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Huntington's Sixth Street Bridge across the Ohio River stood high and dry during the 1937
flood, but the bridge saw no traffic because the bridge ramps on both the Ohio and West
Virginia sides were covered by the floodwaters. Just behind the old frame hotel that stood
beside the bridge was the city's busy Produce Market, also submerged by the flood. (Cour-
tesy U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.)
A U.S. Coast Guard rescue boat makes it way along Fourth Avenue at Seventh Street. Be-
hind the boat, a large sign identifies the Max Biederman Dodge/Plymouth dealership. In the
years immediately before and after World War II, this stretch of Fourth Avenue was known
as “Automobile Row” because it was home to so many auto dealers. (Courtesy U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers.)
The marquee at the Palace Theater, located on Huntington's downtown Fourth Avenue, ad-
vertises the always popular Charles Laughton in His Last Rembrandt. But it will be a while
before the theater again can welcome moviegoers. As can be seen here, workers fashioned a
wall of sandbags and sheets of wood in an effort to keep the water out.
