They Left Home When the Mines Closed
Apr 16, 2023 16:51:26 #
Took this pic in January of 2007.
Home was a coal camp house that sat on a hillside at Minden WV in the southern West Virginia coal fields.
Home was a coal camp house that sat on a hillside at Minden WV in the southern West Virginia coal fields.
Apr 17, 2023 06:55:32 #
The 2007 opportunity of photographing such homes has rapidly passed. I worked in Hopewell Virginia back in the 1960s and there were old DuPont homes still there from WW1 and WW2 when explosives were made there. Now all are gone and vacant land or housing tracks are the landscape.
Your original is historic documentation. Your rendition expresses the surreal feeling of someone old. They are now remembering those days gone by when people had little choice but to go to the 8th grade and follow dad and grandpa into the darkness of the mines.
Your original is historic documentation. Your rendition expresses the surreal feeling of someone old. They are now remembering those days gone by when people had little choice but to go to the 8th grade and follow dad and grandpa into the darkness of the mines.
Apr 17, 2023 09:30:00 #
dpullum wrote:
The 2007 opportunity of photographing such homes h... (show quote)
Thanks for your comment.
Apr 17, 2023 12:14:21 #
Apr 17, 2023 19:45:43 #
l-fox wrote:
Took this pic in January of 2007.
Home was a coal camp house that sat on a hillside at Minden WV in the southern West Virginia coal fields.
Home was a coal camp house that sat on a hillside at Minden WV in the southern West Virginia coal fields.
There was a small crude oil pumping facility in Northwest Pennsylvania where the oil company had houses for the employees to live in. I believe they closed them all and razed them around late 70s. In all I don't think there were more than a half dozen houses. The "settlement" was named Royston. Nothing there now except probably automated equipment that gets checked periodically.
Apr 22, 2023 16:59:36 #
l-fox wrote:
Took this pic in January of 2007.
Home was a coal camp house that sat on a hillside at Minden WV in the southern West Virginia coal fields.
Home was a coal camp house that sat on a hillside at Minden WV in the southern West Virginia coal fields.
I'm guessing this was created with Topaz? I really like the effect. Very cool.
Erich
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