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  1. Great great video as always. Plain and simple, it's simply unbelievable
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  2. I grew up in West Camden during the 60's. It was great. At five years old I walked to school by myself. We played outside until 9-10pm on the weekends, ate Yum- Yum, sold on Baird Blvd. It was a beautiful time.
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  3. BECKLEY was know for the best coal. It was call the smokeless coal capital..I used to drive semi truck loads of coal from Berkeley to a local train station to ship to power plants in a 500 miles area. Then my company would pickup the coal when it arrived at the other train yard. Then we take it to the local power plants. I lost my job with my other trucker friends. 300 of us. And the coal miner also lost thier jobs also.4000 men. A very sad ending to a wonderful town...
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  4. Thanks for showing us these things. We are truly in the last days. There Alot of desolate places. I pray for your safety as you continue this work. God bless.
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  5. Some of these abandoned houses were probably somebody’s dream home at some point.
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  6. I’m digging these nighttime rides. While the areas don’t look nearly as sad, depressing, and scary at night, we know that these neighborhoods are inherently even more dangerous under cover of darkness. Especially creepy, in a sad king of way, knowing that some of them may be “occupied” after dark.
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  7. Praying for them. I grew up that way and my heart breaks for them.
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  8. I personally enjoy the silent aspect of the videos. Gives them a bit of an eery quality
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  9. What a crying shame. This use to be a lovely city, I can see that. And what amazing, and beautiful, brick roads!
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  10. Those homeless people have better camping equipment then I have. And they also have free Christmases lighting ornaments ....
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  11. Have you ever tried submitting your footage to Fox News or Newsmax? I'm glad that you are documenting the decimation and devastation that was brought on by the closures of the steel mills, some forty to fifty years ago. The rest of the country needs to know what those of us who grew up in these communities have known for nearly most of our lives. Thank you for what you are doing and I hope you continue to do so. Maybe Matt Walsh might be interested?
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  12. At least the town is clean and no garbage dumped everywhere. I give it credit for that much.
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  13. Great video! I was born in Atlanta back in the 50's and grew up in Decatur. I spent most of my teenage years hanging out in Atlanta. It's a-shame to see what's going on there. Crime is so bad that the Atlanta mayor and our Governor don't know what to do about it. Every morning the first 15 minutes of the news is how many people were killed last night or how many cars were stolen or broken into. Atlanta has become the new Detroit. I live 45 miles north now but do not go downtown anymore. Thank's for making this video.
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  14. What happened is that base was removed. I have been in and out of Selma as a kid as my father ran a business there. We lived in another city and visited during tax season
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  15. Same way in the coalfields of West Virginia. A mirror image of this.😢
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  16. Not a word spoken, but no words are needed.
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  17. Apart from the abandoned homes, I really like how lush and green everything is. I wish as a society that we allowed grass, plants, and trees to just grow naturally.
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  18. Beautiful countryside, it's a shame whats happened to that region.
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  19. Scary but beautiful! Thanks for showing!
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  20. No loud music. No commentary. Just wondetful places that I'll never get to go to. Thank you ❤
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  21. I’m live in England and have just come back from visiting Tennessee and Alabama and these videos make me so sad. The thing that makes me sadder is that this is even worse when you see it in real life. I would love to live in the South and would love to help these people and these houses.
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  22. Your camera work is some of the best on youtube! This channel is so underrated thanks for what you do.
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  23. Wow, I use to live in northern Ohio and had heard of East Liverpool but have never been there. It's a shame it's that run down. Hopefully the people that have moved away now have a good life and for the people that remain hopefully they will soon prosper. Thank you for the video.
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  24. Even the church properties, mainstays in any community, are worn. Rust belt areas abound in the Northeast as you've pointed out in many videos. Abandoned properties are fodder for vandalism. Areas here in Baltimore are much the same sadly.
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  25. I bet the residents are so proud of their city's leadership rn 😢
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  26. I was born and raised here, left 45 years ago, haven't been back in 15 years after burying my dad. Seemed to begin going downhill just after the railroad was rerouted from the center of town. Thanks for the video.
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  27. Never knew places like those existed in America. This is really enlightening .❤
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  28. This is one of your most "prosperous" location vids. What I like is the lack of graphics, ads, sponsorships, no shrilly man bun voices or shrieking woman voices, no music or other noise. Just the rumble of the engine and the photography. If you do the interviews, which would be good, it would be better to section your videos so we can maintain your present excellent format of letting the camera do its job.
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  29. I feel bad for these people. They are probably poor, and they are working so hard that they can't keep up with their homes. 😢
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  30. I drove through the town of Jessup many many years ago when i was trying to take a shortcut from one side of the state to the other. When i looked at the paper map(yes that's what we used to use back then), it was this small dot alone the detour path that i was taking. When driving through the center of what was the town it appeared very poor and the structures very old yet simple. This drive through brought back alot of memories.
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  31. They don't show you this in the sugar coated media. Great video! Love and much respect from England UK ❤
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  32. It's a really cute place. Love the night time drive. Thank you for bringing us along.
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  33. Awesome video & heartbreaking at the same time. Such beautiful area with so much trash littering it. Im from Detroit & oddly enough, Brightmoor where Im from is eerily similar but no where as beautiful as this. Abandoned houses after businesses left or in Berwinds case, coal mines shut down. God Bless the good people of Berwind
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  34. It would be cool to see a map of where you are in the lower corner every once in a while, GTA style.
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  35. It is a certainty that anyone walking these streets is up to no good--because there is no industry. I read there is not even a GROCERY store in the City limits! The people born and stuck there have the odds stacked so heavily against them. I don't think any of us can relate to this who have not lived in a ghetto. Thank you, Hoods N Hollers, for giving those of us who don't get there to see with our own eyes a glimpse into what poverty REALLY looks like. Keep up the good work.
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  36. Well I'm from Farrell and I'm DEFINITELY PROUD of my hometown. Like any city or anything that ages with time IT HAS SEEN BETTER DAYS but there is still great people there with lots of Love & community support unlike a lot of other places.
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  37. Many of these communities have been devastated by flood…some many years ago and some more recently. Most of these roads follow creeks and rivers along drop hollers. The roads become rivers in heavy rain and storm events. Over many years more and more homes and stores are abandoned and left behind. And many left homes behind when the coal mines closed. A double whammy. 😢
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  38. It certainly has a get out of town before sundown type of vibe to it.
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  39. I grew up here. My grandparents, dad, aunt, uncle, and cousins all lived right beside each other. We used to walk down the street after dinner every night, play outside, and it was a safe place to me. After my dad and grandparents passed away and everyone else moved nobody even went in to maintain the houses because it's not safe to do so anymore. It's heartbreaking. Such a beautiful area that never should have ended up this way.
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  40. The saddest part of these videos is that churches are also being abandoned. Thank you for the video.
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  41. As a person born and raised in West Virginia, it breaks my heart to see all of this. It seems to be a ghost town. West Virginia has potential if we only had enough hands and means to help clean her up. Thanks for the vid.
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  42. Interesting, even paced tour. No rushing or jerky camera work. I like viewing the businesses and there is actually a good amount of traffic in the commercial areas. Thank you and best wishes to the residents of Harlan.
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  43. It reminds me the horror movies like ''Wrong Turn''.
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  44. I like how you incorporated both good and bad. Very good camera work
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  45. Wow. The sheer number and size of these homes is jaw dropping. I would LOVE to see these myself, in person, but I think I’d be too afraid to even attempt it. Thanks for taking one for the team! 👍😊
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  46. the city looks nice. so sad many buildings are empty. soon many buildings will be gone forever.
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  47. thanks for another eye opener. it is sad to see the decline of a city and selma does seem to be in decline. yet, it is good to see some ppl choose to stay and look after their properties
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  48. I"d Luv to call this Town my Home ...What a Beautifull Place!!!!
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  49. The landscape is so beautiful and yet the ruins are scary at the same time.
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  50. I grew up in Cadiz, not too far away. Once a thriving coal community too has fallen somewhat into disrepair. Absentee ownership and abandonment are hard on a community. You cannot just go on someone’s land and begin raking.
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