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RITA E. UEHLEIN writes:
 The second house on the left was the home of the Findlay St. Clinic of the Babies Milk Fund Assn. My mother was the caretaker of the clinic and we lived on the second floor. She was widowed at 40 with four children and received free rent as her salary. Mother and my brother stayed during the flood but we three girls stayed with my aunt in Hyde Park. I do remember however going to the First Reformed Church on Freeman Ave. for a medical shot.
If you will recall we were right up Findlay St. from the Redland Field or Crosley Field depending on the time date.
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ALTA KREINDLER writes:
 This is my mother, Jeannette Zimov. She was a 17 year old
senior attending Hughes High School in 1937, the year of the great
flood. When school was closed she assembled a scrapbook with
newspaper clippings from the three major Cincinnati newspapers plus
snapshots taken along 4th street. Almost everyone she knew found
their way downtown to see the flood waters which were lapping against
the doors of the H&S Pogue Co. on the NE corner of 4th & Race St. The
damage and destruction were widespread, with some businesses unable
to be salvaged. Every family in the city was affected in some way.
Schools were closed. Clean water was not available. Streetcars could
not run. Electric service was sporadic. My mother lived on Windham
Ave. in Avondale. The fire station on Rockdale Ave., the next street,
made potable water available to the neighborhood, so my mother and
her brothers loaded a wagon with bottles and jars and filled them
for the family to use for cooking and drinking. The family drove to
Dayton, Ohio to their aunt and uncle's apartment ,at the end of the
first week, so the family could bathe. The two positive aspects of
the flood were the great sense of community with everyone helping to
cope and clean up, plus exams were cancelled in the high schools.
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PHYLLIS McMULLEN BAYER writes:
The 1937 flood had a devastating effect on the Thomas & Catherine McMullen family. They occupied a two-story frame home with...
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CAPTAIN FRANK M. KATZ writes:
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...I was 10 years old when the Ohio River crested at 80' on January 26, 1937. In fact... |
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