I went to Southern Beauty College ! It was down town on main street ! We stayed in The Wells Apts over Ky Finance thru the week and on Saturday catch the bus and head home to Harlan
Just saw this. Lived there from1972-1982 when we moved to Maynardville, Tennessee. We lived in Hiram, just up the road toward Harlan. My dad and papaw ran Robbins Service Station there. I was a member of Dione Baptist Church. My mom's parents lived on Collier's Creek just inside Letcher County. I remember passing that club on the school bus. Two names I remember are The Fuzzy Duck and The Slipped Disc. Lol. Mamaw Gilbert passed away and we sold her place in Letcher County. Don't know when I'll ever see that part of the country again. Thanks for this video.
I've been through there many years ago. It's a beautiful and fascinating area. My work has taken me away from there and I miss that region of our great country. Thanks for sharing the information and views of Kentucky.
It must be Sunday. I actually evacuated from Florida to Cumberland for Hurricane Irma a few years back and worked "remote" from the library. It was not easy to find parking.
Lot of abandoned stores, saw some with stuffed animals inside and houses, we went to willing hearts they make beautiful stained glass! We went to that little boutique, they have necklaces where you can change the middle, like little different designs, the middle looks like little pendants. We took a tour of the minds, super cool! I love history! We did vbs at this place I forgot what it’s called but we all had a blast! Met so many wonderful people and kids! I was in 8th grade then(2018). I made some friends and had a lot of fun and learned new Christian songs and learned how to play extreme uno lol!
There is a road off that main road that Kingdom Come State park is on headed out of town. The name of the road is William and Sarah Cox Rd. It was named after my Mamaw and Papaw. There is a house on the top of the road and that is where my dad grew up. Thanks for sharing!
I was raised in Benham. I graduated from Cumberland High ! It makes me sad to see what people have done to the school!!used to be a hooping town! The club over by the grocery store was called the Slip Disc in late 70’s
Glad to see a video of Poor Fork. Was there really a Piggly Wiggly near the current Food City? What I remember is the Cas Walker that used to be around that location.
I remember the old Piggly wiggly at the food City location because that's where my friends and me used to park when we went to the club next door. Can't believe how long ago that was, seems like yesterday.
@@IgnitedCoyote Thank you for these videos. Though I rarely get back to the area, I remember spending time visiting family in Cumberland and Benham throughout my life. In reference to Cas Walker's store, there was an old commercial that they were "open every day, half a day on judgement day."
Delivered pkgs. to Cumberland and Tri-Cities 1976 to 1984. Remember Vic Morris, Bob Frazier, Archie Alexander, Homer Gogich, and so many others. The mines were still running and the towns were fairly prosperous. Sad to see buildings gone or falling down. Still a nice area, and the people are great!
Archie Alexander's clothing store (I bought blue Sunday shoes there), The NOVO movie theater. Bussed to Cumberland Elementary. Walked RR tracks and flattened nickles, made ink our of fuscia-colored berries by tracks, slate-sided mountain with cow pasture below it as water trickled down. Mrs. Ogle, 1st grade, Walters, 2nd grade, Caudill, 2nd grade, Hollitt, third grade and many more memories. Elementary school plays at the high school in late 50s. Elementary basketball (Red Devils vs. Blue Devils) and cheerleaders in 4th grade at high school, Mrs. Holbrook, Mrs. Gross, so many residents from the 50s. Patti and Atheline Karen. Mrs. Montgomery's lard buscuits, Kaye Broaddus, Henrietta, Lana and Dana, Larry Ball, Jamie, Beverly, so many old classmates. "Nick's Place" and swings on porches as children played "My Car" (based on choice of a color, then, with little traffic, when that color car drove by on Main St., child would shout, "My Car!". Joyce Bobich radio show with contest between Pat Boone and Elvis....Pat won in 1957! Moved from Cumberland in 1959...not a minute too soon it seems. "Sugartime", "I'm Available", "Rock and Roll Waltz". We were Methodists back then.
I know this is an old post, but Vic was my bus driver as a kid. I lived there from birth in 1972 until we moved to Tennessee in 1982. Ironically, I coached with Vic's son Louis in Maynardville, Tennessee where we moved to.
We drove through Dahlonega this Saturday. On any other weekend, as pretty as the weather was, the streets and sidewalks would be packed. This time it was like "28 Days Later". I pray all our towns bounce back.
Hi mrs coyote, been praying for you ,how are you feeling ? Thanks for the ride , very interesting.Always love your trips.Keep safe durning these bad times. Keep praying.
Thank you for this video and the video of harlan. I remember a diner right on the corner of main street that we used to eat at. We lived on a road that had speedway on it. They were businesses in front of speedway. We stayed in the back of one of them businesses. Me my mom and 2 sisters where homeless. We just stayed where ever we could. If we didnt have a place to live we would sleep in the car. That is mostly where we slept at. And our mom would take us to the laundry mat every morning and wash us for school. We always peed at night so she had too. I do remember we had a project apartment where you went to last on the video. We lived in harlan. Cumberland. Sunshine. Loyal. Wallins creek. Baxter and caywood. And then we moved to Lexington when i was 10. We stayed in a hotel for a while while my mom worked at checkers in front of uk hospital. And then we lived at the salvation army. And then she saved up enough money and we finally got a home. We never went without a home after that.
Hard times are always the hardest on the kids. You grow up and you look back on them and you wonder how you made it through them alive. I'm glad your mom didn't give up hope till she got a home for her family. Thanks for watching, and God bless!
Cumberland is a nice town, but as far as fast food restaurant options and grocery store options are concerned, you're not gonna find a lot of them. Cumberland has only one supermarket, and that's Food City. It has only three fast food restaurants, and they are Hardee's, Pizza Hut, and Subway. And yet, Cumberland has more residents than Harlan, where you'll find five grocery store options (Cash Saver, Don's Super Saver, Food City, and Save-a-Lot), and 12 fast food restaurants (Arby's, Dairy Queen, Hardee's, Huddle House, KFC, Little Caesar's, McDonald's, Papa John's, Pizza Hut, Subway, Taco Bell, and Wendy's.) Well, that's weird!
That is not strictly true there are several other restaurants if they haven't closed i lived about 15 minuets away that was my home town i left when i was 19 but there are several stores a family dollar dollar general a cvs that used to be the rite aid there are a couple small pizza shops i think or there used to be there's the hoagie shop dairy hut two the snow cone stand another place up by where the old shell i think it was used to be and there was a restaurant right by where they started i don't know if its still there or not but there's a lot of hole in the wall places there.
next time you go to the cumberland,benham or lynch see if you can find brenna early and tell her that chopper dan thats what she knows me by says hello and i miss her.her nickname is rocket.her dads name is chris early.
Thank you for taking us there. My Dad was raised in Cumberland, KY back in 1934-1952. My Papaw was a coal miner there in the Black Mountains. A lot of memories of our family driving there from Michigan in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s to visit our Mamaw and Papaw. It has changed a lot if course with modern times. I guess the Piggly Wiggly grocery store is gone. Thank you and take care-Debbie
My grandma was born there her dad was a coal miner and he died but her mom moved their whole family to Paducah where she met my grandpa and we still live in Paducah today.
I spent all my summers right here in Cumberland,KY...through the mid and late 60's and almost all of the 70's. I truly wish I could remember the name of the road where my grandparents lived. My papaw was John David Williams who was also a coal miner and that very same mine you talk about here. I hated cleaning the tub after his nightly bath!! lol. But the wonderful memories I had there...I wouldn't trade for the world.
Went on a mission trip there in 2018, me and my family stayed in the school! All the classroom and lockers and gym are still there! Some of the classrooms have bunk beds in them. Where the office would be hit turned into a little apartment and that’s where we stayed! The school is 3 stories, there was a room upstairs that we weren’t allowed to go in. The locals told us a story and said it was haunted! We played a game of sardines and went exploring, there showers where the girl and boys bathrooms were. The lunch room is still there.
Ignited Coyote several years ago, my family, and myself left my in-laws on Little Cowen Creek, heading to Gatlinburg. Bears had been seen on Little Shepherds Trail so we decided to go across the mountain that way. It came a terrible thunderstorm while we were on top of the mountain, water was washing out the road, we were in a Honda mini van, it was a mess. Didn’t see the first bear, but a emu jumped out of some brush and went running down the road in front of us.... it scared us a little, but then we got to laughing... it was some day..
@@IgnitedCoyote My papaw wa a forest ranger at little shepard trail.past the rebel rock up to right where the old bathrooms are .The road to the right of the old bathrooms go up to where my papaw livef in a log cabin next to his watch tower he used to watch for fires. His name was Edd Smith and my mamaw was Sara Smith.
From India, I would say a flight in the McGhee Tyson airport in Knoxville Tennessee and then North into Kentucky and Harlan county either by car or charter flight into the Tucker Guthrie airport in Harlan
MY WIFE SAID THINK YOU SHE USE TO LIVE THERE AND WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL THERE. AND THAT NIGHT CLUB BEHIND THE POST OFFICE ALL SO. WAS CALLED THE EAGLE CLUB
The medical clinic was the country Palace, I know it will, visited it many times with my friends in the early nineties and my brother worked there, it was extensively remodeled when it became the medical clinic but the structure is still the same one that was the country Palace nightclub in the '90s. The nursing home was new built next to the old nightclub. And behind the post office across from food City was the site of another nightclub that went by several names, the last one being the Shakers. Sorry for any misunderstanding.
so wonderful to see my home town.. it looks so lonely and run down 😢 I still love seeing and visiting it.. Ty
Be sure you visit Lynch. My home town and I miss it more than you could imagine
I was born in Benham ky .My dad worked at the A&P store .I love Cumberland ,I still have family there.
Lived There for a couple years as a kid in 74-76. Great memories.
I went to Southern Beauty College ! It was down town on main street ! We stayed in The Wells Apts over Ky Finance thru the week and on Saturday catch the bus and head home to Harlan
Just saw this. Lived there from1972-1982 when we moved to Maynardville, Tennessee. We lived in Hiram, just up the road toward Harlan. My dad and papaw ran Robbins Service Station there. I was a member of Dione Baptist Church. My mom's parents lived on Collier's Creek just inside Letcher County. I remember passing that club on the school bus. Two names I remember are The Fuzzy Duck and The Slipped Disc. Lol. Mamaw Gilbert passed away and we sold her place in Letcher County. Don't know when I'll ever see that part of the country again. Thanks for this video.
Glad you enjoyed the video Chris thanks for watching!
I miss that little town, been gone a long time
I've been through there many years ago. It's a beautiful and fascinating area. My work has taken me away from there and I miss that region of our great country. Thanks for sharing the information and views of Kentucky.
It must be Sunday. I actually evacuated from Florida to Cumberland for Hurricane Irma a few years back and worked "remote" from the library. It was not easy to find parking.
Not much left in those town’s these days but still interesting to look at..always wonder what it was like during their heyday.
Love it over in that part of the state. Have you & Mrs. Coyote but up to Black Mtn? That’s on my list of to do’s next time I’m over in that area.
I love these videos …. Showing small towns and all of their wonders……. I will have to visit one …..
Thanks for watching we appreciate it!
@@IgnitedCoyote No problem
Lot of abandoned stores, saw some with stuffed animals inside and houses, we went to willing hearts they make beautiful stained glass! We went to that little boutique, they have necklaces where you can change the middle, like little different designs, the middle looks like little pendants. We took a tour of the minds, super cool! I love history! We did vbs at this place I forgot what it’s called but we all had a blast! Met so many wonderful people and kids! I was in 8th grade then(2018). I made some friends and had a lot of fun and learned new Christian songs and learned how to play extreme uno lol!
Great video.......thanks for bringing us along.
My brother lived there for many years. He only has a few weeks to live. Cancer.
God bless you and your family and God bless your brother! We lost my wife's mother to cancer a little over a year ago, it's rough.
We have piggly wiggly in North Carolina
There is a road off that main road that Kingdom Come State park is on headed out of town. The name of the road is William and Sarah Cox Rd. It was named after my Mamaw and Papaw. There is a house on the top of the road and that is where my dad grew up. Thanks for sharing!
That's great! Thanks for the info and thanks for watching!
What is there name
I was raised in Benham. I graduated from Cumberland High ! It makes me sad to see what people have done to the school!!used to be a hooping town! The club over by the grocery store was called the Slip Disc in late 70’s
Thanks Wanda. That club across from Piggly wiggly was around a long time. I've heard it called the Eagles and the Shakers.
Glad to see a video of Poor Fork. Was there really a Piggly Wiggly near the current Food City? What I remember is the Cas Walker that used to be around that location.
I remember the old Piggly wiggly at the food City location because that's where my friends and me used to park when we went to the club next door. Can't believe how long ago that was, seems like yesterday.
@@IgnitedCoyote Thank you for these videos. Though I rarely get back to the area, I remember spending time visiting family in Cumberland and Benham throughout my life. In reference to Cas Walker's store, there was an old commercial that they were "open every day, half a day on judgement day."
There is actually still 3 Piggly Wiggly stores in Ky. And 530 in the United States throughout 17 States! I love your videos! Keep up the good work!!
Delivered pkgs. to Cumberland and Tri-Cities 1976 to 1984. Remember Vic Morris, Bob Frazier, Archie Alexander, Homer Gogich, and so many others. The mines were still running and the towns were fairly prosperous. Sad to see buildings gone or falling down. Still a nice area, and the people are great!
Archie Alexander's clothing store (I bought blue Sunday shoes there), The NOVO movie theater. Bussed to Cumberland Elementary. Walked RR tracks and flattened nickles, made ink our of fuscia-colored berries by tracks, slate-sided mountain with cow pasture below it as water trickled down. Mrs. Ogle, 1st grade, Walters, 2nd grade, Caudill, 2nd grade, Hollitt, third grade and many more memories. Elementary school plays at the high school in late 50s. Elementary basketball (Red Devils vs. Blue Devils) and cheerleaders in 4th grade at high school, Mrs. Holbrook, Mrs. Gross, so many residents from the 50s. Patti and Atheline Karen. Mrs. Montgomery's lard buscuits, Kaye Broaddus, Henrietta, Lana and Dana, Larry Ball, Jamie, Beverly, so many old classmates. "Nick's Place" and swings on porches as children played "My Car" (based on choice of a color, then, with little traffic, when that color car drove by on Main St., child would shout, "My Car!". Joyce Bobich radio show with contest between Pat Boone and Elvis....Pat won in 1957! Moved from Cumberland in 1959...not a minute too soon it seems. "Sugartime", "I'm Available", "Rock and Roll Waltz". We were Methodists back then.
I know this is an old post, but Vic was my bus driver as a kid. I lived there from birth in 1972 until we moved to Tennessee in 1982. Ironically, I coached with Vic's son Louis in Maynardville, Tennessee where we moved to.
We drove through Dahlonega this Saturday. On any other weekend, as pretty as the weather was, the streets and sidewalks would be packed. This time it was like "28 Days Later". I pray all our towns bounce back.
Hi mrs coyote, been praying for you ,how are you feeling ? Thanks for the ride , very interesting.Always love your trips.Keep safe durning these bad times. Keep praying.
Thanks from mrs.Coyote! Feeling a little better, thanks so much for the prayers. God bless you!
Thank you for this video and the video of harlan. I remember a diner right on the corner of main street that we used to eat at. We lived on a road that had speedway on it. They were businesses in front of speedway. We stayed in the back of one of them businesses. Me my mom and 2 sisters where homeless. We just stayed where ever we could. If we didnt have a place to live we would sleep in the car. That is mostly where we slept at. And our mom would take us to the laundry mat every morning and wash us for school. We always peed at night so she had too. I do remember we had a project apartment where you went to last on the video. We lived in harlan. Cumberland. Sunshine. Loyal. Wallins creek. Baxter and caywood. And then we moved to Lexington when i was 10. We stayed in a hotel for a while while my mom worked at checkers in front of uk hospital. And then we lived at the salvation army. And then she saved up enough money and we finally got a home. We never went without a home after that.
Hard times are always the hardest on the kids. You grow up and you look back on them and you wonder how you made it through them alive. I'm glad your mom didn't give up hope till she got a home for her family. Thanks for watching, and God bless!
Bless your heart
Mrs. Walters was my 2nd graade school teacher at Cumberland Elementary.
Use to be a restaurant there called coal town my mom worked there for years
Cumberland is a nice town, but as far as fast food restaurant options and grocery store options are concerned, you're not gonna find a lot of them. Cumberland has only one supermarket, and that's Food City. It has only three fast food restaurants, and they are Hardee's, Pizza Hut, and Subway. And yet, Cumberland has more residents than Harlan, where you'll find five grocery store options (Cash Saver, Don's Super Saver, Food City, and Save-a-Lot), and 12 fast food restaurants (Arby's, Dairy Queen, Hardee's, Huddle House, KFC, Little Caesar's, McDonald's, Papa John's, Pizza Hut, Subway, Taco Bell, and Wendy's.) Well, that's weird!
That is not strictly true there are several other restaurants if they haven't closed i lived about 15 minuets away that was my home town i left when i was 19 but there are several stores a family dollar dollar general a cvs that used to be the rite aid there are a couple small pizza shops i think or there used to be there's the hoagie shop dairy hut two the snow cone stand another place up by where the old shell i think it was used to be and there was a restaurant right by where they started i don't know if its still there or not but there's a lot of hole in the wall places there.
Please do a video on Baxter. That's where we are moving to. Thanks. Great videos.
Why would anyone move to Baxter ?🤢
next time you go to the cumberland,benham or lynch see if you can find brenna early and tell her that chopper dan thats what she knows me by says hello and i miss her.her nickname is rocket.her dads name is chris early.
Thank you for taking us there. My Dad was raised in Cumberland, KY back in 1934-1952. My Papaw was a coal miner there in the Black Mountains. A lot of memories of our family driving there from Michigan in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s to visit our Mamaw and Papaw. It has changed a lot if course with modern times. I guess the Piggly Wiggly grocery store is gone. Thank you and take care-Debbie
Thanks for watching, I appreciate it!
My grandma was born there her dad was a coal miner and he died but her mom moved their whole family to Paducah where she met my grandpa and we still live in Paducah today.
I spent all my summers right here in Cumberland,KY...through the mid and late 60's and almost all of the 70's. I truly wish I could remember the name of the road where my grandparents lived. My papaw was John David Williams who was also a coal miner and that very same mine you talk about here. I hated cleaning the tub after his nightly bath!! lol. But the wonderful memories I had there...I wouldn't trade for the world.
Oh, thank you!
My hometown ❤️ ♥️
Fantastic. Video. I. Will. Share. It
Thanks so much!
theres a piggly wiggly in pineville ky off of 25e at the redlight.
The old BP station isn’t there anymore the old car wash gone and the ware house across from southern whole sale is also gone now
Did your Great Grandma teach music?
Went on a mission trip there in 2018, me and my family stayed in the school! All the classroom and lockers and gym are still there! Some of the classrooms have bunk beds in them. Where the office would be hit turned into a little apartment and that’s where we stayed! The school is 3 stories, there was a room upstairs that we weren’t allowed to go in. The locals told us a story and said it was haunted! We played a game of sardines and went exploring, there showers where the girl and boys bathrooms were. The lunch room is still there.
Wrong school! The school we stayed at was through 180 ministries
My home 🏠 place. I have been gone along time but it's still home..
You can leave home but home never leaves you.
Beside the library there was a hair salon in a trailer. I would get my hair cut there in 1975. Checked out a lot of books from the library.
In one way 75 don't seem all that long ago, in another it seems like it was a million years ago, know what I mean?
Was Sue Smith your relative?
@@abob8671 no
@@IgnitedCoyote yes
My grandmother Francis irene douglas is from Harlan ky. Hicks is her maiden name.
This is where my mom is from. Looks different for sure.
I know very little, as I’m a city boy, but I’d like to see one on Little Shepherd’s Trail, and hear your narrative...
I'm planning one on the little Shepherd's Trail, it's really beautiful up there in the spring, so I hope I can do one then.
Ignited Coyote several years ago, my family, and myself left my in-laws on Little Cowen Creek, heading to Gatlinburg. Bears had been seen on Little Shepherds Trail so we decided to go across the mountain that way. It came a terrible thunderstorm while we were on top of the mountain, water was washing out the road, we were in a Honda mini van, it was a mess. Didn’t see the first bear, but a emu jumped out of some brush and went running down the road in front of us.... it scared us a little, but then we got to laughing... it was some day..
My wife and I were talking about how scary a bad thunderstorm would be on that road when we did the Rebel Rock video.
@@IgnitedCoyote My papaw wa a forest ranger at little shepard trail.past the rebel rock up to right where the old bathrooms are .The road to the right of the old bathrooms go up to where my papaw livef in a log cabin next to his watch tower he used to watch for fires. His name was Edd Smith and my mamaw was Sara Smith.
very nice
Nice video,
Are you guys from Kentucky?
Sure are, can't you tell 🤣 Thanks so much for watching!
@@IgnitedCoyote
What would you consider "The Best" place to live in Kentucky?
It’s almost like an episode of the Twilight Zone. Interesting video. 🙂👏🏻👏🏻
does anybody remember the old department store behind pizza hut
will always be home for me its shameful what they did to the old high school I graduate from there and have a lot of good memories
What is your name
I went to Cumberland. High in 1975. What year were there? We to the grade school on the hill from 3rd to 8th
My Dad played football and graduated from there also, around 1040.
Looks fun to
Me :)
theres a piggly wiggly in milton wv
Oh the Food City was the old Piggly Wiggly lol. I should have watched the whole video before I commented lol.
"Henrys" was our food store in 1955. And Borchin's Butcher Shop.
It's sad to see what people done to our school
I wanna to come in this place for study
How I come
I m from India
From India, I would say a flight in the McGhee Tyson airport in Knoxville Tennessee and then North into Kentucky and Harlan county either by car or charter flight into the Tucker Guthrie airport in Harlan
@@IgnitedCoyote how's long is this 😅
What in the world does people do for jobs here. Excellent video.
Good paying jobs can sometimes be hard to find. Jobs are the heart of a small town take them away and the town just dies.
Poor people live there like me
I live in Benham
MY WIFE SAID THINK YOU SHE USE TO LIVE THERE AND WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL THERE. AND THAT NIGHT CLUB BEHIND THE POST OFFICE ALL SO. WAS CALLED THE EAGLE CLUB
You're welcome, glad you enjoyed it!
Club Dallas at one point ! 😂
No it was not a night club
The medical clinic was the country Palace, I know it will, visited it many times with my friends in the early nineties and my brother worked there, it was extensively remodeled when it became the medical clinic but the structure is still the same one that was the country Palace nightclub in the '90s. The nursing home was new built next to the old nightclub.
And behind the post office across from food City was the site of another nightclub that went by several names, the last one being the Shakers.
Sorry for any misunderstanding.
Population by decade, 1940 4,149 57.2%
1950 4,249 2.4%
1960 4,271 0.5%
1970 3,380 −20.9%
1980 3,712 9.8%
1990 3,112 −16.2%
2000 2,611 −16.1%
2010 2,237 −14.3%
2020 1,947 −13.0%