 Sam Grabick's GM Auto Dealer & Garage was a Slickville landmark, later occupied by Mike and Jimmy Kitch's Garage (with John Sheliga's autobody shop downstairs in the 1960s).3rd generation owner Brian Kitch has moved the shop to nearby Patton, but most people still identify it as being a Slickville institution.Since the closing of the 5 Slickville mines by 1942, the nearby Patton and Jamison mines in the 1950s, and the near total abandonment of mining of 'high sulfur' coal in the area since the 1980s, Slickville has benefited economically from its proximity to other cities in the area.