How Hot WAS It??

Carrol Walker's Old Norfolk

By Peggy Haile McPhillips
Norfolk City Historian

July 2010 was one for the record books, as those of us who melted our way through those 100+ degree days can attest. Hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk? That’s exactly what Miss Muriel Markoff sought to learn back in 1936, when the temperature climbed to 101 degrees and she tested her outdoor culinary skills before a crowd of interested onlookers in the 200 block of East Plume Street in downtown Norfolk. A little salt and pepper and it’s ready to be tasted. Or not.

(Photo by Charles Borjes, 30 June 1936)