Road Trip

[@gregsells8549]

I rode Airline a lot in my childhood when visiting my grandma, who lived near Airline and Clearview. I remember staying at a Holiday Inn (probably now the Knights Inn) and seeing a movie or two at the Panorama Theatre (likely gone). I also remember seeing a motel called the Sugar Bowl Courts. L&A Road took its name from the Louisiana & Arkansas Railroad, a now-merged subsidiary of Kansas City Southern.

[@504RoadTrips]

The motel that is now Knights Inn has been there forever. I didn’t know it was a Holiday Inn though. The Sugar Bowl Courts was on the corner of Central Avenue I believe. It was demolished some time in the last 10 years.

[@jonwburkholder9312]

Im from Davenport Iowa and a Saints fan. Have been since 1975. US 61 plays a main transportation throughfare through our city also

[@504RoadTrips]

We currently have US-61 up to Vicksburg, MS. It's on our list to get from beginning to end. It's just hard to find time to do a long haul like that.

[@CDRiley]

504RoadTrips Great Video!

[@audubon5425]

5:06: in this stretch to the parish line the city expropriated the properties to build Airline, as the neighborhood was plotted to the tracks.

[@tommysaulter9171]

Airline Hwy. no longer looks like I remember it. Of course, that was way before I-10 was built. I haven't been through your back channel, but have you done a video on the stretch between Belle Chase and Venice ? I spent a lot of time in Venice back in the early-mid 60s...

[@504RoadTrips]

We drove LA-23 from Gretna to Venice this year, so the video we have of that is very recent. Check out Road Trips #640-651.

[@hotredboy84]

Right at the end of this video it looks like a storm recently had passed through the area is there any information on that?

[@504RoadTrips]

I had to look this up...I remembered something about a tornado right before I shot this video. I didn't go through much of the part that was hit hardest, but it does look like some damage is visible. I published this video on March 6, 2016 and the tornado struck on February 24. www.nola.com/weather/index.ssf/2016/02/laplace_tornado_damage_the_lat.html

[@dphinton2003]

Wasn’t there a few occurrences if a mysterious light that kept appearing in the a window in the old charity hospital

[@504RoadTrips]

There's all sorts of lore about that place. May have been some glowing radioactive material that got released when scrappers tried to take apart some radiology equipment.

[@ScottMorrisIV]

Me back in 2016 At 10:44, I see Bryan Chevrolet Bryan Mitsubishi Bryan Suzuki And Bryan Subaru Also at 22:01, I see Rainbow Chevrolet

[@samuelchambers5]

The speed of the video needs to be slowed down, especially while in the city of New Orleans. I grew up near Tulane and Broad Streets and wanted to be able to see more of that area, but couldn't because of the speed. Otherwise, I enjoyed it.

[@504RoadTrips]

I’ll try to get some higher definition, real-time footage of that area. In the meantime, this may be of some interest to you, since Tulane Ave has changed so drastically in the past couple of years. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aGeoeJ-NntOXkJY

[@samuelchambers5]

Thanks. Much appreciated.