Walking in Beckley, West Virginia - Downtown

[@teaberrywmn]

Walked up those church steps many Sundays with my mom and sister. My home town! The downtown was bustling with people shopping, going to the movies, etc back in the 50's and 60's before the mall went in.

[@jamesamundsen7470]

Lived there while stationed in the Army in the early '70s. Lived on Earwood St. Although, nothing looked terribly recognizable. Thanks for the video.

[@mikeaze423]

I’ve been looking at houses in Beckley but people from WV are telling me Beckley is not a good place to live anymore.

[@thorawilson6253]

Thank-you for this brief picture if my past visits to beckley, home of my mother and her family. We would visit from Marietta, ohio.

[@jackkircher1755]

2:30- the cathedral looking building across the street is where the JC PENNEY (or Woolworths? I can't recall it has been so long) store used to be. It was remodeled in the eighties. I worked at a pizza place a couple blocks back.

[@trudyburns86]

Hello ,I lived in clear creek 7o years ago would be nice to see a drive through from Beckley, Thanks Lewis Burns

[@jimbrown7226]

You should have gone down to Summers County and walked around Hinton very historical

[@sabinadonofrio8863]

Thank you so much for doing these videos. Very cool to feel like I'm there. I walk a lot and things just look so different than from a car

[@chriskiser8705]

Was chief engineer @ WJLS, WBKW . Left in '79. Looks nothing like I remember it. Thanks for the look back

[@themanwithnoname4385]

Im in this lmao. I'm the dude in the leather jacket that's sitting on the table

[@el_lo]

3:01? You are cute lol

[@themanwithnoname4385]

@@el_lo yeah. I live a street over. Beside that church. Never leave without my leather jacket lol. I remember the man who recorded this walking recording everything. That's why I looked at him funny. Figured he was a tourist.

[@klmiller333]

Lots of memories from Beckley. I moved for a job but my parents still live near Beckley. It’s comforting to go back.

[@1957jmhiser1]

Thank you for the video. I remember during I believe 1970 or so standing across from the Babtist church on the corner by the bridge watching the eclipse with my grandfather holding a piece of paper in front of our faces with a pinhole in the paper. Everything turned dark as night and slowly got brighter. It was kinda scary. The sun went behind the moon, and light slowly came out from behind the moon.

[@dorothydotson7154]

I left in 1966. It's so different.

[@lesterjohntalde296]

you should go back and do vlogging about it it would be very nice :)

[@tipkanokwiangkham3674]

Still memories in Beckley when I worked there and lived at Presidential.... miss you there

[@sabinadonofrio8863]

Looks like a cold day.

[@ripperb1399]

Good video bro, greatings from Colombia.

[@ripperb1399]

@yo mama Not really, I'm from Colombia, I still don't have the pleasure to know USA but my friend in from West Virginia.

[@ripperb1399]

@yo mama Am i looks like a Northamerican?

[@user-sv3tx9gm6u]

This doesn't look so bad compared to the bad parts of St. Louis.

[@LilBleachThaGod]

I love skating the freedom skatepark that’s one of the free things I’ll miss about beckley

[@zxtenn]

I live in NC but i have a sometimes GF who lives in Beckley off the Eisenhower exit behind that GO-MART gas station on the hill. I see some homes in Beckley CHEAP but crime well above average? I bought a 2019 Hyundai Elantra from the Hyundai dealer there

[@sabinadonofrio8863]

Sad, I could not see the street signs.

[@rosegrimes8886]

I'm in this with my boyfriend. We're the couple walking

[@MrJodyh54]

You're movie stars!

[@OrangeySky11]

I much prefer Abington!

[@danbailey96]

Everybody to their own…I like the Abindon Bristol area eastern Tennessee is pretty nice too. But I prefer Beckley

[@tomking1890]

Ghost town compared to what it once was

[@garyhouston113]

It has no soul compared to what it once was

[@JohnDoe-gz8dw]

City keeps removing buildings that should be considered local historical sites, and putting in crap / fast food places, wich I'm fine with if they'd not tear down awesome and replace it with crap,.... expand out, don't mow down American heritage.

[@kiysmith1797]

This town seems vary sus

[@bencole9565]

You missed the homeless and all the junkies that are there

[@OrangeySky11]

I don’t think he missed the junkies. I’ve seen enough to know I never want to live in Beckley.

[@danbailey96]

He did ? Where were you sitting that day ? I can’t believe he missed you.

[@MrJodyh54]

Another dead town. Over the decades ma and pa shops closed and the shopping centers/walmart took people out of the downtowns. In Athens, Ohio, Walmart moved in and the small downtown of Athens died, as did JC Penny, Kmart, and every other clothes shop. Walmart literally destroyed and shut down the only shpping mall they had.