Road Trip

[@alonzolane1092]

I loved the music for New Orleans

[@sergioamayajr.5868]

Home sweet home. What a relaxing drive accompanied by good music.

[@samuelchambers5]

Boy am I glad that this video showed up today. So many changes seem to have happened to Airline Highway (as it was known to me) since I moved away in 1968 to start my career after graduating from college. This video seemed surreal as I looked for familiar sights along the roadway, found some, and was overwhelmed by how much growth and development has occurred on that road that I traveled on so many times. Again, you drove one block from the home where I grew up near Tulane and the former South Jefferson Davis Parkway, and its overpass that spans I-10. Thanks for another joyful trip down memory lane. It was a blast.

[@donavanjohnson409]

I was watching your lake Charles LA to New Orleans LA video

[@pjg813]

Great job on this series! Thank you for doing all of these videos!

[@jules-Johnson]

The BG music was great! Made the video that much more enjoyable, thx!

[@theyuha]

I drove the old 61 route which is no longer used to Canada. Now it goes through Grand portage, now is a state rt 61- scenic drive.

[@StukInBuf]

I'm paused at 16:53... even though my folks never shopped there when we lived on the Westbank back in 1979/80, there was a furniture warehouse store over to the left of that bridge; IIRC, the TV commercials (I usually saw them on Channel 4) had the Burt Bacharach orchestral rendition of "I Say a Little Prayer" as the background track.

[@504RoadTrips]

This, I don’t recall, but I was pretty young in 1979. I remember the jingles from the Levitz commercials of that era, but I think they were always out on Clearview in Metairie. There was also Kirschmann’s, Lou Rippner’s Compass Furniture, and Hurwitz Mintz. The original Mintz furniture was on Baronne Street, but they moved to the suburbs at some point. I’m not sure how far out of the downtown area they’d moved at that point in time.

[@madmanmike1980]

@@504RoadTrips And don't forget "Rosenburg's, Rosenburg's........1825...TOO-LANE!!!!" 😃😉#NOLA #ClassicNewOrleansTV

[@504RoadTrips]

How could I forget Rosenberg's! We didn't quite make it far enough down Tulane Avenue to pass by the former Rosenberg's location, so I assume that's not what @SuperPat88 was referring to.

[@madmanmike1980]

​@@504RoadTrips Probably not. I was simply reminded of that iconic jingle when all of those other furniture stores were mentioned. 🙂

[@ScottMorrisIV]

And that is a wrap !!!

[@ScottMorrisIV]

At 5:45, I see Bryan Subaru & Matt Bowers Chevrolet of Metarie

[@gittemal]

Welcome home dude! Really enjoyed this trip!

[@RichardFelstead1949]

Thanks for sharing, Jason.I didn't realise that Metaire was so big.I have some facebook friends who live there.

[@StukInBuf]

Paused at 17:26... IINM, on the right had to be the Fountain Bay Club Hotel and Tennis Courts. Any and every time we had to take Dad to the Moisant Airport to fly to job interviews or whatnot, we'd always pass by that hotel complex.

[@504RoadTrips]

The Fountain Bay became something else In the late 80s, the name of which I now can’t remember. Then they started renting the rooms out as storage units. Bands would rent them to use as practice rooms and recording studios. After Katrina, some of the rooms were used to house displaced dorm residents. I’m not sure what it’s used for now. It hasn’t been a regular hotel in a couple of decades.

[@macmedic892]

At 8:40, we pass the training facility of the New Orleans Saints. The wall of the indoor field facing Airline bears the name of the team. Careful observers may note that the leading “S” of SAINTS is crooked. The painting crew was working from right to left and had painted five letters when they began to wrap up for the day. As the story goes, Mr. Benson himself went out there and ordered the crew to paint the “S”, even though it hadn’t been stenciled. There was no way in hell he was going to let the public see the building lettered for the “AINTS”, a commonly used epithet against the team in the lackluster days before he became owner, the days when fans would hide their faces in paper bags in the Dome.

[@504RoadTrips]

Is that facility still in use?

[@macmedic892]

@@504RoadTrips Yes it is, still with the slightly crooked S

[@Classicvideogames45]

Thank you so much for putting. On videos on Hwy 61. I bet you can probably drive one home now. 504 road trip. Cause don't you live in New Orleans?

[@DrDoom-wo8hb]

You made it!! What a journey watching this. I'll admit I didn't watch it from the beginning, but I have watched it from the Twin Cities, MN area southward. Have any other journeys coming down the hatch?

[@504RoadTrips]

We have a short series coming up, back in North Dakota. Then we’ll be focusing on Louisiana highways for a while.

[@DrDoom-wo8hb]

@@504RoadTrips Sounds good! Whenever you get the time, you should check out some of the roads around New England and Upstate New York. Absolutely beautiful region.

[@jesscarey7666]

Great job! I really enjoyed the series!

[@scottyuwainat3899]

Can You Do a I 65 Series Video From Start To Finish

[@504RoadTrips]

Some day...

[@gregsells8549]

L&A Drive leads to the yard of the former Louisiana & Arkansas Railway, now Kansas City Southern and soon to be Canadian Pacific Kansas City.

[@504RoadTrips]

Yep. We did a drive along L&A Road and through the rail yard and the old Cold Storage complex.

[@gregsells8549]

@@504RoadTrips Now I remember that. Might you do every highway going out of New Orleans? Like US 11 to the Canadian border, or whatever parts of US 90 and I-10 you haven't already done? For example, 90 west of San Antonio to Van Horn, TX.

[@504RoadTrips]

@@gregsells8549 that’s the most likely things we’ll do, since we can start or end at home. We had planned to do US-11 this summer but we weren’t able to get away for that length of time.

[@SomeBuddy777]

There was a baby girl that survived the plane crash in' 82. I believe she was protected by a mattress in one of the homes.

[@504RoadTrips]

Yes. The T-P did an article about her last year when she turned 40.

[@jordanjones5751]

What’s your next series going to be?

[@coreysmith8560]

This ends the chapter. We will wait and see what the trip will be. Can you do a US 65 series in the future?

[@historyrebel]

The Baby Cakes moved to Wichita and got an equally bizarre name, the Wind Surge. Though it's really almost a requirement for a minor league sports team to have a terrible name. It could be worse, the AA team in Mobile moved to Huntsville and became the Rocket City Trash Pandas.

[@504RoadTrips]

Wind Surge would have probably been better as Storm Surge, and that would have been appropriate for New Orleans. Trash Pandas is another name for a raccoon, so I think that’s ok, albeit unusual. Nothing is bizarre as the Baby Cakes. What the hell is a baby cake? “Baby Cakes” is a name I’ve always associated with a dirty old man in a diner calling a waitress, and is only slightly less appropriate than “Sugar tits”. And a few people tried to claim that it was a term of endearment used in New Orleans, but apparently people who used it as such were a very small minority. (As you can guess, I was passionately opposed to the name change, never went to a game after that, and even turned down a business sponsorship that would have only cost me $75 and included a pair of season tickets.)

[@historyrebel]

@@504RoadTrips Storm Surge would've been a spectacular name.

[@atworkstation]

What will be the next road trip?

[@issacman1870]

US 75?

[@504RoadTrips]

What about it?

[@issacman1870]

@@504RoadTrips Are there any plans for a US 75 Series?

[@donspecter]

Wish you left some original audio in, to listen to the roads and ambience.

[@alonzolane1092]

Smh Babycakes