Rock Springs: A Coal Town And An Identity Crisis
13K views · Feb 11, 2025 · Entertainment
Comments · 10
@rexarthur8001 · 9 days ago
If I remember correctly, the Stansbury Coal mine, a few miles north of Rock Springs, was shut down sometime around 1930. In the mid 1970s, the water was pumped out of it and it was reopened. There was a lot of water entering the mine, after reopening, due to the bore holes used to decide if they wanted to reopen it. I was the one in charge of the smaller pumps during the shift that I was on. I never could get used to shift work, so I left before I had one year in.
@jilldepoyster9775 · 8 months ago
That’s my brothers food truck at the beginning.
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@mikehulen2590 · 8 months ago
It's the lonely sax at the end that's doing it for me...
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@ingvarhedenrud621 · 1 year ago
Thank you. You should put these documentaries in a separate playlist.
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@WStephen-k8 · 2 months ago
In 1981 , the house I bought the year before almost fell into the mine. They later told me that there was 3 mine shafts on top of one another. The hole in my yard was so big and deep that I could'nt see the bottom. Afterwards, people would laugh and ask me if I had seen any missing children down there. So there were'nt just coal mines.
@lewisgeyer1440 · 8 months ago (edited)
I lived in northeast Pennsylvania in the 1990s. Subsidences were not uncommon then, a byproduct of the years of anthracite mining. The underground mining there stopped after the Susquehanna River was undermined, flooding many tunnels in what is coincidentally called the Wyoming Valley, killing a dozen miners in 1972.
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@stevemiller6766 · 6 months ago
Funny to hear him speak of 50 years ago, my wife and I married and lived in Rock Springs in 1976. I remember the mine subsidence issues when I worked for the city on Low Income housing. We lived on Dewar drive then out at 14 mile ranch for a while. <br>Thanks for a look back.
@samuelholland9521 · 1 year ago
Very informative.👍
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@robertschuler279 · 8 months ago
In your research did you ever come across the name of or pictures of Fred A Schuler? He was my Grandfather, a plumber in the mines and a leader in the fire department.
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