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get the red out

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3. Absolutely
Wed Mar 19, 2014, 10:58 AM
Mar 2014

I have see it also. But didn't know about the squatter aspect. Most of what I've seen though were ancient, dilapidated houses that were once part of thriving communities in the 20's - 40's until veins of coal played out and they gradually fell into disrepair. I have seen very old mobile homes too. When I was a kid in the 70s there was one group of kids who got off the bus and went into a house that was mostly made of plywood. Then the bus would move on to our middle class neighborhood that looked like any sub-division in the country.

I've seen these kind of conditions in plenty of hollows... theHandpuppet Mar 2014 #1
Eastern Kentucky A Little Weird Mar 2014 #2
Absolutely get the red out Mar 2014 #3
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