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Favorite wooded areas in BR where you played as a kid
Posted on 2/14/15 at 11:17 pm
Posted on 2/14/15 at 11:17 pm
That are now developed. (Semi-spinoff of the Places Around BR That You Think You Remember thread)
I remember walking for miles around highland road in early 80s--from Fulwar Skipwith to Highland Road Park and the other direction. Kids built these crazy underground tunnels (which I still don't understand, given the high water table).
The bayou/woods that went from Starring to Bluebonnet. Found all sorts of interesting reading material back there.
The Myrtles on Highland and Renee used to be beautiful live oak park/woods. And then you'd cross over to the field behind St John's Methodist (now parking lot) and into woods with a really old barn or feed shack in the middle of them, then a large pasture (I think Mike Anderson's house is there now).
I have more. Man we used to ride bikes all over town to get away from civilization, from River Road (Sunshine) to Bayou Manchac to near campus etc.
I remember walking for miles around highland road in early 80s--from Fulwar Skipwith to Highland Road Park and the other direction. Kids built these crazy underground tunnels (which I still don't understand, given the high water table).
The bayou/woods that went from Starring to Bluebonnet. Found all sorts of interesting reading material back there.
The Myrtles on Highland and Renee used to be beautiful live oak park/woods. And then you'd cross over to the field behind St John's Methodist (now parking lot) and into woods with a really old barn or feed shack in the middle of them, then a large pasture (I think Mike Anderson's house is there now).
I have more. Man we used to ride bikes all over town to get away from civilization, from River Road (Sunshine) to Bayou Manchac to near campus etc.
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Posted on 2/14/15 at 11:25 pm to McLemore
Grew up off highland and had a 10 acre wooded area next to our house where we would walk around with Benjamin pumps. Also the back of our subdivision backed up to bluebonnet swamp as well. Fun times as a kid. Worried about these younger kids that are glued to Xbox and iPads and won't experience what I was fortunate to have.
Also my dad owned an old Isuzu trooper. I remember riding with him as a kid where the mall of Louisiana is now. Also riding our for wheeler down staring where some of the newer subdivisions are now.
Also my dad owned an old Isuzu trooper. I remember riding with him as a kid where the mall of Louisiana is now. Also riding our for wheeler down staring where some of the newer subdivisions are now.
This post was edited on 2/14/15 at 11:28 pm
Posted on 2/14/15 at 11:28 pm to McLemore
The Central Thruway
I grew up off of Frenchtown Road and spent countless winters roaming the wooded area that backs up to Beaver Creek where it meets the Comite River.
I cannot help but remember the numerous clubhouses and tree stands I built every time I travel along it.
I grew up off of Frenchtown Road and spent countless winters roaming the wooded area that backs up to Beaver Creek where it meets the Comite River.
I cannot help but remember the numerous clubhouses and tree stands I built every time I travel along it.
This post was edited on 2/14/15 at 11:52 pm
Posted on 2/14/15 at 11:29 pm to McLemore
Back of Monticello before it was developed. Some kids had built a bike trail and jump and fashioned a camper into a clubhouse complete with nudie mags.
Also woods in between Sugar Mill and Monticello. Sugar Mill also had an old cemetery from the 1800s tucked away.
Also woods in between Sugar Mill and Monticello. Sugar Mill also had an old cemetery from the 1800s tucked away.
Posted on 2/14/15 at 11:30 pm to The People
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The Central Thruway I grew up off of Frenchtown Road and spent coutnless winters roaming the wooded area that backs up to Beaver Creek to where it meets the Comite River. I can help but remember the numerous cluhouses and tree stands I built ever time I travel along it.
Posted on 2/14/15 at 11:41 pm to McLemore
Antioch park and Shenandoah elementary
Posted on 2/14/15 at 11:56 pm to McLemore
Tams park. it had a couple slopes close to a culvert that challenged the most courageous kids on bikes in the 70815 in the 1980s.
it also has large city drainage that I walked miles in and could peep out of area street drainage gutters.
it also has large city drainage that I walked miles in and could peep out of area street drainage gutters.
This post was edited on 2/14/15 at 11:57 pm
Posted on 2/15/15 at 12:18 am to VanCleef
We used to ride dirt bikes in old man Pollards pasture and the woods between Pollard Estates and Kenelworth before it was a subdivision . Squirrel hunted all around the area where the Mall is on Bluebonnet .
Posted on 2/15/15 at 12:23 am to McLemore
I didn't grow up in BR, but we used to get our building materials for South Seas in the woods off Burbank. Haven't been around there in a while, but I guess it's all built up now.
Posted on 2/15/15 at 12:25 am to Walt OReilly
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Antioch park and Shenandoah elementary
Posted on 2/15/15 at 12:30 am to McLemore
Behind the levee.
Posted on 2/15/15 at 12:33 am to McLemore
They're still there according to google earth, but I played in the woods in between pollard estates and woodgate all the time. I even went there as I got older to play paintball and do less wholsome high school things.
Posted on 2/15/15 at 12:36 am to TheIndulger
We used to go into the woods off Essen, near Ollie Steele nursing home
Posted on 2/15/15 at 12:47 am to McLemore
4 sewage ponds behind Biltmore Subdivision in Central. We killed a shite load of snakes back there
Posted on 2/15/15 at 12:55 am to Walt OReilly
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Antioch park and Shenandoah elementary
My old stomping grounds baw
Posted on 2/15/15 at 12:59 am to FelicianaTigerfan
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 .
Posted on 2/15/15 at 12:59 am to McLemore
The woods between Kenilworth and Woodgate.
Posted on 2/15/15 at 6:52 am to Topwater Trout
In the 80s, my friends mom lived in the Ole London Town apartments (or something like that) on Oneal. The area to the left of the complex was a dense patch of woods. It's now a mini-storage and some other places.
Anyway, we'd run around and shoot BB guns and it was a blast. There was also an abandoned car in a small clearing. Don't know the model but it was probably from the 60s or early 70s. Really cool to discover as a kid.
Anyway, we'd run around and shoot BB guns and it was a blast. There was also an abandoned car in a small clearing. Don't know the model but it was probably from the 60s or early 70s. Really cool to discover as a kid.
Posted on 2/15/15 at 6:58 am to cleeveclever
The Monky Grass Land off Jefferson.
Posted on 2/15/15 at 7:05 am to McLemore
Bayou Deplanier behind the old Studio Arms apartments. Some of the woods are ponds are still back there.
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