1948 - Olyphant, Pennsylvania Coal Mining

[@edpennypacker8398]

This is a real find..! Thank you for sharing this... Ahh to be that kid and get to watch the diggings... and climb around the bucket... My grandfather was a miner for Delaware & Hudson in Olyphant. He worked underground. They lived on Agnes st. till 1954..

[@AnthraciteHorrorStories]

What a gem this is. Thanks for uploading.

[@edpennypacker8398]

Yeah... too cool... the breaker was a wonderful sight..

[@AnthraciteHorrorStories]

@@edpennypacker8398 so rare to see.

[@edpennypacker8398]

@@AnthraciteHorrorStories back in the late 1970's, early 1980s, every town in the region had a breaker, or two..

[@AnthraciteHorrorStories]

@@edpennypacker8398 it's criminal what they did here. I remember in the mid-90s the Harry E. was still standing. That thing was in amazing condition, but nope.... had to be imploded.

[@edpennypacker8398]

@@AnthraciteHorrorStories In the southern & middle fields there were at least 100 old wooden breakers still standing in all their aged & weathered glory along with many other cool mine related structures.. They were a glorious sight to behold in my opinion.. Historical and cultural monuments of the industrial revolution.. I wish I would have captured them on film, but I was young and counting change to get gas then... We have it good with digital..wish we had it then..

[@Davewilliamson5w]

This is beautiful! Seeing the boy in the drag line bucket is just the stuff I did as a kid In the Bituminous fields of Western Clinton County. Actually it was in Bitumen, Pa.!

[@wendy5116]

Thanks for making this available. My great grandfather worked in the Eddy Creek Colliery and retired from there…that’s all I know from newspaper clipping of his obituary. I remember as a kid how Boulevard Ave went through Dickson City, into Throop, then to Green Ridge and seeing massive piles of rocks for a stretch. I wonder if it was this area or close by? Anyway thanks for bringing it to life-he would have still been working there in 1948

[@judithbarkan4581]

For a stretch and a stench. Burning sulphur coal culm dumps. What did we call them? I lived at 119 Boulevard Ave from 1949-53. The interstate did not exist. Lackawanna cty Recycling is .2 mi from our apartment on top of a bar of course. A nursing home is a little further on. I still see the coal & smell it when I go back home.

[@Boozie50]

Wendy, Eddy tunnel is up on marshwood Road in Throop. Built in 1921,

[@tiffanyshanley1419]

​@@Boozie50Hi Boozie 😘 She's talking about Eddy Creek Colliery, which was right off of S. Valley Ave in Olyphant and parts of Throop. My dad's dad worked there and died young from an enlarged heart due to coal dust. This colliery was across the street from my mother's house, grew up playing back there. The Eddy Tunnel isn't really associated with the colliery, but Eddy Creek itself does run right near the tunnel. Sometimes. A bunch of spots the creek runs right into the mines and is usually only flowing when there's a good amount of rain. Hope you're doing well friend 😊

[@tiffanyshanley1419]

Hi Wendy. It's not the same area but not too far away from Boulevard Ave. Down that way was the Pancoast and Marvine collieries. Eddy Creek Colliery was right off of S. Valley Ave. in Olyphant. If you're coming through Throop on S. Valley Ave toward Olyphant as soon as you see the welcome sign on your right and then there's a tank on the right. If you look directly to your left by that tank that's where Eddy Creek was. We grew up playing back there. I lived right across the street and my grandfather also worked there. Olyphant Colliery was back that way as well. It was where the Giant supermarket now stands, the one on Main St in Dickson City Hope that helps

[@midnightrunner684]

My Dad Worked the PA Coal mines back in the late 1960's ..He got bad Sick through the 1970's and we Moved to Tampa Bay Fla in 1982 ..Dad passed away from Black lung in January 30' 1988 at age 49

[@AnthraciteHorrorStories]

Sorry to hear man.

[@smokedsmoked]

hi there looking fine more these golden tressures of northeat coal mining that are film tough to find if any one else has films like this please let me know thanks.

[@19king14]

Will do. If you come across people with the films, I can scan them professionally and depending on the historical value - even for free... Keep in touch!! :)

[@marchevka22x]

Tremendous

[@AnthraciteHorrorStories]

It is. Wow.

[@midnightrunner684]

Dad worked Robinson coal mines over in Blairsville and Ernest ..I was just a kid back then