I lived and grew up in Frayser. I walked to school every morning with the other kids on my street. The other kids and I played in those streets, had cookouts with family and friends in those streets, and I have a lot of really good memories from this neighborhood. It was only like 15 to 20 years ago. And I know things can change over time. So I’m not discrediting the people who say it’s bad. But to me, it really wasn’t that bad. At least it wasn’t when I was there. Or I was too young/naive to know the difference. Anyways, I believe you can find bad things and dangerous situations anywhere if you go looking for it.
I swear on everything that I miss Frayser in the 90s. Had a great time. My grandma used to live right down the block from where he was in at the 4:00 minute mark down on Debby. We lived in the west side of 51 over in Orchard by the Harvester plant. I remember renting movies at the Hollywood video right over there at Watkins and Frayser blvd and my mama worked in the deli at the Piggly Wiggly across the street, which is now that Superlo. We used to lay in the floor of the movie store and watch movies when my mama couldn’t find a babysitter. My sister and I used to walk around to the candy lady and had so much fun growing up in Frayser. I’m over here remembering stuff and just rambling my memories now. I usually don’t watch these videos but kinda glad I did this one….like I don’t drive through Frayser every single day on the way to work 😂😂😂
Frayser is a community in North Memphis. At one time it was a very peaceful community. My children walked to and from Denver Elementary, we walked to different parks in the area. There were no drive bys and no gang bangers.
"1 Corinthians 6:9-10 9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous1 will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: xneither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,2 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God."
The people in these comments clearly know nothing about Memphis. Frayser is not is a part of North Memphis. Frayser was the suburbs. It later got annexed by Memphis. The Wolf River separates Raleigh and Frayser from North Memphis. North Memphis is Hollywood, Binghamton, Hyde Park,Smoky City,Klondike, Mitchell Heights,New Chicago, Greenlaw,Evergreen, Douglass and Crump,and Scuttafield.
I’m from Frayser. Where you started driving, absolutely nothing happens there. It’s quiet and ful of older folks. Next time you come back, I’ll show you some rough areas!!!!
still luv'n your videos. Remember, if your driving thru Fayetteville, tn, nashville, TN area or huntsville, al let me know lunch is on me. we can chat shoot the breeze.
I lived in Frayser from 1960-68. It was a wonderful neighborhood at the time-close to Northgate Shopping Center. They had a great drive-in too. Miss the Tops’ BBQ!
I got locked in EC, it was the most corrupt and miserable experience of my life. The inmates were cool, but the COs and police were sadistic criminals on a whole other level. Shout out to EC tho', fuq the police 4eva
Trust me, I lived there from birth in 1959 to when I left in 1996. And I'm talking about that whole time in FRAYSER. He needs to go back with me, and I can show him the hood that IS FRAYSER.
I was born and live in London UK so this is very interesting. I visited Florida Orlando years ago and would like to visit Memphis one day but Beale Street and that area where the music is if my finances allow. People here dont realise the travel distance there compared to here which is much shorter journeys to get to places...
I grew up about a mile from where this video stated. Lived there many years. While it is somewhat of a rough neighborhood now, it is def not the most dangerous area of Memphis. I grew up at Corning and North Watkins and went to Frayser High back in the 80's.
I started living in Frayser in 2018 and I liked it but now in 2023 I don’t know what’s going on. In 2018-2019(November) me, my mom, and my brother lived with my granddad because we were going to move. In November of 2019 we moved into my dead uncle and grandmothers house. I loved it there, it felt so peaceful. In 2020 I became friends with my neighbors. 2021 was also a good year and I really loved 2022… but then 2023 came along. It was good from January to July but then I got into 8th grade and everyone decided to be SO judgmental for no reason. I started to hear LOTS of gunshots. I think I heard some last year but not the damn much. I was actually scared of going out into the world again and the dark. In the past I was only scared of the dark because of scary and ominous things in cartoons, but now I’m scared because what if someone breaks into the house and kills me, what if someone broke in and is hiding… I’ve never been so fucking scared cause shit like that never happened while I stayed in my granddad’s house which is in Frayser. I generally hate 2023 with a passion and I am hoping 2024 is like 2010-2022 cause… I’m just done with 2023…
Yes, Memphis had significant Irish and also Italian immigrant populations in the late 1800's and early 20'th century and many of their descendants are still in the area. Memphis is plenty segregated as Southern city's go but the "ghettos" have some areas with large residual white populations that have begun to stabilize, while gentrification is also starting to spill into a few areas now.
@@wildestcowboy2668 Memphis, Tennessee is about 63% black, while the Memphis Metropolitan Statistical Area as a whole is plurality but not quite majority black. The city does have an Irish and Italian Immigration history in it's past.
@@wildestcowboy2668 what are you talking about? I didnt say anything about crime in Memphis. Yes it is a high crime city. I could easily look up the numbers but so could you. I just pointed out that your reply was simplistically inaccurate and came across as a pointless attack, in reponce to mentioning a bit of Memphis history. Chill out dude!
It snows a lot in Fraser. You missed the worst of it. Next time head up near Crockett Park or around Westside High School. Lived there from 1965 to 1973. It was a great place then.
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS yep, it all went downhill fast! Best area, but the racism was unlike anything I have ever seen. Even the good areas like Cordova and Germantown are quickly going downhill. I was staying in Cordova. I lasted about 3 months and headed right back to FL. I left a week after those 5 cops killed that guy.
I grew up in Frayser. I have great memories from there. Top’s BBQ in Frayser is the best! It started getting bad in the 70’s and has gone down hill ever since. My mom lived there in the old neighborhood until a few years ago. Finally talked her in to leaving. She tried to talk the last neighbor from the neighborhood to move to where she was moving. The lady didn’t , she died a few years later and her son was getting her house ready to sell. Cleaning and mowing and such. He was shot and killed for no reason in front of his wife and son. Certainly not like it used to be. It makes me sad. there. It was the best. It’s no longer a place I wish to see. I babysat the man that was killed when he was young. Now it’s a place that I have no desire to see again.
I fw Memphis, especially Frayser. They showed me love there. I was there December 2021- March 2023. Being from Alaska I was surprised how cold it got. I stood out like a sore thumb being Filipino. But if you Thoro they fw you. I don’t walk around with fear because if it’s my time to go it’s my time to go. But there was a guns going off every other day.
I know I'll get some hate mail for this but I wrote a song a few years back called "My Old Frayser Home". I apologize for the cheap shots. Here are a few lines... Where the crabgrass is greener and the cops are meaner, In my old Frayser hood. And the summers swelter in the homeless shelter That I call my old Frayser hood In the boot- ie - hills of Memphis We’ll start a gang all our own Where the whores are cheaper and the potholes deeper, In my old Frayser hood. Where the churches are smaller than the tattoo parlors In my old Frayser hood. In all the world there is no place that gives me such a chill the Wolf River waste waters to the BFI land fill.
I grew up in Frayser from 1975-1990. It was best memories and childhood you could ever wish for. I walked to school and had the best friends from that area. Had hard times too but made me who I am today. Wouldn't have traded those days there for anywhere else. That area helped shape me into the man I am today. It might not be as great anymore but it was for me!
Not really. First of all, Cordova is now mostly a part of Memphis and yes it has begun (very prematurely!) declining at a significant pace. West Memphis is already mostly poor and crime ridden but has never been all that desirable even in it's white flight from Memphis TN fueled growth spurt heyday back in the 1950-60's. West Memphis has been declining ever since, but retains a sizable (increasingly poor) white population despite significant white flight while Arkansas exurbs have been sprouting north of W.M. While still growing, northern DeSoto County, Mississippi suburbs are also now starting to decline in socioeconomic status (and experience some white flight or at least some serious attrition) and have done so already in certain pockets. Bartlett has some white flight going on now on it's west and north sides (and in adjacent unincorporated county areas to the north) but is still prosperous (and still mostly white) though more of a semi blue collar community. Otherwise, Germantown, Collierville, and all the significant smaller outer suburbs & exurbs to the northeast, east-southeast, and south (in Mississippi) are still growing if sometimes at a slower pace, and not in any significant socioeconomic decline as of yet.
Grew up there. Born there in 1958 sold for 32K in 1980. Section 8 housing and the death of International Harvester destroyed Frayser. If I ever moved back, I would move back to some areas of Frayser. Frayser is about 12% white.
U have it all wrong. Frayser is part the north of Memphis. Frayser IS part of Memphis. Memphis p.d do have jurisdiction in Frayser. U didn't go thru the hoods. U rode the outskirts of the hoods. I'm from Frayser. I went 2 Denver elementary. U rode past it. I went to Grandview and Trezevant h.s.
Living in frayser from 2008 to 2015, I experience a lot of unnecessary shit from grown ass men who were strangers. If you look frayser up on family watchdog, you will see how many pedos and r@pists live there. I'm not surprised considering I was 14-17 when most of the instances of sexual harassment, attempted kidnapping, men flashing me, etc. happened. Those who had good experiences living there, you are blessed.
I've lived in frayser for over 40 years to this day! No it's not as bad as people try to make it to be! It puzzles me on how non black people are so concerned about our black community instead of worrying about their own!!
Roosevelt Mason you are so right fraysher is not part of North Memphis they both are in two Defferent areas and two Defferent Zip code I been here All my life and I never know that someone would say that fraysher is a part of North Memphis wow
how would you like it if we said the same about YOU coming to our suburbs? ohhh you would get triggered than right? segregation ended a long time ago but idiots like you., oh wait i forgot your city killed him. nevermind. makes sence now
Some great folks come from Frayser. It had a Harvester plant there and some other industries. It has gone down in the past few years. A convent closed down a few years back.
It was the best place to live before forced bussing occured. White flight and blacks moving in led to it's deterioration. No more dangerous than many areas in Memphis. Head to south Memphis for real destruction. I grew up in Frayser, graduating in 1970.
I've been through this area many times. Not once was I terrified of anything. Certainly nothing your showing here. If you go about your business in any area you should be fine. I'm sure somebody could go looking for trouble and mess with people in Germantown and get themselves killed as good as anywhere else.
Just because you don’t travel USA and know nothing doesn’t mean were like you too. Go to Detroit area 2X a year and love it. The female with me is born in Detroit and lived there many years why do you have to assume things you dont know? Dont ever assume the next man is as illiterate as you.
I went to school with kids from this part of town. Let me tell you I could not focus because they were disruptive and I was on edge. They didnt't mess with me but I wanted to be in a majority white school for a reason.
What is the deal with the garbage/recycling stuff? If you listen to FrasyerBoy and Lil Wyte, they tell some pretty crazy stories about living in Frayser. They have some badass songs too. I always liked lil Wyte more than Eminem as far a white rappers go, don't try to change my mind either, lol. Not sure if 3 6 mafia is from Frayser but they all rep north Memphis for sure. I still don't understand the whole no garbage thing tho... Did ppl try to leave trash here or something?
As so many others have said, Frayser is in Memphis and has been since it was annexed in 1958. If you want to do videos like this, you really need to get a local person to go with you. I left Frayser in 1976, but I drive through this area once a week and feel safe enough. I could take you to worse areas of Frayser and certainly to worse areas of Memphis. Any local person could tell you the factors that led to the deterioration of Frayser. Many of the residents fifty years ago had good jobs at Firestone and International Harvester. When both of these shut down, jobs were hard to come by and people left. But the big outflow of white people happened when court ordered bussing meant their kids were going to be bussed across town to inner city schools. Property values plummeted along with quality of life. Sadly, many of the white people still there are older and can't afford to move. Wouldn't it be better to add some local commentary rather than just speculating about the area?
@@MsSharondaj Ms sharonda I know some peoples that lives there also but it still not North Memphis just because some peoples have moved there from North Memphis that just like saying east Memphis is North Memphis or orange mounge because I know a lot of peoples who have moved from North Memphis to them location also come on now Ms sharonda let's not get it twisted fraysher is not North Memphis I live in North Memphis two Defferent Zip codes
@@user-fw8fq8dx7d Frayser known as ,"The bay" has be inducted as North Memphis for a long time now, I live in North Memphis all of my 40 years from Poplar to Frayser Blvd and Rangeline, to Watkins and Hwy 51, 9 out of ten you going to see people from all around the northside of the city up there ! Things change most of the people that came from North Memphis went farther North which is Frayser,you might not like it, but hey it's is what it's ,is the North Memphis extended like Bethel Grove is to Orange Mound,it's still the Big Orange, And We respect it that way!!
@@user-fw8fq8dx7d And East Memphis is mostly off limits to us from the Northside we don't Phuck off period, nor do we compare like that either Orange Mound is the middle of the city,East Memphis is its own area,you got to be from here and live here to understand that. When you ride past Frayser there goes Northaven
Trust me I lived in FRAYSER from the day I was born in 1959 to 1996. Had to get out. Where he should have taken a left turn he took a right and vise versa. Use to be a great place for lower middle class HARD WORKING FOLKS to live. I would speculate that over half of the houses are section 8.
My family is from Frayser , I'm on the other side of Memphis now. Frayser use to be peaceful and nice. The houses were nice, even the small ones. Crime was not an issue, you could walk to school and not worry. Frayser was "the place, the hangout" of Memphis once upon a time. Until the 90s, it got rough quick. Use to be majority white, and for the past 30 years it's been like 95% black, everyone left and turned to another place. Still looks the same except more ran down and older. The houses look way worse now. Majority African American now. A lot of gang violence. Back in the day it was chill, I'd walk to Whataburger on Frayser Blvd. It was great. It's not even there now. Pure hood now. Shit happens.
