Omar: 1935

Blitz...Your grandfather delivered my mother (Erma Crum Sargent) 83 years ago.

The house behind the man on the right was still standing in the 1970s. My grandfather Dana Moore was a doctor and lived there. We had many a good Christmas, sometimes with snow. Grandpa doctored some of the Hatfields and of course miners. My parents at one time had his birth books, he delivered a lot of babies. My father was born in Stirrat, just down the road.

My father (Ervin Sargent) worked at Omar #5 and Stirrat #15. He is now 90 years old and loves talking about "those days."

What a looker he is! I agree about the Hitler looking mustache. I wonder what they were discussing.

I grew up here. Almost every building you see in this picture is now gone, many before the 1960s. When the companies abandoned these towns, the people abandoned them for lack of work.

Oh, but the railroad tracks and the roads are still there.

Those homes on the mountainside must have been fun to build.

Think of what a good rainstorm could do to them?

I thought there was a better picture. Where is it?

[Two posts up. Or you can click on the photographer's name above the photo. (Yes, I know I could just link to it right here. But give a man a fish ... ) - Dave]

Looks like Little Hitler

Or Ernest Borgnine!

Methinks Robert Blake.

A few years later I bet he shaved that thing off!

That looks like Rod Serling on the right.

[Or Adolf Hitler. - Dave]