Walking In Bluefield, West Virginia - Downtown 

When I was a kid all my relatives were old and now I'm old and still love the memories.

Great tour. Beautiful day. Like most little towns in West Virginia, sad, lonely, dying out.

I grew up in Fayetteville, NC but went to Bluefield a lot during my childhood to visit family living there. My Aunt Mary Bourne lived directly across the street from Grace Methodist Church. I used to play on the steps of the church as a child when we would travel to Bluefield. The old high school (Beaver High) next door/above the church was where my mom went to high school. As a child, it was an ominous site to see. I always got a bit dizzy looking at it. I miss those days. Thank you for posting.

My grandparents lived in Bluefield. So many great memories. I still visit there. It's not the stereotypical dead coal town. Mercer mall is thriving. Lots of shops by the stadium.

I was born there and went back to Bluefield the year you filmed this. Very clean town. The sky was beautiful the day you were filming.

I live almost right where you started and I walk around bluefield a lot. It's kind of cool to watch someone else walk it lol

I remember a greyhound bus station there circa 1992 on my way to Cleveland from the Carolina, a cold January!

My grandfather was born here in 1919

Thanks for the video. I'm up in northeast u.s.a and bluefield was one of my choices for moving to. You helped me out on my search and probably saved me a grand, if I had to travel there and check it out.

I was born in Bluefield. At Bluefield Sanatorium ...... My father's mother lived there, last time I visited her house walker mountain was her back yard view, after it had been cut down. When I was a child she lived on Spruce st.

I was born in Bluefield 1938 left 1950 went to Beaver High school and Ramsey Jr high, my dad was a cop.Sad to see it going down hill.

I see the Granada still sits empty after seven years of work to reopen it as a cinema and theater arts center. What a pity. I guess there's just not enough interest. Like most of West Virginia, rich billionaires just take from the state and never give back.

I came to BLUEFIELD almost bout two years ago IT'S a BEAUTIFUL place it Really looked mostly empty Not many ppl around l visited a church there the ppl enjoyed me visiting they were Very Friendly & Welcomed me to come back or stay & get a place there I did tell them I did find a couple of places but the ppl were remodeling & it was gunna be 4 to 5 mths before the place was finished I Really liked it there, Been thinking & studying to go bak if Nuttin Don't turn around for me here shortly thank you for the video I hope you had a nice long walk it seemed Like Miles by watching video

My birthplace ❤❤ and childhood home. My family roots are here!

Downtown reasonably clean.

I like our walks James. Thank you ......

Years ago I took a Greyhound bus out of Bluefield. My uncles were coal miners and we drove from 🐆 Panther, West Virginia to Bluefield. Apparently the Greyhound Bus Station was mobile. They didn’t have a permanent building so it’s location kept moving around from building to building on different blocks. Boy did we think that was funny. 🤣 Only in West Virginia we said. Wild and Wonderful West Virginia! Thank you kindly for the tour and the fond memories. God bless all Coal Miners😇

I slightly remember walking these streets with my grandfather & mother. Gezz where has time gone??

I grew up in Clarksburg West Virginia in North Central West Virginia,it has that classic highrise architecture like Bluefield has that was built in better times.

My Grandpa was born in Bluefield and my grandma in Vivian WV and they seem like sad places now compared to what they told me growing up there…

💔 my hometown

I lived there for a year in 1978 - 1979 , went to Fairview Jr. High School

Sound of his steps and the birds Saw the man w the backpack twice as he pasted

If this is not the most beautiful town I've seen then idk what it is

My grandfather owned Bluefield produce. And provisions it was a family business My parents and ln laws lived in Bluefield

That's my neck of the woods not in bluefied I know it very well I lived in. Matoaka. I remember the old beaver high school. Played. In that gym. Before. Because. Wva. Loved. Basketball. 1975. 1975. Wow wer did time go. 🙏😂👍

Nothing changed since I was there in the 80s still a bunch of empty stores. It's sad.

No one hangs out in downtown blue field it’s mostly anywhere but downtown I mean there’s a large neighborhood 5 to 6 miles once you get out of downtown

Grew Up to of the MOUNTAIN IN BLUEFIELD VIRGINIA...BUT HAD LOTS OF FAMILY IN WEST VIRGINIA...USED TO BE CALLED LITTLE NYC BECAUSE IT WAS VIBRANT BACK IN 1960s...now sadly it's a DEad ZONE..RIP COAL & RAILROAD

Re-open Deskins on Raleigh Street.

Sad! Every thing is gone!

Where are all the people???

Why didn't you go on across the hill; there's more Bluefield over there.

Plenty of parking

Downtown Merchants and Ellis M lamps next door on Bland St sell all locations arts and crafts. Shop local and support Bluefield families.

Looks like everybody done run off.

I'm from Florida. Thinking of buying a small house here for the summers. Good idea? Looks like a decent place, thanks for the video.

big train yard..not much else..guessing it once was a norfolk western line now norfolk southern that went through bluefield

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Houses are very affordable here.

Darn, darn, darn, darn, darn, darn, darn.

courtesy heads up that I've used this video pretty heavily in a music video project of mine. I made sure to give it proper attribution back to here. If you're interested, video is here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n8Sbr2kH0UM.html

Mercer mall is dying

Bluefield West Virginia Used To Be My Hometown This Video Is True And Correct On Everything You See The Old Landmarks And All The Sad Thing Here Is Even As Much As Bluefield Says Its Trying To Revitalize Its Town The Bluefield City Chamber Of Commerce Always For Some Wierd Reason Can Not Come Up With Funds To Get It Done If You Ask Me Here RU-vid They Pocket The Money They Do Get?. Until Later We-Out.

I met a lady who lives in Bluefield 2 wks ago & she invited me 2 stay out there but I googled up transportation & I dint see a Greyhound Bus station nor an Amtrak train station.🤷🏿‍♂️🤷🏿‍♂️

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Great walk but the total almost 100% absence of people Few cars clean streets …. Maybe because no people What are those buildings used for? Look empty

Why do you not talk? Tell us?

Where is everyone, zombie land

Where is everyone? Lol

You think that I care what a West Virginia man think, I give All I had to help him and he gives me his middle finger

Really you went to a city to show the sidewalk boring

You fail to show the buildings your walking by.. Who want to look at a side walk and highway for twenty minutes... Not me...