I've always told my kids that home is where you have a memory at every corner. We have 34 years of memories here in Slidell. Thanks you for showing so many places where we have memories. We moved here from New Orleans in 1986 when my kid were toddlers. Old Town Slidell has many memories of driving to dancing school with my daughter on a Saturday morning. Both of my kids went to Slidell Jr High. My husband was the band teacher at STJH. I volunteered many times at the Boys & Girls Club in Old Town. Lots of memories in Old Town. You even pass our street when you drive on Robert Road towards the over pass near John Slidell Park. Our home. Wouldn't live anywhere else. Thank you for this video. Proud to call it home -- Slidell.
I'm in the UK and to me this is REAL America. Beautiful place and I'm sure full of great people with good, old fashioned values and manners. Absolutely my kind of place. I would love to live here ❤️
Kids don't spend enough time on the lawn playing baseball these days. I used to spend hours in an empty lot with the other kids in the neighborhood playing a variation of baseball with our own set of made-up rules. Home run if you got the ball (tennis ball) into the guy's satellite dish across the street!
I'm enjoying "visiting"the various towns/cities you visit.For the benefit of fellow 504 subscribers, I live in Australia where we drive on the "wrong" side of the road.
You may not have known this but an awesome fun fact is that the Olde Town Soda Shop has been used for several major movies. The most recent being with the one and only Halle Barry for the movie Kidnapped, and Dead Man Walking with Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. Slidell has also been in a handful of other movies as well.
My daughter’s boyfriend and his family own a company near there and live in Slidell…they do stunt production for many movies and tv show like The Walking Dead and action movies. Pretty cool business
Moved to Slidell from Mandeville 7 years ago..great decision! The Soda Shop in old towne drew a blue squiggly line on the side of their building to show how high the flood waters got for Katrina. Its shocking to see
Living in Gulfport, I go to Slidell all of the time. I have found some great little restaurants there. It's a lot easier to travel around than the Mandeville/Covington part of the Northshore. I'm impressed with how much growth they have been experiencing lately! Fremeaux is really hot right now. A new building going up every month.
It’s perfectly fine if you can’t do this, but is it possible to do another Baton Rouge drive, one day? Like maybe Bluebonnet Blvd or a main road? Just curious. I love this channel!
RangeRover Roads I’ve done all of several of the main streets. We were just talking recently about doing more stuff in Baton Rouge. I’ll see what can be done.
I am not from Slidell. However, during the mid-90s, I worked for a pizza restaurant in the New Orleans area that opened up a location on Robert Road. I worked up there for about a year. We had a hard time hiring drivers when we opened, and I spent most of that year delivering pizza full time. We covered an area from the lake to the state line and from Indian Village to Thompson Road. So I had a crash course in navigating the neighborhoods of Slidell. Having spent a large part of my younger years as a "professional driver" with no accidents or tickets, I developed good driving habits.
@@504RoadTrips I moved to Slidell in June of last year. I came here from Quantico VA. I am originally from Johnstown PA. I am actually going to tje train depot and the Movie sets venue on Monday, to ask permission to do bomb detection training at those locations, with my K9.
In 1994/1995, the pizza restaurant I worked for opened a Slidell location and I took a shift manager position at the new place. We had a really hard time hiring drivers at first, so I spent about 2 months delivering pizza around Slidell. Got thrown to the wolves. After two months, I could pinpoint any address on the area map in under a second. We had a huge delivery area that went from Indian Village to North Shore Square, and from the lake to the state line. This was probably the first time i had driven in Slidell off of the main roads in almost 25 years.
@@504RoadTrips Yes, him. To me, recognition by bigger UA-camrs indicate a rapidly-growing channel. You guys went from 100 to nearly 10,000. I have actually been here from the start of this channel but with different accounts, (ex. Westbank Expressway, one of my lost accounts. Just don't go watching it, it's old cringe content I made with my spare time, spare you from the cringe.) I see Baton Rouge as a far underrated destination, videos regarding the city can barely top 1k. Just like your channel, one of the news channels of Baton Rouge named "WAFB" who created their channel this year and they are experiencing rapid growth with hundreds of new subscribers every 2 weeks. I think they are at 600. I could be wrong. I predict You guys will reach 10k subs by possible July or August. The roadgeek community will rejoice. Not a lot of people see us as we are, as we take a liking into roadways and is seen as 'strange' and 'weird' by the 'normal' ones. Roadgeek and freeway channels like this are too far underrated. There is no "Overrated" in the roadgeek community on UA-cam since there's not a SINGLE channel that has over 100k subs. I like this community and am proud to be apart of it. Drama-free, just people kicking back and enjoying the rides. I would like it to stay that way. Pecue is planning to be widened to four lanes between Airline and Perkins, and I can't wait to see what the finished product looks like. I wasn't born in BTR, I was born up in Zachary, lived in Baker before moving down to BTR back in 2016, and is familiar with a lot of neighborhoods already. Thank you for reading, and God bless, 504RoadTrips. ✌️👍
@@bruhman5716 thank you for your comments, and yes, I remember comments from your WBE account. And you’ve reminded me that I need to try to get video of Pecue Lane before they complete the new overpass. I’ve been wanting to do that for several years.
@shaolin1200 yeah but like everyody excludes you here if ur just a little different tbh, kinda dissapointing but the long beach people accepted me fr, just cause i aint a star child like everyone else here.
@shaolin1200 oh no the funny thing is i've lived in southeast louisiana my whole life, and i met people from the los angeles area and in the short time they cared more about me
I’m from Slidell they only showing the good sides that’s all they do all the murders and robberies don’t get talked about everybody that don’t live there think it’s all good alright drive where I’m from in Lincoln Park LP or Walnut they don’t wanna do that😂😂😂😆💯💪🏾
@@Mrcoochie39 The chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime in Slidell is 1 in 26. Based on FBI crime data, Slidell is not one of the safest communities in America.
I've lived in slidell for 7 years yes the internet says it isn't safe and i think it is the best neighborhood I've lived in ( lived in long Island NY, Norfolk va a d many other places and it just seems like such a nice place. Everyone there is so humble and it really doesn't seem like any harm will be font there but
Slidell is a horrible place and I wouldn’t recommend anyone moving here. We just sold our house and wouldn’t have taken a house in the “nicest” area in that city. It will be New Orleans east in a few years and that’s definitely not a good thing.
Dee Will I don’t get it? Is that supposed to be some new ghetto language that is spoken in Slidell? I am not trying to be a prick but I absolutely fucking hate Slidell.
Midnight Mystery they call it the dirty Dell cause it’s filthy and people that live there don’t take care of it. It used to be a really nice place but poor leadership has destroyed it.
I've always told my kids that home is where you have a memory at every corner. We have 34 years of memories here in Slidell. Thanks you for showing so many places where we have memories. We moved here from New Orleans in 1986 when my kid were toddlers. Old Town Slidell has many memories of driving to dancing school with my daughter on a Saturday morning. Both of my kids went to Slidell Jr High. My husband was the band teacher at STJH. I volunteered many times at the Boys & Girls Club in Old Town. Lots of memories in Old Town. You even pass our street when you drive on Robert Road towards the over pass near John Slidell Park. Our home. Wouldn't live anywhere else. Thank you for this video. Proud to call it home -- Slidell.
I lived in Slidell for 8 years and loved it.
Your husband probably taught me. I was 1st chair saxophone! 1994-1995. I doubt he'd remember me. His class was the only class I didn't act out in.
Beautiful place with friendly people 💕
I'm in the UK and to me this is REAL America. Beautiful place and I'm sure full of great people with good, old fashioned values and manners. Absolutely my kind of place. I would love to live here ❤️
im from here! we def have some amazing food, it’s definitely very crowded tho
we alright lol
Nah, Slidell is a dump that’s full of a bunch of drug addict losers. Foods good though.
@@arianator4ever97 Until you come in the summer
I’ve been living in Slidell since around 1996. It’s a great small city that is growing north of New Orleans.
Such a pretty day!
These huge lawns you could play baseball on!!!Wonderful porches!
Kids don't spend enough time on the lawn playing baseball these days. I used to spend hours in an empty lot with the other kids in the neighborhood playing a variation of baseball with our own set of made-up rules. Home run if you got the ball (tennis ball) into the guy's satellite dish across the street!
Was through Sliddel a few times while I was there nice town
Yes. It’s changed quite a bit since I frequented the area.
Come on we are a city not a town 🤬
I'm enjoying "visiting"the various towns/cities you visit.For the benefit of fellow 504 subscribers, I live in Australia where we drive on the "wrong" side of the road.
Richard Felstead thanks Richard! More to come!
You may not have known this but an awesome fun fact is that the Olde Town Soda Shop has been used for several major movies. The most recent being with the one and only Halle Barry for the movie Kidnapped, and Dead Man Walking with Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. Slidell has also been in a handful of other movies as well.
I had no idea!
@@504RoadTrips Yes indeed. Plus Keanu Reeves was just there for filming some parts of Bill and Ted 3.
My daughter’s boyfriend and his family own a company near there and live in Slidell…they do stunt production for many movies and tv show like The Walking Dead and action movies. Pretty cool business
Thanks for this !
Slidell is such a great city, I love outside of Slidell in Lacombe and originally from Alexandria, Louisiana.
broooooo if u from slidell u know why i had to say something here....
Moved to Slidell from Mandeville 7 years ago..great decision! The Soda Shop in old towne drew a blue squiggly line on the side of their building to show how high the flood waters got for Katrina. Its shocking to see
I didn’t know about the water line. Was it visible in the video when I passed by there?
From mandeville to slidell!? Wow you don’t hear that happen often at all. We just moved from Slidell to Covington and it’s apples and oranges.
Oh yesss tht soda shop👌🏽
@@rickoconnell9591 Covington is so hilly compared to Slidell. Looks like Hattiesburg, MS compared to Slidell which looks kinds like Chalmette.
Living in Gulfport, I go to Slidell all of the time. I have found some great little restaurants there.
It's a lot easier to travel around than the Mandeville/Covington part of the Northshore.
I'm impressed with how much growth they have been experiencing lately! Fremeaux is really hot right now. A new building going up every month.
Have you tried La Pines Cafe?
@@amelia-yt7ou Where is that? Sounds interesting!
So I just looked it up. I haven't been there, but I have gone to a Thai place close to there a few times!
Is it the Thai place by neighborhood market?
@@amelia-yt7ou Just seeing this. Yep. It's in a strip shopping center about a block South of Walmart Market on Robert.
Good voice!!!
My town is pretty great right
It’s perfectly fine if you can’t do this, but is it possible to do another Baton Rouge drive, one day? Like maybe Bluebonnet Blvd or a main road? Just curious. I love this channel!
RangeRover Roads I’ve done all of several of the main streets. We were just talking recently about doing more stuff in Baton Rouge. I’ll see what can be done.
504RoadTrips thx!
I had a family in slidell for a long time but most of my family moved after katrina
Moved after Betsy!!!
god i miss louisiana so much i wanna move back so bad
7:07 that was Mrs Debbie she worked at Champaign jewelers she was a super nice lady
You know your history. My family owed and made those bricks back in the days. Chahta people
I can tell you aren't from Slidell, because you use turn signals. 😁
I live in Slidell.
I am not from Slidell. However, during the mid-90s, I worked for a pizza restaurant in the New Orleans area that opened up a location on Robert Road. I worked up there for about a year. We had a hard time hiring drivers when we opened, and I spent most of that year delivering pizza full time. We covered an area from the lake to the state line and from Indian Village to Thompson Road. So I had a crash course in navigating the neighborhoods of Slidell. Having spent a large part of my younger years as a "professional driver" with no accidents or tickets, I developed good driving habits.
@@504RoadTrips I moved to Slidell in June of last year. I came here from Quantico VA. I am originally from Johnstown PA.
I am actually going to tje train depot and the Movie sets venue on Monday, to ask permission to do bomb detection training at those locations, with my K9.
If they not from Slidell they won't understand 💯Lincoln Park baby‼️💪🏾
Travel there everyday! Great video!
In 1994/1995, the pizza restaurant I worked for opened a Slidell location and I took a shift manager position at the new place. We had a really hard time hiring drivers at first, so I spent about 2 months delivering pizza around Slidell. Got thrown to the wolves. After two months, I could pinpoint any address on the area map in under a second. We had a huge delivery area that went from Indian Village to North Shore Square, and from the lake to the state line.
This was probably the first time i had driven in Slidell off of the main roads in almost 25 years.
504RoadTrips Wow! It’s hard to believe how time has flown by!
5:54 that’s my dads restaurant Bonnie Cs named after his wife Bonnie Copland the oldest daughter of Al Copland
504 road trips, a 100k+ subscriber UA-camr just commented on this video. Awesome!
Who’s that? Nick? He is quite popular!
@@504RoadTrips Yes, him. To me, recognition by bigger UA-camrs indicate a rapidly-growing channel. You guys went from 100 to nearly 10,000.
I have actually been here from the start of this channel but with different accounts, (ex. Westbank Expressway, one of my lost accounts. Just don't go watching it, it's old cringe content I made with my spare time, spare you from the cringe.)
I see Baton Rouge as a far underrated destination, videos regarding the city can barely top 1k.
Just like your channel, one of the news channels of Baton Rouge named "WAFB" who created their channel this year and they are experiencing rapid growth with hundreds of new subscribers every 2 weeks. I think they are at 600. I could be wrong.
I predict You guys will reach 10k subs by possible July or August. The roadgeek community will rejoice. Not a lot of people see us as we are, as we take a liking into roadways and is seen as 'strange' and 'weird' by the 'normal' ones. Roadgeek and freeway channels like this are too far underrated. There is no "Overrated" in the roadgeek community on UA-cam since there's not a SINGLE channel that has over 100k subs.
I like this community and am proud to be apart of it. Drama-free, just people kicking back and enjoying the rides. I would like it to stay that way.
Pecue is planning to be widened to four lanes between Airline and Perkins, and I can't wait to see what the finished product looks like. I wasn't born in BTR, I was born up in Zachary, lived in Baker before moving down to BTR back in 2016, and is familiar with a lot of neighborhoods already.
Thank you for reading, and God bless, 504RoadTrips. ✌️👍
@@bruhman5716 thank you for your comments, and yes, I remember comments from your WBE account. And you’ve reminded me that I need to try to get video of Pecue Lane before they complete the new overpass. I’ve been wanting to do that for several years.
@@504RoadTrips You don't have to, I didn't have a single clue what I was talking about back then. My mind have matured quite a bit since then.
How far is Slidell to New Iberia
About 160 miles.
Lived here until Betsy, then moved inland!!!
Must not have been much up there back then. Slidell did some considerable spreading out in the late 70s and early 80s.
At 1:37 there’s a blonde girl walking and it’s our daughters old friend. That is pretty funny.
Small world!
I saw my old co-op
I live there!
I’m moving there in 2 weeks I live in California rn
it's pretty chill here
@shaolin1200 i got california homies that are way more chill than the people here so maybe they could like save this state of fakes
@shaolin1200 yeah but like everyody excludes you here if ur just a little different tbh, kinda dissapointing but the long beach people accepted me fr, just cause i aint a star child like everyone else here.
@shaolin1200 oh no the funny thing is i've lived in southeast louisiana my whole life, and i met people from the los angeles area and in the short time they cared more about me
@shaolin1200 im in slidell and there are a lot of judgemental people at every corner here
Is it cool if im from baton rouge
I don’t see why not!
I’m from Slidell they only showing the good sides that’s all they do all the murders and robberies don’t get talked about everybody that don’t live there think it’s all good alright drive where I’m from in Lincoln Park LP or Walnut they don’t wanna do that😂😂😂😆💯💪🏾
Owen Crawford slidell is literally the opposite of everything you just said. nothing happens in slidell my man.
Speed Equipment and I bet u not from there😂but okay I’m not boutta beg u to believe nothing jtfo😂😂💪🏾985Slidell SS LP‼️
Yes i need help ok
I think I saw safest town in La recently.
See John Vlog slidell isn’t that safe lol
@@Mrcoochie39
The chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime in Slidell is 1 in 26. Based on FBI crime data, Slidell is not one of the safest communities in America.
I've lived in slidell for 7 years yes the internet says it isn't safe and i think it is the best neighborhood I've lived in ( lived in long Island NY, Norfolk va a d many other places and it just seems like such a nice place. Everyone there is so humble and it really doesn't seem like any harm will be font there but
Can somebody help me get my phone back on
I see my house
Slidell is a horrible place and I wouldn’t recommend anyone moving here. We just sold our house and wouldn’t have taken a house in the “nicest” area in that city. It will be New Orleans east in a few years and that’s definitely not a good thing.
😂😂Slidell985DellCity
Dee Will I don’t get it? Is that supposed to be some new ghetto language that is spoken in Slidell? I am not trying to be a prick but I absolutely fucking hate Slidell.
Is this why they call it the "Dirty Dell" ?
Midnight Mystery they call it the dirty Dell cause it’s filthy and people that live there don’t take care of it. It used to be a really nice place but poor leadership has destroyed it.
It will never be New Orleans East 2024 it’s not even close I live in New Orleans East and my mom in Slidell night and day
Yeah take them to our local projects for your video 👍