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re: Favorite wooded areas in BR where you played as a kid
Posted on 2/15/15 at 7:41 am to FelicianaTigerfan
Posted on 2/15/15 at 7:41 am to FelicianaTigerfan
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4 sewage ponds behind Biltmore Subdivision in Central. We killed a shite load of snakes back there
I bet I know you. I grew up in Biltmore. When we moved in the two grain silos were still there and the "Pits" hadn't been dug yet. I even climbed up one of the silos on a dare. There was a starling nest up there and the momma attacked me. When the sewage ponds were dug my friend's big brother hot wired one of the bull dozers and drove it in to the canal. My group of friends are the ones that named it "the Pits".
Biltmore is at the intersection of Sullivan and Wax roads. My dad told my brother and me "If I catch your butt crossing Wax or Sullivan, you're dead. Other than that, go explore. And we did. We roamed from the woods in that corner that is now a Wal Mart, out to the fields that became the "Pits" and beyond. Over behind the Baptist church was "Pete's Pond". He had the most badass tree house I'd ever seen.
We had BMX bikes and Benjamin pump pellet guns, and we were lords of our wild wide world. What else did we need?
We would take perogues up and down Beaver Bayou, and I was there when Timmy and some other dude destroyed the beaver damn and flooded the canal. We once floated so far downstream that we had to knock on someone's door and call one of our dads to come get us because it was dark and we were still miles from home.
We shot robins in the woods where Biltmore II is now and cooked the breasts over an open fire with butter, salt, and pepper. We shot snakes EVERYWHERE. We even popped a rabbit or squirrel every now and then. (If you had the .22 caliber Benjamin you had a better chance of a kill).
I laughed at someone mentioning nudie magazines. I think those things have a magical ability to just appear from now where in the tree houses and club houses of adolescent boys. It's like the universe wants to teach you some things that you need to know but don't have access to. I never once brought any to a tree house but there always seemed to be some there.
It was a wild, exciting, and by today's standards very dangerous childhood. We once built a tree house so high up in a red oak tree that when we showed one of our dads (not mine) how proud we were, he freaked out and made us tear it down. My dad would have patted us on the back and said "good job son". THat kid always a pussy though.
That was back in the late 70s and early 80s. Times have definitely changed and kids today are worse for it. Those were defining experiences for a lot of boys and I fear we've lost that. Too bad really. Nothing compares to cold wet sneakers trudging through gumbo mud with a brace of rabbits slung over your shoulder that you and your buddies bagged with your air rifles. Cooking them up over an open fire, telling dirty jokes and trying to stick your lockblade in a big sycamore tree from 10 paces. Sure, we fell out of trees, skinned knees, cut fingers and stepped on nails. We got ticks and chiggers on us, got stung by wasps and pinched by crawfish. Hell, I even stepped on a catfish fin once. That shite HURT. And we never seemed to tell our parents exactly how wild it was out there.
I'll be in BR next weekend and dammit I'm taking my truck to go mud riding in the Pits.
This post was edited on 2/15/15 at 7:42 am
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Posted on 2/15/15 at 7:44 am to McLemore
Essen where the Shaw (now CBI building) are located. Was part field rest wooded all the way to the canel.
Edit: worked with an old timer who lived where the Walmart is on coursey near jones creek. Said he used to walk from his house to where the now hi neighbor is and would of had a bag full of rabbits and squirrels by the time he got back.
Edit: worked with an old timer who lived where the Walmart is on coursey near jones creek. Said he used to walk from his house to where the now hi neighbor is and would of had a bag full of rabbits and squirrels by the time he got back.
This post was edited on 2/15/15 at 7:49 am
Posted on 2/15/15 at 8:02 am to McLemore
the woods all around episcopal HS, all around jones creek, and between woodland ridge and forest park
that last area was stunningly beautiful...full of sloughs and huge beech trees. we'd hit it every day during squirrel season and on weekends we'd go in on Friday and come back Sunday. my best friend and I must have camped out in those woods hundreds of nights
now it's a bunch of fricking garden homes...
that last area was stunningly beautiful...full of sloughs and huge beech trees. we'd hit it every day during squirrel season and on weekends we'd go in on Friday and come back Sunday. my best friend and I must have camped out in those woods hundreds of nights
now it's a bunch of fricking garden homes...
This post was edited on 2/15/15 at 8:05 am
Posted on 2/15/15 at 8:07 am to TrueTiger
What Is now Tara, we used to kill rabbits with our pellet guns
Posted on 2/15/15 at 8:14 am to McLemore
I grew up in Cedarcrest. My back yard was connected to the Cedarcrest BREC park. Behind that park was an old pasture. We rode motorcycles and three wheelers back there for many years. We had a dirt track to ride the bikes where Don Carter bowling alley sits today. The pasture was developed soon after with a FuddRuckers hamburger restaurant being the first business if I recall correctly. Good times. 70's and early 80's.
Posted on 2/15/15 at 9:00 am to cgrand
I was going to say same thing. In back of woodland ridge a rope swing over jones creek.
Posted on 2/15/15 at 9:19 am to Lago Tiger
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We used to ride our bikes to the back of Pollard and shoot snakes off the bridge over Dawson creek . It sure was a cool place and time to be a kid .
I remember having friends who lived in there. I was so excited when they told me we were going to bike to the "waterfall." As a 10 year old, it was quite a letdown to find it was simply Dawson Creek passing over a 4 inch strip of concrete.
Posted on 2/15/15 at 9:42 am to Y.A. Tittle
these are all awesome.
i know every generation says, "kids these days..." but shite kids these days definitely miss out on all that stuff, even a lot of the ones in the country. we had video games and tv obviously, but the emphasis was always outdoors. mostly out of natural boyhood but also due to parents not letting us sit inside all day.
i know every generation says, "kids these days..." but shite kids these days definitely miss out on all that stuff, even a lot of the ones in the country. we had video games and tv obviously, but the emphasis was always outdoors. mostly out of natural boyhood but also due to parents not letting us sit inside all day.
Posted on 2/15/15 at 10:14 am to McLemore
Back in the early 80's I would just hang out by myself at the Pits, just inside the treeline, and watch the boys play, cut up, and ride bikes.
This post was edited on 2/15/15 at 10:15 am
Posted on 2/15/15 at 10:15 am to deeprig9
How old are you some of you all? Can we talk about some of the 90's? Everything so far has been 70's and 80's.
Posted on 2/15/15 at 10:23 am to McLemore
I was all over Tara when it was woods, then clearing and dirt roads. Also we would drive Airline Highway to Sorrento then get on I-10 towards NO when it was just being cleared and was dirt and killed truckloads of mallards.
My older siblings who were hippies and original hippies not these newfangled wanna be hippies, used to take me to Neddies Pond which was back in the woods where SAMs and Wal Mart are on Seigan. It was a huge deep barrow pit with trails all over cut through the woods and was like a commune. People hanging out drinking, smoking dope, riding motorcycles and quite a few that lived back there. That was a cool place.
And my daughter isn't into video games. She hangs out in the woods and creeks now with her Mucks and camo and her 17 calibar Henry lever action. I'm glad to see that especially since she's a girl and has a whole group of them that do not want to be inside and are not afraid to get dirty.
My older siblings who were hippies and original hippies not these newfangled wanna be hippies, used to take me to Neddies Pond which was back in the woods where SAMs and Wal Mart are on Seigan. It was a huge deep barrow pit with trails all over cut through the woods and was like a commune. People hanging out drinking, smoking dope, riding motorcycles and quite a few that lived back there. That was a cool place.
And my daughter isn't into video games. She hangs out in the woods and creeks now with her Mucks and camo and her 17 calibar Henry lever action. I'm glad to see that especially since she's a girl and has a whole group of them that do not want to be inside and are not afraid to get dirty.
Posted on 2/15/15 at 11:01 am to Paul Allen
The Ditch ending and creek in the back of Old Jefferson Neighborhood. "Devils Den" on that same creek. The woods next to it we would hunt snakes and squirrels with our BB guns/ blow guns. There was an opening to the back of someones property at the edge of the woods with an Old Bus and a few old cars was pretty cool to see back then. Old Perkins close to highland where the railroad tracks were, we used to drive along down there to what we called " The Craters " fun days spent mud riding and hanging out there. Off Choctaw along the Comite. Where Best Buy etc is by the mall, used to have a little lake and a rope swing in the woods. In the Back of White Oak / Shenandoah you could get to the Amite and Rope swing etc over there.
Posted on 2/15/15 at 11:15 am to TigerRob82
I grew up in Biltmore as well. The Pitts and the woods where Walmart is now was my adventure areas. Don't forget the graveyard in the neighborhood with graves from the 1800's. It's was in the 80's and 90's for me.
Posted on 2/15/15 at 11:40 am to cgrand
I grew up on Woodland Ridge and my house backed up to some of those woods. It started being developed in the late 90s and took some of our fun away, but we built countless tree houses, bike ramps, and failed critter traps in that place. Good times.
Someone built a hell of a little BMX course between Episcopal and Jones Creek, I think there are tennis courts there now.
Someone built a hell of a little BMX course between Episcopal and Jones Creek, I think there are tennis courts there now.
Posted on 2/15/15 at 12:09 pm to McLemore
Sounds like there's a whole lotta Lee High in this thread. I grew up in Magnolia Woods and knew Dawson Creek well.
Posted on 2/15/15 at 1:36 pm to MondayMorningMarch
Used to hunt robins in the woods where Woodstone and Woodgate are now. Snuck into Doc Slaughters ponds to yank out bass that's now Lakeside subdivision. Remember my best friends moving from Highland Park to Iberville Terrace and it was like they had moved to New Orleans. Predates Bluebonnet and Essen being completed between Perkins and Jefferson. Damn I'm old.
Posted on 2/15/15 at 1:40 pm to Icansee4miles
Sounds like everybody hunts Robins anyway. They might as well make them legal fare for .410s and pellet guns.
Posted on 2/15/15 at 1:40 pm to LSU999
I lived in Biltmore till I was around 9 years old. The Pits and Beaver Creek and I remember an old can in the bushes where my brother and some of the older kids had nudie magazines stored.
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