![]() ![]() This was Blue Diamond, Kentucky, and I was born here. If you want another channel, you would have to put up another antenna in a different tree, or just watch the same station all the times. You could get only one station or channel with that antenna. Back then, up in the hills, you had to put you a TV antenna up in a trimmed-down tree, and run the wires to your TV set in your house. Henry Smith who had a little place to his house where he sold candy bars and pops, cake and other such things. Ballard, a guy there who would cut your hair, and back then they were using hand clippers. It was heated by a coal stove, and one teacher that teaches it all, and on Sundays, this building was a church. And back up in the hollow was a one-room school located on top of one of the mountains there, the school for the blacks, named Jackson School, of which is where I went to grammar school at. The grocery store, post office, movie show, and all were the front of the little town and there was just one red light there, and the blacks lived back in the hills of the town, which was about a two-or three-minute drive back up in the hollow. Captain Marvel and Superman was the top dogs to me. He would walk into a bar with his guns turned backward and order a glass of milk, tell all that he is a peaceful man and is looking for no trouble. I did go to the movies a lot there in Blue Diamond to see Superman, Tarzan, Batman and Robin, Jungle Jim, and Westerns with Lash La Rue, Cisco Kid, Lone Ranger, Red Ryder and my number-one Western star was Bill Elliot, Elliot. And upstairs, a fourth of it to your right was for the blacks only. We had a two-story show-house or theater “movie place.” Fifteen cents would get you into the movie, and there was always a cartoon. For serious sickness you were taken to Hazard Mountain Merry Hospital. There was one small post office, one doctor’s office-and he did make house calls. ![]() All the coal miners did their shopping for food, clothes, and other things at this store. Hazard was the big town for us back then, where we would do all our major shopping, especially for Christmas.īlue Diamond had one of everything, and the commissary store wars the big center store there. I was born in 1942 in a little old country hick town in coal-mining territory eight miles from Hazard, Kentucky, back up in the hollow where the blacks lived. ![]()
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