Manassas - Virginia - 4K Downtown Drive
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- July 4th drive around the town of Manassas, VA.
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From Wikipedia:
Manassas (/məˈnæs əs/;[7]), formerly Manassas Junction, is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. The population was 42,772 at the at the 2020 Census. The city borders Prince William County, and the independent city of Manassas Park, Virginia. The Bureau of Economic Analysis includes both Manassas and Manassas Park with Prince William County for statistical purposes.
Manassas contains several historic sites dating from 1850 to 1870. Manassas is the county seat and surrounds the 38-acre (150,000 m2) county courthouse, which is located on county property.
Manassas is part of the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area and is in the Northern Virginia region.
so... i've never heard of your channel, and i dont watch anything driving related, but here you are being recommended to me, showing off my town all over youtube lol. in case you missed it, there is a really awesome ice cream shop about a mile back from where the video starts: Swirlie's.
That TH-cam algorithm doing its magic.
I was thinking the same thing like I have to watch this video it keeps appearing.
Oh you mean Mid-lie's
@@rntobi2931 Peak-lie’s
@@gameboy6176 bottom-lie’s
It was a quaint town many years ago.
Famous for two very bloody civil war battles.
Old Town Manassas has some beautiful homes.
The country stores are now gone, the drive in movie theater is long gone.
Was once full of country folk and now not so much.
There was a Large Latino influx adding some variety to the mix.
Been there since 1981.
Latinos can be country too lol
@@ThecrazyJH96 I lived here since 2018 that's very nice to know. The local theater closed while I was there and that really hurt me because I thought it was kinda cool
There’s a new outdoor theater in the summers at Swirlies over by the Target.
Haha I enjoy seeing my home town on the internet. It's such a nice moment seeing others admire the town like I do
It truly is amazing seeing the town grow from its humble beginnings, been living there since 1985, I still remember the biker gangs and the Manassas Strangler
@@jackhammerjohnny4314 strange, as I remember the Manassas Strangler being named Johnny…
8:50 Can't drive very long in Manassas without seeing (and hearing) a fart-can equipped lowered car. My Nissan Frontier pickup sounded exactly like that--till I got the exhaust leak fixed.
8th Gen sound like that, 9th gen civics have more of a deeper sound to them
It’s banned now. You can no longer have cars without mufflers.
It’s made it a lot quieter, I will say.
Manassas was in the Guinness book of world records for most churches per capita.
Interesting...
Neat fact. I'd wager they have the most 7-Elevens per capita too.
@@chrisbooth3417 FR😭
@@chrisbooth3417 ha ha ha.
One of those churches on Church Street was turned into 3 separate bars(3 monkeys.)
It’s really weird growing up going to church then going to a bar and getting smashed in an old church
Especially because there was someone at the bar trying to tell others to not to sin and then drinking any shot they were given. That was funny to me.
My favorite little town. Always something fun going on in Old Town Manassas! :)
Little?
manassas is not little 😂😂
@@ddinethanManassas is huge enough that the city encapsulates four separate counties (Manassas County, city of Manassas, Manassas Park, and Prince William County) it’s not a town at all. There are over 400,000 people living in the Manassas area RIGHT NOW. It’s a great place to live for families.
I grew up with Manassas as the nearest town to my home. I still live and work in the ares. It has changed a great deal over the past several decades, but everywhere has grown in population in the wider DC metroplex area.
I remember back in the mid 90's, everyone from the other backwoods parts like Stafford/ Culpeper / Front Royal would show up on Friday and Saturday with their souped-up cars and ride up and down Mathis Ave
They still do. You can hear them in the parking garage by the amtrak station & underneath the train bridge where they like to rev their fart-can muffler infused engines to the highest decibel level they can get.
@@severdislike4222 🤣🤣🤣
They still do it!!! You can hear them from the CVS right outside of Old Town.
Mathis Ave just brings back memories of Parkside for me. I went there for two years. Still flip off the school when I drive by. I hate that damn school
Hey thanks for driving past my shop at 3:44 (Shining Sol Candle Company - on the right, big orange sun!). Fun video!
I LOVE YOUR CANDLES. I still have the Bookshop’s candle (I can’t remember what it was called anymore. It was the one where the freedom museum is now)
PROSPEROS! That’s it! They closed during the pandemic. I just took my fiancé and sister to your shop the other day
strange to see a video trending of a drive i've taken every few days for 28 years lol
I live here, and it looks like this all spring and summer. It’s really nice here.
Man thank you for showing people are town
8:57 Man O Man Do I Luv Hearing Stick Shift Vehicle’s Taking Off AT Stop Sign’s Signal’s OR Crossing The Street To Get To There Destination’s Love It 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
I was twelve years old when we moved from the coal fields of Southwestern Virginia to Manassas in 1964. We lived on Center Street and every Friday night we would sit on our front porch and watch all the hotrods and musclecars cruise by. It was a regular thing and got me interested in musclecars. It was a great time and place to be young . I will always remember the great fun i had there. Haven't been back in decades, but Manassas is always in my memories.
Oh man I got all kinds of anxiety as soon as the video played showing you taking me straight to the courthouse
Edit: I love how everybody is saying this is such a beautiful town if he were to take a right at grant ave you def would not have write the comment hahaha
They actually do take a right on Grant and drive past GTS ... Doesn't really look that bad from the car. LOL ;) 15:30
@@roxannthompson6299 hahaha I didn’t stay that long but George Town used to be way worse in the early 2000s
GTS isn’t the worst looking place honestly.
Yes I see it over there to the left @1:21 . I'm starting to shake
@@tylerhowerton8518 I can certainly believe it. Have some friends who live there and the mix of people in George Town all over the place. George Town's got its problems but it's infinitely more stable than the area around East End/The MHP off of Centerville road.
Used to live in manassas moved to SoCal 2016 . Manassas is a great town
I wish I could live in California
@@Soul_Flow_ 👍👍
I used to live in SoCal myself. Miss In-N-Out. Enjoy our 4 seasons more then the Fire, Flood, Drought, and Earthquake seasons!
The Harley shop on the right used to be the old Southern States way back in the day .
Wasn't there a Harley Shop at the top of Lomond drive a long time ago beside the 7-11 and across from Dudley Martin?
I remember as a child back in the 70s
@@MrFittyTucker I don't think it was ever a Harley dealer. It was Cycles 66 and then BullRun cycles, but was originally built as a Dairy Queen.
I lived at 335 East Cener Street around 1964-66. I loved being a kid there. My first job was working at the 'Manassas Market at age twelve. Larry and dGus owned the little stor and treated me well. I think their last name was either Bellitistus or Velastesis. I had so many great times and great friends. Danny Cook, Jimmy Hall, Larry Dameron, Randy Lillicotch to name just a few. Those were the true 'good old days' for many of us and it was a cleaner, fresher time in America back then. There were a few bad times too, but i was a thirteen year old when we moved from the coal camps of Southwestern Virginia and to me it was a big city. I recall we paid 125. a month rent for that big beautiful house. Clark Nalls would collect the rent every month, and he was a good guy. Later i would date his daughter Teri. So many great memories for a nearly 70 year old man. It was a great place then, and that will never be the same i am afraid. Thanks for the video. I am subscribing now.
Don’t know how this got on my feed lol but I love Manassas!
Wait I just moved to manassas a few weeks ago and now I’m getting recommended manassas driving videos? Lol I’ll take it
Same!
Moved from Springfield VA to Manassas back in 1992 since that year a adopted Manassas as my lovely Home town.
Do you miss Springfield VA and the Metro
@@jaiyabyrd4177
Nop..I don't miss Springfield I still go there quite often..
@@minchoavila2912
I understand
@@jaiyabyrd4177He moved before. The Metro stop opened in 1995.
1:05 Tactical Airsoft Arena on your left folks!
Thanks for the video man grew up there and in Fairfax and surrounding areas haven’t had a chance to make it back in a few years living in cave creek Arizona these help the homesickness until I go back next year
Such a beautiful town Manassas in Virginia is.
i mean if you like living in mexico sure
@@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305 casual racism
@@ashlydiaz6143 na lived here all my life.. the state parks are ruined and the streets are ruined by them... went to the beach at leesvania every weekend.. now i dont because of the coronas and trash they leave behind.. they just toss em on the beach.. i watch them ... trust me 35 years ive seen it turn into a pretty place into lil el salvador.. .. its a fact
@@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305 hey man I don't doubt it but I also have lived here all my life, Mexico is infested with cartels who decapiate heads and you're over here comparing it to some trash on the street
Cope
@@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305 how do you know it’s ONLY mexican people?? you do realize white people also buy corona and leave them behind?? plus manassas is nearly all white, stop acting like a bigot dumbass.
8:15 Right turn by the BK on Liberia is my drive to Dulles while avoiding I-95 as much as possible
My hometown, I don’t go there much anymore but spent a lot of time cruising Saturday nights up and down Centreville rd. 😀
I lived around there till fall of 2021. The area around Old Town's a nice place- especially during holidays like this one, though that meant some of the roads were closed off and it's worth the walkaround.
I like Manassas! It’s fun! Once been there before! Plus, I know the VRE train which stands for Virginia Railway Express! And Amtrak too! From DC!
Stephen Stills from Crosby, Stills and Nash took a photo at the Train Station for their album Manassas.
Manassas VA
Nice drive in that nice lookin Virginia town
Great video! I grew up in that town! You went down many streets I remember, but you missed some. If you ever decide to go there again, may I suggest:
Mathis Avenue
Byrd Drive (in Georgetown South)
Sudley Road (all the way to the battlefield park and back).
Otherwise, I loved riding through the familiar city of my childhood!
🤘💜🤘my home town
Same
Same
All the people saying this is so ghetto clearly haven't spent any time in New york. Bout to go here and it looks so calm.
A lot has changed in manassas. Grew up there.
I was going to say. I lived there 15 years ago. Seems like alot of new buildings.
My dad was in a gang called La Raza, we lived in GTS. Just bringing this up to see if it rings any bells for anyone? Maybe I can find out more about how GTS and Manassas was back then.
When was y’all living there
Hi Mike, I've watched some of your videos before $and was recommended this one for the place I live. I think you do a good job showing central old town. It is pretty small so there isn't much to see. The business areas make up most of Manassas. Liberia Ave, Sudley Rd (has a mall), and up 28/Centrevill Rd
If I had to guess, I'd say you were in Manassas for the fireworks :) Ours are supposed to be "good".
Must be 4th of july.. can't go through manassas without going through Georgtown South.
😂😂
Oh I used to live there I love it but I still visit that area
This channel and this video was popped up on my recommendations and I live in manassas lol
That TH-cam algorithm working its magic.
God bless you for having the big ♥ you have, for wanting to give back.
What, you arent going to drive through Georgetown South? 😉 Used to love letting loose in Olde Towne. The old City Tavern, Okra's and Omera's.
Compared to historic civil war era towns like Fredericksburg, manassas ain’t much, but it’s downtown has finally gotten better
it's changed a lot over the last two decades, but so has the region
Who here remembers Ground Round where Pollo Campero is now across from Bomnin Chevrolet which was Dudley Martin Chevrolet and also the old Print shop on 28 across from Napa which the print shop is now a furniture like store
Manassas aka little El Salvador.
exactly!!! and woodbridge is turning into Iran, nothing muslims, and stuff.. the beachs at leesvania state park are ruined from trash and stuff now its a shame.. its why i finally moved down south and got 14 acres
Little MS13 😂😂😂
Georgetown South!!
@@showme443 lol forgot bout georgetown south haha... honestly thst beighborhood isnt as bad as other parts of manassas
@@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305 not anymore. Late 90s and early 2000s it was.
That building next to Rogers Automotive is going to be the new City of Manassas Police Dept
So did anything happen to the cop?
woah i live there 😎😎
Dude drove through Manassas, and didn't even drive on Liberia SMH.
I was just here yesterday to pick up some shoes at manassas mall,it’s been there for years,sorry to say I’m moving to Texas in less than a week and I’m not gonna miss it lol
lol
I was in high school when Manassas Mall opened. I even went to the Grand Opening. Anchor stores were W. T. Grant and Montgomery Ward.
What part of TX? I was looking at Texas myself. Nova has gone downhill for a while.
@@TxpNoveske Mansfield Texas
@@ThaNativeGentlemenTexas how do you like Dallas area and how does it compare to northern virginia?
Nope…don’t miss this place…stay safe everyone!
yep... manassas is basically mexico... woodbridge and dumfries.. same.. except now its turning into iran
@@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305 hopefully bigots like you get scared enough of minorities to leave these places alone. y’all racists need to stop acting like it’s 1950.
@@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305 Agree. I'm not against immigration but I'd wager most are illegals. No respect for our laws and not willing to assimilate.
It’s not even that bad, sure shit happens but as long as you’re not involved who cares?
@@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305 I think you're just racist 😁
Check out katerinas on main Street. Great food 👌
4:16 Old Town Inn to the left is a motel known to be haunted. 👻
great vlog
👍👍👍👍
Manassas where many albanians live also. 🇦🇱
6:38 of course someone has to honk at that guy not paying any attention to the light. If possible, I don't honk. I just drive around, don't want to disturb their slumber.
F no. Pay attention or take an uber. Get off the road if you are addicted to your phone and gtf out of the way.
@@Handle70770 spoken like someone who's never done a moment of manual labor in their life.
Can you do Dale city/Woodbridge
Possibly
@@MileageMikeTravels
I'm not sure you want to go there. It's not a cute town.
Occoquan is nice, but small
@@tracyhasty6506 I've been there . Why would anone want to go to Dale City or Woodbridge
nice video mike
👍🏻
Drive it every day
for all of you that say manassas has changed for the worst, complaining about Latinos and el salvadorian, west Virginia is still old country and dusty the way you like it, you're all welcome to leave
Still trying to move either here or Fredericksburg
dont move to either... Ive lived in woodbridge.manassas all my life... DONT, go to culpeper or something.. Frederickburge the population explosion is happenening and the place is a dump.. Stafford is the same.. Woodbridge was done years ago.. too many people.. too many illegals, so much crime and litter.. homeless everywhere now. Houses are overpriced.. Manassas is el salvador.. trust me.. dont do it..
I got 14 acres for 350k.. sold my 500k townhouse in lakeridge and got the f out of dodge
@@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305 well that's only because of what happened on my side, in DC. The Gentrification hit, and people couldn't afford to stay so they scattered like roaches. If they couldn't hit Maryland, they popped up around you or they left completely. That's how the "people explosion" happened, realistically you got lucky because anything to Lorton and up is High
@@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305 You are 100% correct.....my parents moved to Manassas in Dec. of 70.....in 15 years it was ruined and has been on a steady down hill roll ever since.
Let me know when you are ready to move! im a mortgage loan originator right in downtown manassas! plenty of great realtors here
Manassas is not the place to be. I've lived here 34 years and can't get out of here fast enough. It used to be really nice but has turned in to such a dump. Don't do it. You'll regret it. Go further out.
Where was the downtown area?
used to be a great city.
Never knew it had it's own downtown.
mileage mike how would you compare the city of manassas v.a with greenville s.c possible relocation I am undecided or can someone from the public help me?
Difficult to compare. If you're just talking about Greenville and Manassas alone then it's not close. Greenville has much more to offer. However Manassass is in the DC area so that's more appealing overall. I prefer Northern Virginia over Greenville but didn't care too much for Manassas if I were to live in the area.
peopel lived in manassas bc they worked in DC or in Manassas...it used to be the affordable place to live..pretty sure afordability went more south as they developed new cities farther away from DC...the biggest thing that will probably hit you is that SC is a lot cheaper than NOVA and you will have less discretionary income.
@@samuraipizzacat5586it’s never been that affordable. My uncle (a millionaire mind you) lived here in the 90’s and even back then it wasn’t affordable. I live here now (my family is nowhere CLOSE to being millionaires) and there are cheaper living options (apartment complexes are being built and there are already some up and for sale) and there are even townhouses for sale and for rent. There ARE options, but Most people in Manassas work in DC, Chantilly, or Centreville.
I just moved here 🤨😔
Historic old Town Manassas!
Почему город назывыаетса Манас ,
You forgot sudley rd
Osbourn Park HS Grad
That's where I stay
Can’t wait to move out of this town
Why?
@@MileageMikeTravels just not a fan in my personal experience having moved from Houston to here right before the pandemic I never adjusted to school but the cc college is pretty cool ig
Two Loudoun Firefighters Are Accused of Rape
By Josh White
August 31, 2000
Prince William County police arrested a career Loudoun County firefighter and a career firefighter recruit Monday after a 20-year-old woman accused them of raping her early Sunday morning, police said. Both men also are active members in two separate volunteer fire departments in Prince William.
Police said Tuesday that the woman--who was a friend of her alleged attackers--was drinking with the men at a party Saturday night before going to one of the suspects' homes just north of Manassas Park. Police spokesman Dennis Mangan said the woman called police about 4 a.m. Sunday to report that both men had raped her.
Conan Rowe Kelley, 27, and Kenniston Todd Aime, 26, both of Yorkshire, have been charged with rape and forcible sodomy. They were being held without bond yesterday in the Prince William County jail, awaiting a bond hearing.
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Their attorney, Edward J. Regan, of Fairfax, did not return telephone calls this week. Loudoun County fire officials said both men have been placed on administrative leave with pay while an internal investigation is conducted.
Mary Maguire, spokeswoman for Loudoun County Fire and Rescue Services, said that Aime is a driver engineer who has been with the department a little more than a year, and that Kelley is a member of the department's current class for firefighter/emergency medical technician recruits. Kelley started in June and was scheduled to graduate to full status in October. Aime was not assigned to a particular squad but worked where he was needed.
Mangan said that the two men and the woman were celebrating Kelley's birthday, which was Friday, with a group of friends and that they ended up at Kelley's home on Newton Place, near Yorkshire Elementary School. The attack occurred a few hours after they arrived at the home, Mangan said.
According to a criminal complaint filed in Prince William County General District Court, the alleged victim "became extremely intoxicated and passed out" in Kelley's home about 2 a.m. Sunday. When she awoke shortly before 4 a.m., according to the complaint, Aime was raping her and Kelley was sitting on the bed next to her, naked.
The Washington Post generally does not name the victims of sex-related crimes.
Kelley told police that he had sex with the victim at least twice and sodomized her and that "after he was done, [Aime] came upstairs and did the same thing," according to the complaint.
"It was all against her will," Mangan said. "She knew them, but she wasn't dating either of them."
According to a search warrant affidavit filed in Prince William County Circuit Court, the victim ran from the home, leaving behind her underwear and shoes. She immediately called police and went to Potomac Hospital for treatment. According to court documents, a hospital examination showed evidence consistent with rape.
Craig Griffith, chief of the Yorkshire Volunteer Fire Department, said Tuesday he did not know details of the alleged attack and could not comment. Griffith said that Kelley is an active member of his department and that Aime used to volunteer there. Prince William police said Aime now volunteers at the Coles District Volunteer Fire Department.
"All I know at this point is that whatever party there was, it was nothing connected with the Fire Department," Griffith said.
Staff writer Maria Glod contributed to this report.
Not what it use to be,sad how it has changed.Grew up in Manassas.
i grew up in woodbridge/manassas im 36... not much has changed in old town besides roads a little here and there.. dunno what youre talkin about.. now woodbridge... the place is turning into a dump.. too many people.. too many houses, too much everything. i finally sold my townhouse in lakeridge for 500k and moved down to culpeper/orange.. 14 acres, a creek, barn etc for 350k.. best part is.. no neighbors anywhere really.. the old town of culpeper is kinda ratty though
They intentionally ruined property value!
How’s it sad ? Smh. Ppl say anything 🙄
@@bionichustla100 was that to me? We all see its not the same ,I work in Manassas i see the crime, how the have a bad problem with some of the teens.
@@emmajohnson6955 🗣it’s beautiful!!!
I work about 3 miles from there lol
Love Manassas, even with all the weirdos in it.
Ur one of them “Seth”
Go to 703 customs and buy yourself a classic lowrider out of Mikey shop
Man Assas hahahahahahah!!!!
Disney once proposed building a theme park here, but history enthusiasts stopped it.
Not really. They were looking to build it in The Plains, which is quite a distance out from Manassas. Lego did as well. They did use the battlefield as a mechanism to block it, however.
That was actually 9 miles away in Haymarket , Va.....they bought up hundreds or acres under shell corporations but were caught and stopped.....Lego tried the same thing a few years later and were also stopped.
So they ruined it with immigrants instead!
@@DevinLeshin .... It was a Haymarket address where Beverly farm and Beverly Mill between there and thoroughfare Gap not the Plains which is another county, you're talking much further out.
@@james44mag31 Nothing wrong with immigration but Manassas and Manassas Park has tons of illegal ones.
Nice channel for showing Northern Va... To bad most of manassas is trash, and PWC dont do a good job with its budget.
i grew up in woodbridge/manassas.. nothing has changed in 35 years lol.. in old town manassas.. woodbridge on the other hand.. lol yea i finally left down south due to the population and demographic explosion
Talk abt a Mid city, everybody here is Mid and cringe, no one here is based, clearly they got no big chungus around here
"no big chungus" clearly you haven't met me
Your humor is stuck in 2018
Manassas is ghetto AF
Its really not. Every place has "ghetto" areas as well.
@@jbo4547 it really is I used to live in manassas.. ok ok most part of manassas is ghetto AF with the worst driver's
It's ghetto. I live here. It's not nice like it used to be.
@@wendydwyer5385 i live in Manassas as well. And its not ghetto. Compared to parts of Alexandria that I used to live in its great. Of course there are shittier areas than others but I wouldn't consider all of Manassas ghetto at all.
A lot of the drivers suck, I agree, but thats all of Nova. Especially the loud ass cars that have been around lately with their stupid meetups
Really isn't
I am sorry, but why in the world would anyone do this?
To kind of document the changes that take place over time for one I guess! I enjoyed it and watched every minute of it! If you didn't then there are other channels to go watch!
Yes why would anyone go for a drive?!?!?!?
@@jbo4547 $5 a gallon probably! LOL
@@MrFittyTucker More like, why the hell would anyone drive around Manassas?
@@booboo1970 true lol