504RoadTrips I live here too, I know that haha. I appreciate your videos that are here to educate us about this city. I actually have a question, I remember you were talking about how the land was bad in new orleans east because of the swamps, well what about metairie and kenner? Werent those places also made by draining swamps?
+Mike Christiaan As far as I can tell in my research, Metairie and most of East Jefferson was solid ground, or at least as solid as ground gets around here. Before urbanization took place in the early 1900s, Metairie was farmland dating back to the 1700s. The solid ground of East Jefferson is what contains Lake Pontchartrain. moving toward the river, the ridge along Metairie Road into the city, and out to River Ridge the other way, was formed by an earlier path of the Mississippi River (hundreds and hundreds of years ago). The silt that the river deposited on its former banks, as well as the area between Metairie Ridge and the present day Mississippi is solid ground. New Orleans East was outside of the river's path and before the levee system was built, Lake Pontchartrain seeped out through that area into Lake Borne, with the main drainage focused around where the Rigolets is today. The levees and flood control system has focused the outlet into the Chef Menteur Pass and the Rigolets for the past couple of hundred years, but New Orleans East remained swampland. The levees don't allow the water in that area to drain, and it's all below sea level. Sometimes, that kind of land can be drained and filled and sometimes, it just doesn't work or isn't cost effective. At some point, development stopped and they made it into a wildlife refuge and that eliminates any further plans for development beyond where it stopped.
Got your facts off, street cars did not meet their demise until the 1950s. Also the warehouse district was a thriving business and manufacturing district until the 1980s
Press Park was located in an area we haven't covered yet, although I've been wanting to see what's back there now. My guess: nothing. The neighborhood is/was located in an isolated area west of the Desire Housing Projects, north of the Florida Canal, and east of the railroad tracks. Originally, it looked like a landfill. Then it was developed as townhouses, and then after Katrina, the contamination rose to the surface, and that was pretty much the end of the neighborhood.
Yo I'm sorry, but you're not in the Byeater until you cross the tracks. Franklin doesnt mark the Bywater. But you're not from here, so you wouldn't know that.
You are correct. Bywater traditionally begins at the Press Street tracks. I made the mistake of using Google Maps to get the "official" boundaries, and they are wrong. As far as not being from here, the narrator of this video is from North Dakota, but she didn't write the script, I did. I was born in New Orleans, and my family has been in New Orleans since around 1830. So this is my mistake and I own up to it. Thank you for the correction, and thanks for watching!
10:10 Paris Road is LA 47. Williams Blvd is LA 49.
David Steinle nice catch. Almost 4 years and 14,000 views and you’re the first person to notice that error!
I realize it's kinda off topic but does anybody know a good site to watch newly released tv shows online ?
@Joseph Amir i watch on Flixzone. You can find it on google =)
@Valentino Bobby Yea, I've been using flixzone for months myself =)
@Valentino Bobby Thanks, signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :) I appreciate it!
Forever in my heart! St. Claude and Tennessee produced the best memories of my life. #504StandUp
Very nice thank you for sharing i used to live there and always go Cross St. Claude ave .used to live And the 9th ward God Bless🤗.
Nola in the building. shout out from the river parishes!!!
Jesus loves you!
Awesome!
1:50 Where the construction of the Hard Rock Collaspe...R.I.P. to the workers who passed
I used to drive across the St Claude Ave Bridge for fun sometimes 😊
For fun? I don’t know about any of that. I don’t remember the last time I crossed it where I didn’t have to wait 15 minutes for a boat to pass.
@@504RoadTrips believe it or not I never had that problem. Guess I've been in the right place at the right time
I was just here shooting video.. Nice capture.. Lots of interesting places around there.
New Orleans is a Wicked but fun city😔
I’ve never been past chalmette in St. Bernard parish. Like to go out towards shell beach. I wanna do that sometime.
Jason said he always catches bridge. Lol.
I took this route to work last week. I musta had good luck. Lol
looks like paradise, blue skies, palm trees, and other green trees
+Mike Christiaan that's our climate. Everything is very green about 10 months of the year.
504RoadTrips
I live here too, I know that haha. I appreciate your videos that are here to educate us about this city. I actually have a question, I remember you were talking about how the land was bad in new orleans east because of the swamps, well what about metairie and kenner? Werent those places also made by draining swamps?
+Mike Christiaan As far as I can tell in my research, Metairie and most of East Jefferson was solid ground, or at least as solid as ground gets around here. Before urbanization took place in the early 1900s, Metairie was farmland dating back to the 1700s. The solid ground of East Jefferson is what contains Lake Pontchartrain. moving toward the river, the ridge along Metairie Road into the city, and out to River Ridge the other way, was formed by an earlier path of the Mississippi River (hundreds and hundreds of years ago). The silt that the river deposited on its former banks, as well as the area between Metairie Ridge and the present day Mississippi is solid ground.
New Orleans East was outside of the river's path and before the levee system was built, Lake Pontchartrain seeped out through that area into Lake Borne, with the main drainage focused around where the Rigolets is today. The levees and flood control system has focused the outlet into the Chef Menteur Pass and the Rigolets for the past couple of hundred years, but New Orleans East remained swampland. The levees don't allow the water in that area to drain, and it's all below sea level. Sometimes, that kind of land can be drained and filled and sometimes, it just doesn't work or isn't cost effective. At some point, development stopped and they made it into a wildlife refuge and that eliminates any further plans for development beyond where it stopped.
504RoadTrips
wow, that is very interesting! Thank you very much for sharing! What do you think about living here in new orleans, do you like it?
8:26 I see a railroad crossing again
Got your facts off, street cars did not meet their demise until the 1950s. Also the warehouse district was a thriving business and manufacturing district until the 1980s
We’re was press park located and what did it used to originally look like lol
Press Park was located in an area we haven't covered yet, although I've been wanting to see what's back there now. My guess: nothing. The neighborhood is/was located in an isolated area west of the Desire Housing Projects, north of the Florida Canal, and east of the railroad tracks. Originally, it looked like a landfill. Then it was developed as townhouses, and then after Katrina, the contamination rose to the surface, and that was pretty much the end of the neighborhood.
what kind of camera do you use and how is it mounted....
+spartamississippi it's a basic Blackbox G1X dashcam that mounts to the windshield with a suction cup. They're around $50 on Amazon.
Next time turn right on Poland. Go down a little ways and you'll see my favorite bar on the left by the old Navy yard.
Poland Avenue/Alvar/France Rd will be covered in a future video. Thanks for watching!
I do not know how to drive on New Orleans lol
Yo I'm sorry, but you're not in the Byeater until you cross the tracks. Franklin doesnt mark the Bywater. But you're not from here, so you wouldn't know that.
You are correct. Bywater traditionally begins at the Press Street tracks. I made the mistake of using Google Maps to get the "official" boundaries, and they are wrong.
As far as not being from here, the narrator of this video is from North Dakota, but she didn't write the script, I did. I was born in New Orleans, and my family has been in New Orleans since around 1830. So this is my mistake and I own up to it.
Thank you for the correction, and thanks for watching!
4:38 I see a railroad crossing
Does that camera automatically put the street names in or is that something you did yourself?
+dcmhs1654 No. That's all done through templates that I created for the video editing software.
6:38 6 gates
6:33 GATES