Trip to Ghost Town Welch,West Virginia to look at a Truck!

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  • Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
  • This was a short trip to the town of Welch, West Virginia which has a lot of cool history! Birthplace of Steve Harvey also the first public playground in America was built in Welch.
    The first Public Parking Garage was built in 1941 shown in the video still standing but in bad shape!
    Welch is also the reason Food Stamps was created after a visit from JFK in the 1960’s also the first to receive Food Stamps lived in the county the city of Welch is in!
    The town was booming due to Coal and Steel until 1986!
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    #roadtrip #westvirginia #coal #history #ghosttown #ghosttowns #steveharvey #backroads #gas #mountains #abandonedplaces #abandoned #oldtowns

Комментарии • 19

  • @davidjanson7982
    @davidjanson7982 3 месяца назад +1

    LoL

  • @troyr5598
    @troyr5598 Год назад +1

    show us more of your girl

  • @tygreenwood472
    @tygreenwood472 11 месяцев назад +1

    Probably one of the most prominent people to come out of Welch WV is actor comedian game show host Steve Harvey he was born there.

    • @bradlane3662
      @bradlane3662 8 месяцев назад

      Well. I live in Welch and Harvey ain't anything to be proud of.

    • @RoadLiner
      @RoadLiner 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@bradlane3662, matter of opinion Steve Harvey is a self made man that came from nothing living out of his car at a point in his life and now is a multi millionaire I would say that's something to be proud of.

    • @bradlane3662
      @bradlane3662 8 месяцев назад

      @@RoadLiner You don't have to give me his sob story. I've heard it. He's super rich, self made, and black. I know all this. And just like Oprah Winfrey, as prejudiced as hell. Truth is truth. Not opinion. And I could name you lots of people, black and white, who came from this county who deserve praise much more than him. But I'm done here.

    • @RoadLiner
      @RoadLiner 8 месяцев назад

      @@bradlane3662 , Steve Harvey.. rich as hell and could give a damn what you think of him 😆

    • @bradlane3662
      @bradlane3662 8 месяцев назад

      @@RoadLiner Well, there's one thing about it. If he ate dog shit with a spoon you'd support him. For obvious reasons. And he don't give a shit about you either.

  • @davidfessler1826
    @davidfessler1826 Год назад +1

    Stopping for lunch at the Bonanza Steakhouse in Lebanon, Virginia, Yum! 😋

  • @robertbolt5552
    @robertbolt5552 Год назад +1

    Grew up there the whole county is a ghost town.

  • @bradlane3662
    @bradlane3662 8 месяцев назад

    This was a great place to grow up. Anything you needed. But the industry that made it became so automated that it doesn't take workers to mine coal anymore. It's a hurtful thing to listen to people like you say bad things about it. What right do you have to do that? Your generation has no compassion for anything or anybody. That's a sad thing. God bless you.

    • @thewilfords4602
      @thewilfords4602  8 месяцев назад

      Not sure why you think we are disrespecting the place it’s sad to see. Would love to see it come back alive!

    • @thewilfords4602
      @thewilfords4602  8 месяцев назад +1

      Also my Generation I grew up in the 90’s 😂 I was born in the 80’s also a lot of my generation are saving old buildings the Boomers started to let Rot and also tearing them down in the 70’s

  • @danieljustdaniel9550
    @danieljustdaniel9550 Год назад

    Going through my old home town. Not a old school it was a Deskin supermarket in my days. Not sure about the 1st playground but for sure the 1st public parking garage.@ 5:04 the white and blue building was were i went to kindergarten. Always past through Horsepen going to Abingdon. Good memories in this video.

  • @RobertConnor-bv4vk
    @RobertConnor-bv4vk Год назад +2

    I moved outside of welch its very nice little town

  • @BigDirtyBasterd
    @BigDirtyBasterd Год назад +2

    You know I would not mind living there. All the green trees and I bet you it's quite. Homes are probly dirt cheap in a place like that too.

    • @stephenbrand5661
      @stephenbrand5661 18 дней назад +1

      Who needs clean drinking water and fast internet and grocery stores, anyway??!?

    • @BigDirtyBasterd
      @BigDirtyBasterd 18 дней назад

      @@stephenbrand5661 we survived mellineia that way...