Fairly certain that is 20th and Main. Still looks the same today. The church facade at 20th and Market matches the facade of the old second Presbyterian.

My mother and two aunts worked in the various tobacco factories in Wheeling in the 40's and 50's as single women trying to support themselves and help members of their family. That first picture shows a "stripping" room where the veins and the stems were removed from the tobacco leaf. Could you imagine?

966 Lillian Streets

Love that place especially during the Annual Winter Festival Of Lights it’s always my favorite holiday tradition

The guy is standing at the end of the cemetery road. Beyond that point to the left the exhumations were conducted extending over to Rock Point Road.

Never been a fan of their sauce. I am a sauce snob and theirs is not close to being good in my opinion. I have Italian ancestors and love good Italian food. I have lived in Wheeling most of my life and never knew they were once located there. Then again, I learn some new things here. Keep up the good work.

Wow, I had no idea it ever looked anything like that🤯🤯🤯 Late 1940’s? I’d love to see more of that area, too, if you find some pictures.

Adelle Harbor

Might not be a fire. No Fire Department would park apparatus that close to a burning building for fear of structural collapse. It’s possible as the flood waters are receding the engine may be pumping out the basement of water. It could also be long after the fire and they are in the overhaul stage.

Sad! Why did they tear it down? What's in its place?

green ford (the green dog) on the right looks like the one i bought from chi chi fig

Wow! Remember Greens Donuts. Lived in Wheeling until 1966. Attended Central Catholic High School with my brother in the late '50s. We always attended Mass on Fridays and the good Catholic brothers insisted we take Holy Communion. I believe in may have been on my junior or senior year when a friend of my brother was given the responsibility of going to Greens Donuts to pick up a couple dozen donuts for their class so they would all have a semi-breakfast after having fasted that morning to receive Holy Communion. My brother's friend, Brad, had an old Hillman, an English car whose manufacturing is now defunct. How an English car from a small British manufacturer even ended up in Wheeling, WVA is anyone guess. My father was a Ford salesman for Hundley's, a Ford car dealership in which I believe was the Edgington Lane suburb of Wheeling. It may be long gone also. Anyway, this is getting to be too much information. To sum up, we always went down Suicide Hill to Greens Donut shop. We lived in the Park View and Elm Grove section of Wheeling. Brad drove down the hill in that sedan Hillman with the seeming expertise of a Grand Prix driver, and my brother and I were never afraid but always excited and considered it almost the thrill of a roller coaster ride. From reading the accounts of various other people, that hill had some bad connotations with harrowing experiences. Certainly wouldn't want to descend that hill in dangerous icy conditions, at least not the way Brad drove it. Still can't recall if the car had a manual or automatic transmission. You could certainly use low gear coming down that hill. Using Google, saw a sign on Pike Street at the top of the descent that says "Use Low Gear." Descended that street many times too when I had a job near Warwood. Anyway again, this is getting to be a book instead of a comment. Any getback welcome. Right, think Greens Donuts were the best in Wheeling, otherwise the good brother at Central Catholic and the Good Lord would never have directed us there. Great site, as Bob Hope used to sing, "Thanks for the memories . . ." Will subscribe.

Harley was an icon !!!

I’ve lived in California for years but I still have an empty Figaretti’s pasta sauce jar in my garage lol.

My mom worked there

Did that become the Esquire Supper Club in the 60's.

I think Wheeling Hospital had it's billing office there prior to the WVU takeover. I don't know what is there now.

never will forget Walgreens and upper Market house,plus the old Post office,,not to many hats worn in this picture..streets were brick,,with street car tracks,,,im pretty sure every street in wheeling was brick..along with the steel light poles..

If there’s more pictures id love to see them, more near generations the whole right side of Mccolloch street

Soo many houses!

Yes it was 1978 and the former American Freedom Train locomotive was refurbished and used by the Chessie System (the former B&O railroad) to travel over its mainline network as an excursion train celebrating 150 years of the B&O. I believe the last time an excursion train this popular visited Wheeling was in 1963 which traveled the same route and stopped at the B&O terminal showcasing displays of the 100th birthday of West Virginia and 100 years after Civil War. I enjoyed both events.

Could that plant have been located on the north end of Benwood and the south end of Wheeling? Do you have any photos of Value City? What years was it in downtown Wheeling?

Harvey's 1818

Even cover band music was better back then!

I took my broken window sash here to have the glass pane replaced about 15 to 20 yrs ago.

Worked there for a couple of nights back in the 50's as a busboy till my mom said I couldn't be getting home at 2:30am when I was 15.

My uncle always went every year

I knew Jerry Marshall well I loved Nick's music. I miss the old wheeling

Reichert Square

yep about 66..i walked past it every day..to 7th street..from school

Some time between 1963 and 66

The tunnel opened Dec 13, 1966. I would date this photo about 19 65.

Clay School is on 15th Street, as was my late grandparents' house.

I can smell the rotting onions from that warehouse on McColloch St from here!

West Motorway

So many of those houses are gone

Why did it end?

Walker Donald Lopez Mary Thomas Scott

Bought a brand new corvette there in 1975. Hard top and convertible top.$7000.00.

OMG, I went to school there in the early 1960’s 7th 8th & 9th grade it was a vocational Junior High school at that time, then I went and graduated from Triadelphia High school 1967 and that’s street is Chaplain St. Thanks for the memories

I remember that scene for sure. Forgot about though until I seen this.

Marguerite Road

Marc Way

Great picture! What year was this?

My grandfather and dad worked there. My dad was there until it closed.

My family were part owners

My dad worked there.

Davin Spurs

The building North of the hotel parking lot has been long gone, the Snake Club is further up another block.

this is what they need to build in its place