Lost History of Huntington

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Cabell County has a rich history since its founding. The city of Huntington is its biggest jewel. Some of us have seen many businesses flourish over the many years. First  rising and then declining as time marches on.  With the help of the local newspaper and  James E Casto’s publications in that paper, Cabell County Doors to the Past  will endeavor to share a few with you. Many genealogists have had family that may have worked at one of these businesses. “Old Timers” will recall several of them. Rumor is that Mr. Casto may in the future publish a more complete volume of articles on this subject.  The genealogical community applauds your efforts.

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Cabell County Doors to the Past

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Make your selection on the Left side.

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1.    9th. Street Walgreens
2.    16th Street Wiggins
3.    20th. Street Baptist Church
4.    29 Street Sears
5.    317 9th St. Building
6.    740  6th Ave.
7.    914 5th Avenue
8.    1018 5th. Ave.
9.    1055 3rd. Ave,
10.  A Building With Three Names
11.  Adams Express Co.
12.  ACF Center Flow Cars
13.  A Hotel With Three Names
14.  A&P Stores
15.  Air-Ola Radio Co.
16.  Albert E. Cox House
17.  Alfred Tobert Proctor
18.  Allegheny Airlines
19.  Allegheny Fire Equipment
20.  American Bank
21.  American Container
22.  American Thermos Co.
23.  Amsbary's
24.  Anderson-Newcomb Co.
25.  Appalachian Craftsmen
26.  Appalachian Life Insurance
27.  Arcade Lanes
28.  Area Enters Air Age
29.  Arena Gardens
30.  Armour & Co.
31.  Armstrong Products
32.  Arthur Treacher's
33.  Ashland Oil Stations
34.  Automobile Row
35.  B & B Food Market
36.  Bailey's Cafeteria
37.  Banks-Miller Supply Co.
38.  Barboursville Brickyard
39.  Barboursville Courthouse
40.  Barboursville Junior High
41.  Barlow-Henderson
42.  Barnett Child Care
43.  Barnett Hospital
44.  Barrack's
45.  Barta Studios
46.  Becker Music Store
47.  Belle's
48.  Beverly Hills Junior High School
49.  Big Bear Supermarkets
50.  Blue & Gray Lines
51.  Blue Jay Manufacturing
52.  Blue Sulphur Hotel
53.  B'nal Israel Synagogue
54.  Boggess Drugs
55.  Boothe Business School
56.  Borden's Better Foods
57.  Borden's Dairy
58.  Boron Service Stations
59.  Bradshaw-Diehl
60.  Branchland Pipe and Supply
61.  BrewBakers
62.  Brown's Apparel
63.  Bryant's Showboat
64.  Buckeye Building
65.  Buckeye S&L
66.  Buffington Elementary
67.  Burger Chef
68.  Butler Furniture
69.  C-K High School
70.  C.M. Love & Co. Hardware
71.  C & O Coaling Station
72.  C & O Engine 490
73.  C & O Rounfhouse
74.  C & P Telephone
75.  Cabell County Jail
76.  Cabell Elementary School
77.  Cabell Library Bookmobiles
78.  Calamity Cafe
79.  Caldwell Building
80.  Caldwell Memorial
81.  Camden Interstate Railway
82.  Camden Park Mound
83.  Camden Park Roller Rink
84.  Camp Fire Girls
85.  Canda Cattle Car CO.
86.  Canda Fire Station
87.  Capitol Furniture Building
88.  Carolina Lumber
89.  Catfish Gray
90.  Catholic Orphans' Home
91.  Cavendish-Cyrus Hardware
92.  Central City Ferry
93.  Central Fire Station
94.  Central Glass Company
95.  Central Veneering Co. 
96.  Ceredo Drive-In Theater
97.  Ceredo Grade School
98.  Charles H. Hagan & Co.
99.  Chi-Chi's Restaurant
100.  Children's Hospital
101.  Chili Willi'
102.  Christian Science Church
103.  Christmas 1939
104.  Christmas at Anderson-Newcomb Co.
105.  CILCO Inc.
106.  Circuit City
107.  City Ice Delivery Co.
108.  Club Foods
109.  Club Pompeii
110.  Colonial Motors
111.  Colored Children's Home
112.  Comair Inc.
113.  Consolidated Bus Lines
114.  Corbin Ltd. Store
115.  Cruise Avenue
116.  CWA Projects
117.  Dandridge Hill
118.  Davidson's Record Shop
119.  Davis Opera House
120.  D. E. Abbott & Co.
121.  Deardorff-Sisler Co.
122.  Dickerson Lumber
123.  Dickinson Furniture
124.  Dolen's Drive-In
125.  Dollar Day Sale
126.  Downtown Penney's
127.  Dr. Pepper Bottling Co.
128.  Duncan Box & Lumber Co.
129.  Duncan Yo-Yos
130.  Dunhill's
131.  Dwight's Drive-In
132.  Early Movie Houses
133.  East Drive-in Theater
134.  East Hills Mall
135.  Eastern Air Lines
136.  Egg Thrower Targets Wendell Willkie
137.  Film Star Raised $3 Million Here
138.  Ely Ensign's House
139.  Emmons-Hawkins Hardware
140.  Ensign Electric
141.  Ensign Elementary School
142.  Ensign Manufacturing
143.  Enslow Middle School
144.  Enterprise Wheel & Car
145.  Evans Supermarkets
146.  Fairfield Station
147.  Falls City
148.  Farmer Bill
149.  Fetter Furniture
150.  Fetty Elementary
151.  Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
152.  Fifth Avenue Wiggins
153.  Fire Alarm Station
154.  First Baptist Church
155.  First City S&L
156.  First Douglass School
157.  First Electric Street Lights
158.  First Guyandotte Bridge
159.  JW Industries
160.  Flatt and Scruggs
161.  Fleeger-Withrow Inc.
162.  Foard-Harwood Shoes
163.  Fountain Drug Store
164.  Fort Gay High School
165.  Foster Memorial Home
166.  Foster-Thornburg Hardware
167.  Fourth of July, 1946
168.  Frank's Sandwich Shop
169.  Frank's Shoe Store
170.  Frederick Hotel
171.  Frederick Pharmacy
172.  Fret'n' Fiffle
173.  Fricke Pie Co.
174.  Frostie Root Beer
175.  Fulton Tool Works
176.  Gallaher School
177.  Gay Capers'
178.  General Cigar Co.
179.  Geneva Kent School
180.  George F Miller House
181.  Georgetown Galleries
182.  Gibson Glass Co.
183.  Gissel Packing Co.
184.  Glaser Furniture
185.  Glenwood Hotel
186.  GM Parade of Progress
187.  Gold's Esso/Exxon
188.  Gold Furniture Company
189.  Gravely Tractors
190.  Greene Line Terminal
191.  Guaranty Bank
192.  Guthrie-Steenburgen Hospital
193.  Guyan Creameryl
194.  Guyan's Second Clubhouse
195.  Gwinn Brothers Mill
196.  Hadacol Caravan
197.  Hamburger Inn
198.  Harshbarger Milling Co.
199.  Harts Family Center
200.  Hartzell Handle Company
201.  Harvey, Hagen & Co.
202.  Heck's Department St.
203.  Hez Ward Buick
204.  Highlawn Pharmacy
205.  Highway Post Office
206.  Hills Department Store
207.  Hodges Hall
208.  Holderby School
209.  Honaker Inc.
210.  Hotel Prichard
211.  Houdaille Industries
212.  Humphreys' Southside Pharmacy
213.  Huntington Arcade
214.  Huntington Awning & Patio Shop
215.  Huntington Barber College
216.  Huntington Blue Scox
217.  Huntington Chair
218.  Huntington Coca-Cola Co.
219.  Huntington Dry Goods
220.  Huntington East High School
221.  Huntington First Airport
222.  Huntington Hospital
223.  Huntington Maidenform Plant
224.  Huntington Memorial Hospital
225.  Huntington Orthopedic Hospital
226.  Huntington Towboat
227.  Huntington Trust Bank
228.  Huntington Tumbler Company
229.  Huntington YWCA
230.  Imperial Ice Cream Co.
231.  Imperial Lanes
232.  Island Creek Coal
233.  Island Creek Coal Tipple
234.  Jack Dial Sporting Goods
235.  James J. Weiler & Sons
236.  Jefferson Elementary School
237.  Jim Brackman Lunches
238.  Jim Thacker
239.  J. H. Miller Co.
240.  J. M.  McCoach & Co.
241.  J. S. Latta Store
242.  Keen Jewelers
243.  Kennedy Dairy
244.  Kenney Music Co.
245.  Kenova Box Co.
246.  Kerr Glass Plant
247.  Kessler's Brass Foundry
248.  King & Pettersen Tile & Marble Co.
249.  Kiser's Drug
250.  Kiwanivista Park
251.  Laidley Hall
252.  Lazarus Department Store
253.  Le Chateau
254.  Le John Manufacturing
255.  Lerner Shops
256.  Lewis-Wilson Hardware
257.  Lincoln Junior High School
258.  Little Switzerland Brewing
259.  Lock and Dam No. 28
260.  Love Furniture
261.  Mack & Dave's
262.  M.D. Angel's Building
263.  Maidenform Huntington Plant
264.  Mansour's Market
265.  Marbles Champs
266.  Marion T. Gray
267.  Marshall Beach Tree
268.  Marshall Lab School
269.  Marshall Laidley Hall
270.  Marshall Music Building
271.  Marshall Victory
272.  Marshall Women's Gym
273.  Marshall Green Village
274.  Martha White Mil
275.  Martin's Restaurant
276.  Maud Muller Candies
277.  McColm Granite Company
278.  McKesson & Robbins
279.  Mel Gillispie Orchestra
280.  Memorial  Field House
281.  Michael's Restaurant
282.  Miller Paint
283.  Miller School
284.  Milton J. Ferguson
285.  Mine Rescue Car
286.  Ming's Restaurant
287.  Minter Homes Corp.
288.  Miss USA Pageant
289.  Model Furniture Co.
290.  Monroe Elementary School
291.  Montgomery Ward
292.  Moore & Sons Hardware
293.  Mootz Bakery
294.  Mott Core Drilling
295.  Mount Hope Hospital
296.  Mountaineer Dinner Theater
297.  MU Phys Ed Building
298.  Mycroft's Bar and Grill
299.  Myers Transfer
300.  Mylar's License Service
301.  Nasser's Department Store
302.  National Mattress
303.  Naval Training Center
304.  Neighborhood Theaters
305.  Nicholson-Kendle Furniture Co.
306.  Nick's News and Card Shop
307.  Niermann's Pharmacy
308.  Nobil's Shoes
309.  Northcott - Buffington
310.  Northcott Court
311.  Northcott Hall
312.  Ohio River Railroad
313.  Ohio Valley Bus Co.
314.  Old Cabell County Jail
315.  Old Engineering Building
316.  Old Fairfield Stadium
317.  Old Guyandotte Bridge
318.  Old Huntington High School
319.  Old Main Annex
320.  Old Main Auditorium
321.  Old St. Mary's Nursing School
322.  Oley Elementary
323.  Oley Junior High
324.  Oliver's
325.  One Room School
326.  O'Neill Machine Shop
327.  Orpheum Theater
328.  Owens-Illinois Plant. 
329.  Page Pitt
330.  Permons Restaurant
331.  Perry-Norvell Shoe Co.
332.  Phillips' Train Shop
333.  Phoenix Powder Co.
334.  Pilgrim Glass
335.  Pilgrim Laundry
336.  Pleasant View Manor
337.  Polan Industries
338.  Preaching Missions
339.  Price's Bakery
340.  Pure Oil Co. Service Station
341.  Quality Bedding Co.
342.  Railway Express Agency
343.  Rainbow-Viking Glass Co.
344.  Ralsten, Ltd.
345.  Ras-Tee Potato Chips
346.  Rebels & Redcoats Tavern
347.  Reich-Huntington Iron Works
348.  Remembering Alex Booth
349.  Remembering 'Bart' Andrews
350.  Remembering Bill Shriner
351.  Remembering Bill Spurlock
352.  Remembering Bill Stewart
353.  Remembering Bob Bowen
354.  Remembering Charles H. Moffat
355.  Remembering 'Chuck' Ripper
356.  Remembering Clyde Roberts
357.  Remembering Dagmar
358.  Remembering Dean Sturm
359.  Remembering 'DJ'
360.  Remembering 'Duke' Ridgley
361.  Remembering 'Dutch' Miller
362.  Remembering Estelle "Bill" Belanger
363.  Remembering George S. Wallace
364.  Remembering 'Gunner' Gataki
365.  Remembering Hawakaw Hawkins
366.  Remembering Henry Hatfield
367.  Remembering Herbert Henderson
368.  Remembering Irvin Dugan
369.  Remembering Jane Shepherd
370.  Remembering Jesse Stuart
371.  Remembering Joan Edwards
372.  Remembering Joan Hyldoft
373.  Remembering Justice Chambers
374.  Remembering Lee Maynard
375.  Remenberibg  Marvin Stone
376.  Remembering Pete Stenger
377.  Remembering Ralph Shannon
378.  Remembering Revella Hughes
379.  Remembering Shawkey Saba
380.  Remembering Zip Brubeck
381.  Remembering Z. T. Vinson
382.  Richard's Shell Service
383.  Riter Furniture Co.
384.  Riverside Club
385.  Robby's
386.  Robert Hall Clothes
387.  Robinson's Lakeside Inn  
388.  Robson-Prichard Building
389.  Rooftop Christmsn Tree
390.  Ross Concrete
391.  Roxy Theater
392.  Roy Rogers at Field House 
393.  S & H Green Stamps
394.  Sadie Hawkins Day
395.  Saturday Night Jamboree
396.  Saver-X Pharmacy
397.  Schiff's Shoes
398.  Sears, Roebuck & Co.
399.  Second City Hall
400.  Security Bank
401.  Sehon - Stevenson
402.  Service Warehouse
403.  Seventh Avenue Methodist
404.  Shank's Tire Service
405.  Shawkey Student Union
406.  Sheriff Don Chafin
407.  Shoney's
408.  Simms Elementary School
409.  Sinclair Glass Company
410.  Sixth Avenue YMCA
411.  Smith's Transfer Corp.
412.  Smoot Advertising Company
413.  Snaks Fifth Avenue
414.  Soft Drink Bottlers
415.  Southern States
416.  SP Brown Company
417.  Spot Lanes
418.  St. Cloud Fire Station
419.  Stanard Dry Goods
420.  Standard Printing & Publishing C.
421.  Standard Ultramarine & Color Co.
422.  Star Furniture Co.
423.  State Liquor Stores
424.  Stella Fuller Settlement
425.  Stevens Church Supply
426.  Stevens Drug Store
427.  Stone Lodge Motel
428.  Straw Hat Day
429.  Stroehmann's Bakery
430.  Tanner's Pharmacy
431.  Tas-Tee Potato Chips
432.  Texaco Stations
433.  Thabits Restaurany
434.  That Darn Stairway
435.  The 3rd. Avenue A&P
436.  The 1913 Flood
437.  The Abbott Theater
438.  The Adel Plant
439.  The Adelphia Hotel
440.  The Advertiser
441.  The Band Festival
442.  The Bazaar
443.  The Beale House
444.  The Beverly Theater
445.  The Biggs Armory
446.  The Biltmore Hotel
447.  The Bischoff Drug Store
448.  The Boldt Bottle Factory
449.  The Brinkley Bridge
450.  The Buffington Mill
451.  The Bung Factory
452.  The C&O Goes Diesel
453.  The C&O Hospital
454.  The C&O FFV
455.  The Camden Queen
456.  The Candy Makers
457.  The Card Shop
458.  The Christmas Bus
459.  The Circus Boy
460.  The City's First Bank
461.  The City's First Bridge
462.  The City's First School
463.  The City of Huntington Ferryboat
464.  The City's Only Hanging
465.  The Day and Night Bank
466.  The Dress Factor
467.  The Elephant Walk
468.  The Emmons Apartments
469.  The Enslow Mansion
470.  The Esso Huntington
471.  The Fashion
472.  The Fesenmeier Brewery
473.  The First Band Festival
474.  The First C&O Depot
475.  The First Fat Boy
476.  The First National Bank
477.  The Five and Dime
478.  The Florentine Hotel
479.  The Freedom Train
480.  The French Tavern
481.  The Friendship Train
482.  The Gateway Hotel
483.  The George Washington
484.  The GM Train of Tomorrow
485.  The Guyandotte Club
486.  The Holderby Mansion
487.  The Holswade Home
488.  The Hotel Farr
489.  The Hotel Huntington
490.  The Huntington China Co.
491.  The Huntington Cubs
492.  The Huntington Hornets
493.  The Jeff Newberry Co.
494.  The Jones Hotel
495.  The Lake at Ritter Park
496.  The Lucy Prichard Home
497.  The Mayfloeer
498.  The Margaret Theater
499.  The M.D. Angel's Building
500.  The Milner Hotel
501.  The Missing Statue
502.  The Old Brickyard
503.  The Old City Market
504.  The Old Library
505.  The Old Post Office
506.  The Olympic Pool
507.  The Oney House
508.  The Packet 'Guyandotte'
509.  The Palace Theater
510.  The Parkettes
511.  The Patterson House
512.  The Peanut Shoppe
513.  The Pied Piper
514.  The Plantation
515.  The Princess Shop
516.  The Prindle-McCrory Building
517.  The Race Track
518.  The Renaissance
519.  The Sixth Street Bridge
520.  The Smart Shop
521.  The Sportsman
522.  The State Hospital
523.  The State Theater
524.  The Steamboat Omar
525.  The Style Shop
526.  The Superblock
527.  The Sylvania Plant
528.  The Tipton Theater
529.  The Tobacco Warehouse
530.  The Union Bank
531.  The Up Towner Inn
532.  The Waco Theater
533.  The Walton Building
534.  The Wilkinson Mansion
535.  Thompson Manufacturing
536.  Thornburg's Market
537.  Timber Rafts
538.  Tis The Season
539.  Tinsley's Creamery
540.  Torlone's Community Bakery
541.  Towboat J.C. Rawn
542.  Tradewell Supermarkets
543.  Trailways Terminal
544.  Truman Visits in 1948
545.  Twentieth Street Bank
546.  Union Concrete Pipe
547.  Union Mission
548.  United Fuel Gas Co.
549.  US 60 Tourist Center
550.  Van Zandt Supply
551.  Vanity Fair Building
552.  Vinson High School
553.  Waiting For The Train
554.  Ward's Do-Nut
555.  Washington Elementary
556.  Watts, Ritter & Co.
557.  Wendell Willkie Speaks
558.  Wender's Apparel
559.  West Junior High School
560.  West Virginia Belle
561.  West Virginia Rail Co.
562.  Western Auto Store
563.  Western Union
564.  Westinghouse Electrc
565.  Westmoreland Country Club
566.  Whiz Discount Stores
567.  WHTN/WOWK TV
568.  Wild's Drug Store
569.  Willis Furniture
570.  Woman's Club of Huntington
571.  WSAZ Bands Record
572.  WSAZ Radio
573.  WSAZ-Tv's First Building
574.  W. T. Grant Co.
575.  WWII Scrap Drives
576.  Zenner - Bradshaw Co.
577.  Ziegler & Behrend

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