Rain Rain Go Away

It has been raining for 2 days or longer and is supposed to rain the rest of the week. It reminds me of June 1961 when we had a flood and a lot ofpeople were killed. We lived in Charleston on Morris Street. I remember my Mother getting getting up the next mroning and walking out to Kroger's for some groceries. The street was flooded. My best friend Linda Adkins had some little cousins that lived on Garrison Avenue and they drowned trying to leave the flooded area.

Remembering this also got me to thinking about how the city has changed so much since I was a teenager. My Mother worked at Charleston General Hospital before it was ever called CAMC. It was then just a small hospital. There used to be a street (Elmore Street) where the CAMC parking building now stands. The hospital's main entrance was on this street and across the street was the nursing school. The street nor that entrance exist today.

The building I hated the most to see torn down was the Kanawha County Public Library when it was located on Lee Street across from the old Stone and Thomas store. It was a beautiful old gray stone building with an outside double staircase. I loved that building. A modern building housing a bank and offices stands there today. I wish I had taken more pictures of Charleston when I was growing up. I have some, but I don't think I have the library, Linda might. I do have some pictures of Charleston High School taken in the 60's and a few others around town.