Gallery: Do you remember? -- Feb. 20, 2012

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Cabell Huntington Hospital opened in 1956 in the 1300 block of Hal Greer Boulevard in Huntington.

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The Huntington Memorial Hospital at 6th Avenue and 1st Street. Kessler Hospital and Sanitarium was founded by Dr. A.K. Kessler and housed in a fine stone structure at 4th Avenue and 5th Street. The property was turned over to Mount Hope Hospital when Kessler moved to this facility at 6th Avenue and 1st Street. After Dr. Henry D. Hatfield, a former West Virginia governor, joined the staff in 1917, it became Kessler-Hatfield Hospital. Later, the business was known as Memorial Hospital. It closed Aug. 13, 1958, and was razed in February 1961 to make room for a shopping center (Food Fair is now located there).

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The C&O Railway Employees' Hospital Association in Huntington. It was on the south side of the 1800 block of 6th Avenue (across from where the MRI unit is currently located), according to Marc Williams.

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On Nov. 6, 1924, the Sisters of the Pallottine Missionary Society opened a small, 35-bed hospital called St. Mary's Hospital (now St. Mary's Medical Center). Early on, the missionaries did everything from nursing the sick and injured to cooking, washing and cleaning. The facility has seen many changes through the years.

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The southeast corner of 5th Avenue and 10th Street. From left, First Presbyterian Church, the Jamison Building, Appalachian Life Insurance Co. and Huntington School of Business. The business on 10th Street is Stevens Drug Store, (thanks to Ken Reffeitt). According to Sam Januszkiewicz, there is a 1952 Ford parked on 10th Street (second from the corner), and in the second picture, the blurry car making as right turn onto 10th Street appears to be a 1955 Chevrolet. He also sees a 1954 Buick parked on 10th Street in the first picture and a 1951 or 1952 Buick entering the intersection from the east in the second picture. Jack Houvouras added that the corner building was purchased by brothers Chris and Bill Ratcliff, who remodeled the aging structure. "Known as Ratcliff Place, it was home to several small businesses in town before it was destroyed by fire on Jan. 10, 2007. It was later demolished," he said.

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The southeast corner of 5th Avenue and 10th Street. From left, First Presbyterian Church, the Jamison Building, Appalachian Life Insurance Co. and Huntington School of Business. The business on 10th Street is Stevens Drug Store, (thanks to Ken Reffeitt). According to Sam Januszkiewicz, there is a 1952 Ford parked on 10th Street (second from the corner), and in the second picture, the blurry car making as right turn onto 10th Street appears to be a 1955 Chevrolet. He also sees a 1954 Buick parked on 10th Street in the first picture and a 1951 or 1952 Buick entering the intersection from the east in the second picture. Jack Houvouras added that the corner building was purchased by brothers Chris and Bill Ratcliff, who remodeled the aging structure. "Known as Ratcliff Place, it was home to several small businesses in town before it was destroyed by fire on Jan. 10, 2007. It was later demolished," he said.

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Inside the Huntington School of Business, formerly at 5th Avenue and 10th Street.

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Inside the Huntington School of Business, formerly at 5th Avenue and 10th Street.

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Inside the Huntington School of Business, formerly at 5th Avenue and 10th Street.

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Inside the Huntington School of Business, formerly at 5th Avenue and 10th Street.

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The Huntington VA Medical Center at 1540 Spring Valley Drive in Huntington. It opened in 1932 and provides services to veterans living in southwestern West Virginia, southern Ohio and eastern Kentucky. Thanks to Jim Casto for the identification.

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The Marshall University Science Building is located along 3rd Avenue on the north side of campus. It was dedicated in 1950 and expanded in 1985 and 1995. The facility houses administration, offices, classrooms and laboratories of the College of Science. (This photo is not backward; 3rd and 5th avenues were two-way streets until 1958.)

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The Huntington Athletic Club at 624 9th St. opened in 1949 in a former three-story hotel. The club offered dining, beer, a barber shop, steam baths and massages, according to an early news article.

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The Huntington Athletic Club at 624 9th St. opened in 1949 in a former three-story hotel. The club offered dining, beer, a barber shop, steam baths and massages, according to an early news article.

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Huntington Dry Goods, at 3rd Avenue and 9th Street, began in 1923, when businessmen Meyer Mittenthal and M.J. Federman took a long-term lease on the Foster Building on the southwest corner of 3rd Avenue and 9th Street. The circa-1894 brick structure replaced an earlier wooden building that had been constructed on one of the first plots of prime real estate offered by Collis P. Huntington's Central Land Co. in 1871, the same year the city was chartered. Bradley Waters Foster had purchased the ground May 1 of that year to open a retail hardware business. "Mr. Federman was connected with a buying organization in New York City and gave the company the benefit of this connection with the result that it was able to buy merchandise about as cheap as the average jobber," local historian George S. Wallace wrote in his "Cabell County Annals and Families." "The benefit of this purchasing power was transferred to the customer, and the new company enjoyed a good business from the start." Huntington Dry Goods opened with three floors selling ready-to-wear clothing and domestics, adding a fourth floor and a furniture line later. The store was closed in May 1982. The building sat vacant until the mid-1990s, when a restaurant named BrewBakers moved in and later River and Rail. It is now occupied by the Marshall Hall of Fame Cafe.

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Huntington Dry Goods, at 3rd Avenue and 9th Street, began in 1923, when businessmen Meyer Mittenthal and M.J. Federman took a long-term lease on the Foster Building on the southwest corner of 3rd Avenue and 9th Street. The circa-1894 brick structure replaced an earlier wooden building that had been constructed on one of the first plots of prime real estate offered by Collis P. Huntington's Central Land Co. in 1871, the same year the city was chartered. Bradley Waters Foster had purchased the ground May 1 of that year to open a retail hardware business. "Mr. Federman was connected with a buying organization in New York City and gave the company the benefit of this connection with the result that it was able to buy merchandise about as cheap as the average jobber," local historian George S. Wallace wrote in his "Cabell County Annals and Families." "The benefit of this purchasing power was transferred to the customer, and the new company enjoyed a good business from the start." Huntington Dry Goods opened with three floors selling ready-to-wear clothing and domestics, adding a fourth floor and a furniture line later. The store was closed in May 1982. The building sat vacant until the mid-1990s, when a restaurant named BrewBakers moved in and later River and Rail. It is now occupied by the Marshall Hall of Fame Cafe.

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"Sea Scouts," according to the envelope. The boy in the upper left is Jim Ward, according to Richard McCoy of Huntington. "He was a classmate of mine at Cammack Junior High School," he said. "I remember Jim telling us about participating in the Sea Scout Troop."

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The Home for Incurables along Norway Avenue was established by the West Virginia Legislature as an insane asylum in 1897. It was later renamed Huntington State Hospital, and today is known as the Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital. The facility has undergone a number of changes over the years.

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The Home for Incurables along Norway Avenue was established by the West Virginia Legislature as an insane asylum in 1897. It was later renamed Huntington State Hospital, and today is known as the Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital. The facility has undergone a number of changes over the years.

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The Maidenform Bra Company closed a longtime production facility in Huntington in 1992. (The facility was possibly at 2311 Adams Ave.)