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the Robson-Prichard building. The U.S. Post Office stands beside it. The men gathered in
the street do not seem suitably dressed for wading in the floodwaters. With their coats and
ties, they might as well be on their way to church.
Downtown businesses along Huntington's Third Avenue, such as the McCrorey's
5-and-10-cent store and the M. Broh clothing store, located on the southeast corner of
Third Avenue and Ninth Street, were badly damaged by the 1913 flood. Other businesses
simply adapted to the emergency. When the saloons were closed by city edict, bootleggers
did a busy trade by boat.
