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Submitted by
Name: Joe Wyatt
From: Hurricane, WV
E-mail: Contact

Comments:
Great website, Jerry. Also, it was good to meet you yesterday at the Carbide Camps Reunion. Your videos of Camp Galahad, where I worked all or part of ten summers from 1967-78, was a treat. Personal request: If you can send me Susie Acevedo's mailing address, I would greatly appreciate it, as I have lost it and would like to follow up on sending her the Boy Scout history book I wrote. She requested it yesterday at the Hunting & Fishing Club reunion. Unfortunately I have misplaced her address. Keep on doing fine work.

Added: July 20, 2015

Submitted by
Name: Sean Rodgers
From: Charleston, WV
E-mail: Contact

Comments:
My parents bought LT 76-A LUNA PARK ADN around 30 years ago. We have found some interesting items in our backyard over the years. When we leveled the yard for a pool we found glass bottles, rings, old bolts that appear to date back to Luna Park.

More recently a mirror was broken from the front bedroom closet door revealing a letter from the builder of several houses in the area.

Let me know if you would be interested in a picture of the letter for your site.

Thanks,

Added: July 6, 2015

Submitted by
Name: joe douds
From: charleston
E-mail: Contact

Comments:
Who is Eugene A. Carter?

Admin reply: Eugene A. Carter was born in 1909 in Prudence, Fayette County.

At the age of 17, he went to work for the New River Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Company, the same coal company that employed his father.

In 1934, during the Depression, Eugene A. Carter came to Charleston and began working as a driver for a local dairy company. He helped to form the first local Teamsters Union. In 1936, he was elected President of Teamsters Local 175 and served in that capacity until 1974. In 1945, Eugene A. Carter was elected President of the West Virginia Federation of Labor and served in that capacity until the AFL State Federation and the CIO Industrial Union Council merged to form the West Virginia Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, in 1957.

Added: June 14, 2015

Submitted by
Name: Jean Boger
From: Braxton County
E-mail: Contact

Comments:
Hi. Your web site is fantastic. I work for a historic preservation firm and we are currently working with the property owner on the old Staats Hospital building and the little building next to it. On either May 31st or June 1st you ran a picture of the Fischer & Fischer Meats building on West Washington Street which showed the storefront area of the Little Staats building and a portion of Staats Hospital building. We are trying to get a hard copy of that picture. Is that possible? If so, please email me and let me know the specifics. Of course, we are willing to pay for the picture. Many thanks.
Jean Boger for the Firm of
Michael Gioulis, Historic Preservation Consultant
614 Main Street
Sutton, WV 26601
(304) 765-5716

Added: June 9, 2015

Submitted by
Name: Jacob (Ed) Fischer
From: Charleston, WV
E-mail: Contact

Comments:

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Admin reply: You're very welcome.

Added: My name is Jacob Edwin (Ed) Fischer, son of the late Albert Henry Fischer who was part owner of Fischer & Fischer Meats. I would like to thank you along with my sister and cousins for publishing the picture of the market on Sunday May, 31st. This picture brought back a lot of good memories of when our dads were in business. I have told the stories many times of the lines out the door when meat was rationed.

Submitted by
Name: Michele Barowy
From: Dunbar, WV
E-mail: Contact

Comments:
Love your site. Thank you for taking the time to put this together. I grew up here ( i'm 42)and have moved away several times. From 1999-2009 i lived in Stoughton, Ma. It's funny, WV history was never important to me until i moved away. Ya only love her when ya let her go i guess! lol

Have a great Day, Thanks again.

Added: May 26, 2015

Submitted by
Name: Eddie. sSpradling
From: CWV
E-mail: Contact

Comments:
Jerry, I think Tim Keeley nailed it on CHS! Looks the same, and even the ditch, and the board leads to Blackhawk Holler!

Admin reply: I'm still not positive. Example: When the South Side Bridge closed and they had to use the Ferry to cross the river, TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE FROM SOUTH HILLS had to park somewhere to catch the Ferry. I'm not even positive that EITHER of these locations are what's in the photo...yet.

Added: May 24, 2015

Submitted by
Name: Sharon Souza
From: Saint Albans
E-mail: Contact

Comments:

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Admin reply: No. None that I'm aware of.

Added: May 18, 2015

Submitted by
Name: Elaine
From: WV, Boone County
E-mail: Contact

Comments:

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Added: May 17, 2015

Submitted by
Name: David Parsons
From: Clearwater FL
E-mail: Contact

Comments:
Photo looks like it was taken on MacCorkle Avenue going towards Marmet. The Marmet Locks opened in the mid-1930's, and would discharge water from the Marmet side from time to time. Could this be people waiting to see this downriver a few miles near Kanawha City shortly after the locks were completed? The river seems to be the Kanawha. This is one puzzling photo!

Added: May 6, 2015