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A Walk In Parkersburg West Virginia
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2022
- Join me for a walk through Parkersburg, WV, aka "PKB," on a beautiful Sunday morning. Parkersburg is the seat of Wood County and has a rich history and many beautiful sights, sounds, and flavors. It's fourth largest city in the state and it's growing rapidly. If you're from the area, please leave a comment and tell us more about this wonderful community.
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I bought a house here in November and moved from South Florida. It's a wonderful place to live. I live on the south side which is a couple of miles from where you were walking. You missed so much like the abandoned public library which is stunning as well as several other stunning churches. White tail deer are everywhere and more kinds of birds than you can shake a stick at. There aren't a lot of cops which is nice. It was 4 months before I saw one pass my house but there are speed traps here and there. I've walked all the streets you visited. They aren't really crazy about minorities here but for the most part they keep that to themselves. Lots of gays though. The shopping in the Parkersburg area is amazing and Mineral Springs is only 5 miles away and they have dirt track racing I'm really looking forward to. There are plenty of jobs here with help wanted signs everywhere. The biggest negative are the fentanyl junkies some of which are shipped here from the capital. It's a big problem in WV.
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@@SightsSoundsFlavors Calling it a city is a bit of a stretch lol. More like a big town compared to South Florida but I love it here. I grew up in the country on the Vermont boarder so it felt like home when I found my home which is right across the street from Ft. Borman (not sure on the spelling) not far from Kokomos. The weather here is a bit crazy but John Denvers song perfectly describes the state.
Don’t forget I’m from Kentucky though lol
@@dp-kz5cs Yeah there are some junkies that live in the forest of Ft Boreman across from my house but I'm pretty sure I've scared the shit out of them enough to avoid me like the plague lol. If not the coyotes need to eat too. Vienne was a bit too busy for me. Nice place to shop but a horrible place to drive. There aren't many cops around and I'm sure they have their hands full. My neighbors are pretty nice and we get along well but they tend to lean to the hillbilly side. There's a mansion across the street but a bit further down the street people are pretty poor. I think my neighbors think I'm rich lol.
My son moved there a few months ago to work. I’m going next week to visit him. Enjoyed your video!
Thanks for posting. My home town 😊.
It seems like a really nice town. How long have you lived there?
66 years give or take a few. 4 in USAF and traveling doing Ironworker in any city that has a tower crane in the Air and of course a cute girlfriend always helped. My children lived i Pàrkers burg so homesickness always brought me hy@@SightsSoundsFlavors
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Thank you. I will be moving to PKB, WV in about 3 months. This is a beautiful town and the atmosphere I'm looking for.
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@@SightsSoundsFlavors I am currently in Virginia Beach Virginia. Lived here most of my life. So any questions feel free to o ask.
This is my hometown!
How has it been. Will be moving there in 2 months myself
Beautiful architecture. Some of it reminds of downtown area in Guthrie Oklahoma.
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Very cool tour. My great, great uncle Col. W.N. Chancellor, built the Blennerhassett Hotel. His brother, my great, great grandfather piloted and owned the riverboat, the W.N. Chancellor, up and down the Ohio in the late 1800's. My g. g. g; Grandfather William Palmer Rathbone and his son my g. g. grandfather Col. John Castelli Rathbone & his brother John Valleau Rathbone dug the Rathbone well at Burning Springs. My great uncle William Palmer Rathbone Jr. worked in the courthouse in PKG. I'm related to Peter Van Winkle and so many others in PKG. i have a large connection to Parkersburg is what I'm saying, even though I was born California and having never been to this incredibly historic city. I so hope to be able to do so one day. :)
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Great job on the tour... and your pronunciation on Blennerhassett
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@@SightsSoundsFlavors in case your into Haunted things... the Blennerhassett mansion will be on the Travel Channel at 9pm Tonight! JS
@@6adababe It's just one room that's haunted lol
I live downtown and it’s a really nice place. But, as much as I love Parkersburg, the 200-800 blocks of Market St are not exactly representative of the city as a whole. It’s got its problems, like a lot of places, but by in large, it’s a really wonderful place with really wonderful people and I’m proud to call it home. I relocated there from Clarksburg, and I much prefer Parkersburg. Also, I know it’s been said a few times, but we don’t call it “PKB”. It’s just a catchy abbreviation. Cool video bud.
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I'm from Parkersburg, you pronounced Blennerhasset perfectly.
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I liked watching this
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I'm from Parkersburg. It has it's good and bad. Corrupt politics for sure, but that seems to be everywhere. Ultimately, I love my town, but i don't know if I'll always live here. So many people are flicking here from other states it's far from the small town it used to be. And the drug problem is ruining the town
Corrupt how?
@@SightsSoundsFlavors secret societies run the town. The cops protect the big wigs and lie for them if need be
I live here, its a great place to come retire, and live the remaining years of your life. Its not great if you are in your early 20s. Young adults will find it a struggle here, both to find work and affordable places to live. We have a pretty bad opiod problem, and at one point a bad meth problem. Downtown looks clean becuase its the selling point, if you left from here and went about 20 block in any direction, youd start findign the neighborhoods, where the graffiti, run down buildings and boarded up homes and business;s become mroe abundant
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Are you kidding there are jobs everywhere if you want to work. I've never seen so many help wanted signs.
That train bridge was once the largest in the world.
Pkb native. The reason you don't see a high police presence (or any presence) in the "down town" area. It's really only an area where residents go to if they work or have business in the area. Not that there's anything wrong with that part of town. There's just not much going on there. Grand central Ave is much busier. For recreation local parks would be more where people would go. Point park or city park. But "downtown" doesn't have very much hustle and bustle.
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Beautiful town can't wait to move there. Thanks for the video
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Looks are deceiving, wait til you see all the tweakers
I heard there are a lot of tweakers and druggies there due to low income area
@@chriscee546 I can’t imagine that’s it’s worse than Portland Oregon.
@@Weshopwizard Well it's much smaller so probably not
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I’m staying at the blennerhasset hotel this week! It doesn’t look like there’s much going on around the hotel. I guess I’ll have to Uber somewhere for a bar/pub for food or any kind of nightlife? Any recommendations on what to do on a weekend night there?
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I have to also say, as a native, we never call it pkb. We say Parkersburg. And feel lucky the police weren't around. They're all dirty and it's definitely the fact that people care about the town. It's not the police. If you would have went up 7th street, not far from where you were, you would have seen the junkies
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Thank you for the walk around; retiring and want to find a smaller place but with all the places I enjoy in my town without the 15-20 minute drive to get to a grocery store. When you see the small spray painting, it's called tagging which means that a gang has marked their territory, similar to a dog peeing on a fire hydrant.
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Did you get to see the Smoot theatre? It's either one of or the last remaining theatre from Vaudville. It was going to be torn down and some volunteers saved it.
Id love to chat, do you have IG?
@@SightsSoundsFlavors no, not on any social sites.
My mom went to HS with the owners, and my sister was married there years ago. It was closed until I was in elementary school, and I remember my aunt taking all us cousins there for movies during the summer. It's still open, I don't think it's in danger at this point. I haven't been in a long time, but they used to have the OG art deco fixtures restored and still in use all around the theater 😊
Downtown is still nice But the side neighborhoods have really went to hell
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Hi ,i may move there ,is Parkersburg safe enough?
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Its mostly safe as long as youre not in the bad neighborhoods, the sub divisions around Parkersburg are really safe, just know drugs and alcohol addiction is a huge problem here.
7:22 hello the sheriffs and police station is a few blocks away. Behind the courthouse. They are close by
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Wow I must be in the worst place in Parkersburg I’ve never seen any of that!
It’s one of the most beautiful cities in West Virginia and in the region. I love it.
@@SightsSoundsFlavors No its not lol my dad used to work there place is full of methheads and theives.
I am from Parkersburg. That was a great tour of downtown. If you had gone a little further down 5th Street past Market Street, you would have seen the Smoot Theater, which is one of our best landmarks. My mom worked at the Huntington Bank building back when it was the former Wood County Bank. You pronounced Blennerhassett perfectly, however nobody calls Parkersburg, PKB. Some people do call it P-Burg. I think PKB is just a marketing slogan.
Lol yeah only in text form do I ever refer to it at PKB. I don’t believe I have ever called it “PKB” out loud 😂
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No one out jogging, bike riding, or walking their dog? Hmm...
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I'm from there. Downtown isn't a place people would pick for those activities. There's not a lot of residential space in Downtown. So you would have to go out of your way to pick Downtown to walk or ride your bike. And if you're already going out of your way, we have much better spaces than Downtown.
@@nikkik.8418 Thanks for the insight! I appreciate it. Am seriously thinking of visiting your beautiful area, for a possible move from frigid Northern Wisconsin. (Winters are just too darn long here!!😨)
I live downtown. From 2nd to 9th St there might be a dozen total apartments on Market St, so there’s not many people to do those activities. This also appears to be early on the weekend, so there’s barely anyone around. There’s more people further out, but as Nikkik8418 said, no one does that downtown. A few of us walk our dogs, but it’s normally really early or really late.
@@FormerlyYBMT Thanks for clearing up that mystery. Yet it seems to be a shame that such a pleasant downtown area is virtually a pedestrian ghost town, weekends. It seems some better City planning would be nice. Especially for getting more decent living spaces opened up, in order to bring some life into that area.
Nice clean town but where are all of the people?
It was a Sunday and was probably before the church services; he only walked a few blocks; banks and business are closed.
It was pretty quiet 🤷♂️
There's nothing there!
Where?
This place is a dump. If you ever see me back in that city you will know I really f*** up bad in life.
Good! We don't want you back. Loser!