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January 1939. "Houses at city limits. Charleston, West Virginia." Nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Looks like the home on the left has power.
Gives new meaning to the phrase for kids living in these houses.
I sure would hate to fall down that hill but at least the roof of that house would break my fall. And that house. And that house.
These days in West Virginia you see mobile homes perched on impossible places, and wonder how they got them up there! It seems this is a longstanding tradition.
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