Hey I know that building at 3:08. It was not a bar in 1958. It was a candy store with a large counter filled with a great variety of penny candy. Our grandparents lived a few doors away. They would send us kids in there with quarters and we would return with our own little bag of candy the nice lady behind the counter helped us gather, Delightful memories!
What a great video. My father was the superintendent of the town many years ago. There was a separate water dept. that managed those water pumps for the city's drinking water. Down the road from these pumps was the city's building/maintenance building. It typically had a large pile of cinders behind it for winter. Small baseball field next to it. I remember going to school just up the road. We would go down and see my dad after school and walk back up past the mills. The guys there would give us large chunks of chalk. We would write our names and other nonsense on the streets and sidewalks on our way home. We lived above the Riverview Cemetery in the park for many years. I believe our old house is still there next to the new high school. I go back about every 8-10 years and Nickels is always a mandatory stop. I've always wanted to buy one of the old brick buildings to fix up and run a business out of but never found the time. I moved to California many years ago and find it to busy so I found the most remote place I could in the state and it feels like home. Thank you for showing this video.
I worked at the Martin's Ferry plant in 1964 as a summer job from college. It was an interesting place with a modern(at least at that time) Zinc galvanizing coil line and next to it an old antiquated bucket and tub galvanizing molten zinc dip manufacturing by hand. Lot of burns and injuries when I was there. L R Popkie
Thank you for taking time to do this!! My dad was Rev. Doran Garey at the UM church you showed and we lived in the attached house! My little bro & I attended Elm Street School & I took my 1st piano lesson...in one of the old buildings near the school---- it was a conservatory!! It was my dream to become a concert pianist from the age of 4 and no one would teach a little kid (in dad's previous appointment), so Ferry began that dream at age 9. The public school teachers went on strike for quite a long time & my folks, knowing at some point we'd be moving again (ugh) and Jay & I would behind asked the Bishop to be moved! It almost destroyed my dad, but he watched out for us. The only time he asked to be moved. I'm now 65 & my brother is a retired Ohio HS band director & now lives in Fla. Dad died on my birthday (9-12)2019 & mom (Jeannette Garey) on 12-17-2020. One of these days my husband & I will visit !! He's never seen Martins Ferry & hears me talk about it! Thank you again!! 💜🙏
I could be wrong, but I have been told that those buildings are what is left of the old Martins Ferry pump houses for our city’s water source. They have been abandoned since the new water treatment facility was built in the late 80’s/early 90’s. Severstal was the Russian company that bought out Wheeling-Pitt around 2007. RG steel then bought those Severstal plants, and went bankrupt a few years later. The former Ferry plant is now owned by Wheeling businessman Q. Mull, and is basically a warehouse for the oil and gas industries in Eastern Ohio. I was born and raised in Ferry and still live and work here. It’s sad to see what has happened to our city over the years, but hopefully brighter things are on the horizon!
Thank you so much , didn't realize it was a little bigger than St. Clairsville. so much appreciated. we're going in October to the Wheeling center Market Square historic building and then we're staying in St. Clairsville for one night. so interesting thank you
@@pilotprincess1 I am indeed! I was born in Wheeling and raised in the area. My grandparents lived near Riverview Cemetery in Martins Ferry. Its a great area to live and/or raise a family. People there are the nicest people in this country!
Hey I know that building at 3:08. It was not a bar in 1958. It was a candy store with a large counter filled with a great variety of penny candy. Our grandparents lived a few doors away. They would send us kids in there with quarters and we would return with our own little bag of candy the nice lady behind the counter helped us gather, Delightful memories!
What a great video. My father was the superintendent of the town many years ago. There was a separate water dept. that managed those water pumps for the city's drinking water. Down the road from these pumps was the city's building/maintenance building. It typically had a large pile of cinders behind it for winter. Small baseball field next to it. I remember going to school just up the road. We would go down and see my dad after school and walk back up past the mills. The guys there would give us large chunks of chalk. We would write our names and other nonsense on the streets and sidewalks on our way home. We lived above the Riverview Cemetery in the park for many years. I believe our old house is still there next to the new high school. I go back about every 8-10 years and Nickels is always a mandatory stop. I've always wanted to buy one of the old brick buildings to fix up and run a business out of but never found the time. I moved to California many years ago and find it to busy so I found the most remote place I could in the state and it feels like home. Thank you for showing this video.
Great Comment from a Local, Thanks 😁 I grew up in Bellaire
I worked at the Martin's Ferry plant in 1964 as a summer job from college. It was an interesting place with a modern(at least at that time) Zinc galvanizing coil line and next to it an old antiquated bucket and tub galvanizing molten zinc dip manufacturing by hand. Lot of burns and injuries when I was there. L R Popkie
Thank you for taking time to do this!! My dad was Rev. Doran Garey at the UM church you showed and we lived in the attached house! My little bro & I attended Elm Street School & I took my 1st piano lesson...in one of the old buildings near the school---- it was a conservatory!! It was my dream to become a concert pianist from the age of 4 and no one would teach a little kid (in dad's previous appointment), so Ferry began that dream at age 9. The public school teachers went on strike for quite a long time & my folks, knowing at some point we'd be moving again (ugh) and Jay & I would behind asked the Bishop to be moved! It almost destroyed my dad, but he watched out for us. The only time he asked to be moved. I'm now 65 & my brother is a retired Ohio HS band director & now lives in Fla. Dad died on my birthday (9-12)2019 & mom (Jeannette Garey) on 12-17-2020. One of these days my husband & I will visit !! He's never seen Martins Ferry & hears me talk about it! Thank you again!! 💜🙏
I could be wrong, but I have been told that those buildings are what is left of the old Martins Ferry pump houses for our city’s water source. They have been abandoned since the new water treatment facility was built in the late 80’s/early 90’s. Severstal was the Russian company that bought out Wheeling-Pitt around 2007. RG steel then bought those Severstal plants, and went bankrupt a few years later. The former Ferry plant is now owned by Wheeling businessman Q. Mull, and is basically a warehouse for the oil and gas industries in Eastern Ohio. I was born and raised in Ferry and still live and work here. It’s sad to see what has happened to our city over the years, but hopefully brighter things are on the horizon!
Sure is. I learned to ride a bike on 1st street. The old pump house or water works.....
Thank you so much , didn't realize it was a little bigger than St. Clairsville. so much appreciated. we're going in October to the Wheeling center Market Square historic building and then we're staying in St. Clairsville for one night. so interesting thank you
that church is so So Beautiful!
My moms family lived there for about 10 years in the 1930s. Last name was Charley. My grandpa worked at the steel company I think.
Noooo ,I dont want it torn down 😭😢my heart ! Noooo im w/ you on the Rant
Blame the US Senate, who gave massive tax breaks to US companies who would relocate overseas.
Politicians that care only about their own portfolios and bottom lines.They wouldn’t give a rats ass for America!
My dad's hometown!
70sfred1 same as my boyfriend’s.
@@pilotprincess1 Very cool! Sometimes its a small world!
Are you from the area too?
@@pilotprincess1 I am indeed! I was born in Wheeling and raised in the area. My grandparents lived near Riverview Cemetery in Martins Ferry. Its a great area to live and/or raise a family. People there are the nicest people in this country!
they sure our Handsome and pretty😁
Who left the factories in that condition. Could it be large business who are usually the first hogs at the government trough.
I live in martins ferry Ohio
Cool Historic Town 👍
Do your homework. This plant was shuttered in 2012. Guess who was President ?
Absolutely correct! People are so mis informed
Get us outta here lmao
Steam engine water Maybe
I wondered that myself.