Walking in Logan, West Virginia 

West Virginia has been forgotten about and almost abandoned since the 1940s-1950s

Even in the late 80s it was still alive. I can't believe what it looks like today.

I was born there in 1971 and grew up right downtown on Dingess St. It makes me sad to see it now.

WVA has a rotten governor. Vote him out.

@@lovingmayberry2000 If you think the situation is because of the current governor then your head is in the sand or up something else? The problems WV has go back decades, they are both political and cultural. Do you think voting Justice out is going to change one thing? That's naïve thinking and the type of political tribalism that has caused so many issues in the state.

Don’t move to Princeton place is awful lol 😂 lot better places to live than southern wv

My Grandfather and I would drive down from Hewitt to go see movies in Logan. I have early memories of Johm Wayne, 20;000 Leagues Under the Sea, etc...also a bowling alley around the downtown area, somewhere.Also the swimming pool at Chief Logan Park....been there lots of times.Of course, this was back in the late 60’s and early 70’s...lol

My mother in law lived there until her father died in a mining accident around 1955 and they moved down here to Florida. I am watching this video because my husband and I are planning to go up to visit his grandfather’s grave and check things out.

ur name so funny

Thought I replied to this post earlier... Anyway, the morgantown video is now up. Thanks for the suggestion.

I live here in this town

For a long time, the coal-companies were doing a "good" job of leveling mountaintops, without gentrification.

@@corvus1970 Yeah, its hella annoying. Still it would be far worse if more businesses came here.

Cannabis needs to come to West Virginia were literally letting the biggest growing industry make everyone else money meanwhile people od daily lol 😂 our state is backwards leaving Princeton in a week lol 😂

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Same. Peebles bought out Watson's in the late 90's, and now they are extinct as well. The Capitol Theater has become a dance-studio, and save for the odd stage-play, the Logan Theater has been shut down for the better part of 30 years. So many buildings have been razed and demolished, and its just sad to see.

@@corvus1970 wow thanks for the update much appreciated. But what was peebles?

Plebled gone now

Nope. When they built that Wal-Mart supercenter and shopping-plaza out on the "newer" stretch of 119, that was a hammer-blow to what remained of downtown.

The population of West Virginia is decreasing with each passing year, so not a lot is happening there

I was born in Northern IN, but Mom was from Hewitt Dad was from Craddock’s Fork. I did spend a lot of ti,e growing up around there, since my Grandparents were settled in Hewitt. I have a lot of good memories of that area...my Grandad was a fun guy to hang out with. I sure do miss him.

West Virginia towns are practically ghost towns

Thanks for subscribing. I appreciate your feedback. In the video description for all my uploads, I include a map with a (usually drawn) line of my walking path. Maybe I'm not doing enough to call attention to it though. Thanks for the comment.

I live here to

I use to ride my bicycle around these neighborhoods in the town area everyday.

that was in the 70s, much more populated at that time

yeah pretty much lmao

As one of the southern WV towns that benefited the most from the coal-boom of the early 20th century, it sprang up pretty quickly and used to look more urban than that 25 years ago. The population peaked at around 5,000 in 1940, but as coal-mining became increasingly automated in the wake of WW2, the population started to dwindle year after year, and now the town has a population of less than 2,000 people. I grew up there: Logan High School class of 1988. Moved to Huntington WV in 1992, and moved to Philadelphia PA in 2013. I haven't been to Logan since 2010, 2011 at least. In 1997, a Wal-Mart supercenter sprang up on route 119, a couple of miles outside of town, which hurt remaining businesses downtown, and over the years a lot of buildings that used to stand in Logan have been razed and demolished. The town is essentially a ghost of its former self, and despite a few beautification efforts, its hard for me to see it in this state.

@@corvus1970 thank you for sharing your knowledge with me. one of the big reasons I live in a big city, as opposed to a smaller one like the one I grew up in or its neighbouring cities, is because I don't drive and so it's important to me that a place be "walkable". was Logan walkable when you lived there? i.e. could a person living close to the centre of Logan get their most basic needs (food, etc.) without a car?

The whole of Southern WV has been one of the areas of the country hardest-hit by the opioid epidemic. Aside from that, since I haven't lived in Logan since 1992, or WV itself since 2013, I couldn't accurately say more than that.

Southern West Virginia is awful with drugs I wouldn’t want to live in any of these towns if you can get a house in the woods than go for it but the cities suck I lived in Princeton , Huntington and blue field it’s horrible trying to walk around without someone asking you for meth

Structural issues I believe, compounded by a reduced need for parking.

There's little there to keep the adults out of trouble, let alone the kids. Southern WV Southern WV has been dealt a devastating blow by the opioid epidemic, and decades of job-losses.

'Cause one modern coal mining machine can mine more coal than a hundred employees. Over the years we former residents of the area relocated for a livelihood. I'm happy for what redevelopment is going on and hope for much more. The Logan area and hundreds of miles around is gifted with lands of great beauty.

Stan Burgett I also moved from Logan for better work.

COVID 19 lol.

COVID, coupled with the fact that most people doing their shopping would be at the Wal-Mart supercenter and shopping plaza out on 119.

Like back in the Twilight Zone, Rod Sterling days.

We all made this place what we tht best .then comes the liers .. that says everything ..