Comments by "" (@johnmurphy5466) on "Hoods N Hollers" channel.

  1. Another sad steel town gone ghost town. I had a brother-in-law who was from Duquesne. His whole family worked the steel mill since 1900.Told me when he was growing up ,it had everything. Now 50 years past and it this is what it became today.
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  2. I went duck hunting a few years ago with a friend who invited me to Birmingham. I was only there for four days. I never got into the city. I'm amazed it got the same problems of blight as Detroit where I worked till I lost my auto manufacturing job. We need to invest back into are county and quit shipping jobs over seas ...
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  3. Buffalo is another great american that was sold out. Here is something to think about . In the last 70 years united states population in 1940 was 132,165,129 million . In 2020 it 331,449 281 ...The u.s. population has tripled in 80 year. Threw automation has cut jobs. Now low paying retail and service job that left.
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  4. 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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  5. I went with a Christian mission in February 2023 to help feed and cloth the homes. Spent a month cooking hot food meal. I sat and talked to about 100 homeless. It's sad ,most got hooked on drugs. Can't find work and commit shoplifting, just so the police bring them to jail. In jail they got a warm bed and food they told me. What a way to survive. The mission tries to get them medical,housing and jobs... but only 23 out of 100 go straight. The other 77 return back...
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  6. Those homeless people have better camping equipment then I have. And they also have free Christmases lighting ornaments ....
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  7. This is my wife's home town... would you believe Charleston is the state capital of west Virginia.. now look at it...the coal industry is gone along with manufacturing that once at once was a booming city. My wife is glad I took her away from that place 25 years ago..... Even Daniel Boone did once live there..He kept moving west ward..
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  8. What happened to Franklin is that two famous oil companies Quaker state and penzoil that was founded there got bought out threw mergers. Shell petroleum of Texas closed the refineries and capped oil pump production... Shell moved everything to Texas and purchased the brand names only...
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  9. The Automobile capital at one time. Unbelievable a major industria metro city turn into this... i remember CBS 60 minutes did a story on how many abandoned home and industrial buildings needing removed. 85,000 in total. And no funding to demolished
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  10. That really unbelievable the poverty,homelessness and drug problems in Philadelphia. And look at the garbage. It's everywhere ...
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  11. I go fishing up there... My family and I stay at the quality inn right downtown. It is a very clean town. Reminds me of that television show Mayberry.... It has everything a small-town would need. The courthouse is right up the street...
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  12. I spent two year living with my grandparents till my parents could find work up Akron.... as a 7 year I walked to school threw those run down neighbor... scary ... it just keeps getting worse as I can see...
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  13. I remember Farrell... i once worked at sharon steel...that mill was busy place long ago.. There was a old fashioned bakery up the street on Broadway street that made delicious 😋 pastries 🍰 🍩 ...The guys every morning purchased 8 dozen ... I also remember that fat guy russo with his cheese cart.
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  14. Darn looks like a ghost town.
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  15. Holy nikeee.. that's where my uncle bobby and aunt paula live. They don't have a code enforcement. I see his house but not his roadside stand. He sells comic books...
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  16. Different...I have a friend who lives there...he's farm's... never see the place fully. I always drove on the main highway 43... Looks like the people are leaving.many closed business in the area...
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  17. Reply to the truth....you never got off the main street that's why... you didn't see the blight. Go on west grant. Turn on a side street. It right in plan sight. Remember the group of people who ran the town in the past. Drove business out and ushered in poverty. It was ran like the Sopranos from the HBO cable t.v. show from New Jersey.
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  18. What you see here is what is left of the 20th century . Now presently a 21st century ghost town. That how capitalism works.
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  19. Bartow Georgia , that's the hometown of robby wells. If I remember correctly, he tried to run for president of the united states . He was also the head football coach at the university of savannah back in 2009.
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  20. Time index 2:20 bad boys,bad boys, what are you going to do when policeman pulls you over? I SEE SMOKE PUFFY...😂🤣🤣🤣
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  21. What would you want to be written on the sign. Welcome to hell? The pass politicians and kick backs did the town to satinville....
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