Aerial of a Typical Company Town near Logan, West Virginia with the School at One End and the Company Store at the Other Company Towns Are Becoming a Thing of the Past. Because They Now Have Their Own Transportation, the Miners Choose to Live Away From the Mines in Which They Work and Commute as Much as 25 Miles One Way to Work. Before Miners Had Their Own Cars They Clustered in Company Towns and Walked to Work 04/1974 by Jack Corn for DOCUMERICA