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2 days ago | 
herald-dispatch.com | James E. Casto
Editor’s Note: This is the 602nd in a series of articles recalling vintage Huntington scenes. Huntington has had three different Chevrolet dealerships since the first one was opened. J.B. Rich came to Huntington in 1926 and opened a Chevy dealership after spending four years selling cars in St. Albans. Rich established his dealership in a building at 610 4th Ave. and continued selling cars and trucks there for a bit more than 20 years. In 1957, Roger Dean Chevrolet Inc.
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1 week ago | 
herald-dispatch.com | James E. Casto
Editor’s Note: This is the 601st in a series of articles recalling vintage Huntington scenes. Founded by the late Harry Greenstein in 1922, Rogers Jewelers was long a fixture in downtown Huntington. A native of Maysville, Ky., Greenstein attended public schools in Dayton and Columbus, Ohio. After graduating from high school in Columbus, he went to work as a tailor’s assistant in Cincinnati. In 1918 he began working as a clerk in his father’s jewelry store in Columbus.
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2 weeks ago | 
herald-dispatch.com | James E. Casto
Editor’s Note: This is the 600th in a series of articles recalling vintage Huntington scenes. Camden Park was established as a picnic spot by the Camden Interstate Railway Co. in 1903. Not long after opening, the park installed a carousel, its first amusement ride.
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3 weeks ago | 
herald-dispatch.com | James E. Casto
Editor’s Note: This is the 599th in a series of articles recalling vintage Huntington scenes. Over the years, Donald E. Smith owned and operated numerous automobile and motorcycle dealerships, all of which were located at 440 4th Ave., an address he frequently reminded people of in his many radio and television commercials. Smith was well known in the Huntington area for his many business and civic activities.
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1 month ago | 
herald-dispatch.com | James E. Casto
Editor’s Note: This is the 598th in a series of articles recalling vintage Huntington scenes. In 1913, a half century after the Civil War, the city of Huntington welcomed hundreds of grizzled veterans of that great conflict. First, in May, West Virginia members of the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans, conducted a reunion in the city.
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1 month ago | 
herald-dispatch.com | James E. Casto
Editor’s note: This is the 597th in a series of articles recalling vanished Huntington scenes. Although he didn’t live in Huntington, Johnson N. Camden played an important role in the growth of the young city. Camden (1828-1908) was a prominent Parkersburg oilman, industrialist, banker, railroad tycoon and politician who was said to be worth $25 million at the time of his unexpected death.
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1 month ago | 
herald-dispatch.com | James E. Casto
Editor’s note: This is the 596th in a series of articles recalling vanished Huntington scenes. Snider’s Sales and Service has been in business for more than 100 years and has seen some big changes over the years. The business was established by O.J. Snider, who was first a baker, next a restaurateur, then an ice cream manufacturer. Snider was an enthusiastic bicyclist and in 1908 started a shop where he sold and repaired bicycles. When he died in 1926 his son, George R.
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1 month ago | 
herald-dispatch.com | James E. Casto
Editor’s Note: This is the 594th in a series of articles recalling vintage Huntington scenes. Over the decades, 741 6th Ave. has been the address of a variety of business ventures. All have had something in common. Each has been all about showing its customers a good time. The fun started in 1930 when Herbert Pringle Brown Sr. opened a candy store that he named The Sweet Shop.
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2 months ago | 
herald-dispatch.com | James E. Casto
In her 16 years as director, Roberta S. Emerson (1922-1998) was instrumental in transforming the Huntington Galleries into the Huntington Museum of Art, a transition that meant far more than a change in name. Under her leadership, the museum grew from a staff of five and an annual budget of $125,000 to a staff of 30 and a budget of $1.25 million. She first became involved with the museum as a trustee, was named director in 1972 and held that post until her retirement in 1988.
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2 months ago | 
herald-dispatch.com | James E. Casto
Editor’s Note: This is the 592nd in a series of articles recalling vintage Huntington scenes. The shelves of many American drug stores once were lined with bottles of what were known as “patent medicines.” The term originally referred to medications whose recipes had been approved by the government. But in fact most patent medicines weren’t eligible for a patent, they were simply vegetable extracts laced with a generous dose of alcohol.
