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up to their porch roofs. This photograph was shot on January 28, 1937, the day after the
river crested at Huntington at 69.45 feet. “Huntington was one big lake,” a flood survivor
recalled in a 1987 interview with the Herald-Dispatch.
Many older Huntington residents will recognize this scene. For many years, the Twentieth
Street Bank on the busy corner of Third Avenue and Twentieth Street was a local landmark
and its big clock perched high overhead a familiar sight. The old bank survived a number of
floods, including that of 1937, but in 1978, it was demolished, replaced by a new, modern
building. Today the bank is a branch of City National Bank.
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