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One of five movie theaters then located in a two-block stretch of Huntington's Fourth Aven-
ue, by 1937, the Roxy already was reduced to showing double features and would not sur-
vive for many more years. Later it would be home to a loan office. Today it is a parking lot.
This photograph was taken nearly a week after the photograph of the flooded Orpheum. It
gives a good idea of the mess left behind when the floodwaters receded. (Courtesy U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers.)
Located on the southwest corner of Third Avenue and Ninth Street, the Huntington Dry
Goods Company—later renamed the Huntington Store—was a busy department store in the
1930s. Here is a post-flood shot of the store with debris piled high for cleanup crews to haul
away. Most of what is piled at the curb appears to be display counters, likely from the base-
ment sales area, which would be been underwater. The neighboring Silver's 5-and-10-Cent
Store and J. C. Penney Company also have piled flood-damaged items at the curb.
