Columbus State University Archives and Special Collections

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  • Tags: 1950s

A view of one side of 5th Avenue. Some visible businesses include: Witt's Department Store, Elite Cafe, Phenix Restaurant, the Palace Theater. The date has been identified by the movie being screened at the Palace, 1958's THE BIG COUNTRY.

Site of the Original Columbus College at Shannon Hosiery Mill on Talbottom Rd.



MC5 Box1 M F28

Broken trees and damaged homes in a neighborhood.

Broken trees in front of a building with some of the roofing pulled off of the building.

Debris flung into a clearing beside some houses.

A white house with roof damage from the tornado.

A view of a street with water towers beside buildings and homes.

A field of broken trees and their limbs in a clearing beside a sidewalk.

A truck drives by broken and fallen trees beside a sidewalk and a damaged home to its left.

A white house with no roof and part of its chimney broken with a white shirt stuck on a bush in front of the home.

A white house peeking from behind a forest of broken tree.

A broken bridge with broken trees and limbs on either side of it with homes visible in the background.

A white house that has had its roof almost torn off by the tornado beside another damaged home.

A road that has trees and limbs lining the side of it.

A white house that has had its roof and chimney severely damaged by the tornado.

A white house that has had its roof and chimney severely damaged by the tornado.

A white house that has one side lifted from its foundation by a fallen tree.

A tree which that has fallen on the roof of a white house and has lifted the base of another.

Allison Parker sitting on the sofa in her home.
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