10th and Market Streets
This is one of the happier “Gone Forever” stories because the buildings are still standing, and they are occupied, too. The longtime businesses with which we are all familiar, however, are gone forever.
As you will see in the photographs, Ray’s Corner Electric, The Dinner Bell Restaurant, and The Men’s Shop are all gone from the hustle and bustle of Wheeling as it was in those good old days. We are truly blessed to have these images so that we can look back and remember.
It has been a passion of mine to showcase and preserve Wheeling’s rich history with this series of historic photographs that briefly highlight a business or building that is Gone Forever from the fabric of Wheeling life and the Ohio Valley.
I hope with this series, I will be able to show the large amount of industry and businesses that thrived here in the early 1930s and 1940s, attracting people from many countries and all walks of life who all helped to make Wheeling the greatest city in West Virginia.
If you have suggestions on a favorite business or location that is gone, please submit that to me at cre8m@comcast.net, and I will do my best to search out and tell that story.
James Thornton has published several volumes of history on the city of Wheeling, and those interested in purchasing one of them can do so by contacting him at cre8m@comcast.net or visit the Creative Impressions website. The books can be purchased at the Wheeling Heritage Center, Kroger on Mount de Chantal Road, Miklas Meat Market, Nail City Records, the UPS Store in the Washington Avenue Plaza, VC Wares at Centre Market, Bower’s Decorating at The Highlands, and on the website www.wheelinghistory.net.
