This Arkansas Town is Falling Apart: West Memphis, Arkansas 4K.

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  • @FSJPlumcrazy
    @FSJPlumcrazy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    So you drove through less than a third of city and created a video of just the lowest class homes and stated: "Well that is West Memphis in a nutshell." How presumptuous of you! That would be like driving around the condemned/demolished blocks of Detroit and using the phrase "This is what all of Detroit looks like."
    I grew up in West Memphis and while I no longer reside there, it was a good city to escape the high crime of Memphis. But just like every "suburb" of a major city, the criminal element has wormed its way into my hometown.
    I am not wearing rose-colored glasses. Just want you to know that I have traveled around the world with the military. And in my travels, I cannot count a single place I lived as being crime free or have homes that are full of people that are just getting by.
    I just ask that if you are going to judge a city, please give the whole view.

    • @FelineFe
      @FelineFe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ChrisHarden i was born and raised in W Memphis and back then alot of people had good jobs in Memphis and lived in W Memphis for the lower taxes, housing, groceries, etc.

  • @taronjeroneharris1313
    @taronjeroneharris1313 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I'm a lifelong resident of West Memphis, and while I agree that it's not as glamourous as cities such as Los Angeles, New York, Miami, or Dallas, it is home to many good people. No matter where you choose to relocate, there will still be issues. No city is perfect, because nobody is perfect. I work in the school district and earn a fairly decent salary. True enough, I wanted to relocate to the other side of Arkansas when I was younger, but things didn't pan out as I'd hoped. Nevertheless, I am grateful for the life I have here.

    • @taronjeroneharris1313
      @taronjeroneharris1313 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@luciajohnson4674 you are so right about that, because the cost of living is relatively low.

    • @gg-kq8cy
      @gg-kq8cy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Look at my tutor

    • @corycarpenter5873
      @corycarpenter5873 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      How did u just put west Memphis in a category with big cities like that? U can't compare that to that. West Memphis has nothing major. No major company headquarters, no downtown area, no mall or nothing. Just flat land with a bunch of gaps and fields. Y'all riding off of Memphis, Tn wave

    • @taronjeroneharris1313
      @taronjeroneharris1313 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@corycarpenter5873 considering that you are late to the discussion, I will refrain from a lengthy conversation. However, if you go back and rewatch the video, in addition to rereading my response, you'll be able to gain insight into what I was saying. 🙂

    • @tdavis516
      @tdavis516 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Be it ever so humble,there is no place like home

  • @diycichlidaquarist3645
    @diycichlidaquarist3645 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I grew up in West Memphis and if you only show one side of the town yea all you’re gonna see is poor neighborhoods. west of Missouri St is actually pretty nice. My mom still lives there And Mayor McClendon is doing great things for West Memphis. This is such a biased slant I am appalled at you. I know negative media sells but can you be unbiased and actually show a total picture of the city instead of trying to push an agenda.

    • @ChrisHarden
      @ChrisHarden  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why don’t you live there anymore, DIY?

    • @diycichlidaquarist3645
      @diycichlidaquarist3645 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Nostalgia Tours I moved back to and out of West Memphis many times the first time was because of the military, the second was my ex wife got a job out of town that was better for her career path, the third and final time was I got a transfer to another location to be promoted within the company I was working for. Honestly if My wife would let me move my kids and her down there we probably would be there but she doesn’t want to leave her family.

    • @alexandercoffman8319
      @alexandercoffman8319 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ChrisHarden -Maybe it is called life, things happen my man.

    • @ChrisHarden
      @ChrisHarden  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@alexandercoffman8319 Thanks for the life lesson bub. Have anymore life advice?

    • @Dre-fe6mi
      @Dre-fe6mi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ChrisHarden 🤣🤣

  • @Rebelqueen89
    @Rebelqueen89 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fantastic Video !! I like your channel very much !

  • @marysorocko5256
    @marysorocko5256 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The murder of the 3 boys really hit the town hard and I think it started falling apart after that. The murders took place in May of 1993, not 1994.

  • @HundoxBando
    @HundoxBando 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    One of those boys stepdad did that to those boys everybody here knows the truth and for the record there’s no dark cloud over this city West Memphis is growing new businesses and restaurants popping up all over also more house are being built along with apartments and renovations to other areas the Mayor before Mr McClendon didn’t care about all sides of the city only “Rich” side that’s why they roads are bad on the North south and Eastside

    • @neuvatierra4324
      @neuvatierra4324 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Why else would he deny not seeing his stepson the day they went missing.

  • @bamf-gaming805
    @bamf-gaming805 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Although this is true, and alot of things you said are true but how come you didn't show the west side of town? You took everyone through the east side. "Hood" "other side the track" that's what you showed. You didn't even show the area of the WM3 killings. I live here in West Memphis and live on a much,....prettier side. Loved the video except the part where you left out the whole west side including our college and our small fishing, walking, baseball, softball park.

    • @allanboston2963
      @allanboston2963 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah bro you most definitely gotta do another video because you didn’t even show the good side of the city, and being a native I felt offended because although these are facts, this is not a good video to recommend people to visiting to city it actually have very entertaining venues and there are positive things in the city.

    • @allanboston2963
      @allanboston2963 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      And watching this now what if I showed my friend this video because I wanted to take him to visit my stomping grounds, he wouldn’t wanna come

    • @allanboston2963
      @allanboston2963 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I just feel like if you’re gonna make a video about a city show the good side and the bad side if you show the bad first so be it but don’t make the city look like it’s a bad place and it’s not.

  • @ussielvega2728
    @ussielvega2728 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Aye homie how abt next time you drive through colonial or Richland school instead of the heart of the hood

    • @koko4kosh960
      @koko4kosh960 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He is lucky he made it away from Wonder.

    • @FelineFe
      @FelineFe 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      i was thinking the same thing!!

    • @tdavis516
      @tdavis516 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I went to Richland School and lived on S.Roselawn pretty nice area.

  • @CherishCobbins
    @CherishCobbins 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Wow, I didn't think this would be so biased! I mean I understand showing the crappy part of town, but why only show that? Why not show the growth that is also happening everywhere in town, including literally on the street youre driving on? You drove by West Memphis' first medical dispensary, a new library being built... No mention of the new schools that are being built, businesses coming like Chick fil A and Carvana and the 2 other medical dispensaries... Do your thang homie, but damn.

    • @ChrisHarden
      @ChrisHarden  4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hopefully those new businesses, medical dispensaries and new school buildings do well. If West Memphis can make a comeback, reverse the trend of population loss and solve its crime problem, I’ll come back and do a new video.

  • @skeleguns10oooooo10
    @skeleguns10oooooo10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    West Memphis is part of the Memphis Tennessee metropolitan area. Apparently West Memphis has a similar food desert issue as the city of Memphis south side

  • @CowboyBob531
    @CowboyBob531 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    You got the year wrong when the three little boys were murdered. That incident happened in 1993, I remember because it was just a couple months after my grandmother passed away.

  • @Jeff-gq8sx
    @Jeff-gq8sx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    At 11:42 just before you turn left onto Barton you can see the houses that two of the victims of the 1993 triple child murder lived in at the time. Chris Byers lived in the house on the right with the fence around it, and Michael Moore lived in the two story house on the left that you turn towards with the pickup truck in the driveway (11:46). They both went to Weaver Elementary School that you mention and drive by, along with the third victim Stevie Branch. Thanks for the tour.

    • @DWhoGames
      @DWhoGames 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My dad was police officer at the time and actually knew I think two of the killers or at least he knew their parents and where they lived

    • @thematriarchy2075
      @thematriarchy2075 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@DWhoGames He knew the innocent "killers"?

  • @MsTinkerbelle87
    @MsTinkerbelle87 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The grief lingered in that town, it never recovered.

  • @tempest9137
    @tempest9137 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Where's the rest of WM?? This ain't all of it. 🤷🏼‍♀️

    • @c.conga11
      @c.conga11 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He didn't want to die

  • @joeydrip
    @joeydrip 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Would I be able to use any of this footage for a project?

  • @rickeyclaiborne5521
    @rickeyclaiborne5521 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My mom grew up in West Memphis, and yeah. It’s not really what you think it is when you visit there. When she was growing up, most of the blacks lived on one side of town and the whites lived on the other side of town. To me, that’s discrimination of race and yeah, I don’t like that. And there is also high crime rates in the town too, like the WM3. We sometimes go there to visit other family members and yeah, that’s pretty much it.

  • @gl6996
    @gl6996 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Back in the day, West Memphis was a great blues music hub. B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Ike Turner all lived here at one time. Elvis did his first radio interview here. And Jerry "the King" Lawler had his first match at the old Avon Theater on Broadway where Sonic is now. I lived here for years, went to college with and played basketball with A LOT of guys here. Graduated from Hughes, though. Big up to West Town!!! 👍🏽😎

    • @corycarpenter5873
      @corycarpenter5873 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ain't nobody famous from no dam west Memphis

    • @gl6996
      @gl6996 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@corycarpenter5873 Hush.

    • @corycarpenter5873
      @corycarpenter5873 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Due all of those ppl are Memphis TN. West Memphis is a little village in Arkansas that's known for nothing but fields and gaps between houses. It look so boring and ugly over there. Nothing looks inspiring. Everybody so poor and act so savage like they ain't used to having nothing. Then y'all so behind on styles and trends. Ain't nobody thinking about no dam Arkansas nowhere in America

    • @gl6996
      @gl6996 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@corycarpenter5873 Why are you disobedient? Now hush!!

    • @corycarpenter5873
      @corycarpenter5873 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol

  • @augustcheney3505
    @augustcheney3505 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    i hate the way you made my city look. why didn’t you show all the beautiful houses right behind the highschool? disappointing. didn’t even try to show the good parts.

    • @ChrisHarden
      @ChrisHarden  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Was the neighborhood at the end not a good part?

    • @augustcheney3505
      @augustcheney3505 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nostalgia Tours it wasn’t an awful part of town! but there are better looking parts of town for sure.

    • @gl6996
      @gl6996 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ChrisHarden Go down Rice Rd or Clement. Barton and by the college. Or check out the homes at Meadowbrook by the golf course.

  • @1Keba
    @1Keba 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    West Memphis definitely isn’t falling apart!! My father is from there. You passed the house my family grew up in on 17th st. He graduated from Wonder High school. Went to the Navy then moved to Detroit.I have so many family members still there, they love it there. I’m in the process of buying land there now. And I’m going to buy 2 houses. He owns 4 there. West Memphis is gold, don’t sleep on that place. It’s on the come up ❤️

    • @mauricemoton1069
      @mauricemoton1069 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Really? Didn’t know that a town of 25,000 people was on the come up.

    • @5162-b8y
      @5162-b8y 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Borrow me $40k to buy a house
      I will pay you at 1.5 interested rate

    • @MsTinkerbelle87
      @MsTinkerbelle87 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s corrupt.

    • @alexandercoffman8319
      @alexandercoffman8319 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mauricemoton1069 - YES THAT IS POSSIBLE RIGHT? And population is not thee only determining factor on a come-up.

    • @mauricemoton1069
      @mauricemoton1069 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@alexandercoffman8319 What else determines whether a town is on the come up, Alexander?

  • @cinichols901
    @cinichols901 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You should come back now

  • @jessicapazo7718
    @jessicapazo7718 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    At the 11th minute, was that the Byers house and the Moores house directly across the street? From all the years of following the story and kind of having a decent photographic memory, from what I saw, it was the 2 houses...it has to be because they were right across from eachother.

    • @pigvomit4730
      @pigvomit4730 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      11:42
      Moore left, Byers right - the houses that are adjacent from the angle of this video.

  • @Unlitedsoul
    @Unlitedsoul 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Lived in West Memphis as a kid for roughly 3 years. We were well below the poverty line at that time, living in a trailer park located on S. Avalon by an old rundown convenience store/neighborhood grocery and across from Front Street. The place was a rat trap. Apparently it's not there anymore, but the old store is with a new fuel island that wasn't there before. Walked home from school every afternoon, Lillian T Faulk Elementary and half a year at Wonder Junior High. During football season, walked back to a church just a couple of blocks down from Faulk to practice in the big field next to it. Saturdays we played at a football field next to the Christian school on Missouri near the old Pizza Hut. There used to be a Godfather's Pizza near there too, if I recall correctly. The VFW had a public pool that my sister and I frequented during the summers. At least when I played football at Wonder, I didn't have to walk home as practices ran from 3 PM to 6 PM, and my dad was able to pick me up. We moved to the Raleigh area of Memphis around November of 1988, almost a year after West Memphis was hit by a tornado that wrecked about 1/4 of the town just before the winter break was to start, a flood the following week due to heavy rain fall and most of the drainage systems being overloaded with debris, and then a foot of snow the first couple of days of January. We were out of school for about a solid month.
    From what I see here, the south-side is pretty much exactly as I remember it some 35 years ago. I see a lot of people talking about the east side and rich side of town. The homes directly around Faulk were nice at that time. But I didn't see much of the city north of Broadway unless we were driving by to get to WalMart. Or on the trips to the Church of God whenever the bus came by to pick us up for Bible School. Haven't really been back there, other than travel baseball games back in the early to mid 90s.

  • @koko4kosh960
    @koko4kosh960 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Left when I was 18 only been back once. Greatest decision in my life

  • @songanddancegirl
    @songanddancegirl 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Byers & Moore houses are shown at 11:42 ☹️

  • @asperbergers7136
    @asperbergers7136 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I lived here 10 years ago.. It was an okay city but it was definitely a Memphis metro town.

  • @gg-kq8cy
    @gg-kq8cy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That’s crazy now I see people from the outside it’s not as bad as you think I didn’t know we are that poor that’s crazy.

  • @OLDHEADfromdaSOUF
    @OLDHEADfromdaSOUF 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You only rode on da Souf side

  • @cashed-out2192
    @cashed-out2192 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Have you done for Marion, yet? I would like to see what that is all about.

  • @goosecurne7485
    @goosecurne7485 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    AT LEASE SHOW THE GOOD HOUSES AN GOOD NEIGHBORHOODS THATS NOT COOL IVE BEEN LIVING HERE MY WHOLE LIFE THATS A PORTION OF WEST MEMPHIS. ALSO SHOWING TAGS ON PPL CARS AN NOT BLOCKING ANYTHING OUT IS ILLEGAL IM QUITE SURE 🙃 SO DONT BASH ANYTHING YOU DONT KNOW anything about just saying 🤔 show us video were you live

  • @kourtneyswindler8394
    @kourtneyswindler8394 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is my hometown, lived there 20 years. It’ll always be home but the quality of life is poverty level. Sucked having to drive to Memphis for literally everything but the people are full of southern hospitality and I have the best memories growing up!

    • @tdavis516
      @tdavis516 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Were you related to John Swindler?

  • @cashed-out2192
    @cashed-out2192 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    WM is the East St. Louis of Illinois.

  • @Livingmydreammm
    @Livingmydreammm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My dad died here at a mobile park on Broadway have. The park starts with tge letter L. I want to see this park. He died this past Jan. 😢. Just found out today. They did him wrong. Cremated him stoled all his stuff and never notified his family😢. I won't ever get him or his belongings back. I want to see were he lived. I live in PA. The only memory I would have is were he lived. I hooe your in tge area❤️❤️

    • @ChrisHarden
      @ChrisHarden  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sorry to hear that. No I’m not in the area.

  • @okcontent149
    @okcontent149 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    used to live here. its shitty, but not as shitty as shown here

  • @R0BiN0.
    @R0BiN0. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Do a tour of marion 😎

    • @ChrisHarden
      @ChrisHarden  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Next time I'm down that way I plan on doing so.

  • @brandi5730
    @brandi5730 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Damn it doesn’t look that bad lol I can show you some shit areas of Cincinnati

  • @tdavis516
    @tdavis516 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I grew up in West Memphis,where the high school is,is the better part of the city.

  • @garethadams9441
    @garethadams9441 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Home of Sycho Sid👊

    • @cordedrobanks6595
      @cordedrobanks6595 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No sir sid was born and raised in marion i went to school with his son

    • @FelineFe
      @FelineFe 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cordedrobanks6595 my best friends mom was friends with him, saw him all the time back in da day!

    • @joshjoiner354
      @joshjoiner354 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Cordedro Banks Sid went to Weaver Elementary in West Memphis. My grandma taught him. Born in raised in West Memphis. Gunner is raised in Marion lol

  • @JbWrld392
    @JbWrld392 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I wonder if west Memphis act like Memphis

    • @gl6996
      @gl6996 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      On a smaller scale...

  • @fourtywater77
    @fourtywater77 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Its north side and south side. North of Broadway and south of Broadway.

  • @johnellis5820
    @johnellis5820 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Grew up there. Went to Weaver and East Jr High. Rd dirt bikes and built forts at Robin Hood

  • @withoutartitwouldallfallap3628
    @withoutartitwouldallfallap3628 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There's a lot of cheap houses in Arkansas I had saw advertised.

  • @Mr.MobType
    @Mr.MobType 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bro flying up Broadway and through the city like he scared 🤣😂

  • @cashed-out2192
    @cashed-out2192 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    WM has an ugly topography

  • @FFG_Grandpappy
    @FFG_Grandpappy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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  • @abmkane7029
    @abmkane7029 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lol I see a lot of people I know and you can tell you not from there by the way you driving lol the pd don’t play that

  • @robertathomas7723
    @robertathomas7723 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    West memphis is not good place to stay cause where i stay at walker people in my busy

  • @ernestinalinares3591
    @ernestinalinares3591 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why did you show one side of west memphis and not the other?
    We have beautiful homes and parks.

  • @nnmmjjkk53
    @nnmmjjkk53 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    He said the misery of WM 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @marquelmondy870
    @marquelmondy870 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I seen my house on the van Buren ave

  • @corycarpenter5873
    @corycarpenter5873 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    West Memphis is not a part of Memphis Tn period. Memphis is in Shelby county. We have the Shelby county jail here. So any city in Shelby county is considered a part of Memphis. Memphis the seat of Shelby county. West Memphis Arkansas is in Crittenden county over there with nothing else. But they stay tryna claim Memphis. They love riding our wave

    • @hitek9too255
      @hitek9too255 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's part of the metro area. That's like saying Wilmington Delaware isn't part of Philadelphia. Just the Philly metro area, so I get it.

    • @corycarpenter5873
      @corycarpenter5873 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@hitek9too255 it dont matter man. South haven Mississippi is also a a part of the Memphis metro area and its closer to Memphis than West Memphis Arkansas is. But south haven is not memphis. They have their own laws too. Shelby county is all memphis. Thats our jurisdiction. We have no say so on what happens in Arkansas

    • @hitek9too255
      @hitek9too255 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@corycarpenter5873 I get it. It's like Providence, Rhode Island and Manchester, New Hampshire is part of greater Boston metro but they're both a whole hour away from Boston. Massachusetts is a commonwealth, they have their own laws from Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Hampshire. Kill Devil Hills, NC is part of the Norfolk, VA metro but it's over a hour and 30 minutes apart. Gary, Indiana is part of the Chicago metro but they have completely different laws and jurisdiction and are two completely different counties. Pennsylvania is part of the NYC metro which is weird. It's funny because a lot of people in Compton, Long Beach, and Inglewood rep LA.

    • @hitek9too255
      @hitek9too255 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@corycarpenter5873 Trust me I get it! No one is going to Camden or Atlantic City, NJ and saying they went to Philadelphia even though they're part of the Philly metro. That wouldn't make sense. It would be foolish for someone from Marion, Arkansas to say they're from Memphis.

  • @deewatson5075
    @deewatson5075 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was born there in 1960’s

  • @user-hc8rh6zxrt1h
    @user-hc8rh6zxrt1h 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    И это Америка?..... На улицах ни одного человека не видно!.....
    Где дедушки, бабушки, гуляющие с маленькими детьми!?......
    Где хоть одна лавочка возле дома!?.....
    Тоска зелёная ваша Америка!....... Эх!......

  • @maribethpoole2621
    @maribethpoole2621 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I will admit that West Memphis has declined but there are very nice areas that you didn't show. If you're going a paint a picture, paint the whole picture.

  • @CynthiaSmith-ek1eb
    @CynthiaSmith-ek1eb 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Boon❤go❤

  • @pwhittyp5365
    @pwhittyp5365 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lol I'm from chicago this dont look like anything