Greeneville, Tennessee, 1955

Greeneville,Tennessee transforms inself from a one crop tobacco growing town to balanced manufacturing. To purchase a clean DVD of this film for personal home use or educational use contact us at [e-mail]. To license footage from this film for commercial use visit: www.globalimageworks.com

[@cotybowman8825]

Love this. I live at South Greene (about 7 miles from town) and went to Greeneville High School.

[@randywright1175]

Very proud of my hometown of GreenEville, Tennessee. It may not have the luster of what it had back then, it is still a luster moment in my heart.

[@jamesharris1452]

I'm canadian and i heard this place was super racist ??

[@motersickel]

@@jamesharris1452 not even close people are lying to you

[@v1a7]

@@jamesharris1452not racist just drug infested supposedly

[@PaxTheDog]

The great Greeneville Tennessee!!! My hometown!

[@brandyranly]

I live here now and was born and raised here. ❤️

[@v1a7]

Is there any good mushroom picking spots here?

[@aprilcansler2962]

I lived here ever since I was born :D

[@jasonmitchell6773]

I grew up there! Lived on the 14th hole of Link Hills Country Club mentioned in the film. haha, who would have known......

[@rebeccadecker5681]

My dad retired from Magnovox when it was switching names to Five Rivers

[@wlidbill5261]

I wish greeneville would come back to its former glory

[@BIGD-rt1mg]

I grew tobacco here. Not as profitable anymore but damn is the smoke good from home grown baccer

[@v1a7]

Is there any good mushroom picking spots here?

[@tuniabjc9659]

I've lived here 20 years and come from a busy city south of here. This town may have had its heyday long ago but it needs to have a kick start for a new one. Bring in some younger town leaders and things for the youth besides the YMCA ( that costs a lot for some families) The times that people came together like this and enjoy the good times are not as often as back then. Stress and pressures, troubles and costs don't go well with the jobs and wages of now. It needs to have new life and joy back into it. but the youth leave here and go away to war or other areas that have more to offer them. Sad now. If you did a video of today's life you'd find most businesses are closed down the kids don't get out the way it was back then and safety walking anywhere is an issue as well. But it is interesting to see it from so long ago. You can drive by the places that were bustling with life from long ago and still see the signs and marquee from that era remains. No one removes the previous business logo or names from the buildings. As if to keep the ghost from long ago alive here.

[@catlover4112]

A video about the downfall of a small town.

[@johnd4348]

Then manufacturing left and look at the town now.

[@teddibiase4286]

I think you mean Greeneville, TN.

[@robrobinette]

This film makes Greeneville look like the plains of Oklahoma--black and white and flat as your cousin.

[@v1a7]

Is there any good mushroom picking spots here?

[@ToolsAreToys]

Must've been nice back when corporations paid taxes.

[@bluearcherx]

LOL I like the blatantly false claim that Tusculum is the oldest college west of the Alleghenys. It was founded in 1794. Transylvania University was started in Kentucky in 1780 and even if you consider its present-day site in Lexington, which was started in 1789.

[@MichaelSHartman]

The Snapps Ferry Plant occupied 2 square miles, and at one time had 2,000 employees. It paid well. When a shift ended, it was near impossible to drive in traffic due to the number of cars, and was referred to as Magnavox traffic. 50 years after this film, what started here as Magnavox shut down. It was the last American television plant. As hundreds of natives were being laid off each month, they were replaced with Mexicans. Eventually, it closed. Businesses suffered. A few years later, the crash came. Everything is gone, thanks to China, and Mexico. The Pet Milk plant was big once then they started making tacos, I think that's gone now. Tobacco is gone. Independent farms like what we once had aren't sustainable. Walmart devastated downtown. Once prosperous Depot Street looked like a crime ridden slum with broken windows and closed pool halls some years ago. Law offices appeared around the courthouse. There's the Historic Greeneville tourist trade. We have President Andrew Johnson's homes & tailor shop, and Davy Crockett's birthplace. The courthouse has the only monuments dedicated to both Union, and Confederate soldiers at least until the Cancel Culture get a hold on it. The Civil War started because of the fight between Federal, and State rights. Similar to what is happening now, especially with Texas talking succession and others considering. Churches are adding on. Niswonger is doing his version of the BRI, even sincerely advocated the schools teach Mandarin.

[@stevelibby3676]

Everything isn’t gone because of China and Mexico. It is because Americans who owned these companies decided to hire them and move the plants those countries because wanted a living wage and they could save money. Educate yourself you fucking retard.

[@towrecker]

it might help a little if you change the title to reflect the correct name of the town , it is GreenEville Tn , it has an extra "E" in it , and is often placed on signs ect in the town just like this GreenEville to point out that fact , we are proud of that "E" here in GreenEville ! We on the other hand are not so happy with the magnavox company , they picked up and left our town , and took their operations to Mexico for dirt cheap labor , and poorly constructed wares , they really hurt our town , shame on you magnavox !

[@angryrednecks9314]

that's bill Clintons fault, so don't vote for hillary

[@leewhite6425]

Actually its Greene. As in Nathaniel Greene. Greeneville, Tn. Read your history.

[@tnridge]

@@leewhite6425 Nathaniel Greene wasn't even from Greeneville

[@MichaelSHartman]

@@tnridge It was deeded to him as payment for fighting in the Revolutionary War. I don't remember him occupying it.

[@murphman76]

Magnavox/Philips would have been happy to stay in Greeneville....don't blame the company (I worked for them for 30 years). Many factors were involved in the decision to close the last plant, but ultimately it was China that made US production of mainstream consumer electronics - at a profit - an impossibility. Until China stops continually devaluing their own currency (which is not anywhere in sight), consumer electronics plants like those of Magnavox's glory days in Greeneville will never happen again.

[@dullahan7677]

Fast forward to present day and the largest employer in the county is the county government, along with seven different police agencies and different sets of government officials to relegate authority over every little incorporated pocket of "town". Their merchant's organization known as "The Greene County Partnership" is little more than a legal mafia, that you must join or otherwise placate to be allowed to conduct business in the county. If you look up the definition of corruption in the dictionary, it should say "See Greene County".

[@proffittentertainment4186]

i live in green(e)ville and its not as good as this video makes it out to be.. they should put in this video how "years later this town will soon become an area of meth, crime, and dumbasses"

[@theinquisitor18]

Izayah Proffitt I live in Newport. I see videos saying how great it is. Which it's not horrible, but not great!

[@eboy3399]

Preach

[@jeffreydevoti8528]

The saving Grace of Newport is very close to interstate Hwy.

[@brianbrown621]

I used to live in this shit hole of a town

[@motersickel]

I mean if you think about it a lot of places are shitholes.. It's how you take it and what you make of it... You know like the analogy of one man's trash is another man's gold

[@fritzy2112]

labor Unions.

[@angryrednecks9314]

to bad Meth and pills took over

[@kampmeier69]

That’s anywhere nowadays sheesh. Be proud of where your from!

[@MichaelSHartman]

@@kampmeier69 It was a "nice place to live". One of the best in the state. Kids walked home from school. Now, it is the third worse in the state for crime, and corruption. We care about the town and county, especially those who remember, that's why it hurts.

[@tylerricker250]

Meth, Pills, and Yankees

[@J.Wick.]

@@tylerricker250 That GD Arithmetic ruins everything!

[@tylerricker250]

@@J.Wick. Haha well played

[@kevinc9006]

Yeah ..more meth here than anywhere