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A picture's worth a 1,000 words.

There are few things I enjoy more than looking at old pictures. It doesn't matter whether it's old family photos, old photos of Corbin, or old photos of stuff I have no idea what I'm looking at. I can literally spend hours looking at old photos. I get lost in those old pictures. Time capsules.  Feel free to post any old pictures you might come across. They can be old photos of your town,  or even famous photos from history.  Old days were good days .


Here's where I spent a lot of my time in Corbin when I was 10, 11, 12 years old . Best little hamburgers ever. They were 15 cents each or a dozen for $1.20. Better than White Castle.  Also, best soft serve ice cream ever.  The owner was the dad of a girl in my class at school. There was a pinball machine in the diner. I would spend 5 or 6 hours at a time playing pinball, eating sliders, and listening to Freddie Hart(Easy Lovin') and John Denver(Take Me Home Country Roads) on the jukebox.


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Main Street , Corbin,  1974.  I got my first bicycle at the Western Auto store, on the left in the picture.


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The old Corbin of Commerce in the 1970's. Hardees is located in that spot now. All that history and that beautiful greenery done away with for biscuits& gravy and concrete. Damn shame!


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Here's where I caught Tommy Greer trying to find Paradise by the Dashboard Light with my girl. This was my grandparents go-to place for groceries.

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This is where it all began , folks.  North Corbin .


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My mom's  grocery store of choice. Love you , mama(RIP) .


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Anyone remember Stuckeys?   

The one here was located on US-25 headed toward London. It's a lumberyard, now.


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My hometown underwater in 1957.  People took boats down Main Street.


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South Main Street, Corbin. Best I cn determine, this looks to be the 1940's.


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The church I grew up in from the time I was a baby.


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Early Sanders:


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Saloon Row, Corbin.  1901 .


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Saloon Row in Corbin burned down in 1907.  Accounts differ on how the fire started. Some say it was anti-alcohol advocates who set the place afire while other accounts say a woman knocked over a lamp , leading to the whole block burning down.  Ms. O'Leary's cow... I don't think so.

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Silas Butner(everyone called him "Sy") was one of just a couple of black men that you saw in Corbin when I was a kid. Sy was a bellman at the Wilbur Hotel on the eaast side of town. The Wilbur was across the street from where the Corbin Public Library is today. I remember asking my dad to take me over to the Wilbur so I could see Sy. He was such a kind man. He would always wave to passers by and flash a big smile. Sy was very popular with townsfolk, especially the kids, who loved going by the Wilbur just to get a big wave and smile from Sy. I remember the Wilbur being a beautiful, opulent hotel inside. Such a shame they couldn't have preserved that piece of Corbin history. Typical Terrible thinking from Corbin "leaders."  Makes me want to vomit.  Now there's a medical supply store and parking lot where the winderful Wilbur once stood. Gd shame.

Btw, my buddy, Sy Butner , had a very unhappy ending. In January of 1971,  62 year-old Sy was murdered by infamous serial killer, Donald Harvey, at Marymount Hospital in London, where Harvey was working as an orderly at the time. It is thought that Harvey either suffocated Sy with a pillow or killed him by using a faulty oxygen valve.


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The old Wilbur Hotel :


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Aerial view of my hometown when I was just a little tyke.  1960's


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Corbin- Main& 1st :   1940's /2025


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This is not an old picture but it is a picture of a very old thing, with a very old , and very sad,  story behind it. 

I know it sounds macabre but I LOVE visiting cemeteries. I find it peaceful, a great place to self-reflect, and an opportunity to learn a little bit about the lives of those who were placed there. One of my favorites in Corbin is Pine Hill Cemetary off of Master Street on the east side of town. This is where most of my relatives are buried, so I go here more than any other. Recently, I saw a tombstone that was interesting, and after reading the inscription, and then doing further research, I was overcome with emotion about the little girl that was buried here.

Here's the story of this behind it, according to Walt Pennington.   During the Fall of 1896, a family was passing through Corbin when it was just a small hamlet and awaiting to become the burgeoning railroad center of all the coal shipments in southeastern Kentucky. It is unknown where the family was going but it seems , as they were traveling through, their young three year old daughter, May, had fallen ill. The type of illness was lost to time but unfortunately the child died. Grief stricken, the family was at a loss what to do next. A family who owned a parcel of land off of Master Street offered a small plot of land to bury the little girl and a small but fitting monument was erected at the site. The final resting place of this little girl, May Carper , daughter of J.B. and Minnie Carper from Ashville North Carolina , was the first person buried in what is now the Pine Hill Cemetery.

Here's where little May was buried. Such a sad story .  

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Anyone remember Clancy's Hamburgers? Corbin's was located on the south end of town on the Faalls Road. I think when Clancy's closed up shop, Burger Queen moved into that location. Burger Queen then became Druther's. The last business in the spot was a little dollar store, similar to , but not Dollar Tree.  Clancy's had some tasty little burgers. 


Ah, to go back to the '70's again and walk down and get a sack of burgers at Clancy's.

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The old football stadium at EKU.   It was located where the Powell and Wallace Buildings now stand.

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Construction of the tunnel connecting Worthington to Raceland.

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Picture is not old. This is Fort Macon, a Civil War fort located in Atlantic Beach,  NC. This also used for a short time during WWII.

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The old horse racing track in Raceland.  Built by Jack O. Keene in 1924 lasted until 1928. After the track closed, Keene moved to Lexington and Built Keeneland. 
When the horse track was built,  the city was called Chinnville. The town renamed Raceland as a way to remember the the horse track.

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The old football stadium at EKU.   It was located where the Powell and Wallace Buildings now stand.

i spent a significant part of my life in the Powell and Wallace Buildings, as a student, then as a teacher.


Powell Student Center,  circa 1972.


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F-4 Tornado on April 3, 1974 from EKU campus. Photo, I believe, was taken from atop one of the dorms. 7 people in Madison County lost their lives to this monster.  Worst day of storms in my llifetime. Xenia, OH and Brandenburg, KY were both hit by F-5's and had many deaths. Corbin got hit hard, as well, but no deaths that I can remember.


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Downtown Richmond, I'd say 1980's .

No, Old School doesn't remember a thing about this place. I literally don't remember a thing.  LOL


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I've only been to King's Island one time(same as the Brady Bunch).   Here's an aerial view of the park when it opened in 1972.

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Old picture of Tombstone Junction(was an amusement park, near Cumberland Falls). Had rides, concerts, train rides, old west shows. We loved going there as kids. Some of the greats in country music(Conway Twitty, Loretta, Waylon , George, Jones, Kenny Rogers, and many more) played TJ.  Great memories. Pic looks to be from the 70's. 


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Sometimes I will walk down around where Tombstone used to be. Here's what I see when I go.


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The town of Cumberland, in Harlan County. Looks to be 1980's . Is that Granny Bear pulling out of Hardees in that big long 1980's automobile?



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Penns Store in Gravel Switch:

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Rabbit Hash, KY :  Does anyone else miss these old country stores?  This one burned down a few years ago, I think.  The dogs are so appropriate here. Just makes the picture.


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The beach at Cumberland Falls, circa 1954.  The last time I was on the beach there a few years ago , I was picking up trash, in a cleanup day at the Falls. Almost no one is on the beach anymore. The more things change, the more of the little joys are lost to time.  Damn shame.


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This picture is so bittersweet for me. This is downtown Corbin around Christmas time(see the decorations) in 1965. Back in the 60's and 70's , downtown was a bustling hub of activity. Nowadays, a lot of the downtowns in these small towns have dried up and a lot of the shops and businesses have moved to shopping centers, taking most of the activity with it. Back when I was a kid, downtown Corbin was the place to be, especially around the Christmas holiday. People would be shoulder to shoulder, walking the sidewalks and looking in the shops at Christmas decorations.  

See the bald-headed man on the right side of the photo by the parking meter?  He was my doctor when I was a kid.  The gym at the high school is named after him. He died of lung cancer  in 1970. He was only about 50 years of age. He was a native of Cumberland, KY.

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