Charleston WV In 1932 

Amazing! He keeps talking about people watching it in 15 to 20 years, and we're watching it 80 years later.

The man speaking throughout this film had no idea that in 2016, we would be watching this film on a handheld cell phone and commenting on it via typing onto a screen. I was born in 1953, some twenty years after its' making!

My God how far we've fallen. It was booming back then!

This film was made 3 years before I was born. I was born several miles East of the Capitol. Wonderful to see Charleston as it was at that time. So different when I visited there last year. I have a picture walking down Capitol St. with my Mom when I was 5 years old. So many memories of that era. No other place like it.

In my opinion, People seen more eye to eye back then.. Just watching this video it seems to me that people worked better together, and had more pride with a sense of accomplishment at the end of the day. It's amazing how much people have changed since then.

The people that were privileged to live in those times don't know how good they had it. 89 years later and Charleston is a totally different place. Imagine what they would think if they seen it now. The buildings and times just naturally change over time, but man do I miss how people used to be before this social media Era.

What a wonderful movie. I was born and raised in Charleston, and even though I have been gone for almost 50 years,I still consider it my home.

My mom graduated nursing school at Charleston General Hospital in 1953. Dad graduated from Stonewall Jackson HS in 1950. I was born at Charleston General in 1956. Love this film.

Wow ! How amazing. I love my City of Charleston West Virginia.

I loved it. To think we are watching our city from 1932 on video is awesome. Thank you for sharing this with us.

I enjoyed the NOSTALGIA of this. Thanks for SHARING! Now I am going to search for videos of my own hometown, Riverside, California

I would love to have seen Charleston then.

What a great movie!! I've looked through MyWVHome website quite a bit but never came across this until I was on FB to see if there are any Charleston, WV forums where people just chat. I live in NC now and I thought it would be cool to do that. BUT, I really want to say that yours truly has been memorialized on MyWVHome's website. It's when Central United Methodist Church on Bigley Ave. was being torn down and I was able to get one of the crosses from atop the church. There was a guy taking pictures in the alley and I had thrust the cross forward and upwards. Little did I know then, that the person taking the picture was from MyWVHome. I am so honored and privileged to be a part of his work. All of that being said, it was so cool to see what used to be. On the west side shot at Tennessee Ave., I never knew there were so many trees on that street! My wife and I used to own Mary's Scrubs on the corner of Tennessee and Lee streets. It was also cool when they did the view towards the west end, that Indiana Ave was right there. My family moved onto that street in 1966 when I was 5 years old. It really would have popped my cork had they filmed down that way. I bought the house I grew up in (726 Indiana), in 2001 and remained there until the chemical spill happened in...2013? As I understand it, Arrow Rug Company used to be a church and 726 was the Parson's house. It would have been awesome to see the properties in 1932. ANYway, I could go on and on, but like everyone else, I really appreciate and enjoyed the movie. Fantastic!

I was born in 80s but to see the state i was born an raised in long before my time an its tv shows is amazing

Thanks for these videos, from a South Charleston native, born in June 1968 just before the chemical plant fire. And now living in St. Petersburg, FL (since 1975). Some of my relatives were around there back then for sure ( : !

I moved here in Charleston about a year ago. This is crazy!

Thank you for this video!!!!

Really great to see videos like these.

I was born in Mountain State Hospital on Virginia Street East in 1948. I still live in Charleston.

I'm 41 and it is an honor to see this. where can i see more. my grandmother use to tell me about things like this. they should be coming close to what she use to tell me was china town. close to the blvd.

I live here, This is amazing

the cafe i worked in with curtis vickers...he had told me about the men waiters when he worked there....not bernies then cant remember what he said it was called...i helped with menu there for about three years.....they had an old fashioned potatoe peeler there.....some good times working with curtis family...curtis worked at the bakery then managed the restaurant.....his wife and daughter helped also the cafe had a side door right into the hotel....there was a sign painter that lived in the elks that painted the signs fro the cafe and others in town,ace was his name......

For all those thinking that Charleston was on the up and up in 1932, we have only to look at other versions of the photographic record of that time. Witness the photo essays of Marion Post Wolcott en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Post_Wolcott Should you look through the huge record of her work in WV, you will see photos of Depression Era Charleston which show a stark difference from what the City fathers of 1932 Charleston wanted to record. BTW: I love Charleston!❤

Enjoyed this movie. Very Interesting............Good pictures.

It breaks my heart to see Charleston in 2014 looking so rundown and dirty...someone in the state and officials need a honey kicking for letting it get in the shape it is today!!! As much money as they make from coal, chemicals and other industries this should not be happening! Makes me wanna blow! I was born there and that is my state ...so get your honeys busy and clean this mess up.

Now that’s a great video

My grandparents weren’t even married yet lol but my great grandfather had the barbershop in the Daniel Boone hotel

Downtown looks better back then than now.

Awesome!

I am 63 and I saw my Dad at age 13 in the first 6 minutes of this film! Awesome. Is there a way to download a few minutes of this to pass on to my new grandbaby?

I live about 20 minutes from Charleston, lived here all my life I'm 45, and to see them streets I know so well almost 80 years ago is amazing! So many people it's surreal and looks like it was a much better place back then, hell when I was running around in them streets in the late 80's early 90's there wasnt a fraction of people out and about like there is on this film it astonishing! Makes me sad to think that we've regressed so much looking back 80 plus years, guess hind sight is 20/20 but goes to show how the people in government have been screwing West Virginia citizens all this time, they basically turned this state into a shell of its former glory, sad indeed

some of those babies may even be alive today in their 90s!

wow so much has changed..but all the big old building are still there

This is awesome, thank you for sharing. I wonder if the streets were really this crowded or just that folks came out for the "motion picture"?

can anyone make out the voices in the background, does anyone hear that? Are those the voices of the editors who were piecing this together, i hear two male and a female. Possibly when this was converted from format to format does could it be a recording of who ever transferring from 35mm to s8 or possibly to VHS?

It really has gone downhill in 88 years

Love the baby contest... they give the kids address lol times have changed

Wow, the automobiles changed. did anything else?

The progress of science, education, and of humanity itself might have made many things obsolete after ten or twenty years in a lot of places, but it takes a little longer than that in The Open For Business State. New people don't come here. I'll let the fellers down at the capitol figure out why, them being so smart and all : )

Wow! Everything looks almost the same but the people; unfortunately most are overweight now. Great upload.

i lived here in 1967 at the elks hotel was almost a ghost town......was trying to see if pops cafe and waybrights and sunbeam bakery are in this thanks for video:}

Why does The Mayor's dialect seem to mimic New England elite , and Not Southern WV? He sounds like FDR! I know of no one here who is born here that speaks that way.

My sister did not wear ruffled hats!

11:20 Who knew former Red Sox superstar Lou Merloni was actually a 90+ year old West Virginian woman in disguise?

Busy and well dressed. How far it has falling

things actually looked normal

at 3:45 they run a red light

What causes the nursing students of every training hospital to get the giggles at the end of their segments? Was the same joke told to the firemen? And the babies! So many women turned out to sow off their babies! I thought the parade would never end. Charming, the whole thing, in its artlessness.

A baby show ... they were bored as hell.

ggg

My Dad was 3, and is still alive.. What a shame that WV was born of freedom & integrity, yet has devolved into an ignorant wasteland. And, that VA, once ‘the capital of the confederacy’ is now progressive..