Gallery: Do you remember? -- April 30, 2012

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Garden Club, according to the envelope.

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The American Container Corp., at 1111 Vernon St. This photo appeared in the Jan. 29, 1955, Huntington Advertiser. According to the story, the company produced 10,000 battery cases every day. The cases were found in cars, trucks, Pullman cars, telephones, submarines and airplanes. The location is now Service Pump & Supply Inc. (thanks to Richard McCoy for the information).

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The members-only Riverside Club recreation development and swimming pool was built in 1953 in Chesapeake, Ohio.

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Little League Baseball.

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Marshall College forum speakers, according to the envelope.

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The Huntington VA Medical Center at 540 Spring Valley Drive began in 1932. Services are available to veterans living in southwestern West Virginia, southern Ohio and eastern Kentucky. Thanks to Ken Reffeitt, Richard McCoy and Rusty Dillon for the identification.

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The three bridges at right are crossing the Big Sandy River from Kenova, W.Va., to Catlettsburg, Ky. The Ohio River is at left. According to Richard McCoy, this is during a flood. "Virginia Point at Kenova is submerged. Lock #1 on the Big Sandy is submerged. A Corps workboat is tied up on the Kentucky shore," he said. "It's before the Catlettsburg flood wall was built. You can see backwater in the creek at the bottom of picture."

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

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Morris Memorial Hospital, located on U.S. 60 in Milton, served patients suffering from infantile paralysis, or polio, beginning in 1930. At that time, there was no cure for the disease. Patients received respiratory, physical and occupational therapies during their stay at the facility. Many were educated there, as well, some receiving diplomas from Milton High School. After Dr. Jonas Salk discovered his polio vaccine in 1955 and the facility was no longer needed for polio patients, John and Rose Greene opened the Morris Memorial Convalescent and Nursing Home on the site.

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Aerial photo of Ritter Park, which opened Sept. 11, 1913. The Rose Garden is seen at right. The park was fashioned from land originally bought by the city as a site for an incinerator. Neighbors understandably objected to the idea. When lumberman C.L. Ritter offered to donate additional land if the total tract was used for a park, the city took him up on the offer.

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Gwinn Flour Mill. The bags read "Kansas Perfection Flour." According to "Cabell County Annals and Families" by George Selden Wallace Sr., 1935, "In 1889 W.W. Gwinn and O.E. Gwinn had a mill at Glenwood, West Virginia, but moved to Huntington and built what was then a modern roller mill on its present location." Ken Reffeitt said the Mill was at the northwest corner of Commerce Avenue and 16th Street. According to the book, "From time to time the mill has been enlarged and is now (in 1935) a modern 500-barrel mill and employs fifty people. D.B. Gwinn is president, and its products are marketed in West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, and the Carolinas." Reffeitt said that Mr. and Mrs. D. Byrd Gwinn lived on the north side of the 1500 block of 5th Avenue in the house that is now the forensic studies laboratory of Marshall University. Their daughter, Elizabeth, married Hugh D. Stillman, well-known businessman who later was an administrator at Marshall University.

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The National Mattress Co. was established in Huntington in 1905 by C. Frederick Edwards. Later, the mattress company had operations in many cities across the United States. His son, James Frederick Edwards and his second wife, Joan C. Edwards, ran the business for many years at 21st Street and 2nd Avenue. James Frederick Edwards died Dec. 7, 1991. Joan C. Edwards died May 7, 2006. The couple donated millions of dollars to the local universities, medical schools, museums and private foundations.

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The National Mattress Co. was established in Huntington in 1905 by C. Frederick Edwards. Later, the mattress company had operations in many cities across the United States. His son, James Frederick Edwards and his second wife, Joan C. Edwards, ran the business for many years at 21st Street and 2nd Avenue. James Frederick Edwards died Dec. 7, 1991. Joan C. Edwards died May 7, 2006. The couple donated millions of dollars to the local universities, medical schools, museums and private foundations.

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Mott Core Drilling, at 830 8th Ave. The company, started in Beckley in 1917, moved to Huntington in 1923. Here, Iris Carroll sets industrial diamonds into the molds to be formed into the diamond bits that were used in the drilling industry. Thanks to Edwin Mott for the identification. "This brings back many memories of the lifetime work that my father, Burton Homer, B.H. as he was known, and his two younger brothers, Blair Adam and William John did," Mott said. "Coal exploration was correct as a major portion of our operations, but we were widely known throughout the Unites States for drilling and pressure grouting for dams from Mexico, to the Dakotas, Montana, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and many others. Anywhere a structure is be be built, subsurface evaluation is performed -- be it highways, buildings or dams. We were always there to do the exploration drilling and show what was underneath the surface. B.H. Mott (my father) was a man who brought many new ideas and principles into the drilling and pressure grouting industry as a founding member of the diamond core drilling manufacturers association and many other organizations. He was a gentleman that should be remembered and is by his industry."

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A welder at Enterprise Wheel & Car Corp. works on a huge steel hopper to be install in a coal cleaning tipple. This photo appeared in the March 5, 1955, Huntington Advertiser. According to the story, the Enterprise Wheel & Car Corp., at 909 Camden Road, was equipped for processing iron, steel and other metals for industrial uses on a custom basis.

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The Huntington Galleries (now the Huntington Museum of Art) is under construction in the summer of 1952. The museum, located on more than 50 acres in the Park Hills section of Huntington, opened on Nov. 9, 1952. It hosts traveling exhibitions and has permanent galleries. The complex now includes a library, auditorium, galleries, sculpture courts, studio workshops, outdoor stage, nature trails and a subtropical plant conservatory.

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This is the gym at the St. Mary's School of Nursing, according to Dan Goheen.

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A workshop at the Huntington Galleries (now the Huntington Museum of Art). The museum, located on more than 50 acres in the Park Hills section of Huntington, opened on Nov. 9, 1952.

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A workshop at the Huntington Galleries (now the Huntington Museum of Art). The museum, located on more than 50 acres in the Park Hills section of Huntington, opened on Nov. 9, 1952.