Honey, I Finished The Internet

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1. Kate the link takes me to “Epic Amusement Park Seat Belt Prank”.

2. Maybe the wrong link, but It’s funny as hell!!

   Epic Amusement Park Seat Belt Prank – Watch Their Reactions

3. Found it.

   Here’s the tour. You have to scroll down past the intro and a map of Bluefield to see pictures of the houses.

   Wow! A lot of people made some big bucks off King Coal. The miners? Not so much.

   https://www.bluefieldhistoricalsociety.org/virtual-tour

4. When driving through the Crowsnest Pass, did a tour of one of the coal mining areas, which included the ruins of the miners’ living quarters. Mine manager lived around the corner, in a very nice house (ruins today), while the miners had very small dwellings.
   But that has been the way of the world for a very long time. A more recent example was when – back in the early ’60s, the Celgar pulp mill was built upstream of Castlegar on the Columbia River. Once it was operational, the distinctive = and rather nasty – odor was everywhere. It was noted that the mill superintendent’s home was sited well downstream and in a protective cove where, pesumably, he would be free from the odour all the other residents of the valley were now experiencing.

   1. I worked at that mill for a season in my younger days.

5. I’ve stayed in Bluefield, WV! Interesting community. So much of West Virginia has been devastated but they’re trying to turn it into a tourist destination. Very pretty state!

   1. Well someone had to put it here
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8-5JeaMm9Q

      1. So takes me back. We’ve been city folk for many years, but there was a “country road” back to the home town. Except that, home town being up a mountainside, the road had one speed limit posted for those travelling up and a different one for those travelling down.

6. A good documentary on topic.

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_County,_USA

7. WV is a gorgeous state, especially in the Fall. And Bluefield used to have until a few years ago a low A farm team of Toronto’s Blue Jays called – oddly enough – the Bluefield Blue Jays. If you’re a snowbird to Florida then driving that route is an annual occurrence.