Walking in Logan, West Virginia

[@leahr5602]

My grandfather was from Logan n my mom lived there when she was young. I visited there often as a child although they lived on the mountain outside of town and moa of my pops family still does and still to this day still do not have running water only hand pumps. I still love this place so many good hospitable families! Thanks for the upload.

[@johnsilver7150]

It's sad to see what became of Logan. Born there in 1949, family moved away in 1963. Lots of buildings torn down . I remember like it was yesterday.

[@ThatGuy-ns8de]

West Virginia has been forgotten about and almost abandoned since the 1940s-1950s

[@ted1091]

Even in the late 80s it was still alive. I can't believe what it looks like today.

[@swagobill]

I was born there in 1971 and grew up right downtown on Dingess St. It makes me sad to see it now.

[@lovingmayberry2000]

WVA has a rotten governor. Vote him out.

[@swagobill]

@@lovingmayberry2000 If you think the situation is because of the current governor then your head is in the sand or up something else? The problems WV has go back decades, they are both political and cultural. Do you think voting Justice out is going to change one thing? That's naïve thinking and the type of political tribalism that has caused so many issues in the state.

[@ejd1984]

Thank you so much for this video. My dear sweet Mom Mom, Harriet Herald was from Logan. The Aracoma neighborhood to be exact. She was born there in 1923, married in 1941 and moved to Maryland. Her parents stayed until their passing in 1970. Though over the years I traveled with her back to Logan to visit family and funerals. I will always have a fondness for Logan. PS - The timing for this video is perfect. I found it today on the anniversary of her passing onto the Lord. :-)

[@republicanlady4101]

Thank you so much for this. My parents grew up in Logan. I have fond memories of visiting my Grandmother who lived on Chestnut St and my Uncle, Aunt, and Cousins who lived in Holden. It is so sad to see many buildings gone. I'm glad to see McCormick's is still there. I remember shopping at Logan Mercantile, Hall's Drug Store (they had great Hot Dogs) Nu-Era Bakery (Yum) and cute shops like The Lemon Tree and Kopy Kat. Morrison's is great also. My parents moved to Virginia and I grew up there. Logan will always be special to me because of family memories.

[@jeffcraddock3580]

My Grandfather and I would drive down from Hewitt to go see movies in Logan. I have early memories of Johm Wayne, 20;000 Leagues Under the Sea, etc...also a bowling alley around the downtown area, somewhere.Also the swimming pool at Chief Logan Park....been there lots of times.Of course, this was back in the late 60’s and early 70’s...lol

[@carrol2165]

Thanks for doing this it's almost like going home you did a great job I was born in Logan in 1947 I don't live there anymore I haven't lived there in years my dad left back in the early 60s but I always came back every summer for a long time it's still home

[@dawg57ashland68]

I watch all these WV videos I see on KZbin. Hope to move to the southern part of the state some day. I love the beautiful country and the people as well.

[@LilBleachThaGod]

Don’t move to Princeton place is awful lol 😂 lot better places to live than southern wv

[@nutt1674]

24:28...that's New Era Bakery on your left. Some of the best Pepperoni Rolls in the state are made there. And as you may know, pepperoni rolls were invented in West Virginia and can be quite the delicacy when made correctly.

[@Ke6cctrs2]

Great video..loved the walk without commentary or music..just the city sounds. My mom and family lived here in the 30s-early 50s and gives me an idea how long it would take them to talk to places. Keep uploading these..maybe a walk around “slap town” and up around the old Jr High School and Kanada.

[@amyfromflorida4518]

My mother in law lived there until her father died in a mining accident around 1955 and they moved down here to Florida. I am watching this video because my husband and I are planning to go up to visit his grandfather’s grave and check things out.

[@jackcharlie9322]

ur name so funny

[@80TheMadLord08]

Also, the way your footage is stabilized and moves makes it feel like a game haha nice!

[@JeanineMAGA]

Thank you for these walks, very peaceful and enjoyable. I appreciate them because I’m thinking of moving to WV. God Bless .

[@80TheMadLord08]

Thanks for uploading this! I've always been interested in American towns, and this one seemed like a cool place to explore. Nice to do it vicariously through your camera. Google earth doesn't always cut it haha Any chance you could do a walk through Morgantown, WV? (I'm from Australia, so videos like this are my only window into these places!)

[@JamesEastWalking]

Thought I replied to this post earlier... Anyway, the morgantown video is now up. Thanks for the suggestion.

[@melissaconley7084]

I live here in this town

[@thelonelyartist711]

Nice! I enjoyed this. Especially the dude at the 25 minute mark. LOL. I plan on doing some drone shots sometime in the very near future.

[@jonathanmichaelsmith9012]

The lack of people is instantly noticeable.

[@Uniden1100]

My mom grew up there. We would go ever summer there to visit family. I am 66 now last time there was in 1970

[@kindnessworks71]

Hello I'm a new subscriber and I want to thank you for putting up these videos I was wondering if it's not too much trouble if you could make a map of the places you are walking too so that way I can see the landmarks I'm not complaining I promise and I really do like your videos a lot I just have no idea what streets are on or what part of this town you are walking in God bless

[@JamesEastWalking]

Thanks for subscribing. I appreciate your feedback. In the video description for all my uploads, I include a map with a (usually drawn) line of my walking path. Maybe I'm not doing enough to call attention to it though. Thanks for the comment.

[@jeffcraddock3580]

Boy, not much going on these days, is there?

[@corvus1970]

Nope. When they built that Wal-Mart supercenter and shopping-plaza out on the "newer" stretch of 119, that was a hammer-blow to what remained of downtown.

[@ThatGuy-ns8de]

The population of West Virginia is decreasing with each passing year, so not a lot is happening there

[@jeffcraddock3580]

I was born in Northern IN, but Mom was from Hewitt Dad was from Craddock’s Fork. I did spend a lot of ti,e growing up around there, since my Grandparents were settled in Hewitt. I have a lot of good memories of that area...my Grandad was a fun guy to hang out with. I sure do miss him.

[@LilBleachThaGod]

West Virginia towns are practically ghost towns

[@rorie16]

I'm from London and I often fantasise about relocating to a totally random, tucked away American town but I can't get over how eerily quiet Logan looks..There's always a 'buzz' on certain days like weekends generally (wherever one is) but is what I'm witnessing in your video typical every day in Logan?

[@interweb0069]

yeah pretty much lmao

[@NightThings99]

great footage! Looks like a lot of small towns in the USA

[@thomasmcdonald9573]

I was born in Rum Creek, West Virginia grew up in Logan my family moved away December 21st, 1968 miss it terribly but there is nothing there anymore all my friends are gone still a big Mountaineer Fan though mostly hung out in Peach Creek and West Logan left in the middle of my Junior year at Logan High School !

[@Buttermilkjug]

Just passing through, but just wanted to say it's not a good idea to put your real name and D.O.B. together on the internet~ Scammers will see this, and take note of your information~

[@lordgargamel4124]

Hey man. I been asking about this place, whats the crime rate? Ive been meaning yo pole around there soon. Some say its got lots of drugs and prostitution. Not sure what to believe. Its looks beautiful with the mountains around.

[@corvus1970]

The whole of Southern WV has been one of the areas of the country hardest-hit by the opioid epidemic. Aside from that, since I haven't lived in Logan since 1992, or WV itself since 2013, I couldn't accurately say more than that.

[@LilBleachThaGod]

Southern West Virginia is awful with drugs I wouldn’t want to live in any of these towns if you can get a house in the woods than go for it but the cities suck I lived in Princeton , Huntington and blue field it’s horrible trying to walk around without someone asking you for meth

[@vel1hunnid707]

I remember when Watson's gc Murphy's & b&b loans was on this street

[@corvus1970]

Same. Peebles bought out Watson's in the late 90's, and now they are extinct as well. The Capitol Theater has become a dance-studio, and save for the odd stage-play, the Logan Theater has been shut down for the better part of 30 years. So many buildings have been razed and demolished, and its just sad to see.

[@vel1hunnid707]

@@corvus1970 wow thanks for the update much appreciated. But what was peebles?

[@donnavaughn8813]

Plebled gone now

[@lordraptor5042]

Industrial work needs to return to West Virginia. Car parts, wood work, ect. West Virginia state should be the supply hub for the east coast. One problem, if WV becomes gentrified, more cooperate business will come in and have our beautiful landscapes chopped down and our mountains leveled. Not to mention, prices going up. I say less is more.

[@corvus1970]

For a long time, the coal-companies were doing a "good" job of leveling mountaintops, without gentrification.

[@lordraptor5042]

@@corvus1970 Yeah, its hella annoying. Still it would be far worse if more businesses came here.

[@LilBleachThaGod]

Cannabis needs to come to West Virginia were literally letting the biggest growing industry make everyone else money meanwhile people od daily lol 😂 our state is backwards leaving Princeton in a week lol 😂

[@Methadone4Life]

@@corvus1970 Damn right and look at the creeks or streams and you will see some turned rust color due to acid from the mine water runoff. Cancer rates out of the world in Logan!

[@billbergendahl2911]

Logan has a long history of very good high school basketball teams.

[@Methadone4Life]

Some of the best basketball players around were in this tiny town and surrounding communities. The playgrounds were always full and a lot of talented players came from here, however, many didn't get the guidance from the leadership that they should have and you had literally D-1 and maybe a few NBA prospects that never really got the look they should have.

[@christopherbaranet2388]

I lived in Middleburg. My grandfather Patsy Ferzacca , started The Logan Water Co. After we sold it to the state in 1964,,we moved to Ct.

[@thejerseyj9422]

I love Americas downtowns. So sad that they are for the most part vacant anymore.

[@Methadone4Life]

Thanks to our wonderful billionaires who would rather pay foreign countries pennies than build factories here and actually pay a living wage. Now, they have it down to just a few companies running everything in America...just like they wanted in the old PNAC from the 60's or 70's. This is what happens when you stop taxing the top 1 percent and let corporate welfare make the wealthiest even more wealthy. Disgusting. Only going to get worse. Look up Project for a New American Century. Disgusting how much has come to pass. We now make nothing and import everything...think that is the way to a strong country????? Well, it's about to get worse...real bad. 2025 and the death of democracy (what little we had) has started...not sure we will see another presidential election to be honest. I won't be here long as my days are closer to the end than the beginning, but what is happening is downright scary...similarities to 30's Germany is staggering.

[@nutt1674]

23:44...that's Hot Cup Coffee Shop to your right, James. If it was winter time instead of August, you'd have been in for a treat...LOL. They make the best hot chocolate in the state, as far as I'm concerned. They also put Starbucks to shame with their frappe and hot drinks. Thank you for posting this, James...my hometown.

[@donnapoolejackofalltrades7827]

Look like a nice town to me . I bet every body know everybody. Where the college at is this town ?

[@lonniedaniels125]

It's a county seat but has only 1800 residents?

[@joyrider8882]

Lived there I the 50’s, was a lot more people and a lot more cars, booming for the time, seems more quiet now.

[@thelonelyartist711]

Love this. Logan County OG right here.

[@RobertLovegrove-n8b]

Logan , very nice & very clean ..

[@adrian5401]

No people, why?

[@cecilburgett]

'Cause one modern coal mining machine can mine more coal than a hundred employees. Over the years we former residents of the area relocated for a livelihood. I'm happy for what redevelopment is going on and hope for much more. The Logan area and hundreds of miles around is gifted with lands of great beauty.

[@rebeccawifeofjonathan9355]

Stan Burgett I also moved from Logan for better work.

[@GABRIELADAWSON]

COVID 19 lol.

[@corvus1970]

COVID, coupled with the fact that most people doing their shopping would be at the Wal-Mart supercenter and shopping plaza out on 119.

[@donnavaughn5393]

Thanks you my friend nice video

[@fendermon]

Very enjoyable; well worth the sub :)

[@littleberry7673]

OMG I LIVE THERE

[@donnavaughn5393]

I live here to

[@RTCrmCreative]

I use to ride my bicycle around these neighborhoods in the town area everyday.

[@RTCrmCreative]

that was in the 70s, much more populated at that time

[@zxtenn]

Looking at a home for sale on Century Hill RD. The inside is BEAUTIFUL, owned by an elderly woman, how is the crime and flooding there? Crime should be zero as it seems so quiet

[@sovietchampagne]

looks surprisingly urban for a town of just a few thousand ... I am from Ontario, Canada and the town next to my hometown has a population almost 20 times the size of Logan's but doesn't seem as much like a "proper city" as Logan does. the brick buildings and narrow streets in the downtown make it look almost European to me. so much classic architecture too.

[@corvus1970]

As one of the southern WV towns that benefited the most from the coal-boom of the early 20th century, it sprang up pretty quickly and used to look more urban than that 25 years ago. The population peaked at around 5,000 in 1940, but as coal-mining became increasingly automated in the wake of WW2, the population started to dwindle year after year, and now the town has a population of less than 2,000 people. I grew up there: Logan High School class of 1988. Moved to Huntington WV in 1992, and moved to Philadelphia PA in 2013. I haven't been to Logan since 2010, 2011 at least. In 1997, a Wal-Mart supercenter sprang up on route 119, a couple of miles outside of town, which hurt remaining businesses downtown, and over the years a lot of buildings that used to stand in Logan have been razed and demolished. The town is essentially a ghost of its former self, and despite a few beautification efforts, its hard for me to see it in this state.

[@sovietchampagne]

@@corvus1970 thank you for sharing your knowledge with me. one of the big reasons I live in a big city, as opposed to a smaller one like the one I grew up in or its neighbouring cities, is because I don't drive and so it's important to me that a place be "walkable". was Logan walkable when you lived there? i.e. could a person living close to the centre of Logan get their most basic needs (food, etc.) without a car?

[@vel1hunnid707]

◀◀◀◀◀18:55 why did they tear down the parking garage??

[@corvus1970]

Structural issues I believe, compounded by a reduced need for parking.

[@SethKash]

Towns like this generally die when putting up with greed, graft and corruption.

[@Methadone4Life]

Yep, coal owners destroyed the land, were from out of state or moved there, destroyed the water and then they leave all the while they push legislation to fight the miners on their Black Lung benefits, retirement etc. and I could go on and on, but hell, no one cares and sadly, most young miners today do not understand why they get the good pay they do...they are brainwashed by the coal owners.

[@donnapoolejackofalltrades7827]

Where the library at ?

[@bigrhinonagy9808]

You walked all of logan then ended up going toward high street and the notorest draper hill dog pound or you was headed to the train yard hopping the trains out of logan i call it like i see it sometimes like to know if you hoped that train or not if you did it was a Dusty one on them coal cars lol

[@nauru4613]

Montain momma ♥️

[@lesterjohntalde296]

so peaceful

[@vel1hunnid707]

19:20 u shoulda made a RIGHT & went up Charles street

[@bigrhinonagy9808]

Hey james that building you walked buy just fell into the road just out of nowhere it fell if you woulh of timed that right it would have smashed you pal youy lucky man

[@willbergie55]

Logan has had a lot of really good high school basketball teams.

[@ronnorris7821]

Place looks like the people care about how their town looks. I would move there just looks like there is nothing to do to keep the kids out of trouble. But still town seems nice.

[@corvus1970]

There's little there to keep the adults out of trouble, let alone the kids. Southern WV Southern WV has been dealt a devastating blow by the opioid epidemic, and decades of job-losses.

[@johnmagee810]

Where are the people? Does anybody walk in America anymore? If there were no cars in this video it would look as though the place was in lockdown. Or maybe it was.

[@RTCrmCreative]

Like back in the Twilight Zone, Rod Sterling days.

[@salsal8095]

Looks like a nice place! I love videos like this but I'm always wondering about why they get made. For James East, why did you make this video?

[@whentheworldwasatwar8717]

That power grid right in the middle on the town just blows, it's the ugliest thing I've seen, and in such a bad area, makes the town look ugly.

[@OrangeySky11]

‘I better not be on no damn camera’ ...... so much for the ‘friendliest town in WV’!!! 😂

[@Methadone4Life]

No, not the friendliest these days...once upon a time yes!

[@spencerbergquist781]

Well, The infostructure is there, as well as the buildings. I would like to know what the governor of West Virginia is doing to attract new business to compensate for the loss of the coal industry , to rejuvenate these coal mining towns so they don't turn into another Detroit. ...... or.....do they even care ?

[@Methadone4Life]

Justice ripped off his workers, took state money, doesn't pay his bills and our ignorant voting populace voted him in as State Senator LOLOL. Foolish people man.

[@dreahayes2119]

This town is so pathetic. It claims to be "The Friendliest Town in WV" but they've removed literally every bench where you could used to just sit and enjoy for a few moments! It's a black hole that will suck the soul out of you! So grateful I finally got out 8f there. Oh, and also, the "police" there literally get away with murder! RIP Bennett Hatfield ❤️

[@yarbgreat1]

Wish someone would paint the buildings.

[@whentheworldwasatwar8717]

Also, why doesn't anyone paint or fix the downtown at least, there's no excuse, also repair the roads and sidewalks.

[@sarahhewlett3639]

Born there lived in stollings

[@philipdbryant]

While watching this, the song by the band LIVE comes to mind: Gotta live, gotta live in a S#it Towne!

[@LouWeaver8794]

👍🏻

[@ted1091]

Town is dirt poor, but all those boys have new stretch pickups. Paid for with disability money.

[@D...M...A...]

Walking so fast , i think ya stole the camera ... ... ... born in Logan humor ...

[@LilBleachThaGod]

My ex gf is from here don’t talk to any girls from Logan lol 😂 lesson learned

[@stuszith]

Thats one FaSt Walker!!! Icouldn,t do that!!???

[@ulubatlisouness]

Wie Horror Film.keine Leute

[@nigelcollins8058]

I grew up in all over that area and I'm telling you it's sickening to look what they did to this place .. if you say you grew up in it, you must not have grown up very long ago. it makes me sick to look at Logan now.. I don't need one get started on it because I get very angry and I don't want to say some shit that I'm going to not regret.. so you younger people take over and if I don't like what you're saying I'm going to show you.! And I'll tell you

[@nigelcollins8058]

We all made this place what we tht best .then comes the liers .. that says everything ..