Nice town. Would be nice if we could have visited it back when you were a kid before some modernization happened. Your state is full of both interesting and beautiful places.
A big thank you for this channel. It's a thorough look at life "back home". I discovered this channel this week while sitting on my couch in Georgia. It helped get me through a rough week with the flu. It was fun to reminisce, see what has or hasn't changed about my hometown, and show my city bf all about life "back home". Thank you, thank you! 🖤
Leo you're the coolest!!! Love your show Buddy!! Keep up the good work and keep laughing!! From The Natural State y'all have a great day and God Bless You All!!! 🇺🇲🇺🇲😎
Delbarton is the kind of place I’d like to live. My idea of paradise. Thanks a whole bunch for this Leo - it’s good to know that there’s places like this still in the world, Blessings.
Excellent video thank you so very much for sharing hope you have a wonderful weekend brother I live in New York I’m from Maine and my wife is from West Virginia rainelle today is her 62 nd birthday we watch all your videos thank you 👍👍❤️
Thank you Leo for the beautiful tour of Delbarton and for the introduction of WV pizza rolls. Thank you Heather I enjoyed your comments as well. See you next time
I didn't know Delbarton was such a pretty place, and the people were nice and friendly. It's good that they preserved the cool, old bridge, and I hope they have preserved some of the old mining machinery to be put on display at some of the trail heads at some time in the future. I enjoyed seeing the machines on display at the Chief Logan State Park. There were thousands of machines such as coal loading machines, continuous miners, undercutting machines just to name a few in WVA. That Pizza Roll looked good! 😋
Thank you Leo for another wonderful video I loved the town I live in a small town in ga I'm from Parkersburg and I am getting ready to move back I miss being there still have family there and friends
Oh those curvy roads. Was taking cedar boughs to the coast and it was like that trying to make time made my 15 year old sick. Boy he looked green around the gills. And the belly flopping dips . Thanks Leo for sharing our town has 3 blocks too love small towns
Been across the bridge many times as a kid in the 1960’s. Daddy had Curry cousins in Elk Creek! I learned to drive a Volkswagen (standard) on Route 52 going from Omar to Williamson in 1970. Daddy let me drive many times as a 14 year old through those curves! Remember the tree you drove around three times, Leo? We would stop at the company store going out of “town” and there was a small gas station by the bridge also.
Love this little town reminds me of a place we used to go in Missouri called Rockaway Beach and the old curvy road i like the old road that used to go into Cripple Creek Colorado. We used to ride it on motorcycles. Yep tequila and being 20 something. Jose was one of my best friends. I love your stories.
me thinks a good seller would be tables and chairs and pots with pictures of the hatfields or McCoys stuck on then varnished like the table in the pizza roll shop xx
I enjoy watching you, I like History too. When I was a kid we were doing the same thing you were doing but in Massachusetts. on our curvy road at night we'd shut our lights off. I also learn to drive a standard vs an automatic on a hilly road. times back in the early 70's were fun. I can relate!😁
Looks like the little town has growed up some once they get that Dollar general store they are uptown😂 wonder how that road with be in my old 69 Dodge charger RT 383 with a four-on-the-floor❤❤ that road can definitely test your driving skills and the handling of your automobile❤❤
Come on up to Mount Pleasant Pike in MartinsFerry Ohio. That road looks familiar up off the Ohio River. I love the Appalachian Mountain Range clear down into Georgia.
If you a fan of switchbacks and banked turns, head to Floyd and Patrick counties in VA on Rt 8. Built by the Conservation Corp. it is a drivers dream. No joke! The head into Stuart, home of The WoodBrothers Racing, Jeb Stuart, the County seat. There is uptown and downtown. In downtown there is Stuart family restaurant. Fantastic food! But Rt 8 is your ticket to fun!
I will sure go to Maria’s Drive In when I go home in a couple of weeks! Thanks, Leo! 😊I’ll go over Cow Creek Mountain and down that way. I sure know Pigeon Roast Holler also! We had all kinds of cousins over thru there.
52 reminds me of a rollercoaster as well. Been up and down it quite a few times. You need really good brakes and rotors going down that hill. It's the most curvy road I've ever been on, on that hill going to Delbartin, and Island Creek. That can be quite dangerous for anyone not familiar with it. A trip from Williamson to Bluefield felt soooo long. It's the longest 100 miles I ever drove. 😳 But it's a pretty drive. 🙂
Hy Leo & Heather. I am just watching @paranormalencounters and i recognized your birth hospital Leo. I recommended them to come watch your history channel. Yeah i am watching for almost a year now. In silence. But i luv your sincere laugh. I do that too. 😂Hello from the Caribbean 🏝🏖Leo & Heather. ❤❤ Yes you guys are Famous already🤗🤗😘😘.
Loved that drive through there . I'd come in from the 119 side with a 18wheeler fuel tanker . That right turn at the end of main street was sometimes a pain . That DG store I think was where a farm store was ?
Leo, talk about curves do you remember that S curve behind Sewanee Park going up Sycamore Mountain on US 52. We use to joke that you would pass the same tree three times on those switchbacks.
Oh! Gosh! Leo. I passed that exit yesterday, but didn't have time to stop. I so wanted to stop. I truly enjoyed my trip to Dingess, Logan, and Williamson. By the way, Dingess is out in GOD's country. Do you know that Rt, 5 which takes you to Dingess is not on a WV map? There is only a scriggly line. Take care of yourself.
At least we know how to drive learning on those roads, it was all we knew, didnt know roads were straight!! And bless your heart is almost an insult, ain't it! Lol
I really enjoy your videos Have yall ever considered coming to Alaska for videos? It's not freezing cold all the time. There are some really cool interesting places here. I've lived up here 29 an a half yrs an love it. Moved up from Texas. Anyway if yall ever consider coming up I can show you some great spots an history. Anyway. I'm Lana Banana That's what every body calls me an I can always make ya laugh Be safe an thanx for always sharing 🍌🍌💜
Ok please help my wife's family is from delbarton her grand parents. Wilburn and Anna estep. Sons Wilbur, Wendell who was killed in delbarton, Larry and Billy Joe. GG is Nettie dingess married a Wayne Ellis. He died in Holden 1937 in a mine accident from what we found. But then Nettie married maybe a Clifford Bush? We've heard that name before but I can't find anything other than that. Please please help
Growing up in Omar I do remember fishing for the "horny heads" as we all called them LOL. I wonder what type of fish they really were? I can remember catching them by the dozens. We always released them as I would never eat anything out of the creeks lol. Sadly, large swaths of the creek where I grew up is virtually lifeless and an ugly orange color due to all the acidity in the wastewater runoff from the coal mines. I was so devastated when I recently went back to a place we all used to fish when I was young and there was literally nothing in a large swath of the creek...no Crayfish or Crawdads as we called them, no minnows, no witch doctors flying around...very sad. It was a horrid rust color even the rocks all rust colored. Mining surely fed a lot of us but it sure has done a lot of damage to our water table and who knows what they used to dump into the creeks and streams before regulations forced them to pay more attention to the recklessness. Great video. I will try Marias too if it is still open. I assume it is but ya never know around southern WV, these little businesses, drive-ins, restaurants and food trucks open and close seemingly overnight. Thanks for the cool look at Delbarton, the town is surely giving a good effort at trying to spark back to life and there are some good signs there for sure.
That was not nice about the peanut butter sandwiches did yall eat them in the morning poor tommy the bridge is beautiful and the town and mountains are beautiful didnt life time
Should have stopped and showed the pay phone still hanging on the building. Might have been an old home. And not rich. But you can bet there was love. All we needed back then. I watch a family from. New Zealand. And their daughter is cooking the number one foods in each state of USA. And her meal for Kentucky. She fixed pizza rolls. They was made back in the day for coal miners. West Virginia so that's what she fixed. And the family loved them.
Leo, I think you have quite a bit of Uncle Sonny in you. People “like that” still exist. You are living proof. Great show.
Thank You! You just made my day. :-)
@@thehillbillyfiles Do you have a son named Josh who does videos like these?
Cool town thanks for the tour. 🇺🇸
I was raised in a little community just outside of Delbarton, called Lando Mines. Thank you for this video! Warms my heart!!
Thank you. I know where that is.
@@jasonrunyon2663 my Mom was born and raised there and I haven't been there in years! Lola Hensley (Napier)was her name..
@@maryannnapier8734 it hasn't really changed except for lack of work, and drugs has taken over. That is the saddest part.
Nice town. Would be nice if we could have visited it back when you were a kid before some modernization happened. Your state is full of both interesting and beautiful places.
Thanks for watching!
My husband and I always enjoy watching Leo and Heather’s videos! Thank you for what you do… we appreciate you!
A big thank you for this channel. It's a thorough look at life "back home". I discovered this channel this week while sitting on my couch in Georgia. It helped get me through a rough week with the flu. It was fun to reminisce, see what has or hasn't changed about my hometown, and show my city bf all about life "back home". Thank you, thank you! 🖤
Thank you, and I hope you feel better soon. Tell your city friends, that a hillbilly they've never heard of before, said Hi. :-)
Thank you very much. From England
😂 gosh I enjoy when y'all post... funny and educational history and ghostly tales.. y'all got it all.. wonderful channel..
Thank you Leo, This was an awesome video. You had an unbelievably great playground❗❗ The pizza rolls sound delicious
Leo you're the coolest!!! Love your show Buddy!! Keep up the good work and keep laughing!! From The Natural State y'all have a great day and God Bless You All!!! 🇺🇲🇺🇲😎
Thanks so much
Leo, I cried my eyes out seeing the old Elk Creek bridge. Precious memories for me. ❤😢
Awwv Im glad I could share it with you!
Beautiful town and area.
A great video as a teenager we lived in a tiny town like Delbarton although we did have 1 stoplight.😁 The video made me nostalgic & a little homesick.
Leo Leo Leo You had me grinning and chuckling the entire video. Thank you for sharing your smile.
You are so welcome
Delbarton is the kind of place I’d like to live. My idea of paradise. Thanks a whole bunch for this Leo - it’s good to know that there’s places like this still in the world, Blessings.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I live there and i promise it’s not all sunshine and rainbows 😂
That pizza roll looked delicious. Made me so hungry. Thanks a million for the tour of Delbarton. Always enjoy your personal stories.
Glad you enjoyed it
Love the ride reminded me of the old Fancy Gap before they put the interstate thru
Excellent video thank you so very much for sharing hope you have a wonderful weekend brother I live in New York I’m from Maine and my wife is from West Virginia rainelle today is her 62 nd birthday we watch all your videos thank you 👍👍❤️
Thanks, you too!
Thank you Leo for the beautiful tour of Delbarton and for the introduction of WV pizza rolls. Thank you Heather I enjoyed your comments as well. See you next time
Loved the video❤Great guy, beautiful state😊!!!!!
Your childhood was such a cool adventure!!
I am glad you lived to tell us about your escapades on Hwy 52.
Leo your so funny 😂
I didn't know Delbarton was such a pretty place, and the people were nice and friendly. It's good that they preserved the cool, old bridge, and I hope they have preserved some of the old mining machinery to be put on display at some of the trail heads at some time in the future. I enjoyed seeing the machines on display at the Chief Logan State Park. There were thousands of machines such as coal loading machines, continuous miners, undercutting machines just to name a few in WVA. That Pizza Roll looked good! 😋
Always enjoy your videos Leo. Always interesting and we really like your sense of humor. Lord bless you and yourn brother.
Thank you Leo for another wonderful video I loved the town I live in a small town in ga I'm from Parkersburg and I am getting ready to move back I miss being there still have family there and friends
Oh those curvy roads. Was taking cedar boughs to the coast and it was like that trying to make time made my 15 year old sick. Boy he looked green around the gills. And the belly flopping dips . Thanks Leo for sharing our town has 3 blocks too love small towns
Brought back memories of living in small town Missouri. I hope they save the bridge. Thanks for sharing....the drive into town made me dizzy! LOL
Thanks for watching
Been across the bridge many times as a kid in the 1960’s. Daddy had Curry cousins in Elk Creek! I learned to drive a Volkswagen (standard) on Route 52 going from Omar to Williamson in 1970. Daddy let me drive many times as a 14 year old through those curves! Remember the tree you drove around three times, Leo? We would stop at the company store going out of “town” and there was a small gas station by the bridge also.
Yes, I remember. There was one in Williamson too, but It's been gone for years now.
I Used To Visit My Great Grandfather Floyd Marcum In Delbarton. When I Was A Boy . So Much Fun. Miss Him And Those Days. I'm 63 Now
My mom would love that road
Love this little town reminds me of a place we used to go in Missouri called Rockaway Beach and the old curvy road i like the old road that used to go into Cripple Creek Colorado. We used to ride it on motorcycles. Yep tequila and being 20 something. Jose was one of my best friends. I love your stories.
Hi Leo!! I would love to take my Harley on that curvy road. Looks like great fun.👍🏍😘
You should! thanks for the support Karla
me thinks a good seller would be tables and chairs and pots with pictures of the hatfields or McCoys stuck on then varnished like the table in the pizza roll shop xx
I enjoy watching you, I like History too. When I was a kid we were doing the same thing you were doing but in Massachusetts. on our curvy road at night we'd shut our lights off. I also learn to drive a standard vs an automatic on a hilly road. times back in the early 70's were fun. I can relate!😁
Looks like the little town has growed up some once they get that Dollar general store they are uptown😂 wonder how that road with be in my old 69 Dodge charger RT 383 with a four-on-the-floor❤❤ that road can definitely test your driving skills and the handling of your automobile❤❤
Playing in a (crick) is what kids are missing today great small town great video thanks
I love the old bridge!!! Awesome video Leo!!!
Thanks 👍
Y'all do the best video's on youtube love them all with the history as well thank Y'all
Thank You! I'm glad you like them.
Oh the drive up the hill looks so fun!! Thank you Leo for the tour really liked the old bridge with the creek running under! Pizza rolls look good to!
Thanks!
Thank you. Very much appreciate you!
Come on up to Mount Pleasant Pike in MartinsFerry Ohio. That road looks familiar up off the Ohio River. I love the Appalachian Mountain Range clear down into Georgia.
If you a fan of switchbacks and banked turns, head to Floyd and Patrick counties in VA on Rt 8. Built by the Conservation Corp. it is a drivers dream. No joke! The head into Stuart, home of The WoodBrothers Racing, Jeb Stuart, the County seat. There is uptown and downtown. In downtown there is Stuart family restaurant. Fantastic food! But Rt 8 is your ticket to fun!
I will sure go to Maria’s Drive In when I go home in a couple of weeks! Thanks, Leo! 😊I’ll go over Cow Creek Mountain and down that way. I sure know Pigeon Roast Holler also! We had all kinds of cousins over thru there.
52 reminds me of a rollercoaster as well. Been up and down it quite a few times. You need really good brakes and rotors going down that hill. It's the most curvy road I've ever been on, on that hill going to Delbartin, and Island Creek. That can be quite dangerous for anyone not familiar with it. A trip from Williamson to Bluefield felt soooo long. It's the longest 100 miles I ever drove. 😳
But it's a pretty drive. 🙂
Hy Leo & Heather. I am just watching @paranormalencounters and i recognized your birth hospital Leo. I recommended them to come watch your history channel. Yeah i am watching for almost a year now. In silence. But i luv your sincere laugh. I do that too. 😂Hello from the Caribbean 🏝🏖Leo & Heather. ❤❤
Yes you guys are Famous already🤗🤗😘😘.
Thank you for the kind words. Feel free to comment any time you want. :-)
@@thehillbillyfiles you're welcome. 😘😘. Ok i will. Have a blessed day. 🙏
Wonder why you didn't go up on the old Burch High Hill? Would have been nice to show the old school
I still have family in Delbarton.
Loved that drive through there . I'd come in from the 119 side with a 18wheeler fuel tanker . That right turn at the end of main street was sometimes a pain . That DG store I think was where a farm store was ?
Oh how nice! Sickly sarcastically. I have a feeling means the same in va🤗😀
Leo, talk about curves do you remember that S curve behind Sewanee Park going up Sycamore Mountain on US 52. We use to joke that you would pass the same tree three times on those switchbacks.
Oh! Gosh! Leo. I passed that exit yesterday, but didn't have time to stop. I so wanted to stop. I truly enjoyed my trip to Dingess, Logan, and Williamson. By the way, Dingess is out in GOD's country. Do you know that Rt, 5 which takes you to Dingess is not on a WV map? There is only a scriggly line. Take care of yourself.
At least we know how to drive learning on those roads, it was all we knew, didnt know roads were straight!! And bless your heart is almost an insult, ain't it! Lol
My hometown
I get carsick just watching you drive that road 😅
Leo are you going to safe and take one to Heather it was nice they cooked them for you and gave you an extra 😊
The pizza roll looked good but how do you call it a pizza roll with no sauce? Pizza has sauce.
sauce is inside the roll
Wasn't any sauce though lol 😆
Exactly
Leo and Heather do you have an Amazon wish list ? Jeff and Chel UK
No. But thank you for the nice thought. :-)
I really enjoy your videos
Have yall ever considered coming to Alaska for videos?
It's not freezing cold all the time. There are some really cool interesting places here.
I've lived up here 29 an a half yrs an love it.
Moved up from Texas.
Anyway if yall ever consider coming up I can show you some great spots an history.
Anyway. I'm Lana Banana
That's what every body calls me an I can always make ya laugh
Be safe an thanx for always sharing 🍌🍌💜
Maybe one day!
I could see you gassin the Plymouth 400 up that my friend. Much love Leo & heather y’all brighten my day
Ibet those would've been the best peanut butter sandwiches ever❤😂
Would have loved a bite of that pizza roll
Hi my fellow WV hillbilly buddy Leo👋😁
Damn I can see why Heather get car sick I was getting car sick and I'm not even in the car lol
😆 🤣
Your car is that Red Mustang? 😊
Ok please help my wife's family is from delbarton her grand parents. Wilburn and Anna estep. Sons Wilbur, Wendell who was killed in delbarton, Larry and Billy Joe. GG is Nettie dingess married a Wayne Ellis. He died in Holden 1937 in a mine accident from what we found. But then Nettie married maybe a Clifford Bush? We've heard that name before but I can't find anything other than that. Please please help
Growing up in Omar I do remember fishing for the "horny heads" as we all called them LOL. I wonder what type of fish they really were? I can remember catching them by the dozens. We always released them as I would never eat anything out of the creeks lol.
Sadly, large swaths of the creek where I grew up is virtually lifeless and an ugly orange color due to all the acidity in the wastewater runoff from the coal mines.
I was so devastated when I recently went back to a place we all used to fish when I was young and there was literally nothing in a large swath of the creek...no Crayfish or Crawdads as we called them, no minnows, no witch doctors flying around...very sad. It was a horrid rust color even the rocks all rust colored.
Mining surely fed a lot of us but it sure has done a lot of damage to our water table and who knows what they used to dump into the creeks and streams before regulations forced them to pay more attention to the recklessness. Great video. I will try Marias too if it is still open.
I assume it is but ya never know around southern WV, these little businesses, drive-ins, restaurants and food trucks open and close seemingly overnight. Thanks for the cool look at Delbarton, the town is surely giving a good effort at trying to spark back to life and there are some good signs there for sure.
That was not nice about the peanut butter sandwiches did yall eat them in the morning poor tommy the bridge is beautiful and the town and mountains are beautiful didnt life time
Lord yes, my daddy would build hotrods in the day❤
Yeah here in Georgia, depending on context, bless your heart doesn't necessarily mean a good kind of the phrase 😂😂😂😂😂
Do you have a son named Josh who does videos like these?
No. Not that I know of... LOL
@@thehillbillyfiles Ok. Thanks. He reminded me of you when I saw one of his videos yesterday. Thanks for all the videos you do. 😀
hey you never know, some day it might be
Where's the sauce lol
Also BLESS YOUR PEA PICKEN HEART
IF YOUR REALLY FEEL SORRY FOR SOMEOME.
GOOD OLE SOUTHERN SAYIN.
IM REAL SOUTHERN GAL
😊💜 lana banana 🍌
The kool-aid mom
I stiĺl got my 1982 membership card to the river front club me and k.w. noon and mike dickson.
Delbarton is not the same as it was 10 years ago
Why do u say it’s not the same. I will be visiting this November and so interested in this little town!!
Should have stopped and showed the pay phone still hanging on the building. Might have been an old home. And not rich. But you can bet there was love. All we needed back then. I watch a family from. New Zealand. And their daughter is cooking the number one foods in each state of USA. And her meal for Kentucky. She fixed pizza rolls. They was made back in the day for coal miners. West Virginia so that's what she fixed. And the family loved them.
LMAO: POOR TOMMY
lol
Wait till me & Elizabeth get down there & you hear some of my stories. Can't wait till neet you & Heather
😂 gosh I enjoy when y'all post... funny and educational history and ghostly tales.. y'all got it all.. wonderful channel..
Wow thank you 😊
Beautiful town and area.
We agree!
Thanks!
Thank You!