It looks like a cute place. I've never been to Alabama or Mississippi. I always picture it as being heavily wooded, deep southern drawls, small, quaint towns, lots of pick-up trucks and American flags which is right up my alley. I've always wanted to go to Alabama and Mississippi. I'm from Long Island, NY. Born and raised. Thank you for showing me this town.
There is so much more to Haleyville than just the town: city lake, Rocky Ridge, the beautiful outskirts, the farm lands, it's close proximity to Bankhead National Forest, and the friendly people.
My thoughts on Haleyville? Haleyville used to have a bowling alley and skate rink. Haleyville can't keep any form of a bar open. Haleyville has around 20 churches and just as many food joints. A movie theater with 2 screens that the owners are trying to sell. Once a year, we have a 911 festival where people cook, sell stuff, show off vintage cars and have bands play. No one comes to Haleyville for vacation or date nights. They're going out of town for dates, out of state for vacations. Nothing to do in Haleyville except eat and repent, eat and repent.
I have lived her most of my life, my parents were from Marion/ Walker Counties.....we moved back and forth between California and Haleyville several times until we came back in 1959..........there are worse places......right now it is hard to making a living if you have a family to raise.....
State law used to make it the county that decided to be wet or dry but several years back they changed the law to leave it to the cities. The roads are rough because city leaders are rather incompetent and when you passed the Walmart, that used to actually be a hill with a nice historic house that they literally destroyed the hill and turned it into a valley lol... none of us understood this. As for the metro areas, it's actually Florence/Muscle Shoals/Tuscumbia/Sheffield which isn't called a Metro area because the Quad Cities remain separate but you can't ell when you leave one and enter the other. Storm damage was 2011 when the tornadoes tore through the video. That should have been cleaned up and every Wednesday morning they have tornado sirens going off. So what you saw wasn't from that... it's pure neglect and not enforcing the law. We refer to this as a town and most of the attention is on the main downtown area the rest is basically left to the people who live in those areas. When you pulled into the town, across from the Walmart is another shopping center and behind it are several apartment complexes which is where I live. The people here though are good people which is something you wouldn't know just traveling through so you were kind in your judgment based on what you saw and the crime rate here really isn't that bad except, as I mentioned, certain areas are left more to themselves and if the community doesn't care much for itself, this is where the crime happens here more than anywhere. Much of the area is hilly as you saw and it has the remnants of past infrastructure still around us here and there. Overall, I like it here. It's calm, comfortable... not a lot to do recreationally but it was moreso in the past. The sideroads here definitely need work and when you went to the Old Town area I see you noticed that one way crooked street most people know better than to use as we normally park away from there and walk to it for the library and things over there. Your drive through reminded me we have many piles of wood by the roadside I think they expected road crews to pick up but they don't do that lol... a few who figured it out set them on fire. at 33:30 you should have kept going as more of the town was down that way as like most rural towns, it's spread out a bit more and there is an enormous hotel down there that I think they converted to apartments now because it was just too big for such a small town. You did get the big historic cemetery though near the end but you totally missed the area where I live by staying in the center of town. You also missed the industrial area by staying in the middle of town. But anyhow, you did a nice video of the town so I'll share it. Wish I'd known you were coming around as I could have shown you that there is a bit more to Haleyville but I guess not living here you might stay more in the center of town to avoid getting lost. Like I said, there are a lot of good people here and it's a great place to live but there's not much here beyond being a quaint, nice little town where you'd want to retire to... peaceful, quiet, fiber internet is available unlike many parts of the area and the cost of living is low which again is good if you live in a high cost region and are looking for a nice place to live to stretch your money out a lot more than in the big city. With the faster internet and a webcam it'll be just like living in the big city or at least the people you leave behind won't notice you're not around the block. But as one commenter said, you did miss a lot as there are nicer areas. Thanks for taking the time to visit us as not just anybody would.
I drove through there today and had to drive back through it to leave. A nice little town. I can tell the town has seen better days, but I have seen worse little towns in Mississippi. Definitely a gorgeous area between their up through Bear Creek, up to Russellville.
We have one the state golf championship 2 years in a row. We were the first ever 911 call and have an annual festival on the first weekend of June. We are struggling to attract drug dealers ever since the Imperial Inn closed, but the Subway next to it still makes you hear colors and see sounds. We have multiple baseball fields for some reason although I've never seen two of them be used. The McDonald's is run exclusively by Special Ed highschoolers. We have our own newspaper, The Northeast Alabamian. It County, Winston Country, Seceded from Alabama after Alabama Seceded during the civil war. We have a furniture company outside town and the voice of the Sheriff of Nottingham from Disney's Robin Hood is buried little ways past the outskirts of town in Pebble.
I think he did pretty good. He could have started his video by entering Haleyville from Russellville and well that makes me just smh. Haleyville is a retirement town. Thats it! There is NOTHING for young people! The last time I took my grandchild to Rocky Raven it was so grown up you couldnt walk the trails and the wooden play area had nails sticking up in it that was a great danger for a child to get cut on. Swings were broke. Why dont someone set up an indoor area for small children like bigger cities have. He just showed what people see if people go and drive around town cause thats all he done. He didnt know where to go cause he wasnt from there. Now thats what people that live there need to think about. Not everyone that comes to visit there has an escort, some drive around site seeing on their own. I dont live there anymore but I do have some family that does and everytime I go there I am saddened by the way Haleyville has just went down. I will say it is a great retirement town but thats all. It is a shell of its former self. But thats what happen when you have people who wont allow change. In order to grow you have to have change. In the past the small businesses didnt want anything else to come in cause it would "take their business" but guess what people drove out of town and gave other people that business which hurt the town entirely. And thise small businesses still had to close. Now nobody want to come there and open nothing because there is nothing there. Well anyways I think you did a good job for never have been there and not knowing nothing or nobody there!
This is pretty much a crap video. It shows nothing really of Haleyville. You need to find someone who knows their way around and where the things are. So many things missed that make this a nice little town City lake,a Olympic size city pool, baseball park, rocky raven park, the school,and we are also very close to Bear Creek lake & Bankhead Nat. Forest. We are located 1 1/2 hour drive from Birmingham,, 1 1/2 hour from Huntsville, 45 min. from Mucle Shoals/Florence
Good morning Andrew, hispanic,9.9%, , but it doesn't look fine for them.Listen what you said: "i gotta go to bed, i'm tired" .so that(_ cortisol/+oxytocin). May you listen the song "midnight", by:nikka costa.❤ And here you have my 👍 up because, You did the best than you could.❤
It looks like a cute place. I've never been to Alabama or Mississippi. I always picture it as being heavily wooded, deep southern drawls, small, quaint towns, lots of pick-up trucks and American flags which is right up my alley. I've always wanted to go to Alabama and Mississippi. I'm from Long Island, NY. Born and raised. Thank you for showing me this town.
There is so much more to Haleyville than just the town: city lake, Rocky Ridge, the beautiful outskirts, the farm lands, it's close proximity to Bankhead National Forest, and the friendly people.
My thoughts on Haleyville?
Haleyville used to have a bowling alley and skate rink. Haleyville can't keep any form of a bar open.
Haleyville has around 20 churches and just as many food joints.
A movie theater with 2 screens that the owners are trying to sell.
Once a year, we have a 911 festival where people cook, sell stuff, show off vintage cars and have bands play.
No one comes to Haleyville for vacation or date nights. They're going out of town for dates, out of state for vacations.
Nothing to do in Haleyville except eat and repent, eat and repent.
I had to laugh when I read this!😂
You can't forget the five banks, one for each dollar we have
Home Sweet Home!
From haleyville. Brought me back. I have a trip planned to visit again soon. Great people there! Thanks for the post!
Seward Alaska was the first to connect yet for native people that must have been overwhelming.
I have lived her most of my life, my parents were from Marion/ Walker Counties.....we moved back and forth between California and Haleyville several times until we came back in 1959..........there are worse places......right now it is hard to making a living if you have a family to raise.....
I remember that day lol I'm tryna see if u can see my car in here lol
State law used to make it the county that decided to be wet or dry but several years back they changed the law to leave it to the cities. The roads are rough because city leaders are rather incompetent and when you passed the Walmart, that used to actually be a hill with a nice historic house that they literally destroyed the hill and turned it into a valley lol... none of us understood this. As for the metro areas, it's actually Florence/Muscle Shoals/Tuscumbia/Sheffield which isn't called a Metro area because the Quad Cities remain separate but you can't ell when you leave one and enter the other. Storm damage was 2011 when the tornadoes tore through the video. That should have been cleaned up and every Wednesday morning they have tornado sirens going off. So what you saw wasn't from that... it's pure neglect and not enforcing the law. We refer to this as a town and most of the attention is on the main downtown area the rest is basically left to the people who live in those areas. When you pulled into the town, across from the Walmart is another shopping center and behind it are several apartment complexes which is where I live. The people here though are good people which is something you wouldn't know just traveling through so you were kind in your judgment based on what you saw and the crime rate here really isn't that bad except, as I mentioned, certain areas are left more to themselves and if the community doesn't care much for itself, this is where the crime happens here more than anywhere. Much of the area is hilly as you saw and it has the remnants of past infrastructure still around us here and there.
Overall, I like it here. It's calm, comfortable... not a lot to do recreationally but it was moreso in the past. The sideroads here definitely need work and when you went to the Old Town area I see you noticed that one way crooked street most people know better than to use as we normally park away from there and walk to it for the library and things over there. Your drive through reminded me we have many piles of wood by the roadside I think they expected road crews to pick up but they don't do that lol... a few who figured it out set them on fire. at 33:30 you should have kept going as more of the town was down that way as like most rural towns, it's spread out a bit more and there is an enormous hotel down there that I think they converted to apartments now because it was just too big for such a small town. You did get the big historic cemetery though near the end but you totally missed the area where I live by staying in the center of town. You also missed the industrial area by staying in the middle of town. But anyhow, you did a nice video of the town so I'll share it. Wish I'd known you were coming around as I could have shown you that there is a bit more to Haleyville but I guess not living here you might stay more in the center of town to avoid getting lost. Like I said, there are a lot of good people here and it's a great place to live but there's not much here beyond being a quaint, nice little town where you'd want to retire to... peaceful, quiet, fiber internet is available unlike many parts of the area and the cost of living is low which again is good if you live in a high cost region and are looking for a nice place to live to stretch your money out a lot more than in the big city. With the faster internet and a webcam it'll be just like living in the big city or at least the people you leave behind won't notice you're not around the block.
But as one commenter said, you did miss a lot as there are nicer areas. Thanks for taking the time to visit us as not just anybody would.
I drove through there today and had to drive back through it to leave. A nice little town. I can tell the town has seen better days, but I have seen worse little towns in Mississippi. Definitely a gorgeous area between their up through Bear Creek, up to Russellville.
We have one the state golf championship 2 years in a row. We were the first ever 911 call and have an annual festival on the first weekend of June. We are struggling to attract drug dealers ever since the Imperial Inn closed, but the Subway next to it still makes you hear colors and see sounds. We have multiple baseball fields for some reason although I've never seen two of them be used. The McDonald's is run exclusively by Special Ed highschoolers. We have our own newspaper, The Northeast Alabamian. It County, Winston Country, Seceded from Alabama after Alabama Seceded during the civil war. We have a furniture company outside town and the voice of the Sheriff of Nottingham from Disney's Robin Hood is buried little ways past the outskirts of town in Pebble.
Help I ate subway what do I do sir
Pray
Why is the color blue yelling at me a
Don't worry, there are already three doctors offices and 2 dentists in town for the 11 residents
It’s where 911 was established and the first 911 call was made
Fadette in Alabama is even smaler
Didn't do haleyville any justice 😕
I think he did pretty good. He could have started his video by entering Haleyville from Russellville and well that makes me just smh. Haleyville is a retirement town. Thats it! There is NOTHING for young people! The last time I took my grandchild to Rocky Raven it was so grown up you couldnt walk the trails and the wooden play area had nails sticking up in it that was a great danger for a child to get cut on. Swings were broke. Why dont someone set up an indoor area for small children like bigger cities have. He just showed what people see if people go and drive around town cause thats all he done. He didnt know where to go cause he wasnt from there. Now thats what people that live there need to think about. Not everyone that comes to visit there has an escort, some drive around site seeing on their own. I dont live there anymore but I do have some family that does and everytime I go there I am saddened by the way Haleyville has just went down. I will say it is a great retirement town but thats all. It is a shell of its former self. But thats what happen when you have people who wont allow change. In order to grow you have to have change. In the past the small businesses didnt want anything else to come in cause it would "take their business" but guess what people drove out of town and gave other people that business which hurt the town entirely. And thise small businesses still had to close. Now nobody want to come there and open nothing because there is nothing there. Well anyways I think you did a good job for never have been there and not knowing nothing or nobody there!
This is pretty much a crap video. It shows nothing really of Haleyville. You need to find someone who knows their way around and where the things are. So many things missed that make this a nice little town City lake,a Olympic size city pool, baseball park, rocky raven park, the school,and we are also very close to Bear Creek lake & Bankhead Nat. Forest. We are located 1 1/2 hour drive from Birmingham,, 1 1/2 hour from Huntsville, 45 min. from Mucle Shoals/Florence
Where is this Olympic size city pool lol
Also police department Harass is residents
Facts
And we have no doubt pound doug's run rampage can't get let your kids go outside
Tammy wynette grew up there
No . She grew up in Red Bay al.
Good morning Andrew, hispanic,9.9%, , but it doesn't look fine for them.Listen what you said: "i gotta go to bed, i'm tired" .so that(_ cortisol/+oxytocin). May you listen the song "midnight", by:nikka costa.❤ And here you have my 👍 up because, You did the best than you could.❤
Town has changed a lot since I was there last. Forty-five years'll do that.