Charleston WV Capitol Street

This is only 3 minutes of a one hour DVD of raw video shot between 1981 and 84. These are the last days of Capitol St before the Mall was built. Here you see the hole where the Mall will go. You'll see the Greyhound Bus station being torn down and many other scenes. The DVD includes footage of the Regatta in it's heyday and the 50th anniversary of the State Capitol. This DVD now available at http://www.mywvhome.com/web/video.htm

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Travel & Events

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• Charleston
• WV
• 1981
• Capitol
• Street
• West
• Virginia

[wvsky]

Charleston WV

[tom3999]

This video has that "Leave it to beaver wholesomeness" about it

[89doctorlove]

@VintageFuzz still have that place man ... and im 13

[Snuffcan1]

Love this YouTube clip! I Remember things/places looking like this in my early days of Jr high school when i would play hookie and roam the streets uptown lol

[WWEFaNOFKANE1997]

when charleston had more than just 50,000 people.

[53lincoln]

@ChandlerPromotions1 I dont doubt Summers Street was popular, that where all the prostitutes were.....lol

[brucenator]

@dmreeoogdaq The place you're remembering with the diner in the mezzanine was also Stone & Thomas, which was an awesome store right up to the day it closed. The diner, which indeed had amazing food, was managed by the lady who later ran the Greek restaurant, Best of Crete, now run by her sons. The Stone & Thomas company was later bought out by Elder Beerman in 1998 for $38 million, but not the Stone & Thomas building, which is still vacant. Remember Lance's? That was my favorite store!

[mintkitten]

Thank you for sharing this fascinating video.

[VCPro100]

Omg that's so different! Now if I'm driving down the streets I'm really surprised if I see more than 2 people walking on the street at the same time! ... so this really surprised me! Lol!

[Mercer1628]

Love going back in time. I live in Charleston and love Charleston as my own place.

[ralphabetsoup]

That's actually Capitol Street on a not-too-crowded day. Nice Summer days would bring out everyone and it would be wall to wall people on the sidewalks and massed at the crosswalks. It was very populated. Christmas season was busy as heck too.