This road looks like absolutely nothing, but it has produced more professional athletes than any other street in north America, think the official tally is 47. We aren’t including it’s very short side streets going up the hill to the left… just the main road.
Don’t underestimate that basketball hoop, it produced a few NBA players.
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These two pictures above… The community center and church, then the large school with it’s sports center, made that happen. It was the most polluted spot in America, perhaps the world at the time. I’m not exaggerating, many listed the area as the worst, and this neighborhood had it pretty bad. During segregation it was the black neighborhood, but it was the first to get a black person holding a doctorate to teach, and he built the most amazing sports community ever… desegregation started early because all the whites saw how successful the blacks were doing, and did whatever they could to get their kids on the team. It wasn’t from any particular success in the breeding program, this county is the most northern county in the country you could own slaves in, in the US… And us only three miles wide. If a slave wanted to leave, you couldn’t really stop him, so it wasn’t from superior breeding, but education.
We stopped producing world class athletes during the Clinton administration. Largely unheard of, but like In Khaldun pointed out in the Muqadimmah, communities preserve vestigial remains of earlier eras, after the main industries died off. This “sportz center” is one of them.
That, or breathing in massive amounts of pollution makes great athletes.
These fucking inbred fucks… Look at the no trespassing sign… This is why we made first cousin marriage illegal. Before the steel mill came, these creepy fucks lived here… since prior to the revolution. Yes, the chance of having bad mutation leading to documented diseases in a first generation incest case is only a couple percent above the average… but you add this after so many generations of doing it. You get that.
That is the very incomplete memorial to the street, for making more athletes than any other street… right across from incest house. We landscaped it in classic West Virginian “I don’t give a fuck if people see this” landscaping. Threw rocks down. Not even half the names up there for the various sports.
Abandoned bridge. They threw rocks on it on this side, mounds of dirt on the other side… So people don’t drive. We got some bad traffic barriers, one down by the river people keep smashing into, I will take a picture of it, funny as hell. It is a barrier to a non existing bridge, across the Ohio river, people regularly crash through it. I’m impressed with their stupidity. Pay fucking attention.
SUV I bought in Ohio last year, I can’t legally register it here, cause of the rust and broken windshield, so it will be my last step after starting this business in a month or two in becoming fully mobile and self sufficient once more. I got new tires for it, engine is great I can lie down in the back fine, just can’t afford the registration, licence, and constant gas yet. Will soon, once I do… I’ll spend 9/10th of my time increasingly eastward in Pennsylvania, till I can afford a a newish cargo van. Just gonna build up from there. You learn after being homeless the importance of having a vehicle capable of being lived inside of, even if you don’t need to, it is always on the back of your mind. I will never live in a brand new passenger car… the kind smears own, so I would never buy one. A van, yeah.