South Charleston, West Virginia, 1973

Like many photos taken for EPA’s Documerica series, this one of South Charleston’s downtown area – specifically Seventh Street, looking east, which we came across on Jim and Chester’s Garage – uses a loooong lens to juxtapose a thriving downtown with, likely, the reason for that downtown’s fortune: a now-demolished heavy-polluting industrial plant located along what is now known as Brownfield Way. What do you see here?