YAZOO CITY: Early morning walking tour. This place is eerie because there are NO PEOPLE!

[@taytaysymone8766]

Hey, I am from Yazoo City born and raised for 24 years and still live here actually! Downtown is actually where my family Barbershop and Salon is ( you panned over to it briefly, that tan building right at the 11:45 minutes mark next to that building with the green entrance). It’s not actually as abandoned as you may think 😂 I think you should give Yazoo another chance we have AMAZING history I would be happy to show you around if you ever come back to the gateway of the delta ❤️ also downtown isn’t where all our businesses are anymore since Walmart was built in the uptown area.

[@Crazytraveladdicts]

Thank you so much for the info! We will definitely be back!! There are many more towns in Mississippi that we want to explore. ❤️❤️❤️

[@somedudeinminnesota]

How is the camping and fishing down around Yazoo city?

[@taytaysymone8766]

@@somedudeinminnesotaI don’t camp much so I really can’t tell you much about camping, but I am very big on fishing, we have little ponds in the outskirts that are filled with Bluegills and nice sized catfish. We actually have a famous catfish farm called “Simmons Catfish”. If you go a little further to Ridgeland, MS they have a reservoir where you get catch whatever the river offers you as long as you stay within state fishing guidelines and have your license.

[@melaniegaukrodger]

I am going to Yazoo. What else is there to be seen?

[@melaniegaukrodger]

@taytaysymone8766 what else is there to be seen?

[@melmel_227]

Im 23 and I’m born and raised and still live in in Yazoo city and that building used to be a theater with wooden benches from what my parents tell me and that other building was Budweiser bar and that murial is about the Witch of Yazoo

[@Crazytraveladdicts]

❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@brianreber6303]

I want to stop down there .. my mom's side of the family is from Yazoo City .. I went down there in the early 80s and got to meet some my grandmother's side of the family... That was 40 years ago ... My grandfather's side of the family was from Alabama ... But I've always wanted to go back to Yazoo I have a Yazoo City almanac ? Possibly from the 40s ...

[@Crazytraveladdicts]

You should definitely go back, that place is one of a kind and very interesting! We definitely want to go back on day👍

[@finescaletech]

I went there once in August 2015 and stayed in the beautiful old hotel. The lady care taker was a wonderful ambassador to the town. I had also spent an afternoon at the local museum and the curator gave me his time and both he and Wilma went into great detail about how the town functions. There is a gas station nearby that has fried chicken and deep fried okra. The place is beautiful in its decrepitude. I loved the people. They are there. There is also a small town nearby called Bentonia that has a small "juke joint" and an old Blues gutiarist named Jimmy "DucK" Holmes. I would describe the people I met there as authentic. No contrivances. I don't think a person could be. It's a long way from my home in eastern Ontario.

[@Crazytraveladdicts]

We loved Yazoo City! We also did a video in Bentonia but unfortunately the Juke Joint had closed down!!!!! Thank you for watching and for the insight on your view of Yazoo City

[@jhonhoyos612]

I am from Colombia and recently i watched a movie called my dog skyp snd it is beautiful and nostalgic the story of a friendship of a boy and his dog takes place in yazoo sice that i eanted to know more about that town . Its based in a book of willi Morris who live his boyhood in yazzo. Greetings from Colombia. Good video.

[@Crazytraveladdicts]

Oh wow!!! We will have to check it out!!! Thank you so much for watching❤️

[@shirleeb7015]

My grandmother is from there my generation move to Brooklyn New York and had my mother 1940

[@dessajones2286]

My family is from Yazoo City, the last time I was there I was a teenager, if fact I celebrated my 18th birthday there in 1981 while on vacation. Although I was born and raised in Los Angeles, I feel like I have a connection to Yazoo city. The people were nice and friendly, both white and black people. The town was mostly made up of black and white people back then, we would visit ever two years since I was 12yrs old.

[@dessajones2286]

There used to be a movie theater downtown. I remember because my dad dropped me and my sister off there and didn't give me enough money. I was the oldest at 12yr. I explained that we were from out of town, and our dad dropped us off. The nice lady let us in, and we saw the Creature from the Black Lagoon. I told my dad to go back and pay the difference. We walked back to our grandmother's house after the movie. He never went back to pay her. I was so upset because I gave her my word, and I thought she will never let another black kid in again.

[@marilynmitchell5181]

So good to see you made it through lol. That first empty building/space is the where the children of the corn meet and that guy named Malachi sits in the chair up front

[@Crazytraveladdicts]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 You might be right Marilyn

[@sullivanjohnson8672]

Its a sunday morning of course its gone be empty 😕

[@cheer4lifeatcmc]

Hi! I work for in the Visitors Office for Yazoo County and I have NEVER seen these streets so dead. Every time I go downtown I can never find a parking spot (lol). It must have been a holiday or something? This is blowing my mind!

[@Crazytraveladdicts]

It was Memorial Day weekend but we were there that Saturday. Does everything just close down super early??

[@cheer4lifeatcmc]

@@Crazytraveladdicts I know most of the businesses closed up for the whole weekend since they're mostly family and locally owned so I imagine that weekend was super boring but we have a Blues Festival coming up that's known pretty worldwide and it will be CRAZY here but I have never seen it this dead. I see why y'all were so sketched out! 😂

[@Crazytraveladdicts]

@@cheer4lifeatcmc yes, it was very eerie how quiet it was!!!! Beautiful downtown though 😊

[@camille7098]

@@cheer4lifeatcmc I was there for the world famous blues fest last weekend and the town was exactly like this video. absolutely no one around. so odd. twilight zone vibes.

[@cheer4lifeatcmc]

@@camille7098 I was there on Friday! Since most things are local, they tend to be closed on most weekends. I think they should have stayed open for the festival though with all the people coming in for it.

[@HaveKayaksWillTravel]

Its amazing they have so many buildings still standing and intact with the lack of people. I like the auditorium/ amphitheater thing. Very unique walk. Thanks for the tour.

[@Crazytraveladdicts]

What’s up Ken! Thanks for checking out the video!

[@BigCoopDaGrillChef]

Nope, ain't nobody gone be downtown 7am on a Sunday morning.

[@Ms.Bayou4495]

I've never been there, but I bet that building with the benches was a theater.

[@Crazytraveladdicts]

Yes, that’s what we were thinking too😊😊😊

[@somedudeinminnesota]

I just found this channel and it's legit....bro youd love driving around northern Minnesota on the "iron range" and north shore.

[@Crazytraveladdicts]

We plan to try to make to all the states 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@somedudeinminnesota]

@@Crazytraveladdicts that's a good plan! Northern Minnesota offers Alot in wilderness experiences...check out the Voyagers national park and the area im around is the boundary waters canoe area wilderness it's absolutely breathtaking

[@harrygoldun5779]

This is so sad. A beautiful little town with interesting architecture devoid of life. Could it be the time of day, as have seen images of life in the streets.

[@CalmApron-nl7lw]

Use to be a huge billboard at end of street and Christmas they would put a huge Santa Clause on it. The toggery mens shop on the corner run by mr bagwell

[@kaneshiac.9390]

They still put it up every year.

[@24lberry]

I’m from Yazoo City and the town used to be bustling. I grew up there and left after high school. The leadership is why you see it the way it is now, unfortunately!

[@Crazytraveladdicts]

@@24lberry so sad

[@UniquelyMadisonAvenue]

It reminds me of the town buildings in the original Children of the Corn movie.

[@Crazytraveladdicts]

Someone else said the same🤣🤣

[@lilly3628]

It's like the aftermath of the War of the worlds when everyone fled the city.

[@Crazytraveladdicts]

Yes!!!

[@TheBluesmanBlue]

This is what happens when you take your vacation and your money and visit foreign countries instead of spending your money at home in the United States cities and towns here will go abandoned I want to thank you and your friend for taking the time and visiting the state of Mississippi 🇺🇸

[@CalmApron-nl7lw]

When the jobs leave people leave 13:42 😊

[@CalmApron-nl7lw]

I miss the giant magnolias that lined both sides of grand avenue

[@TheBluesmanBlue]

@@CalmApron-nl7lw just about every rural part of Mississippi made money off of people who tour the Towns because of the entertainment Blues when the popular musicians that made Mississippi area is known they move to other places even though the less known musicians they did not make a name for themselves in Chicago they made their self known Europe 🌍 with some of them are still living today and you correct when they left that's when Mississippi started falling

[@TheBluesmanBlue]

@@CalmApron-nl7lw the government is not going to waste the money bringing it back either even though it was an attraction

[@CalmApron-nl7lw]

@@TheBluesmanBlue I could tell some stories ur about as close to the blues as u can muddy waters Robert Johnson

[@harrygoldun5779]

When you guys coming down under???

[@Crazytraveladdicts]

Australia?? That is definitely on our bucket list 🙏🏻

[@harrygoldun5779]

@@Crazytraveladdicts yes, Australia! You won't find any deserted towns like Yazoo!!

[@cesarcantoral6100]

You got the whole town to yourself !!!!!lol

[@ObeyJesusOurLord]

Downright depressing! Deserted!

[@sunspots6077]

I wonder that in some of these old distressed places if the local Sherriff Jim Bob, and local thugs have a room somewhere with duct taped vloggers and Casino passers through sitting around while credit checks are ran and ransoms are negotiated, and home addresses are sold as prospects to the local gangs while the mayor sits in a linen suit and eats boiled peanuts. I really think some of these places have some sinister background stuff going on. Things are getting really weired these days!

[@Crazytraveladdicts]

🤣🤣🤣 Omg! I’m glad us ‘KZbin bloggers’ were overlooked! Good thing we were only there less than 24 hours and got the heck outta there

[@charmeleon3335]

its says 10k people live in this city but there's no way 😂

[@kaneshiac.9390]

This is one street in the town. Only a few people live in the apartments in this street.

[@ericflemming81]

We here😊