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Flood 1950 | Pembina Flood Photos
2009-P-014-39. This view
of the bridge over the Red
River at Pembina indicates
how high the water got in
May 1950.
2009-P-014-01. Red Horse
Johnson’s Locker plant was
located in downtown Pembina.
(White building in center
with door and octagonal
window).
2009-P-014-45. As the
flood waters rose, Johnson
wrapped the base of the
locker plant with black
plastic and built a
sandbag wall around the
building.
2009-P-014-46. Johnson
stands in front of the
locker plant. The water
has risen a little higher.
2009-P-014-48. Red Horse
Johnson looks out from the
boarded up door of the
locker plant. He soon had
to take all the frozen
food from 400 lockers and
transfer it by boat and
then train to a locker
plant in Fargo.
2009-P-014-20. The flood
waters remained high for
several weeks. Mr. and Mrs.
Bud Feldman carry on with
ordinary life as they hang
their laundry out to dry
while standing in a boat.
2009-P-014-29. In honor of
Armed Forces Day, May 20,
1950, residents of Pembina
held a water parade led by
a Shriner in dress uniform.
2009-P-014-49. These parade
participants wore fancy hats
and decorated their rowboat
with a cardboard cutout of
a hula girl.
2009-P-014-51. Parade watchers had
a good seat on top of the sandbag
dikes. The walk to the parade route
required hip waders.
