Dissecting Wheeling - 1936 Ohio River Flood - 16mm Footage

[@stevepalenicek4690]

Cool footage my grandfather told me about this flood he was only 6 but loved to tell stories ❤️

[@kayterssss]

I am on the Island and we were told by neighbors that it was rumored that the family who owned the house before us (it was owned by at least 2 generations that I can find) had to be rescued by a boat through the kitchen window. I can’t even imagine.

[@kayterssss]

The initial footage looks like 600/700 blocks of N. Erie, Huron and Front, Belle Isle area.

[@MichaelMcFerrin]

Excellent history programme......thanx!

[@TomJosephi]

This was interesting to see. This flood also caused damage in the Pittsburgh area and there are films on You Tube you can see. Some of the buildings in Downtown Pittsburgh have marks as far as the water went up. My father remember going in a rowboat with my grandfather to the building where he office was to check it out. It was referred to as the St. Patrick's Day Flood because it happened on March 17. Now there are flood control dams and locks that greatly lower the possibility of terrible floods like this to ever happen again.

[@ericglasgow1616]

It takes something like that to happen to bring a town to gather everyone helping each other

[@alichoumil4602]

Thank you very much interesting

[@ronsafreed2400]

im trying to think of the name of the store that use to be over there down from that gas station...it was there for years..Esteps i think...thats one place i have never lived on the Island...lived everywhere else..haa..my dad said thats a no no..they said the rats were swimming all over that flood water...when i got married,my wifes dad lived on American ave,,down chicken neck hill..the floods were bad every other year...in the 60s...a lot of work there....nice film..

[@TeganRhodes]

There’s a photo of my grandfather and great uncle as boys living in Sand Hill. They’re shoveling snow. The caption on the back mentions the ‘36 flood. In my great grandmothers writing, she says the snow was just prior to the flood, it melting and creating ice jams caused the flood. She mentioned that two women drowned.

[@frankdinsmore6686]

At the end of the film you see that "Studebaker" sign, must be on Water St.

[@Diana-gn8rp]

Very very interesting footage. My home was built in 1936. Brick in Warwood. I often wonder what month, before or after the BIG ONE.

[@TheLookingOne]

How far up Wheeling Creek did the 1936 flood do damage ?

[@jaminova_1969]

Such amazing footage! They didn't have chainsaws, large amounts of equipment, or Emergency Management or FEMA or anything.

[@johnwelty]

Jim, Do you know who filmed this movie? Fascinating!!!

[@wheelinghistory]

No I don’t know it was given to me by a guy that I did many weddings with he was a videographer.

[@wheelinghistory]

We slowed the video down it was very fast , I have the original film and it has many more interesting things that were on it , a vacation to Germany pre war and a convention in Atlantic City with Osiris members

[@wheelinghistory]

If you have anything that you would like to put up like a little story on the dealership, it would be nice to have a guest story teller

[@KevinKilgorepage]

i am considering buying a home here, and i am going to ask the question, is this place WOKE ? b/c there is NOWAY i want to live in a crazy place.

[@jbowsher522]

Say what? 🤣