Harold Frankel
( 1916 - 2002 )

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Even though Harold Frankel (1916-2002) spent the last 20 years of his life in Florida, Huntington has never forgotten his trademark grin and the seemingly boundless energy, enthusiasm and optimism he threw into every thing he did. And those who knew him best say he never forgoy Huntington. Frankel is remembered for his accomplishment in both business and politics. In Business, he took over operation of his father's clothing store, branched out into the appliance business, established a highly successful Holiday Inn on U.S. 60 East and then invested everything he had ----- and everything he could borrow ----- in construction of a new downtown hotel, the first built in the city in decades. Over the years its name has changed from Holiday Inn to Radisson Hotel to Pullman Plaza to most recently, the Doubletree by Hilton Huntington. In politics, Frankel was a member of the Huntington City Council for a remarkable 16 years, served four one year terms as mayor under the city's former council manager form of goverment and was Cabell County sheriff for four Years.

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