@@user-nt2nw3ii4y a lot more then that. It's an extreme version of what happened to many small Southern cities in the Deep South beginning after segregation ended but not resulting in large scale severe decline untill near the end of the 20'th century. Unlike a city like Jackson, Mississippi which experienced a partly similar phinomonon, Pine Bluff wasn't large or diversified enough, and never had strong or extensive enough suburban areas, to avoid taking down the larger surounding area so the city of Pine Bluff death spiral soon led to regional decline.
I ran across this video by chance and memories came back from a time ...early 90's. Started up cookie routes for Keebler store deliveries. Folks all talked about how it was in the 70's and 80's.. I saw a really nice city.. people and business. Crime was setting in and unemployment was high do to the Lumber plant cut backs... Went back thru in 2007. It was barely recognisable. empty empty looked abandanded. ... reminds me of Gary, IN
That's wild I lived in crime bluff , times ruff , whatever you wanna call it and the last video I watched was a "Peter santello" or something like that ab Gary and the story of that city made me look this shit up
What happened ? It’s a place inhabited by ghosts. I saw that recent UA-cam video and there was only one store operating ... what happened to Pine Bluff ?
I grew up in the Bluff Lake Side Elem Indiana St Belair South East Jack Roby Pine Bluff High Lives on 18th between Olive and South Main Joined the Army in 94. Family moved out in 2001. From time to time I go there just to drive around there is so little there any more. I loved Irish Maid over on the Highway 79 and Faucet Rd 😢
Does anyone remember Big Top Pizza? Me and two brothers visited from Hot Springs. I wish I could find pictures or video of the animatronic characters. I think one was named Barbwire.
Face it! America itself went into decline when manufacturing and jobs went overseas. Everything was made in America. Jobs were plentiful, a person with a minimum wage job could make it in the past, with full-time job and benefits, retirement. Now, damn near everything you buy has been made and produced overseas from clothes, to steel, hardware, even prefabricated houses But, the inflation has gone up, but not wages. Sure, more jobs, but temporary jobs, and agency jobs are on the risen.
@@tylerstears4445 and Clinton don't forget Clinton signed Nafta Bush wanted to but could not. Regan did the deregulation that caused small business to fail and Walmart to prosper and 20 years later everyone went to amazon for online shopping. I live 2 hours north of the capital in California and its as red as the sun for politics except minus the churches and southern hospitality. Most people here can't afford to move to the bay area or Southern California or the coast where the jobs area unless your rich or have a rich relative or want to live with 2 or 3 other people. I have thought moving there due to its history, and close to Little Rock.
@chadhero37 yelp if they would've banded together and not rape pillage and enslaved other tribes history might be different..but they would all be trying to immigrate to Europe if history was different
Dash Riprock it used to be a beautiful, thriving place.... any, many, many years ago...as a child I saw the decline by the time I reached adulthood(again a long time ago lol) what a mess.
I was born in Pine Bluff in 1957. It was a quaint, beautiful little town. Then...something happened. Most of my relatives are gone now so i wont even go back. Sadly my once beloved hometown is one of the worst places to live in the nation. 😢
This is so sad of how the area used to be, i feel what changed was nafta, Walmart, and online shopping. People don't have to go to mom-and-pop places and just buy everything online, and Walmart taking away small business, loss of manufacturing jobs of being sent overseas and also things becoming more automated.
My question is. What did manufacturers and corporations think would happen to America when they took jobs overseas? The same thing with small farms or family farms being put out businesses for industrial farms? This has really hurt Americans. We used to produce everything ourselves, everyone could get a job, even if they didn't graduate high school.
I truly miss the mom & pop stores, where sales people were knowledgeable in what they sold you. I can't stand Walmart, most of staff are not knowing anything about their products. The prices aren't that cheap either. I don't shop online , I refuse to bank online, or pay bills online.
@@robertsmith1865 They were thinking CHA-CHING ! Asian laborers who will work for 18 cents an hour will make all most any business owner wealthy . But yeah, they destroyed their own country and didn't care.
This kind of destruction and desolation has nothing to do with shopping. Watch some of the other videos. There are beautiful and empty old neighborhoods with wonderful old houses in them. NOTHING survived in this city. I can list ten cities in Maine where their downtowns suffered from the loss of small businesses, but they weren't ABANDONED completely lol.
I was born in PB in 1959, lived there 17 yrs, graduated from U of A at Fayetteville in 1980, moved to Rogers and have lived here ever since. In a paperback GUINNESS BOOK of WORLD RECORDS in 1976 they showed PB to be the 2ND WORST CITY in AMERICA, in comparison to all other cities of same population! That was way back in 1976 and it seems like it's just a shell of itself now. It's so sad.
I grew up in St. Louis but Pine Bluff was a second home to me growing up. My mother grew up there. I visited grandparents there in the 60's and 70's several times a year. I still go there once a year to the railroad show at the Arkansas Railroad Museum. Like I said, I grew up in St. Louis, but a part of me grew up in Pine Bluff.
Robert Kresko my pawpaw and granny would take a trip up to Saint Louis once a year to go visit his folks who had moved away from Pine Bluff. Small world
The falling flag railroad named the St Louis and Southwestern Railway (Cotton Belt as it's nickname and subsidiary of the larger Southern Pacific Railroad) serves both St Louis and Pine Bluff Arkansas on the Jonesboro subdivision and the other fallen flag railroad the Missouri Pacific Railroad which all are under the Union Pacific Railroad banner. The SSW 819 🚂 is a beautiful work of art.
I have lived in Pine bluff, Arkansas for about 10 years now and it has changed so much since 10 years ago. I afraid to send my 6 year old outside to play because of the gun violence going on here now.
@@darrenchilds8980 False. In the 70s it was mostly white. My mother wàs born and raised there, grandad had a farmer's market where they later ended up building the mall. Great-grandmother got sick in 2000 and was hospitalized for a few weeks before she died, leaving her house empty. Bastards broke in and LITERALLY tossed everything the woman owned, there were clothes and paper and who knows what else four feet deep that you had to step up onto to get inside. It was crazy. But I have about a million more stories of crime in Pine Bluff. I'm VERY close, most everyone I know has lived or worked there at some point in their lives....
Unfortunately, the story of Pine Bluff is the story of America. The small towns, and rural cities are what defined America. Sadly, most of the money and power were vested in a handful of big cities. Then the voices of the smaller cities and towns across the country were left out of the most important conversations, in favor of enriching the few. This is the result of those greedy few. The sweat, blood and endless toil of our not so distant ancestors has been squandered.
Can someone give me an honest blunt answer here? WHAT HAPPENED? I was born in Pine Bluff. My father worked there as a timber cruiser for his uncle that owned a successful lumber operation. Now, when I meet someone from Pine Bluff and tell them I was born there, they look at me like I've got two heads. I mean, I've heard of ghost towns, but ghost CITIES????? And no it hasn't really changed over the last few years (based upon recent videos). Yes they revitalized about four blocks, but virtually no one is in those four blocks... Are the outskirts or suburbs of the city still inhabited?
No jobs....police force was cut back..... single parent households.... schools with poor education standers and then the Lock Downs ,along with the government handouts so folk can stay at home and not work a job outside their house.. I wasn't born there, but as a child from up North, my divorced hippy Mom brought me there in 71.... she later remarried and my sister was born in Pine Bluff Arkansas.... we lived there until 78. I live in Pa....and I am seeing cities just like Pine Bluff that are becoming ghost towns.
FWIW, the video probably didn't reflect the city then. Listen carefully again, like at 23:03, for places where the narrator mentions that Pine Bluff ranked the lowest on a national survey of cities. Also, at places, where the narrator says "critics note." Like where, the city was clearly too small for a massive convention center 21:00. As someone else notes later in the comments, other sources/rankings, from that same era, claimed Pine Bluff was a tough place to live. This documentary was entertaining, and I'm from PB. But the video was maybe a little too optimistic.
Detroit style white flight began on a much smaller scale beginning in the 1970's after desegregation, but only crossed a certain tipping point after 1990, taking the downtown and city's image with it. 1990 was the peak population year for Pine Bluff and it's been downhill ever since. The decline really began spreading decades earlier however. The suburbs of Pine Bluff have been partly annexed by the city but were never very extensive to begin with. Yes, surounding suburban/exurban areas are still inhabited and still mostly white on the whole but the population there is only semi-prosperous and population density is low, with limited and mostly blue collar employment. The State University, multiple prisons, lumber and paper mills, and the nearby National Arsenal provide much of the employment.
@@stevenwright8468 exactly. Pine Bluff was long a struggling and divided city but still a viable one with a substantial middle class and middle class neighborhoods back in the 80's, but also VERY unsustainable for the long run, especially after desegregation ended. In this regard Pine Bluff was a lot like many small city's in the deep South only more so. Similar to Albany Georgia but worse, things were bad enough for Pine Bluff to cross over a certain tipping point into an urban death spiral of the sorts that most similar small Southern cities managed to avoid even as they often declined significantly. Pine Bluff's higher crime and worse economy, but even more importantly the way in which the black population remained especially poor and historically consentrated in and dominant within the near core just outside the actual downtown neighborhoods of the city, helped lead to it's unabated decline. As a result, the surounding poor neighborhoods all closed in on the downtown area and the small prosperous sector leading out, and there just wasn't any strong area for gentrification/revitalization to start from once a certain tipping point had been reached.
At 16:58 they talked about the flood in 1927. I fear this can happen again. I may be mistaken but in 2019 Regional Park was completely flooded and water was almost up to the highway.
I'm originally from Benton, Saline County, but I'm in Arizona now. I used to have a job delivering vehicles for a dealership and I got lost in Pine Bluff. Not a fun day.
It’s sad because this town looks so beautiful but then when you look at it today current videos it unfortunately looks like the town is overrun with poverty and crime.
The references to "Land of Opportunity" and the license plate shown at the beginning are a giveaway. That plate was the same style that was on my car the last year I lived in Arkansas, 1981.
Maybe these negotiating communities can appeal to the new governor coming into office and get direct help outside of Little Rock for the benefit of the "NATURAL STATE". THERE are SOME rural areas of Arkansas that are absolutely beautiful and would draw seasonal visitors in for a better economic base for the communities and in turn help statewide. Arkansas has alot of history but it never gets advertised in rural southern Arkansas. It is beautiful and attractive for sportsmen, humidity is very harsh and hard on health so not for everyone year round but great to visit. It is where the Delta and Timberland meet.
Grew up in Pine Bluff...in its prime from 59 through 79...It started in the late seventies and snowballed in heavy street drugs, crime, gangs, bad cops, bad mayor, then progress happen on top of that with severe reductions in blue collar jobs through the railroad, paper companies, arsenol, and such......sad, it was a nice safe place to grow up in at one time....not any more.
Mary Sunshine I lived there from late 69 through 77. ...it's sad and unbelievable what happened. My cousin was a police officer and I knew many between those yrs, they were not crooked or involved with drugs.... if anything, they were anti-drug, anti 'long hair' etc! What in the world happened? I'm watching this trying to remember if six street turned into Blake Street and what road turned into Dollarway Road?
My family lived here for a couple of years, 90-92. My parents were the ministers and administrators of The Salvation Army. I was young, 5-7 years old, but I have a lot of fond memories of Pine Bluff.
Bang Big What a stupid thing to say. The salvation army is one of the best organizations there is. It’s not a cult. It Doesn’t spew hate. It actually helps people. It’s too bad more religions and churches don’t do the same. And by the way much on the end of the sentence is worn out
The lawyer at the end didn't mention the University(College) at the end. Pine Bluff probably never pulled together racially but how many places have? Certain people want to see Pine Bluff fail. Many good people and things still present in the city. I was born and raised in Pine Bluff, and still proud to say I'm from Pine Bluff. Bad press is constantly thrown at the city.
@@dakotasallis2142 Exactly! Like when the person above said “certain people want to see pine bluff fail”. Who??? Some Illuminati conspiracy group? Lol no that’s just the modern wave of victim mentality talking. The only people actively trying to make pine bluff fail are the residents.
@@anthonycrane1860, It is a proven fact that when a certain demographic starts moving in, communities and cities start dying. It has happened all over the country.
This was a series on different towns in Arkansas and this specific episode was about Pine Bluff, they weren't going to make a separate intro for every show
When a corrupt City Council and Drugs are left erode your community this is what ya get. The people must be mobilized and Organized to be Self Sustaining! Or this this city will crumble into Absolute Ruin! Groups of people who could use Carpentry Skills. Groups of people who do daily walks through their Neighborhood. Groups of people who meed to learn Financial or Adult Skills. Theres so much that a bunch of Retired people who could advising the young people!
@LittleRockElevators It's especially bad out there by the college. I live near the hospital now and never really smell it. It all depends on where you're at.
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This video was made in 1986 for those wondering.
Thanks! Now it's the 4th most dangerous US metro area.. What happened?
@@Hubjeep white flight
@@darrenchilds8980 That's the effect, what was the cause?
@@user-nt2nw3ii4y a lot more then that. It's an extreme version of what happened to many small Southern cities in the Deep South beginning after segregation ended but not resulting in large scale severe decline untill near the end of the 20'th century. Unlike a city like Jackson, Mississippi which experienced a partly similar phinomonon, Pine Bluff wasn't large or diversified enough, and never had strong or extensive enough suburban areas, to avoid taking down the larger surounding area so the city of Pine Bluff death spiral soon led to regional decline.
Crack epidemic
I ran across this video by chance and memories came back from a time ...early 90's. Started up cookie routes for Keebler store deliveries. Folks all talked about how it was in the 70's and 80's.. I saw a really nice city.. people and business. Crime was setting in and unemployment was high do to the Lumber plant cut backs...
Went back thru in 2007. It was barely recognisable. empty empty looked abandanded. ... reminds me of Gary, IN
That's wild I lived in crime bluff , times ruff , whatever you wanna call it and the last video I watched was a "Peter santello" or something like that ab Gary and the story of that city made me look this shit up
Saw a video made 3 months ago (2022) and it is totally devasting to see how the town is now almost non existant.
What happened ? It’s a place inhabited by ghosts. I saw that recent UA-cam video and there was only one store operating ... what happened to Pine Bluff ?
@@nagolhayze9366 it definitely has more than one store, it's still a decent sized small town, just full of crime.
@@froztyb Thank you for the update ...
Don't believe everything you see on youtube...
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my dad lived here when he was a kid, it’s like a time machine seeing this
We still run a business here in the Bluff. This was a hell of a throw back. We just got Irish Maid Friday.
I grew up in the Bluff
Lake Side Elem
Indiana St
Belair
South East
Jack Roby
Pine Bluff High
Lives on 18th between Olive and South Main
Joined the Army in 94.
Family moved out in 2001. From time to time I go there just to drive around there is so little there any more.
I loved Irish Maid over on the Highway 79 and Faucet Rd 😢
Does anyone remember Big Top Pizza? Me and two brothers visited from Hot Springs. I wish I could find pictures or video of the animatronic characters. I think one was named Barbwire.
Yeah that was when they all were on stage playing music it was kinda cool in the 90’s who knew about animation especially in Arkansas
@@gabrielcharleston9702 there was a Showbiz Pizza Place in Little Rock. I visited it in 1982 or 1983.
Bob Wire actually. And yes that place was awesome.
Yep. Used to be on 27th and Hazel in Pine Bluff. Best pizza and the games were fun too.
Come up
Face it! America itself went into decline when manufacturing and jobs went overseas. Everything was made in America. Jobs were plentiful, a person with a minimum wage job could make it in the past, with full-time job and benefits, retirement.
Now, damn near everything you buy has been made and produced overseas from clothes, to steel, hardware, even prefabricated houses
But, the inflation has gone up, but not wages. Sure, more jobs, but temporary jobs, and agency jobs are on the risen.
You know who was in charge during that time? Reagan and bush!
Yup when Reagen and his corporate cronies shipped all the jobs out in the 80s!
@@tylerstears4445 and Clinton don't forget Clinton signed Nafta Bush wanted to but could not. Regan did the deregulation that caused small business to fail and Walmart to prosper and 20 years later everyone went to amazon for online shopping. I live 2 hours north of the capital in California and its as red as the sun for politics except minus the churches and southern hospitality. Most people here can't afford to move to the bay area or Southern California or the coast where the jobs area unless your rich or have a rich relative or want to live with 2 or 3 other people. I have thought moving there due to its history, and close to Little Rock.
The Indians didn't "agree" to leave. They were forced to leave!
The Indians forced other tribes off their lands too. Alls fair in love and war
@@chadhero37no they didn't you ignorant prat.,they were the original tribe since the beginning of human habitation,
@chadhero37 yelp if they would've banded together and not rape pillage and enslaved other tribes history might be different..but they would all be trying to immigrate to Europe if history was different
At present, the entire city is dead. Few if any businesses operate in the downtown. Very sad situation.
There are 3 places where I’d never live, and Pine Bluff is 2 of them
Dash Riprock it used to be a beautiful, thriving place.... any, many, many years ago...as a child I saw the decline by the time I reached adulthood(again a long time ago lol) what a mess.
Dash Riprock that’s unfortunate! I currently liver here now and I’m from Kansas City, Mo..beautiful souls here and a rich history
Maybe not your most progressive cities but it’s home. As mentioned in the video, UAPB has thrived and produced many successful professionals.
What are the other 2?
Lol
I was born in Pine Bluff in 1957. It was a quaint, beautiful little town. Then...something happened. Most of my relatives are gone now so i wont even go back. Sadly my once beloved hometown is one of the worst places to live in the nation. 😢
2:20 the McDonald's Sign is still there in 2022. Any of these signs that are left are restored and are considered National Landmarks
This is so sad of how the area used to be, i feel what changed was nafta, Walmart, and online shopping. People don't have to go to mom-and-pop places and just buy everything online, and Walmart taking away small business, loss of manufacturing jobs of being sent overseas and also things becoming more automated.
My question is. What did manufacturers and corporations think would happen to America when they took jobs overseas? The same thing with small farms or family farms being put out businesses for industrial farms?
This has really hurt Americans.
We used to produce everything ourselves, everyone could get a job, even if they didn't graduate high school.
I truly miss the mom & pop stores, where sales people were knowledgeable in what they sold you.
I can't stand Walmart, most of staff are not knowing anything about their products. The prices aren't that cheap either.
I don't shop online , I refuse to bank online, or pay bills online.
I hate automation
@@robertsmith1865 They were thinking CHA-CHING ! Asian laborers who will work for 18 cents an hour will make all most any business owner wealthy . But yeah, they destroyed their own country and didn't care.
This kind of destruction and desolation has nothing to do with shopping. Watch some of the other videos. There are beautiful and empty old neighborhoods with wonderful old houses in them. NOTHING survived in this city. I can list ten cities in Maine where their downtowns suffered from the loss of small businesses, but they weren't ABANDONED completely lol.
It was a special place....
I was born in PB in 1959, lived there 17 yrs, graduated from U of A at Fayetteville in 1980, moved to Rogers and have lived here ever since.
In a paperback GUINNESS BOOK of WORLD RECORDS in 1976 they showed PB to be the 2ND WORST CITY in AMERICA, in comparison to all other cities of same population!
That was way back in 1976 and it seems like it's just a shell of itself now. It's so sad.
Sight Seeing and Travelers
Eyes have Gazed
to see what life here was like 3 decades before i was born feels so surreal it’s a completely different world
Awesome history
I grew up in St. Louis but Pine Bluff was a second home to me growing up. My mother grew up there. I visited grandparents there in the 60's and 70's several times a year. I still go there once a year to the railroad show at the Arkansas Railroad Museum. Like I said, I grew up in St. Louis, but a part of me grew up in Pine Bluff.
Robert Kresko my pawpaw and granny would take a trip up to Saint Louis once a year to go visit his folks who had moved away from Pine Bluff. Small world
@@bippityboppityboo2u supporting Home Again Pine Bluff, hoping to restore se neighborhoods and help revitalize it. Great town. I still love it.
When lived there my son love everything about trains.
The falling flag railroad named the St Louis and Southwestern Railway (Cotton Belt as it's nickname and subsidiary of the larger Southern Pacific Railroad) serves both St Louis and Pine Bluff Arkansas on the Jonesboro subdivision and the other fallen flag railroad the Missouri Pacific Railroad which all are under the Union Pacific Railroad banner. The SSW 819 🚂 is a beautiful work of art.
I have lived in Pine bluff, Arkansas for about 10 years now and it has changed so much since 10 years ago. I afraid to send my 6 year old outside to play because of the gun violence going on here now.
Why is it violent now?
Who is causing the violence ?
So sad , not the town I remember as a child in the 70s
@@anthonycrane1860 population is 75% black 😄
@@williemays2 it’s always been more black then white it’s the white flight same as Detroit the white business left
I see the racists are out in full affect. PB really isn't even dangerous lmao
@@darrenchilds8980 False. In the 70s it was mostly white. My mother wàs born and raised there, grandad had a farmer's market where they later ended up building the mall. Great-grandmother got sick in 2000 and was hospitalized for a few weeks before she died, leaving her house empty. Bastards broke in and LITERALLY tossed everything the woman owned, there were clothes and paper and who knows what else four feet deep that you had to step up onto to get inside. It was crazy. But I have about a million more stories of crime in Pine Bluff. I'm VERY close, most everyone I know has lived or worked there at some point in their lives....
Unfortunately, the story of Pine Bluff is the story of America. The small towns, and rural cities are what defined America. Sadly, most of the money and power were vested in a handful of big cities. Then the voices of the smaller cities and towns across the country were left out of the most important conversations, in favor of enriching the few. This is the result of those greedy few. The sweat, blood and endless toil of our not so distant ancestors has been squandered.
Seeds turn to Thorns when Electricity is tired and worn
Hear ye Hear ye
Anyone know the year of publication of this video?
I am guessing 1986 since that was the 150th anniversary of when Arkansas became a state.
Can someone give me an honest blunt answer here? WHAT HAPPENED? I was born in Pine Bluff. My father worked there as a timber cruiser for his uncle that owned a successful lumber operation. Now, when I meet someone from Pine Bluff and tell them I was born there, they look at me like I've got two heads. I mean, I've heard of ghost towns, but ghost CITIES????? And no it hasn't really changed over the last few years (based upon recent videos). Yes they revitalized about four blocks, but virtually no one is in those four blocks... Are the outskirts or suburbs of the city still inhabited?
No jobs....police force was cut back..... single parent households.... schools with poor education standers and then the Lock Downs ,along with the government handouts so folk can stay at home and not work a job outside their house..
I wasn't born there, but as a child from up North, my divorced hippy Mom brought me there in 71.... she later remarried and my sister was born in Pine Bluff Arkansas.... we lived there until 78.
I live in Pa....and I am seeing cities just like Pine Bluff that are becoming ghost towns.
FWIW, the video probably didn't reflect the city then. Listen carefully again, like at 23:03, for places where the narrator mentions that Pine Bluff ranked the lowest on a national survey of cities. Also, at places, where the narrator says "critics note." Like where, the city was clearly too small for a massive convention center 21:00. As someone else notes later in the comments, other sources/rankings, from that same era, claimed Pine Bluff was a tough place to live. This documentary was entertaining, and I'm from PB. But the video was maybe a little too optimistic.
Detroit style white flight began on a much smaller scale beginning in the 1970's after desegregation, but only crossed a certain tipping point after 1990, taking the downtown and city's image with it. 1990 was the peak population year for Pine Bluff and it's been downhill ever since. The decline really began spreading decades earlier however.
The suburbs of Pine Bluff have been partly annexed by the city but were never very extensive to begin with. Yes, surounding suburban/exurban areas are still inhabited and still mostly white on the whole but the population there is only semi-prosperous and population density is low, with limited and mostly blue collar employment. The State University, multiple prisons, lumber and paper mills, and the nearby National Arsenal provide much of the employment.
@@stevenwright8468 exactly. Pine Bluff was long a struggling and divided city but still a viable one with a substantial middle class and middle class neighborhoods back in the 80's, but also VERY unsustainable for the long run, especially after desegregation ended.
In this regard Pine Bluff was a lot like many small city's in the deep South only more so. Similar to Albany Georgia but worse, things were bad enough for Pine Bluff to cross over a certain tipping point into an urban death spiral of the sorts that most similar small Southern cities managed to avoid even as they often declined significantly.
Pine Bluff's higher crime and worse economy, but even more importantly the way in which the black population remained especially poor and historically consentrated in and dominant within the near core just outside the actual downtown neighborhoods of the city, helped lead to it's unabated decline. As a result, the surounding poor neighborhoods all closed in on the downtown area and the small prosperous sector leading out, and there just wasn't any strong area for gentrification/revitalization to start from once a certain tipping point had been reached.
short answer Pine Bluff is part of the Mississippi delta which is the poorest region in the US.
At 16:58 they talked about the flood in 1927. I fear this can happen again. I may be mistaken but in 2019 Regional Park was completely flooded and water was almost up to the highway.
what happned to this place?
What year was this produced?
Probably early to mid 80's
Had to be early 80s
It was produced in 1986, the year Arkansas celebrated its sesquicentennial (150 years) of statehood.
That intro song will haunt my dreams
They don’t call it Crime Bluff for nothing
That is all of America
@@robertsmith1865 yes but this place is 4th in violence in the country so to be the 4th in an already very violent country says a lot about this place
right on vikki, be thankful you were not born into such poverty or you would be committing crimes right along with them.
Where would you live? Pine Bluff or Kensington?
The bluff lol
The Congo
Everyone watchin this is from pine bluff or in pine bluff 💀
Surrounding area 72501
Nope chicago gangsta just like the gangsta from hope arkansas
I'm originally from Benton, Saline County, but I'm in Arizona now. I used to have a job delivering vehicles for a dealership and I got lost in Pine Bluff. Not a fun day.
It’s sad because this town looks so beautiful but then when you look at it today current videos it unfortunately looks like the town is overrun with poverty and crime.
That video is over 30 years old
Dude he means that it was on tv or tape 30 years ago
more like 40 years ago. I was 13 30 years and it didn't look quite like this.
My mom had a wreck on the overpass in the mid 80s so this had to be the early 80s
The references to "Land of Opportunity" and the license plate shown at the beginning are a giveaway. That plate was the same style that was on my car the last year I lived in Arkansas, 1981.
Maybe these negotiating communities can appeal to the new governor coming into office and get direct help outside of Little Rock for the benefit of the "NATURAL STATE". THERE are SOME rural areas of Arkansas that are absolutely beautiful and would draw seasonal visitors in for a better economic base for the communities and in turn help statewide. Arkansas has alot of history but it never gets advertised in rural southern Arkansas. It is beautiful and attractive for sportsmen, humidity is very harsh and hard on health so not for everyone year round but great to visit.
It is where the Delta and Timberland meet.
how to fix it?
So what happened to down town? I just watched a video showing main street like a deserted war zone. Did a damn Wal Mart come in?
Grew up in Pine Bluff...in its prime from 59 through 79...It started in the late seventies and snowballed in heavy street drugs, crime, gangs, bad cops, bad mayor, then progress happen on top of that with severe reductions in blue collar jobs through the railroad, paper companies, arsenol, and such......sad, it was a nice safe place to grow up in at one time....not any more.
It was safe for who, though?
Thank you. Your right, it was safe for me. But, I am for sure not for all.
Mary Sunshine I lived there from late 69 through 77. ...it's sad and unbelievable what happened. My cousin was a police officer and I knew many between those yrs, they were not crooked or involved with drugs.... if anything, they were anti-drug, anti 'long hair' etc! What in the world happened? I'm watching this trying to remember if six street turned into Blake Street and what road turned into Dollarway Road?
Good call
Awesome
21:25 Arkansas vs North Carolina Michael Jordan was there as well as Sam Perkins
I was there i was like 3 or 4
@@ThePeoplesPlugBMWI3 i was a year late (born in December 1985)
That intro song 💀
My family lived here for a couple of years, 90-92. My parents were the ministers and administrators of The Salvation Army. I was young, 5-7 years old, but I have a lot of fond memories of Pine Bluff.
Cult much?
Bang Big What a stupid thing to say. The salvation army is one of the best organizations there is. It’s not a cult. It Doesn’t spew hate. It actually helps people. It’s too bad more religions and churches don’t do the same. And by the way much on the end of the sentence is worn out
What is that Arkansas song that plays in the beginning because it’s so beautiful
Pine Bluff and special place in the same sentence. Funny!¡
Manufacturing jobs left?? Pine bluff was a nice town. Hate to see it like it is now
The lawyer at the end didn't mention the University(College) at the end. Pine Bluff probably never pulled together racially but how many places have? Certain people want to see Pine Bluff fail. Many good people and things still present in the city. I was born and raised in Pine Bluff, and still proud to say I'm from Pine Bluff. Bad press is constantly thrown at the city.
I was born and raised here too and bad press isn’t “thrown” at the city it’s earned by the city.
like the above reply it's not a issue of bad press it's the crime committed by the people who live there that give it bad press.
@@dakotasallis2142 Exactly! Like when the person above said “certain people want to see pine bluff fail”. Who??? Some Illuminati conspiracy group? Lol no that’s just the modern wave of victim mentality talking. The only people actively trying to make pine bluff fail are the residents.
Where is the crime coming from ?
@@anthonycrane1860, It is a proven fact that when a certain demographic starts moving in, communities and cities start dying. It has happened all over the country.
bring Caucasians back maybe pine bluff has a chance
Should Pine clean our valleys or trees soot our air
Health Ironhorse
Down town pine bluff is cleaned up now
Is it though?
It's being redone
He probably was talking about the buildings that feel in the street a few years ago
A Special Place in Hell
It is a proven fact that when a certain demographic starts moving in, communities and cities start dying. It has happened all over the country.
Agreed. It’s a shame the Native Americans had to suffer for it.
It isn’t proven when black ppl was there first.. if you watched the video even back then their was more black
But it is a proven fact red states like Arkansas and Texas are the poorest
UAPB!!!!!!
U.Are.Probably.Black. - UAPB
Dylan Freeman 😂🤣
Originally, Arkansas AM&N
Was actually the first paved road west of the Mississippi
Tijuana Mexico is safer than Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
Ong 😂
#TRUTH
Truth
Anyone want to say the real reason why...
We all know the truth
@@anthonycrane1860 The real truth is the white man left with business that Simple
You mean "A Special Place In Hell"
Sadly, I invested a small fortune in 2022, and upon going there in person, saw that I wasted my retirement savings on a rundown slum of a town.
Why would you invest “a small fortune” without doing any research about what you were investing in?
Tried watching it. Fell asleep.
Funny how the musical introduction to this only shows places that obviously aren't Pine Bluff!
This was a series on different towns in Arkansas and this specific episode was about Pine Bluff, they weren't going to make a separate intro for every show
You gotta check out Elvin Bishop's "Arkansas" tune and lyrics.
need to redo the deaf part, so messed up, not professional at all
Goody Goody for you
Fun underworked
A Jefferson is a Washington
World pine bluff story
For living Arkansas music knowing compulsory, immigrants fill on form..
Oh the Indians agreed to pack up and move to Texas did they?? 😂😂 I wonder what the (agreement) was
Mealworms are Loaded
Molasses out the Racks
Blazes due to ...
Only Gary, In is worse. Much worse.
When a corrupt City Council and Drugs are left erode your community this is what ya get.
The people must be mobilized and Organized to be Self Sustaining! Or this this city will crumble into Absolute Ruin!
Groups of people who could use Carpentry Skills.
Groups of people who do daily walks through their Neighborhood.
Groups of people who meed to learn Financial or Adult Skills.
Theres so much that a bunch of Retired people who could advising the young people!
World steam boat trains and automobiles
20 mins into this documentary & you realize exactly why this little town turned into a violent wasteland 😂
Alot of people dont know that George Strait is from Pine Bulff
George strait is from south tx
Crime Bluff aka Stank City 🔫🗡️💣😷
I live in pinebluff so fuck you bitch
@@CricketChris513 It's the truth, bro. I live in this stankin ass town too. Papermill.
@LittleRockElevators It's especially bad out there by the college. I live near the hospital now and never really smell it. It all depends on where you're at.
I just watched this yesterday...ua-cam.com/video/INuyNR2kvSo/v-deo.html
I aint like this no more
This didn’t age well.
World jobs
This looks to be 35 years old.. WTF happened??? Total sh*thole no..... sad - it was so vibrant at one time!!
This aged poorly. Diversity!