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 Broadway in Paducah during the height of the 1937 flood looking east, toward the river. The flood came on the end of a terrible ice and sleet storm. The river was a whopping seven miles wide at its highest point. A dock was built at 28th and Broadway to unload all who were evacuated from the city.
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Hawk Cave, a Paducah WWII veteran, was born in 1918. He joined the Army Air Corps in his last year of college, and won his wings just five days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He flew a B 24 Liberator, and had to make a forced landing in Turkey. He was interviewed by Life magazine in 1942. He then went into real estate and appraisals, and later served as President of the Market House Museum board before he passed away. |
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