I'm paused at 4:13... the right turn after you pass the TraveLodge(Scotsdale Drive) is where my folks, kid brother, and I all lived before shufflin' off to Buffalo in early '80.
As you can now tell, this has since been edited... I looked in Google, and many of the apartment structures(the 3-story building after TraveLodge, and the 2-story, 4-unit buildings) were since replaced by single-story, 2-family units.
That TraveLodge was where my high school history club stayed in 1980 to visit a Northwest Indian exhibit at NOMA. We traveled all the way from Corpus Christi in a yellow school bus, took a river cruise to the Chalmette Battlefield, and went two evenings to the Plaza at Lake Forest (I went ice skating both nights). And I experienced the old Huey P. coming in--during rush hour.
I'm now paused at 5:05. IIRC, making the right turn onto LA23 would eventually lead to a plaza where Nicholson and Loop, and Gaylord's, were the main stores. In that plaza was also the Sakura Japanese Restaurant, where we(Dad, Mom, kid brother, and myself) ate often.
Nicholson and Loup was a grocery store at the back of the lot. Then there was a building that ran perpendicular to Belle Chasse Highway that had the Gaylords (later Zayre) discount department store, which occupied most of the building and then behind there was a bar that had a rather bad reputation...can't remember the name of it at this point, and that was before I was of the legal drinking age. Nicholson and Loup had a gas station at the front of the property. I don't believe there were any restaurants on that property at all though. In fact, I can't remember there being any Japanese restaurants anywhere on the Westbank prior to about 20 years ago, although there must have been, and it may have been near there and I just wasn't aware of it. Nicholson & Loup went out of business in the late 1980s, and Zayre (which had bought out Gaylords in the mid 80s) went out of business shortly afterwards. I was 17 in 1990 when the old department store became Mudbugs, a giant country and western saloon/dance hall. My friends and I weren't into the country & western scene, but we all managed to attend Mudbugs' opening night when we found out they were being lax about checking IDs (we lived in Terrytown, across the highway, almost in walking distance, and we were all under 18...at that point, the drinking age had just been raised to 21). Mudbugs Saloon lasted about 10 years I guess, and they turned the whole thing into a climate controlled self storage building...called Mudbugs Climate Controlled storage. The entire lot, including the slab where Nicholson & Loup was, is fenced off and people store boats and RVs on the property. There's another shopping center on LA-23 in Gretna that's closer to the Expressway, where Lafayette Street splits away from LA-23 and Belle Chasse Highway starts. It, at one time, had a bunch of Asian businesses that may have included Sakura. That shopping center (which is more what I would consider to be a plaza, unlike the old Nicholson and Loup shopping center) had a Piggly Wiggly and a Walgreens. I wonder if you may be misremembering and mixing the two shopping centers together in your memory. Sakura was most recently on Manhattan Boulevard, which is the major center of commerce now on the Westbank, and only very recently...like in the last 3 or 4 months...went out of business for good.
It's very well possible. I wasn't introduced to Japanese food, particularly sushi, until I was nearly 30, so I may not have known about it. What year are we talking about?
It's changed a lot since then. I need to get video of Belle Chasse Hwy...especially the tunnel and drawbridge down there. They're talking about doing away with it and putting up a high rise bridge.
Believe it or not I walked this whole ride you jus displayed. Coming from work I worked on the east bank, downtown New Orleans. And the bus on the West Bank stops running at a certain time. But the beginning of the west bank is orleans. Sooooo I had to catch the orleans bus which lets me off where this video ends. And I had to walk all the way to where this video begins. Oh what a walk!!!!
There was an expressway that was planned back in the 60s, called the Dixie Freeway that would have run from the foot of the present day I-510 down Paris Road, across the river to lower coast Algiers, around the outskirts of the populated area on the Westbank and then connect around where the present day I-310 is. But it never happened. It was at a point in time where they realized they couldn’t displace thousands of low income people just to build a freeway. Since there are so few undeveloped places on the Westbank now, I don’t think it would be possible to do it.
I remember when the expressway was being built. And I used to walk manhattan blvd to woodland west subdivision when I missed the bus from school, 2 lanes and a canal.
I went to high school in Marrero, and watched the Elevated Expressway go up beyond the Avenue D/Barataria exit. I think they finally opened it to the end the year after I graduated.
Interesting-looks similar to Veterans Memorial Blvd in Metairie. I believe the only time I’ve been through there was to go to the Floor and Decor store. That shopping center there is nice but crowded!
That whole shopping center has been redone in the last 10 years. It's pretty nice. The Academy Sports building was one of the original Maison Blanche locations when they expanded from Canal Street in the 60s.
jeffpearljam1976 now that's a distant memory. I remember the last time I went there in 1992 when a friend got married and was registered there. It was still open for a while after that. Not sure when it closed.
@jefpearljam1976(open): If you turn left on Manhattan Boulevard and cross past the West Bank Expressway, there was a Schweggmann's Plaza, with their own gas pumps at the front of the lot. In that plaza, I recall the Schweggmann's, the K-Mart, a hair salon, and a Mackenzie's Pastry shop. I imagine that plaza closed down sometime afterwards...
I remember I had to go to court in gretna. Bruh my ride ditched me so I had to walk all the way from gretna back to waggaman. I was tired and angry at the same time
I don't know about tunnels, but if you look at bridgehunter.com or uglybridges.com, and see the condition of bridges in Louisiana, the vast majority of them are in "poor" condition, and they're not closing any of them.
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Ive been away from nola so long, but this drive brought back so many memories.
Such a nice ride along West Bank expressway/US highway 90 business East
I'm paused at 4:13... the right turn after you pass the TraveLodge(Scotsdale Drive) is where my folks, kid brother, and I all lived before shufflin' off to Buffalo in early '80.
I know the area, and remember how it was in the 80s. Sadly, the neighborhood has deteriorated quite a bit since then.
As you can now tell, this has since been edited... I looked in Google, and many of the apartment structures(the 3-story building after TraveLodge, and the 2-story, 4-unit buildings) were since replaced by single-story, 2-family units.
That TraveLodge was where my high school history club stayed in 1980 to visit a Northwest Indian exhibit at NOMA. We traveled all the way from Corpus Christi in a yellow school bus, took a river cruise to the Chalmette Battlefield, and went two evenings to the Plaza at Lake Forest (I went ice skating both nights). And I experienced the old Huey P. coming in--during rush hour.
I'm now paused at 5:05. IIRC, making the right turn onto LA23 would eventually lead to a plaza where Nicholson and Loop, and Gaylord's, were the main stores. In that plaza was also the Sakura Japanese Restaurant, where we(Dad, Mom, kid brother, and myself) ate often.
Nicholson and Loup was a grocery store at the back of the lot. Then there was a building that ran perpendicular to Belle Chasse Highway that had the Gaylords (later Zayre) discount department store, which occupied most of the building and then behind there was a bar that had a rather bad reputation...can't remember the name of it at this point, and that was before I was of the legal drinking age. Nicholson and Loup had a gas station at the front of the property. I don't believe there were any restaurants on that property at all though. In fact, I can't remember there being any Japanese restaurants anywhere on the Westbank prior to about 20 years ago, although there must have been, and it may have been near there and I just wasn't aware of it.
Nicholson & Loup went out of business in the late 1980s, and Zayre (which had bought out Gaylords in the mid 80s) went out of business shortly afterwards. I was 17 in 1990 when the old department store became Mudbugs, a giant country and western saloon/dance hall. My friends and I weren't into the country & western scene, but we all managed to attend Mudbugs' opening night when we found out they were being lax about checking IDs (we lived in Terrytown, across the highway, almost in walking distance, and we were all under 18...at that point, the drinking age had just been raised to 21). Mudbugs Saloon lasted about 10 years I guess, and they turned the whole thing into a climate controlled self storage building...called Mudbugs Climate Controlled storage. The entire lot, including the slab where Nicholson & Loup was, is fenced off and people store boats and RVs on the property.
There's another shopping center on LA-23 in Gretna that's closer to the Expressway, where Lafayette Street splits away from LA-23 and Belle Chasse Highway starts. It, at one time, had a bunch of Asian businesses that may have included Sakura. That shopping center (which is more what I would consider to be a plaza, unlike the old Nicholson and Loup shopping center) had a Piggly Wiggly and a Walgreens. I wonder if you may be misremembering and mixing the two shopping centers together in your memory. Sakura was most recently on Manhattan Boulevard, which is the major center of commerce now on the Westbank, and only very recently...like in the last 3 or 4 months...went out of business for good.
I'll admit... I was 8 or 9 at the time, but I do recall there was a Japanese restaurant as you go down 23 South towards the bridge/tunnel.
It's very well possible. I wasn't introduced to Japanese food, particularly sushi, until I was nearly 30, so I may not have known about it. What year are we talking about?
I lived there 1979 and early 1980; we moved North a month or so after my turning 9.
It's changed a lot since then. I need to get video of Belle Chasse Hwy...especially the tunnel and drawbridge down there. They're talking about doing away with it and putting up a high rise bridge.
Believe it or not I walked this whole ride you jus displayed. Coming from work I worked on the east bank, downtown New Orleans. And the bus on the West Bank stops running at a certain time. But the beginning of the west bank is orleans. Sooooo I had to catch the orleans bus which lets me off where this video ends. And I had to walk all the way to where this video begins. Oh what a walk!!!!
That's a long haul. At least they provide you with a nice walking path most of the way.
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damn thats a long walk, i had to walk from gretna's jail to marrero and i thought that was long
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Idk why I luv the west side so much but I do!! Wish there was a bridge from Chalmette to Belle Chase area!! A new new 🌉 southern span!
There was an expressway that was planned back in the 60s, called the Dixie Freeway that would have run from the foot of the present day I-510 down Paris Road, across the river to lower coast Algiers, around the outskirts of the populated area on the Westbank and then connect around where the present day I-310 is. But it never happened. It was at a point in time where they realized they couldn’t displace thousands of low income people just to build a freeway. Since there are so few undeveloped places on the Westbank now, I don’t think it would be possible to do it.
Thanks for the videos I lived down there from 66 to 87 I went into the Navy.
I remember when the expressway was being built. And I used to walk manhattan blvd to woodland west subdivision when I missed the bus from school, 2 lanes and a canal.
I went to high school in Marrero, and watched the Elevated Expressway go up beyond the Avenue D/Barataria exit. I think they finally opened it to the end the year after I graduated.
Interesting-looks similar to Veterans Memorial Blvd in Metairie. I believe the only time I’ve been through there was to go to the Floor and Decor store. That shopping center there is nice but crowded!
That whole shopping center has been redone in the last 10 years. It's pretty nice. The Academy Sports building was one of the original Maison Blanche locations when they expanded from Canal Street in the 60s.
504RoadTrips Oh cool!
I used to work at the service merchandise on manhattan blvd
jeffpearljam1976 now that's a distant memory. I remember the last time I went there in 1992 when a friend got married and was registered there. It was still open for a while after that. Not sure when it closed.
I worked there in '96. It closed around 2000.
@jefpearljam1976(open): If you turn left on Manhattan Boulevard and cross past the West Bank Expressway, there was a Schweggmann's Plaza, with their own gas pumps at the front of the lot. In that plaza, I recall the Schweggmann's, the K-Mart, a hair salon, and a Mackenzie's Pastry shop. I imagine that plaza closed down sometime afterwards...
I remember I had to go to court in gretna. Bruh my ride ditched me so I had to walk all the way from gretna back to waggaman. I was tired and angry at the same time
That’s quite a hike.
Tunnel is listed in fair condition. I wonder if it’ll ever close due to poor conditions??
I don't know about tunnels, but if you look at bridgehunter.com or uglybridges.com, and see the condition of bridges in Louisiana, the vast majority of them are in "poor" condition, and they're not closing any of them.
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I used to to live in the west bank wlth my mom and Dad
Ah yes... the bestbank
I know about Harvey & Belle Chasse, but where's the third tunnel?
MoneyC225 Houma. We haven’t covered that one, nor have we gotten video of the Belle Chasse Tunnel, which is just a few miles from where we live.
Thanks! I forgot about that one (ironically that street name is Tunnel Blvd.!) All 3 tunnels dip below the Intracoastal Waterway.
Good job you have almost 500 subscribers
Yes sir! Almost there!
AVERY LOGAN he’s well passed 500 now. He’s not looking back until 100,000!!!!!
See John Vlog i made that comment like a month or two ago