Matoaka,West Virginia

 Big catfish tournament in the hills.  I'm sure there will be a lot of catfish frying next week end.

 The town of Matoaka,West Virginia is like hundreds of coal towns in the state where coal was king and the towns were filled with shoppers,but now more the building are run down,broken windows in the upstairs where people used to live.

 The town had more than one dentist.

 Some of the stores have old things for sale,like this old surveyor tripod.

 Old gas stove that looked almost new.

 The town Hardware Store in the building on the right.

Do you remember when the family had one of these new washing machine and your mother would be in the kitchen or on the back porch washing the clothes?

     

 Then they had the newer ones.

 And newer yet.

 This is the front of an old church.  Notice the two sets of steps and the two doors on the front of the church.  The men would use one side and the women would use the other side.

A nice sky at the end of another nice day of sightseeing.