American Hollow (Warning: Long AF)

Nubb16

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**** Bulls. That's my life in a nutshell.

I'm not sure very many lived like that back when this video was made lol but now I know not many do. I live as far back as you can et in redneck town ky and insure don't see any of that. My great grandparents lived realy primitive back when I was a kid. Had a coal stove etc.
 

KingOfBBN

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I remember when this aired in the late 90s. HBO exploited those people for less than $1,000.

I do enjoy the redneck kid getting mad and cutting his jeans and then punching a chicken shack because his 16-year-old girlfriend didn't marry him.
 

slick rick.ksr

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I remember when this aired in the late 90s. HBO exploited those people for less than $1,000.

I do enjoy the redneck kid getting mad and cutting his jeans and then punching a chicken shack because his 16-year-old girlfriend didn't marry him.
My grandparents had coal stoves for heat up until they sold the farm in 1965. No indoor plumbing. Chamber pots and a well pump. That was in central Kentucky, not the mountains
 

H. Lecter

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My grandparents never had water and used a stove until they died in 91-92. Lived off their garden and wild game for the most part.
 

starchief

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We had a coal stove in the kitchen and one in the living room. As a kid I hated the chore of having to go out to the coal house and get a bucket of coal. We had a pump in the back yard and a water bucket with dipper in the kitchen. No indoor plumbing and, early on, coal oil lamps. I didn't live in a shack though and a good portion of people shared those same conditions and never thought anything of it.

I've watched that doc a couple of times. There were people like that family around (often back in hollers) but they were a relative minority.

In hindsight, in many ways, those really were good times.