Friday, December 1, 2023

West Virginia, 1970's

 


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  1. Wow! Wonder what it looks like now?

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    1. You can see it on Goog StreetView.

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    2. It's almost a ghost town now. The coal mines aren't the industry they were in the 70s. In Welch, the nearest big town, the Walmart closed due to lack of customers. When's the last time you've heard of that happening?

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  2. My father played minor league ball in Welch, to the SE of Davy.

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  3. You could smell the whiskey burnin' down Copperhead Road.

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  4. Yes! '63 Impala. Had many a fine ride in the back seat of one of those

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  5. Back in '74 I toured solo all through the West Virginia Appalachia countryside in my yellow VW Beetle. I had long hair and dressed the Hippie part. It wasn't till many years later that I realized how close to death I came during that sojourn.

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  6. You won't see a fire department like that today. Taxpayer money fixes them right up.

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  7. I grew up in Northeast GA, right where GA, SC and NC all join, when I was a kid in the late 70s and early 80s my family would take our motorhome and travel for 8 or 10 days after Christmas, with no destination, only rule was no 4 lanes, and dirt roads were acceptable. and my father would let each kid choose the direction for an hour each.

    he;d pull up to a stop sign and ask a 5 year old, "which way?"
    we drove down alot of country roads and dirt roads all over Appalachia, western NC, east TN, KY and W Va its something I will never forget.

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