The Monongahela Building hosts various businesses within its walls, as seen from the windows in which those businesses display their names. The businesses vary from physician's practices, financing, real estate, and attorney practices. The building is located to the left of the courthouse.
Impersonator Russell L. Long, High Street, Morgantown, W.Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
"Charlie Chaplin's double on 4 hour stiltwalking ... period. The sidewalks, also indoors and outside stilting." Long poses outside Oppenheimer's Kuppenheimer Good Cloth store on High Street.
Men sit and talk in front of the courthouse on High Street. J. G. McCrory Co. can be seen in the background, now the site of Reeder and Shuman Attorneys at Law.
Crowds watch from either side of High Street as parade floats and a fire truck make their way down the street. In the background, various businesses are pictured, including Rogers Pharmacy, McVickers Pharmacy, Oppenheimer's Kuppenheimer, and The Sports Emporium.
Grading Courthouse Square For Rejuvenation, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1965
Description:
Construction workers are grading the Courthouse Square on High Street in Morgantown for rejuvenation. Montgomery Ward and G.C. Murphy Department Stores are across the street.
New planters shown on High Street in Morgantown, W. Va. Taken near the corner of Pleasant Street and High Street. Cars parked at the meters, and pedestrians walking down the sidewalks.
View looking south on High Street in Morgantown, W. Va. Businesses visible include Jacobs Men's Wear, Stenger's News, Comuntzis, Mountaineer Sport Shop, Conners One Hour Cleaning, Electric Equipment Co., and others, as well as billboards advertising Coca-Cola and Orange Crush. Photo taken for "Project 63," a revitalization project undertaken in the early 1960s.
Two men shoveling snow into the back of a truck. You can see the Warner movie theatre in the background showing 'Wackiest Ship in the Army' starring Jack Lemmon.
Fraternity Hill Climb Competition, West Virginia University
Date:
ca. 1960-1969
Description:
A scene from Greek Week events 'Hill Climb' showing members of Fraternity running up the North High Street. In the background Administration Building, Old Buildings and Grounds and Security headquarters, Chemistry Building and Armory are also shown.
Fraternity Row, North High Street, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1960- 1965
Description:
View of students walking around North High Street. Fraternity houses on left side of street. Ruins of Mechanical Hall II on front left. Girls dorm, Boreman, on right. Men's Halls, later changed to Boreman when girls were to live in them.
