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AC&F Russian Flat Car. The date, according to the box, is 1945.
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AC&F Russian Flat Car. The date, according to the box, is 1945.
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The first tenant of this five-story building on the southeast corner of 4th Avenue and 10th Street, built in 1903, was a store operated by John W. Valentine. Later it housed the Day & Knight Bank and was known as the Day & Night Building. The Huntington National Bank acquired and closed the bank in 1919, but the structure continued to be called the Day & Night Building. Over the years, its first-floor space housed a variety of businesses. This photo, apparently taken in the late 1940s, shows the building when it was occupied by Cole Optical. Shortly after this photo was taken, the Style Shop replaced the optical company. The up-scale dress shop had been located in a building directly across 4th Avenue, but that building burned, forcing the store to move. By the 1950s, the structure was called the Ritter Building. The Style Shop closed in the late 1970s and was replaced by a Burger King restaurant which operated for about 10 years. The building’s most recent tenant was an nTelos cell phone store. It’s now vacant. The upper floors once housed many business offices but have been unoccupied for a number of years. Thanks to Jim Casto for the information.
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Hampton Bros. Grocery, on Adams Avenue. Businesses to the right are the Westmor Dairy Bar and Bischoff's Prescriptions. The top of the building idenifies it as the Schneider Building. Date is unknown.
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The American Awning Co., 611 20th St. Date is unknown. The building is still standing, with a few small businesses occupying the ground floor.
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A cardinal. Date (and reason for the photo) is unknown.
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Author John D. "Jack" Ratcliff was a Huntington native who contributed more than 200 articles to Reader's Digest. A son of a prosperous wholesale grocer, Ratcliff was educated in Huntington schools and followed his father's wish to study mining engineering. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology for two years and transferred to West Virginia University to specialize in coal mining engineering. While at WVU, he became editor of Moonshine, the university magazine, and, when the coal industry collapsed in the mid-1920s, he forgot about engineering and decided to go into writing. On his graduation, he went to New York and took a job with the old United Press. He later joined Time magazine, writing science and medical news, and joined the staff of Newsweek when it was founded in 1933. Ratcliff also worked for Fortune prior to becoming a freelance writer. After becoming a freelance writher in 1938, Ratcliff traveled throughout the world writing articles on "every topic but politics." He produced some 700 articles for such magazines as Collier's, Saturday Evening Post, McCall's, Ladies' Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion, as well as the Digest. Ratcliff died Oct. 24, 1973, in New York City at the age of 70. These photos are from September 1940.
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Author John D. "Jack" Ratcliff was a Huntington native who contributed more than 200 articles to Reader's Digest. A son of a prosperous wholesale grocer, Ratcliff was educated in Huntington schools and followed his father's wish to study mining engineering. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology for two years and transferred to West Virginia University to specialize in coal mining engineering. While at WVU, he became editor of Moonshine, the university magazine, and, when the coal industry collapsed in the mid-1920s, he forgot about engineering and decided to go into writing. On his graduation, he went to New York and took a job with the old United Press. He later joined Time magazine, writing science and medical news, and joined the staff of Newsweek when it was founded in 1933. Ratcliff also worked for Fortune prior to becoming a freelance writer. After becoming a freelance writher in 1938, Ratcliff traveled throughout the world writing articles on "every topic but politics." He produced some 700 articles for such magazines as Collier's, Saturday Evening Post, McCall's, Ladies' Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion, as well as the Digest. Ratcliff died Oct. 24, 1973, in New York City at the age of 70. These photos are from September 1940.
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Author John D. "Jack" Ratcliff was a Huntington native who contributed more than 200 articles to Reader's Digest. A son of a prosperous wholesale grocer, Ratcliff was educated in Huntington schools and followed his father's wish to study mining engineering. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology for two years and transferred to West Virginia University to specialize in coal mining engineering. While at WVU, he became editor of Moonshine, the university magazine, and, when the coal industry collapsed in the mid-1920s, he forgot about engineering and decided to go into writing. On his graduation, he went to New York and took a job with the old United Press. He later joined Time magazine, writing science and medical news, and joined the staff of Newsweek when it was founded in 1933. Ratcliff also worked for Fortune prior to becoming a freelance writer. After becoming a freelance writher in 1938, Ratcliff traveled throughout the world writing articles on "every topic but politics." He produced some 700 articles for such magazines as Collier's, Saturday Evening Post, McCall's, Ladies' Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion, as well as the Digest. Ratcliff died Oct. 24, 1973, in New York City at the age of 70. These photos are from September 1940.
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Author John D. "Jack" Ratcliff was a Huntington native who contributed more than 200 articles to Reader's Digest. A son of a prosperous wholesale grocer, Ratcliff was educated in Huntington schools and followed his father's wish to study mining engineering. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology for two years and transferred to West Virginia University to specialize in coal mining engineering. While at WVU, he became editor of Moonshine, the university magazine, and, when the coal industry collapsed in the mid-1920s, he forgot about engineering and decided to go into writing. On his graduation, he went to New York and took a job with the old United Press. He later joined Time magazine, writing science and medical news, and joined the staff of Newsweek when it was founded in 1933. Ratcliff also worked for Fortune prior to becoming a freelance writer. After becoming a freelance writher in 1938, Ratcliff traveled throughout the world writing articles on "every topic but politics." He produced some 700 articles for such magazines as Collier's, Saturday Evening Post, McCall's, Ladies' Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion, as well as the Digest. Ratcliff died Oct. 24, 1973, in New York City at the age of 70. These photos are from September 1940.
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Author John D. "Jack" Ratcliff was a Huntington native who contributed more than 200 articles to Reader's Digest. A son of a prosperous wholesale grocer, Ratcliff was educated in Huntington schools and followed his father's wish to study mining engineering. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology for two years and transferred to West Virginia University to specialize in coal mining engineering. While at WVU, he became editor of Moonshine, the university magazine, and, when the coal industry collapsed in the mid-1920s, he forgot about engineering and decided to go into writing. On his graduation, he went to New York and took a job with the old United Press. He later joined Time magazine, writing science and medical news, and joined the staff of Newsweek when it was founded in 1933. Ratcliff also worked for Fortune prior to becoming a freelance writer. After becoming a freelance writher in 1938, Ratcliff traveled throughout the world writing articles on "every topic but politics." He produced some 700 articles for such magazines as Collier's, Saturday Evening Post, McCall's, Ladies' Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion, as well as the Digest. Ratcliff died Oct. 24, 1973, in New York City at the age of 70. These photos are from September 1940.
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Capt. Howard G. Mayes Jr. was a retired pilot, airline executive and local aviation expert. This plane is a Fairchild 24. Mayes died July 31, 2011, at age 93 at The Woodlands, where he and his wife, Fran, resided. Mayes, a pilot since the age of 14, was the retired Vice President of Flight Operations for United Airlines, and after his days there were done, he returned to Huntington. Here, he liberally shared his experience and knowledge of aircraft and airports as a member of the Tri-State Airport Authority. Mayes’ career “was a foregone conclusion,” daughter Barbara Mayes, of Cleveland, said of her father. Her grandfather, Howard Mayes Sr., was a manager/operator for an airport in Chesapeake, Ohio, called, at the time, The Huntington Airport. Born in Chicago, the younger Mayes attended Marshall University and held memberships in the Retired United Pilots’ Association, the Experimental Aircraft Association and flew in the Air Transport Command in World War II. In 2008, The Herald-Dispatch featured Mayes and his wife, Fran, in a Valentine’s Day story. Their 70th wedding anniversary was Feb. 23 that year. The couple met at Huntington High School in the 1930s. His career took flight, and eventually, after moving from Huntington, Chicago, Denver, New York, Miami and Washington, they returned to town after his retirement from United Airlines. Thanks to Bill Martin for the identification. Date is unknown.
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Capt. Howard G. Mayes Jr. was a retired pilot, airline executive and local aviation expert. This plane is a Fairchild 24. Mayes died July 31, 2011, at age 93 at The Woodlands, where he and his wife, Fran, resided. Mayes, a pilot since the age of 14, was the retired Vice President of Flight Operations for United Airlines, and after his days there were done, he returned to Huntington. Here, he liberally shared his experience and knowledge of aircraft and airports as a member of the Tri-State Airport Authority. Mayes’ career “was a foregone conclusion,” daughter Barbara Mayes, of Cleveland, said of her father. Her grandfather, Howard Mayes Sr., was a manager/operator for an airport in Chesapeake, Ohio, called, at the time, The Huntington Airport. Born in Chicago, the younger Mayes attended Marshall University and held memberships in the Retired United Pilots’ Association, the Experimental Aircraft Association and flew in the Air Transport Command in World War II. In 2008, The Herald-Dispatch featured Mayes and his wife, Fran, in a Valentine’s Day story. Their 70th wedding anniversary was Feb. 23 that year. The couple met at Huntington High School in the 1930s. His career took flight, and eventually, after moving from Huntington, Chicago, Denver, New York, Miami and Washington, they returned to town after his retirement from United Airlines. Thanks to Bill Martin for the identification. Date is unknown.
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Capt. Howard G. Mayes Jr. was a retired pilot, airline executive and local aviation expert. This plane is a Fairchild 24. Mayes died July 31, 2011, at age 93 at The Woodlands, where he and his wife, Fran, resided. Mayes, a pilot since the age of 14, was the retired Vice President of Flight Operations for United Airlines, and after his days there were done, he returned to Huntington. Here, he liberally shared his experience and knowledge of aircraft and airports as a member of the Tri-State Airport Authority. Mayes’ career “was a foregone conclusion,” daughter Barbara Mayes, of Cleveland, said of her father. Her grandfather, Howard Mayes Sr., was a manager/operator for an airport in Chesapeake, Ohio, called, at the time, The Huntington Airport. Born in Chicago, the younger Mayes attended Marshall University and held memberships in the Retired United Pilots’ Association, the Experimental Aircraft Association and flew in the Air Transport Command in World War II. In 2008, The Herald-Dispatch featured Mayes and his wife, Fran, in a Valentine’s Day story. Their 70th wedding anniversary was Feb. 23 that year. The couple met at Huntington High School in the 1930s. His career took flight, and eventually, after moving from Huntington, Chicago, Denver, New York, Miami and Washington, they returned to town after his retirement from United Airlines. Thanks to Bill Martin for the identification. Date is unknown.
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Capt. Howard G. Mayes Jr. was a retired pilot, airline executive and local aviation expert. He died July 31, 2011, at age 93 at The Woodlands, where he and his wife, Fran, resided. Mayes, a pilot since the age of 14, was the retired Vice President of Flight Operations for United Airlines, and after his days there were done, he returned to Huntington. Here, he liberally shared his experience and knowledge of aircraft and airports as a member of the Tri-State Airport Authority. Mayes’ career “was a foregone conclusion,” daughter Barbara Mayes, of Cleveland, said of her father. Her grandfather, Howard Mayes Sr., was a manager/operator for an airport in Chesapeake, Ohio, called, at the time, The Huntington Airport. Born in Chicago, the younger Mayes attended Marshall University and held memberships in the Retired United Pilots’ Association, the Experimental Aircraft Association and flew in the Air Transport Command in World War II. In 2008, The Herald-Dispatch featured Mayes and his wife, Fran, in a Valentine’s Day story. Their 70th wedding anniversary was Feb. 23 that year. The couple met at Huntington High School in the 1930s. His career took flight, and eventually, after moving from Huntington, Chicago, Denver, New York, Miami and Washington, they returned to town after his retirement from United Airlines. Thanks to Bill Martin for the identification. Date is unknown.
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Capt. Howard G. Mayes Jr. was a retired pilot, airline executive and local aviation expert. He died July 31, 2011, at age 93 at The Woodlands, where he and his wife, Fran, resided. Mayes, a pilot since the age of 14, was the retired Vice President of Flight Operations for United Airlines, and after his days there were done, he returned to Huntington. Here, he liberally shared his experience and knowledge of aircraft and airports as a member of the Tri-State Airport Authority. Mayes’ career “was a foregone conclusion,” daughter Barbara Mayes, of Cleveland, said of her father. Her grandfather, Howard Mayes Sr., was a manager/operator for an airport in Chesapeake, Ohio, called, at the time, The Huntington Airport. Born in Chicago, the younger Mayes attended Marshall University and held memberships in the Retired United Pilots’ Association, the Experimental Aircraft Association and flew in the Air Transport Command in World War II. In 2008, The Herald-Dispatch featured Mayes and his wife, Fran, in a Valentine’s Day story. Their 70th wedding anniversary was Feb. 23 that year. The couple met at Huntington High School in the 1930s. His career took flight, and eventually, after moving from Huntington, Chicago, Denver, New York, Miami and Washington, they returned to town after his retirement from United Airlines. Thanks to Bill Martin for the identification. Date is unknown.
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Capt. Howard G. Mayes Jr. was a retired pilot, airline executive and local aviation expert. He died July 31, 2011, at age 93 at The Woodlands, where he and his wife, Fran, resided. Mayes, a pilot since the age of 14, was the retired Vice President of Flight Operations for United Airlines, and after his days there were done, he returned to Huntington. Here, he liberally shared his experience and knowledge of aircraft and airports as a member of the Tri-State Airport Authority. Mayes’ career “was a foregone conclusion,” daughter Barbara Mayes, of Cleveland, said of her father. Her grandfather, Howard Mayes Sr., was a manager/operator for an airport in Chesapeake, Ohio, called, at the time, The Huntington Airport. Born in Chicago, the younger Mayes attended Marshall University and held memberships in the Retired United Pilots’ Association, the Experimental Aircraft Association and flew in the Air Transport Command in World War II. In 2008, The Herald-Dispatch featured Mayes and his wife, Fran, in a Valentine’s Day story. Their 70th wedding anniversary was Feb. 23 that year. The couple met at Huntington High School in the 1930s. His career took flight, and eventually, after moving from Huntington, Chicago, Denver, New York, Miami and Washington, they returned to town after his retirement from United Airlines. Thanks to Bill Martin for the identification. Date is unknown.
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Roy Lewis served as Huntington postmaster from 1949 to 1957. Lewis was a veteran of both World Wars I and II. Date is unknown.
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During World War II (1941-1945), citizens rounded up scrap metal that could be donated to the war effort. The scrap was used to make steel for ships, tanks and bombs. The national effort had a part in winning the war. The building is the Adelphi Hotel.
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During World War II (1941-1945), citizens rounded up scrap metal that could be donated to the war effort. The scrap was used to make steel for ships, tanks and bombs. The national effort had a part in winning the war. The photo is of buildings in the 800 block of 5th Avenue, with the Fifth Avenue Arcade on the left and the W.W. Smith Law Office on the right.
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During World War II (1941-1945), citizens rounded up scrap metal that could be donated to the war effort. The scrap was used to make steel for ships, tanks and bombs. The national effort had a part in winning the war. The photo is of buildings in the 800 block of 5th Avenue, with Huntington City Hall on the left, then Ezra E. Knight (Justice of the Peace) and the Fifth Avenue Arcade.
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During World War II (1941-1945), citizens rounded up scrap metal that could be donated to the war effort. The scrap was used to make steel for ships, tanks and bombs. The national effort had a part in winning the war. The buildings in front are in the 800 block of 5th Avenue, with Huntington City Hall on the left. The Cabell County Courthouse dome is in the far left. The Ohio River is in the background.
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During World War II (1941-1945), citizens rounded up scrap metal that could be donated to the war effort. The scrap was used to make steel for ships, tanks and bombs. The national effort had a part in winning the war. The photo is of buildings in the 800 block of 5th Avenue, with Huntington City Hall on the left. The sign says "Yes .. It's Japan Bound via munitions!"
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During World War II (1941-1945), citizens rounded up scrap metal that could be donated to the war effort. The scrap was used to make steel for ships, tanks and bombs. The national effort had a part in winning the war. The photo is of buildings in the 800 block of 5th Avenue, with Huntington City Hall on the left.
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During World War II (1941-1945), citizens rounded up scrap metal that could be donated to the war effort. The scrap was used to make steel for ships, tanks and bombs. The national effort had a part in winning the war. The photo looks west down the 800 block of 5th Avenue. (Before Jan. 5, 1958, 5th Avenue was a two-way street.) Huntington City Hall is at the end of the block, with the Cabell County Courthouse dome behind it.
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During World War II (1941-1945), citizens rounded up scrap metal that could be donated to the war effort. The scrap was used to make steel for ships, tanks and bombs. The national effort had a part in winning the war. The photo looks west down the 800 block of 5th Avenue. (Before Jan. 5, 1958, 5th Avenue was a two-way street.) Huntington City Hall is at the end of the block, with the Cabell County Courthouse dome behind it.
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Apparently, The Herald-Dispatch used to have a feature called "Bring Us Your Weird-Looking Vegetables."
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Apparently, The Herald-Dispatch used to have a feature called "Bring Us Your Weird-Looking Vegetables."
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Apparently, The Herald-Dispatch used to have a feature called "Bring Us Your Weird-Looking Vegetables."
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