Poplar Bluff, Missouri

[@treygilmore7978]

Hahahahaha great run through town man. I lived there until I was in my twenties. Great to see some of the old familiar places.

[@WaywardWaggs]

Hopefully we will be visiting again soon and spend some more time with family.

[@MickeyMouse-bo5hj]

I Could Tell In Your Voice, This Is A Very Special Place For You! Thank You For Taking The Time, And Sharing!!

[@WaywardWaggs]

It is a special place. We are going back through there this fall. We can't wait.

[@SunsetSeekers]

What a wonderful video! I don't know anything about Missouri, much less Poplar Bluff, but you somehow made me feel nostalgic about it! Thanks for sharing!

[@WaywardWaggs]

Thanks so much. It is the first time we have ever done a voice over. Poplar Bluff is not a bad little place to grow up. Thanks for watching. We really appreciate it.

[@lemikster3699]

Awesome video! I live in Poplar Bluff, and it's certainly changing really fast, yet there are still old areas of the town that still exist.

[@WaywardWaggs]

Ya. Downtown has not changed much and the old Rogers Theatre is still hanging in there. We will be back through there this fall.

[@STR8ARRW]

i love here now, and i love it. used to live in sikeston, and bluff beats it every day of the week. i’ve got a brother that works in lamberts believe it or not

[@WaywardWaggs]

Love Lamberts!

[@JeffWells-cu6im]

is your dad name paul wells he is brother me name is jeffery bruner

[@denisebumby8856]

Nice Job! We could really tell that you had great memories of being a kid there. You are a lucky guy!

[@codyleutert3330]

I live in popular bluff it ain't Mitch

[@kayefink8293]

You always remember your hometown!

[@WaywardWaggs]

For sure

[@Spotting9902]

Im 10 years old right now and I thought poplar bluff was lame til I saw this video It made my day to see people saying positive things about it

[@shannonwalden8519]

Currently living in Colorado near Pikes Peak mountain. I was born and raised in Poplar Bluff. Moving back there to be near my dad and son soon. Cost of living is outrageous here, 600,000 residents to boot.

[@WaywardWaggs]

We loved our time in Colorado. It is beautiful. Cost of living should be way more affordable for you in PB.

[@shannonwalden8519]

@@WaywardWaggs I will miss the beautiful mountain which is snow capped right now. I enjoyed your video. I am glad to be heading back to PB where I am used to the people and surroundings. When I was living near Kansas City, Mo. and took my daughter to a dentist, Dr. Wick who is from Sikeston( if I remember correctly.) He remembered Lucy Lee hospital (where my Mom worked as an LPN). I remember him telling me "You lost your accent!"

[@WaywardWaggs]

@@shannonwalden8519 I remember Lucy Lee and Doctors Hospital. They have some new hospitals in PB now. We were just back through there last month.

[@shannonwalden8519]

@@WaywardWaggs I should be moved there in time for Friday's sale barn day the first week of June. I love the animals! That's another thing that I will miss in Colorado. The deer roaming the neighborhoods in Manitou Springs and up by Broadmoor and wild turkeys gobbling in my yard when I lived in Matheson.. My late husband and I used to set up a booth at the sale barn over 20 years ago. He's buried in PB. Came from Indiana.and liked PB enough to adopt it. Sadly, the reason I am leaving Colorado is because my current husband is a narcissist. As a Christian, we are salt and light . My family needs that influence. I haven't seen my dad in 15 years. I hope we can mend our relationship as we were never close .

[@WaywardWaggs]

@@shannonwalden8519 We hope it all works out for you and hope you enjoy being back in PB.

[@LoftisPartyofSix]

Just checked out your channel.. we are MO residents too!! Near the Branson area is where we are from!!

[@WaywardWaggs]

That is awesome. That will be one of our first stops when we hit the road. We got married in MO while stationed at Ft. Leonard Wood and we honeymooned in Branson.

[@beverlykey9548]

I was born there so happy to see your channel

[@WaywardWaggs]

It is a very quiet little place but it has grown a lot. Thanks for watching!

[@lk3309]

We're in Sikeston but have recently been going to Poplar Bluff instead of Cape to shop and eat dinner. Just a nice change. I've been fishing Wappappello again too

[@ihavehopeforu]

It's so odd to see the jr high school track I was just running on like yesterday in a video. I was literally looking at the stuff around it yesterday to because theyre so many things around that area of the school that seem to have gone unused overtime and it's so interesting to me

[@ABSF49]

I lived there for 3 years. 2014 to 17

[@IMomIt]

Very neat town! Would you choose to move back? We are moving this summer and Popular Bluff, really the whole region, is on our list.

[@WaywardWaggs]

It is a nice place to raise a family for sure. It gets cold in the winter but not every year.

[@lilazx6173]

I go to skate city every friday night I go to junior high so I’m so happy for u that u got to see it again

[@WaywardWaggs]

I have fond memories of Skate City. Glad it is still open for more generations to enjoy.

[@nikoijarrett7663]

I'm in poplar bluff my guy Xd the names Nikoi jarrett. I'm in 7th grade and I've been in this place ever since ùvú this year I'ma be going in 8th

[@deannavail7666]

The water tower on Baron Rd is gone. Had a hard time remembering where to turn to get to my parents house when they took that thing down! Lol (Arkansas native here! 👋)

[@WaywardWaggs]

PB has definitely changed a lot over the years.

[@김세호-x1o]

I am from South Korea. And in the near future, I would like to visit PB as there is LEGACY NAILS, my firm's customer. Thank you for sharing.

[@WaywardWaggs]

We hope you enjoy it if you ever get to visit.

[@colebearden95]

Ironically, I was born and raised in Poplar Bluff, and I am now living in South Korea!

[@colebearden95]

Great video, and great narration!

[@WaywardWaggs]

Thanks!

[@teampratis]

17k is a little town? lol I grew up just east of you 30 min into IL from Cape and that town had a combined 7,000 ppl lol Anna Jonesboro where I graduated and New Grand Chain, just north of Cairo IL is where I'm from!!! not a Cubs fan though hahaha

[@jackjohnson2101]

Also my home town, although I left forty-two years ago.

[@Easyworldwide952]

Popper Bluff, the greatest place in the world nothing like some good old country living you should come on down and visit😊

[@WaywardWaggs]

We will be back in a few weeks. We see looking forward to being home and seeing family.

[@ABSF49]

I helped lay down the new sod for the new baseball field for the School in 2017

[@coolman949]

Great video. Enjoyed watching it and listening to your narration. I grew up in southern CA but my mom and her side of the family is originally from PB. Every summer we would visit for a few weeks from roughly 1985-2000. I was young but still have many memories - I always loved the fact that you guys had firework stands around fourth of July because they were illegal in CA. Swimming in the river at Sam A Baker State Park a little ways from there in Patterson. Seeing that movie Angels in the Outfield before the Rodgers theater closed. I went back for the first time since then in 2016 and 2017. Westwood Blvd looks totally different with all the new restaurants and retail stores. I know a lot of people in the area don't like seeing a Buffalo Wild Wings pop up in their small town but at the end of the day, these places bring jobs and revenue to the city. Have you tried the Colton's steak house? We really liked it. I see some people in the comments section making reference to the increase in crime. Maybe it's just me but while we were there in 2016 and 2017, we went out a lot, even at night, and I never felt threatened or uncomfortable at any time. I may have seen a lady of the night hanging out in front of CVS, but that's about it. It's funny, PB is this tiny town in the heartland that most people have never heard of but I have run into more than one person in CA that has lived there at some point in their life. It's a small world.

[@WaywardWaggs]

We have swam at Sam A. Baker also. We went to Roger's theatre almost every weekend as kids. The Colton's is great. When I was a kid, it was A-1 Steakhouse. It was good back then too. Thanks so much for watching and for leaving a great comment. It certainly is a small world.

[@deejaye2647]

My dad was born here 1910! Last time we visited was in the 70s. Thinking about moving there. I'm in CA now..

[@coolman949]

@@deejaye2647 Imo you should go back and visit, take in all the old memories. See how the city has changed. But I would not move there. 1,000 residents have left PB over the last 10 years because there are very few good job opportunities. 25% of the people in PB live below the poverty line.

[@happycamper5213]

Started my live in PB in 1947 but lived in Malden until i was 5 Left for good in 1965.

[@WaywardWaggs]

I have an aunt and uncle who live in Malden.

[@sam........1391]

I mean you probably won’t believe me but My cousins Dad owns the Baldwin dealerships

[@WaywardWaggs]

My uncle works there. He has for years. Small world.

[@teddy341]

I havent been to poplar bluff in at least 4 years.

[@WaywardWaggs]

We are in Poplar Bluff again right now. We will be here for a week visiting family.

[@therealvq]

Seeing the pizza hut building makes me sad because it's no longer there........I just driving through town yesterday and talking to my dad about how little this town changed and then I watch this and see pizza hut and realize how wrong I was

[@WaywardWaggs]

My mother and my brother's first job was at that Pizza Hut. Sad. 😔

[@benkleschinsky]

Is this place popular or are they bluffing?

[@WaywardWaggs]

😂

[@darkabyssyt6875]

Woo im not the only one who lives in this hellhole!

[@WaywardWaggs]

🤣

[@nikoijarrett7663]

AYY this we're I am

[@theonewhomjesusloves7360]

I was going to watch this video and YT gave me a warning that ive posted some comments that weren't in line with the channel. But ive never even looked at this channel before now. Very strange...YT is really messing with everyone

[@WaywardWaggs]

That is weird. We have never heard of any warnings like this before. I wonder what is going on with YT.

[@madrecka]

I lived in PB for 3 1/2 yrs now i live in Southern California near Riverside almost 65 miles East of Los Angeles and 70 miles North of San Diego. Im glad i moved to civilization lol. PB is too slow & country. I couldn't live there the rest of my life lol. No way.

[@WaywardWaggs]

It is very country there. It is nice to visit once in a while but we could not live there for the rest of our lives either.

[@madrecka]

@@WaywardWaggs I had moved to the Bluff back in 09 to marry my wife but in May 2013 we had relocated to Southern California.

[@kevincarmack581]

The pizza hut is gone now, gonna be a rally's

[@WaywardWaggs]

😲 My mom's first job was at that Pizza Hut. Sad that it is going away.

[@kevincarmack581]

@@WaywardWaggs righton, I've eaten there quite a few times over the years, I live in Wayne county Ya it was kind of a landmark