Grundy, VA, Demolition 

Thank you for documenting this. I was on the radio in Grundy at WMJD when it was playing top 40 music. We had to abandon the station in the Vansant Shopping Center and broadcast from WNRG AM on the other side of downtown Grundy. That was me who had the job of reading the list of drowned, missing and found every hour every day for a week. A man sitting up in the bell tower of the Courthouse talking on a battery powered CB radio would update that list to me as I received him on a CB radio at the station. This event and the people of Grundy are deep in my heart. Thank you for doing a great job with this video.

I visited this town in 2008 and had lunch on that street. Don't know why I just searched it today but its crazy that its all torn down. That 1 street is basically the whole town!

My lady of twenty years grew up in Grundy. We ended up staying w her dad in 2012 and we both got jobs at the new Walmart. What hurts me is thinking of all the memories she had when those old olacws were there. She passed two months ago and i miss her. She must've had many memories in those places. But good video.

As they say “we’ll keep you safe even if it kills you”. I heard one of the engineers say that in order to protect the town, they had to remove it.

my grandparents went on their normal summer trip from Florida to Michigan in around march, they passed through here and stopped to look at the buildings, on their way back in august they drove through again and noticed 70 percent of the town, to this day they think they were seeing things 😂😂

I was just a kid when all thos demolition was going on but I remember all the detours and road closings. I still remember what it use to look Luke compared to now.

My hometown.

Miss the old Grundy way back

This is beyond sad to me. I grew up in Grundy. They destroyed the entire town for a Walmart. Population continues to dwindle to next to nothing even with two colleges in the town. Grundy had an opportunity to be Boone, NC if they had played their cards right. Now I haven’t even been there in 3 years and I don’t care if I ever go back.

This breaks my heart, especially that image of the Lynnwood Theater in the thumbnail. I saw my first big screen movie there when I was 3 years old. The Karate Kid part 2. I think it closed a year or after that. If anybody in the comments knows the exact year the Lynnwood closed, let me know. I'm thinking 87 or 88.

Absolutely great video must have been really Crazy to see all this demo. The excavator with the claw was defiantly different the way the arm on it was built!

All those old buildings would make a damn good Silent Hill video games.

How did they get rid of all of the things that they demoed it must have taken a lot of space to dump it

Why is this entire town being demolished?

Why?

I don't go to Walmart, VA. When I go to visit my dad

The most upsetting video I have ever saw. Progress?

Take a good long look boys to the great progress you brought Grundy, if even exists now that ITS GONE. Wal-Mart don't make a town.

grundy is awesome

If'n ye grew up and lived hurr like'n I did in the 19 and 60s and 70s, this hurr is awful sad. Hain't no doubt about hit.

Sad. Two Korean excavators tearing down the USA. We used to build big things.....Sigh.....