Dahlgren list of everything wanted on Station by the other wives, and then they would do the shopping and would come back that afternoon in an official car. Also, until the Dahlgren Store handled the items most housewives wanted, there was a trip to Fredericksburg once a week. One wife would take a list for everybody and one or two wives would buy the stuff and bring it back. Those early days were right interesting because the roads in Virginia were pretty bad then. That's what I hear. They could bog down in
Archive image from page 49 of Dahlgren (1977). Dahlgren dahlgren00mcco Year: 1977 40 Dahlgren list of everything wanted on Station by the other wives, and then they would do the shopping and would come back that afternoon in an official car. Also, until the Dahlgren Store handled the items most housewives wanted, there was a trip to Fredericksburg once a week. One wife would take a list for everybody and one or two wives would buy the stuff and bring it back. Those early days were right interesting because the roads in Virginia were pretty bad then. That's what I hear. They could bog down in nothing flat. In fact, I think that one of the reasons they started changing the time for getting license plates from December to March was that people would lay up their cars down here, and they objected to paying a license fee for a whole year when they couldn't use their cars for 3 or 4 months because of the roads. But then about this shopping trip to Fredericksburg—the roads were bad. Nobody knew when the car would get through. They had some mules down there, and they always kept a team of mules hitched up. Bob Pulliam, who just died a few years ago, was hostler here for years. The Air Detail had carrier pigeons. In those days, planes didn't have any radios to speak of, so they would transmit messages by carrier pigeons. They put a capsule on the leg of the bird, and if they wanted to send a message back to the home base they would put a message in this capsule and let the bird go- Shelton's Store at Dahlgren in May 1927.
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