We’re Taking A Drive Down Memory Lane In Iaeger, WV!
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- čas přidán 22. 07. 2024
- On this video, Crystal and I take a drive down memory lane through Iaeger, WV!
Join us as we take a leisurely drive through Iaeger, WV, reminiscing along the way. From how we remember the way things used to be in town, to where Crystal and I first met, we talk about all the places we fondly remember, in the town we both grew up in.
Let us know about your memories of the area (or what we remembered wrongly) in the comments below!
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I spent the summer of 66 selling bibles in McDowell County West Virginia and I stayed in a three story hotel across the tracks in downtown Iaeger. I met a lot of nice people and kept in touch with a pretty young lady named Ermalee H. I still remember her mailing address. It was Left Hand Fork, Lick Branch Hollar.
Love it here! Thx for the history our fam moved into Iaeger 7 years ago and everyone is so friendly.
You live there !?
I was born at Clark’s Clinic in Iaeger in 1960
I remember growing up we always parked across the river beside of route 52 and walked across a foot bridge into town. The building you were talking about with the medal outline of WV on it was an ABC ( liquor store) and the used to be one before it near the old Fire Department building. I used to go to a Dentist office upstairs at the old Social Security office building. There also used to be a Ben Franklin store near the old Fire department building.
Thanks 🙏
I was born in Clark Clinic in 1958
My mom worked at the community center, and we lived upstairs, and yes, that was our theater. My Bother and Sister worked at the rollerskating rink. I was five at that time, but I was that 5-year-old kid that could skate, lol, and that brick house is where the Mayor lived at one time. I'm sure your Dad played pool with mine. Thanks for bringing back some great memories
That’s awesome! My grandmother worked at the old bus terminal.
Thanks for sharing with us and thanks for watching!
Sooo many memories 4 me during this ride thru memory lane....i ,also, grew up there, went to th same schools as yall both did , married an left Iaeger, an mostly returned while visiting Fanning Funeral Home for a relative's funeral. Things do change as th years pass by....thanks 4 th view!
My grandmother lived in pathercreek , I went to Jr. High in like 1969, and remember that little store where I would meet my girlfriend. Looks ran down. But memories for sure , thanks for the drive.
You’re welcome! Glad you enjoyed it!
Laike Crozier? Did you have her as teacher?
@marknewton6984 no ! We were students 😀 13 years old and haven't been back in 50 years now .
Old man Dr. Clark!
IAEGER was a bustling town in the 1960's, played football for the CUBS, it was a very nice place to live lots of activity. Thanks for the memories, 🏈 ❤😊
You’re very welcome! Thanks for watching!
Where does the name originate from? There's little to no information, never heard of that name before....
It’s named after a settler who came to the area, Colonel William Iaeger
@The J5 Life thanks 👍
The sunamco building was the original Post Office.
My Mom, her dad and a bunch of my relatives are buried at the Baily Cemetery at Panther Creek. Many of them died in the mines.
My family's farm was in Iaeger. From the time I was six until
I was thirteen I spent my summers on that farm.
We had no running water. We had an outhouse. We raised all our own food. Chickens running everywhere. Grandpa plowed with two blue mules. Our farm on Johnny Cake was the last one on the holler, 40 acres. I can not describe how beautiful it was there. The fences were hand split rails.
Iaeger, the poorest city in the poorest county in the poorest state in America. I was lucky to be so poor.
If you want to hear more let me know.
We love hearing this kind of stuff! Thanks for sharing!
@@TheJ5Life You are welcome.
Our only source of water was a hand dug well off the front porch We had a bucket on a rope to retrieve water. The house was a salt box design with a root cellar.
We bartered for anything we needed. We never had a car or truck. We had electric and a party line crank phone provided for life when Gramps traded mineral rights.
There were ten kids, 8 boys and 2 girls. All the boys were coal miners until they were old enough to join the service. In the winter the house was heated with coal as there were surface veins on the 40 acres
We raised pork but no beef. We ate a lot of chicken, home made biscuits, and home canned veggies.
Gramps, my Dad and I once walked two days to visit neighbors who had not been to town for years. They had a pipe organ in their cabin. It had been there so long no one knew how it got there.
Of all things our kitchen set was beautiful Chippendale. Once gramps died Grandma chopped it up over six years to make wood for her kitchen stove.
@OzarkMan I’ve used a few hand dug wells. The water was always very nice and cold.
It was definitely simpler times in a simple place.
@@TheJ5Life We believed in ourselves for sure.
Thanks guys for the memory ride. The building across from the blue building and to the right of the lonely house was Ben Franklin five and dime store I think. Was GC murphy in Welch instead? Mayhew's store was up the street from there I believe beside the old arcade where the grassy area is.
Yep, GC Murphy was in Welch and Ben Franklin was in town. It’s easy for me to get crossed up on that stuff. It had been a while 😂
Thanks for watching!
My grandmother from that area, Frances churchwell and married into the Adams family if I am correct,she would talk about the place occasionally how small it was watching this video explains a lot why she left,ECT but fond memories too
It’s definitely small…even smaller now than it used to be.
I knew a Churchwell family and lived beside a lady named Sadie Adams in Iaeger.
@@lorifaye2076 I heard of the Adams family from my late grandma Francis patman I think they were linked through marriage or something like that, her sister was married to a man had like four boys Ronnie, Darryl, Arnel and Timothy and a daughter Peggy Churchwell of course they left years ago and moved to various places like Philadelphia,NY Chicago ECT ,the Adams family again I think 💬🤔⁉️ linked by marriage my late grandma was married to a Adams but divorced, small town limited marriage options but nevertheless i am interested in learning about my family tree ,a roots type of journey iam sure it's interesting 🤔 thanks for sharing tell me more if you hear anything else
@@TheJ5Life my late grandma mentioned often how small it was seeing is believing if you seen it she told me compared to Youngstown Ohio night 🌃🌉😂 and day
😂 I have no doubt. It is the definition of small town.
Great Video Thanks! Iaeger 93!
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!!
I used to drive for cimarron and used to go there some with RR crews
It was definitely a busy rail yard for a long time.
That house was Dr. Gibson. Where he lived and where he practiced medicine. He was before Dr. Clark. 1940
I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing!
Don't forget the Hotel up on the hill and also Stanlys appliance store not sure if I spelled that right
I do remember the appliance store, but not the hotel.
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Looks like a ghost town
It is definitely a shell of what it used to be
It is
You didn't miss nothing going through Jager it's the same as it always was
I'd love to find 😢rent to own or even an acre or two in or near this place to retire...
Unfortunately, that can be hard to find.
I’d pay BIG money for a Lynn’s pizza and salad 😭😭
Same!!!!
Although understand why it's a shame most comments are about past memories. I'm betting WV is about to see a big wave with what's going on elsewhere. It's top on my retirement list.
It definitely has a lot of potential now.
Mine too.
I am going back to visit family, then meet with a realtor to consider buying a home or property with a few acres in the rural areas for my retirement as well.
I hope you find something to your liking!
@@TheJ5Life
The realtor has sent me pictures of properties he’s sold within the last couple of years and the prices are incredible compared to pricing elsewhere. WV is a bargain. I was born in Welch WV and I will return within 1 year or less.
Your childhood memories reflect my own.
Real estate prices in the rural areas are definitely below those average.
I have been looking to relocate and that town has the train and the water which is what I want. Eastern Kentucky has some good towns with the train and water in them too.
You're kidding !
@@davidjanson7982 nope! And I am in Ecuador where the temperature is the same every day. Sorry! I am serious
C&P telephone
I want to see some wild West Virginia women where they at?
They are not in downtown Iaeger 😂
They’re all probably sitting in their houses watching game shows and soap operas and eating potato chips and dingdong’s and pizza and picking up a few more pounds
Democratic stronghold and the UMWA helped kill that area