MERIDIAN: The GOOD, BAD and UGLY of Meridian, MS

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Жыл бұрын

Come with us as we drive through Meridian, MS.
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@morganstrickland0924 Жыл бұрын

It’s refreshing to see a positive review of my hometown. So much of our area not highlighted…Merrehope, Poplar Springs area. And yes, there is a huge push to renovate downtown. Also, Hartley Peavey started Peavy music in his basement here in Meridian.

@ljacree5764 8 ай бұрын

I was just there today - visited the bank. I was impressed with the old-ish buildings. Thinking of buying a house & living there full time. Wish me luck!

@Crazytraveladdicts 8 ай бұрын

❤️❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻

@stephenmarshall7709 Жыл бұрын

I was stationed in Meridian Ms when I was in the Navy in 1979. The Naval Base was twenty something miles away. We had a community van that took us into town.

@montyreeves7302 9 ай бұрын

I've been a Lauderdale County resident most my life.

@Crazytraveladdicts 9 ай бұрын

We loved Meridian❤️

@danielmaxwell5633 Жыл бұрын

They just knocked down the ef young hotel which was a all African American hotel back in 1946 til late 70s

@kendracummings538 11 ай бұрын

Thumbs-up for the info. Thumbs-down for the demolition of that historical landmark.

@cliffordholloway6291 Жыл бұрын

I enjoyed your tour of my hometown.... come visit again soon.

@Crazytraveladdicts Жыл бұрын

We loved Meridian! We are planning on coming back when more businesses are open!!!❤️❤️💀

@turhanruffin3201 Жыл бұрын

Downtown Meridian became ghostly when the mall was built in the early 1970s. Many of the stores from downtown moved to the mall which left the downtown area ghostly. The Threefoot building was originally an office building until most of the tenants vacated during 1990s. I am so happy the right people had the foresight to renovate and preserve this building. Before the mall was built. downtown was very lively with eateries, stores, pool rooms, movie theaters, and of course beauty/barber shops. Nice video!

@Crazytraveladdicts Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the information and for watching

@kendracummings538 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for showing the area. I’m wondering how to recruit many folks from California and New York (and other expensive cities / states) to take back the South that our ancestors left in search of better opportunities. Can we make a mass exodus BACK to Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, etc and invest these California dollars in new business, revitalized homes and communities and live on LESS? I think we can if we’re willing to let go of the attractions we have for those places (enjoying the oceans, snow-skiing, mountain biking, etc.). #randomrants #wishfulthinking

@darrellgossett5342 2 ай бұрын

At 2:00 you are passing the Temple Theater. You would be blown away if you went inside. Very ornate & the acoustics for a concert are amazing. You should also take a tour of Merrehope. It's a large antebellum home & one of the few that Gen. Sherman didn't burn to the ground on his march from Vicksburg to Atlanta.

@Crazytraveladdicts 2 ай бұрын

We are definitely planning another trip to Meridian when it’s not a holiday weekend and everything is closed 🤦🏻‍♀️

@dianemarshall44 6 ай бұрын

What a shame y'all didn't head north to the Popular Springs area. I kept hoping y'all would turn 😊. I moved here a year ago & love it. Come back

@Crazytraveladdicts 6 ай бұрын

We loved Meridian! We will definitely be back to the area sometime in the near future

@marniebell5617 Ай бұрын

I used to live in Meridian. My family moved there in 1978.

@Titanandenceladus 8 ай бұрын

Did you guys see the Opera House (now the MSU Riley Center)? Its supposed to be gorgeous

@Crazytraveladdicts 8 ай бұрын

Yes!!! We passed by!!!! It was beautiful ❤️

@Titanandenceladus 8 ай бұрын

@@Crazytraveladdicts it's a shame you didn't get to see the inside

@Bambi595 Жыл бұрын

The story Michelle mentioned in the earlier portion of the video, is also based in the movie Mississippi Burning.

@GeorgiaPeach513 2 күн бұрын

Yup

@morganstrickland0924 Жыл бұрын

And yes, the cars are in front of apartments. The gray building with arched windows are renovated apartments. The furniture store you saw was Hulett Furniture. The church is Central United Methodist. Threefoot Brewery is new and always busy on the weekends. Have a daffodil day is in memory of a local girl killed several years ago-there’s a benefit done annually in her honor. Weidmanns Restaurant is a must do if you come back-it’s across from Threefoot hotel. You were a block from The Grand Opera House-also an absolutely beautiful restoration. Temple Theater is a landmark that is still used for shows/recitals/pageants etc. So much history here.

@Crazytraveladdicts Жыл бұрын

Thank you for all the great info! We will definitely be back to Meridian one of these days❤️

@danielmaxwell5633 Жыл бұрын

Hulett furniture was owned by mr Fred hulett you can ride down state Blvd and you will see his old house he sold few years back it’s awesome built in early 1900s and has a bowling alley in it from 1900s he owned the house for 30 years when he closed the business he sold the house! The original builder built Marion park

@kingstongreen1658 9 ай бұрын

Nice Video👍🏼 Watching from Chicago

@heartlogo2023 10 ай бұрын

Kinda looks like a clean homeless free version of OAKLAND, CA. Nice intro music. U got SOUL...

@rosalindmatteson3697 11 ай бұрын

You need to go up 8th Street to the colleges, you also need to go up Poplar Springs Drive. It has a lot of really nice houses. There is also North Hills to explore. I live across from the colleges.

@carrollmccoun110 3 сағат бұрын

For a town with a 25% poverty rate and such a high crime rate Meridian continues to thrive and grow. I am a lifetime Mississippi native and also a over the road truck driver. I've seen towns with much lower poverty rates and much less crime. Those cities are on a downward spiral and is not as beautiful as Meridian Ms. It must be another one of those," Wonder Why's ".

@user-is4nj1hm6t 11 ай бұрын

What you didn't see in your tour of Meridian is the Lauderdale County Courthouse with the Confederate statue in front standing on a very tall monolith. As I remember, several years ago there was a county-wide referendum on removing or leaving the statue in place. The voting public of Lauderdale County voted more than 60% to leave the Confederate Memorial in place. While Meridian is majority black, Lauderdale County is majority white. Don't forget you're in Mississippi where the Lost Cause dies hard.

@Crazytraveladdicts 11 ай бұрын

Wow!! Thanks for the info!!

@kendracummings538 11 ай бұрын

@heartlogo2023 10 ай бұрын

Place Kinda looks like a clean homeless free version of OAKLAND, CA.

@jessicadonato887 Жыл бұрын

Interesting 🧐, lot’s of history, nice houses 🏡, but there is a lot of sadness and loneliness in Meridian…by the way, despite some cars that I saw moving, are there any humans in Meridian?🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Crazytraveladdicts Жыл бұрын

We made the video on Memorial Day morning so it was a bit of a ghost town around there lol

@jessicadonato887 Жыл бұрын

@@Crazytraveladdicts ahhh ok 😉♥️

@danielmaxwell5633 Жыл бұрын

There is so much history in meridian you wouldn’t believe I could tell you about Sherman coming through and burning meridian to the ground during the civil war to a women named ma shumate and her no tell motel. Meridian was once beautiful it was the Queen City I could show you in 1900s meridian lined with rows of mansions! But corruption has seen it fall apart! Just a few will keep up the old buildings that were built to last! Little by little they put money into 3 ft building a x nfl qb has bought the union hotel! Weidmanns (opened in 1870) is still going strong and has brought back things from the original owners! We need a strong mayor and city council tho bc crime has taken over the city.

@kendracummings538 11 ай бұрын

@heartlogo2023 10 ай бұрын

Say word@@kendracummings538

@heartlogo2023 10 ай бұрын

Nice video. Good job!

@Crazytraveladdicts 10 ай бұрын

Thank you ❤️

@heartlogo2023 10 ай бұрын

You're welcome😸@@Crazytraveladdicts

@mothermayhem1566 11 ай бұрын

I loved meridian when I went there i would really like to move there

@Crazytraveladdicts 11 ай бұрын

We will definitely be going back! Lovely place

@wileyj.amerson3580 6 ай бұрын

Nice tour but it was a whole lot more of Meridian to show than the few blocks that you guys showed.

@Crazytraveladdicts 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching!!! Right now we tend to just focus on the downtown areas of the places we visit. Hopefully one of these days we will have more time to spend in the towns we visit so we can see as more! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻😊😊😊

@danielmaxwell5633 Жыл бұрын

And David Ruffin was born in whynot ,Ms and lol yea that’s kinda exactly what the ruins was but it was a rental venue with a bar it was really pretty too but it’s closed I believe now it just opened in like 18-19 I believe I’m sure covid got it

@Crazytraveladdicts Жыл бұрын

Yeah, Covid took out way too many businesses everywhere!

@burnedoils 8 ай бұрын

love my meridian, naysayer-grass-greener-in-another-city can get wasted

@Blairbee095 10 ай бұрын

The ruins was a outdoor patio like bar but the building it was connected to was falling apart so they’re going to knock the whole thing down

@Crazytraveladdicts 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for the info

@jackiefloyd8003 Ай бұрын

We were taught about Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner in school right along with the struggle for civil rights for black people in the 1960’s. Unfortunately, Mississippi is full of places where civil rights workers were killed. Medgar Evers is another famous case. I really wish they still taught this in school; it’s a disgrace it’s not.

@Crazytraveladdicts Ай бұрын

Agree 100%

@lanceparker4796 9 ай бұрын

My dad's hometown.

@kylehyde215CA 4 ай бұрын

I know it's probably been a while, but a second brewery?

@cedricfleming3045 7 ай бұрын

Put Natchez, Mississippi as one of your future places to visit.

@Crazytraveladdicts 7 ай бұрын

Will definitely do that thanks!👍✌️

@MrBreezy226 4 ай бұрын

Im from there that church is older than me and I'm 47

@Crazytraveladdicts 4 ай бұрын

Oh wow!!!

@PastorDanWhite Жыл бұрын

Renovating a house on Meridian is sending good money after bad. No way could someone get their money back much less sell it for a profit. Meridian is in big trouble. The money has gone to the coast where the casinos are.

@arthuradams6561 4 ай бұрын

I grew up there, and Meridian has a racist history. I did NOT encounter it when i was growing up, but the older folks like my grandparents told me stories of the KKK parading through the middle of the Black community. Plus, there were doctors that required Blacks to enter from the back door, and whites to enter through front door.Chaney grew up in a house four blocks from where i lived.They defnitely had a race problem because we have NEVER had a Prom at the highschool, due to parents not wanting to have the races together. and it is one of the largest highschools in the State. The highschool is 90 % Black and 10 % white now. It used to be about 50/50, but there was a lot of 'White' flight from the city. Mississipi is not the great place you say it is, just yesterday on NBC National news it was reported by Lester Holt, a six man group of Policeman called the GOON SQUAD were convicted for beating Black men, sexually assaulting them, and not getting warrants to enter there home.....and that was in Mississippi. Mississippi is still Racist Mississippi.

@Crazytraveladdicts 4 ай бұрын

Oh wow!!! There is definitely a lot of history there! Unfortunately it seems to be the same in most of the southern states.

@arthuradams6561 4 ай бұрын

@@Crazytraveladdicts Yes, you are so right. I have to admit. After living in Denver , Colorado. The South seemed even worse. I do love the weather. I am back in Baton Rouge now. I enjoyed your post. Safe Travels !

@arthuradams6561 4 ай бұрын

A;lso, Mississippi has ridiculous laws. They have said at some restaurants Blacks sit on one side, and Whites on the oppopsite side ( that is NOT going on in Meridian though ). This is 2024 and the lawmakers still think Stupidly like that.They even were planning to pass a law that prohibited Black Policeman from pulling over Whites for speeding, and stop White Policeman fron pulling over Black drivers. That is simply ridiculous !! In regard to Meridian, It is just a few People that have compamies that requires citizenry for there workforce, and when other companies were trying to move to Meridian, it was suggested that too many obstacles prevented it. This is why a 50,000 population has dwindled to 35.000. I was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and the best place i have ever lived is definitely.......DENVER, COLORADO !

@Crazytraveladdicts 4 ай бұрын

Wow, that is crazy!!!!! We love Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Montana….. hubby would love to live there one day but i don’t know that we could survive the cold winters! Georgia is bad enough lol

@arthuradams6561 4 ай бұрын

There was NEVER a Prom at Meridian Highschool due to parents not wanting the Black & White kids together. I never heard of school dances where the races were together of any kind. The highschool has many more teams for its students now. ( i.e. Bowling, Archery, Swim, Chess, along with Golf, Basketball, Baseball, Girls Softball, Track, Tennis, Weightlifting, and Football ). In 2013, The Justice Department announced that, jointly with the Meridian Public School District in Meridian, Miss., and private plaintiffs, it has filed a landmark consent decree to prevent and address racial discrimination in student discipline in district schools. If approved by the court, the proposed consent decree will resolve the department’s investigation into complaints that the district unlawfully and disproportionately subjects black students to suspension, expulsion and school-based arrest, often for minor infractions. In the course of the investigation, the department found that black students frequently received harsher disciplinary consequences, including longer suspensions, than white students for comparable misbehavior, even where the students were at the same school, were of similar ages, and had similar disciplinary histories. The consent decree would amend a longstanding federal school desegregation decree enforced by the United States, which prohibits the district from discriminating against students based on race.

@arthuradams6561 4 ай бұрын

Just yesterday, Lester Holt reported on NBC News that a group of six Policeman called the GOON SQUAD was convicted in Mississippi for sexually abusing, beating, and entering the homes of Black Men, and have been operating for ten years or so with no reprimand from Sheriffs. Mississippi is still Racist Mississippi.

@arthuradams6561 4 ай бұрын

There are Many, Many, MANY , more interesting places in USA than Meridian, Ms . ( ,,,and Jackson too )

@Crazytraveladdicts 4 ай бұрын

Yes, we went through part of the delta region and saw many small, interesting towns. We hope to make it back one day soon❤️❤️

@patrickshaneomarra5162 8 ай бұрын

Meridian could be so much more if they would elect a Republican.

@arthuradams6561 4 ай бұрын

The State as a whole is Republican. That is a Repuplican Governor that was in the Southern Miss. University Scandal with former NFL QB Brett Favre. They stole millions from the poor , in the state's Welfare Coffers, to give to a University for building a Volleyball Arena. So, Electing a Republican could do so much more...ILLEGALLY !