58 Remarkable Photographs of Life at Pie Town, New Mexico in 1940

[@markofsatan9617]

Great to see you have named the music you have used.....well done

[@whfowle]

My inlaws were homesteaders near Pie Town. The West and Baldwin families grew up there. I've visited there for homecoming days in the 90's. Nice collection of shots.

[@CringePanda]

Ever since I saw this, I started looking for property in Pie Town. Crazy, I know, but thank you for this video!

[@CringePanda]

@@YesterdayTodayTribute Thanks! There are some "ghost town" areas there but the pie house has a new owner and is going strong, people stop there for food and a lot of people live there. There's a couple of subdivisions being developed and the landscape looks just like the photos on this video, I bet I can homestead there. Also they get DSL internet so no crappy Hughesnet service lol

[@chrisackerley1842]

You shouldn't have any trouble finding a piece of land near Pie Town. I lived in the White Mountains for 10 years. The Winters are hard, but it's a good place to live. Look on the Lands of America web site. Lots of Catron County properties are listed there. Also look at Luna, New Mexico, which is around 70 miles Southwest of Pie Town. That is a beautiful little town.

[@agoodlife2]

Beautiful area, very isolated, probably fewer than 2,000 people in the county, it’s on the continental divide, a long way to shopping, great place for off grid

[@elizabethschultz4456]

Hi, I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy the music on your channel and I hope you don't change it!

[@tbr225]

great video !

[@sdcoinshooter]

Watching this you get a sense of true rural Americans. It looks like a difficult life, and required hard-working, community-orientated people. Me, being a city boy, know I could never survive there, I am spoiled by modern conveniences, the closeness of stores and restaurants, in short, these were a much stronger group and a fine representation of Americans. Much respect.

[@steelshotproductions]

Not sure why, but this music makes me feel some kind of a way.......as I move through my 50's, maybe it makes me think about my children and grandchildren looking back at my pictures and think "wow, what a time to live".

[@chrisackerley1842]

When I look at the photo of the Caudills at 3:09, it makes me realize you see the same type of people living in Western New Mexico today. It takes strength to make a living from the land at 7,000' on the Continental Divide. It must have been an even harder place to live during the Great Depression. After WW II, people moved away, to places where making a living is easier. Very few farmers left in Catron County today.

[@johnd1216]

Would like to see photos of the same things as they are today.

[@jonnyrox116]

I lived in Springville for many years and passed through Pie Town many times while taking the back way across the malpais to get to Albuquerque, sure looked different in these pics.

[@bobburbach2253]

I went through there in 2007 when I was trucking and aIso there in 1980, when I Iived in SpringerviIIe, az ! In 2020, Juan O Savin stopped there at the pie house , when he went through there !!!

[@orionwarren4244]

I've watched other KZbinrs review this town (or what's left of it). I always thought it was just a wide spot tourist trap to sell 'pies'. These photos show a rich history of times long gone.

[@judyl.761]

I would love a piece of pie right now. Cherry pie.

[@agoodlife2]

I stopped many times, never saw that many people, in the 70’s going to Phoenix there seemed to be more people than today

[@poetcomic1]

These are from the magnificent Farm Security Administration color photos on early Kodachrome (NOT colorized). This town sprang up when truly desperate people fleeing the dust bowls of Oklahoma etc. found fertile ground, build homemade dug out and log houses and managed to survive the depression. Not much left of it now. It was named after a little store that sold famous homemade dried apple pies.

[@severinesanchez4618]

how did you do it can you share with me , thank you

[@johnpoole7327]

Did everyone raise beans? They did all have killer cars, even the trucks were perfect. I should have been born back in 1920..love that old American steel.

[@CringePanda]

K, I wanna move there now

[@vernwallen4246]

Hearty Americans!🗽👍🐴

[@MrRezillo]

Are these photos color-added?