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re: What was louisiana like before the interstate?
Posted on 10/30/19 at 12:57 pm to GeauxGutsy
Posted on 10/30/19 at 12:57 pm to GeauxGutsy
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but nothing special
agree, okay but overrated, decent ham sammich but how hard to mess up is that?
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Posted on 10/30/19 at 1:01 pm to jlovel7
Posted on 10/30/19 at 1:05 pm to GeauxGutsy
quote:tgat coconut pie is freaking special
but nothing special.
Posted on 10/30/19 at 1:07 pm to jlovel7
lots of two lane roads. Alex to S'port was either via 71 or 1. If yiu were going to Dallas from S'port you got on HWY 80 whice was four lane as you hit TX.
For BR most took 71 from Alex until it got to 190.
Lafayette from Alex Hwy 167.
We put up with the two lanes as there was nothing else at the time. Then I 10 and I 20 git built. I 49 would come along some years later. The old days were ok in terms of car travel but with what we have now, I sure as hell wouldn't want to return to those days in terms of the Hwy factor.
For BR most took 71 from Alex until it got to 190.
Lafayette from Alex Hwy 167.
We put up with the two lanes as there was nothing else at the time. Then I 10 and I 20 git built. I 49 would come along some years later. The old days were ok in terms of car travel but with what we have now, I sure as hell wouldn't want to return to those days in terms of the Hwy factor.
Posted on 10/30/19 at 1:46 pm to jlovel7
Less trash on the side of the interstate, because there was no interstate.
Posted on 10/30/19 at 2:44 pm to jlovel7
The quality of the female prostitutes along Airline Highway was MUCH higher back then. I don't know what it is about the Interstate that made the female prostitute quality drop so low.
I can't comment on the quality of the male prostitutes, then or now, because I've no knowledge of that.
I can't comment on the quality of the male prostitutes, then or now, because I've no knowledge of that.
Posted on 10/30/19 at 2:51 pm to 777Tiger
quote:I still don't use the interstate after Ellic. 71 is a great drive now.
SHV-BTR was a nightmare, could take 5-6 hours some times
Posted on 10/30/19 at 2:59 pm to jlovel7
Going North in Louisiana from the South was brutal. Had to go sideways and up, sideways and up. With more sideways.
Saying that, my memories of a Sunday drive as a little boy with my mother down Hwy 61 to Gonzales for a Stuckeys Pecan Log bring the tears now that she's gone.
As an adult, sometimes I would take "the old way" to New Orleans and back just to break the interstate boredom up. Things have changed, that's for sure.
Everyone should try and experience Hey 61 going both North and South.
Saying that, my memories of a Sunday drive as a little boy with my mother down Hwy 61 to Gonzales for a Stuckeys Pecan Log bring the tears now that she's gone.
As an adult, sometimes I would take "the old way" to New Orleans and back just to break the interstate boredom up. Things have changed, that's for sure.
Everyone should try and experience Hey 61 going both North and South.
Posted on 10/30/19 at 3:04 pm to stapuffmarshy
quote:Was a dangerous mofo from Natchez to BR. One lane, no shoulders.
Hwy 61
No interstates pre-dates me but I do remember I-49 const. in down town Alexandria.
This post was edited on 10/30/19 at 3:05 pm
Posted on 10/30/19 at 3:16 pm to jlovel7
I use to run to Dallas in the 70's and early 80's and I-49 between Lafayette and Shreveport wasn't in existence then. I'd run up La. 1 from Baton Rouge toward Shreveport then catch I-20 to Dallas.
You could never mistake La.1 for a replacement for interstate highways. Damn road is 2 lanes running north and south and cuts through so many small towns that making good time is not going to happen.
Not an interstate, but when negotiating St. Bernard Parish until sometime in the 60's, the only road through the Parish was St. Bernard Highway which is 4 lanes from Arabi to Paris Rd. then it drops down to 2 lanes from there on.
Judge Perez Dr. was initially called Goodchildren when it was first put in use and eventually changed to Judge Perez Dr. to honor Plaquemines Parish's Leander Perez----and that caused a stink since he was considered a bigoted racist by many. That opened up St. Bernard Parish for a lot more commercial and residential development.
You could never mistake La.1 for a replacement for interstate highways. Damn road is 2 lanes running north and south and cuts through so many small towns that making good time is not going to happen.
Not an interstate, but when negotiating St. Bernard Parish until sometime in the 60's, the only road through the Parish was St. Bernard Highway which is 4 lanes from Arabi to Paris Rd. then it drops down to 2 lanes from there on.
Judge Perez Dr. was initially called Goodchildren when it was first put in use and eventually changed to Judge Perez Dr. to honor Plaquemines Parish's Leander Perez----and that caused a stink since he was considered a bigoted racist by many. That opened up St. Bernard Parish for a lot more commercial and residential development.
This post was edited on 10/30/19 at 4:44 pm
Posted on 10/30/19 at 3:37 pm to jlovel7
A very nice State, now a shithole
Posted on 10/30/19 at 3:58 pm to mikelbr
Great information , 
Posted on 10/30/19 at 4:11 pm to Monsieur le Duc
Interstate does not go through Vermilion. Is this still happening?
Posted on 10/30/19 at 4:27 pm to bagboy333
On a weekend it would take 2 hours to go to Hammond from BR on US 190,most of it was 2 lane. Going from BR to Elick on La 1 you would cross the Atchafalya on the train /auto bridge which was one lane at a time.No lane if you had to wait on the train passing over the bridge.
Posted on 10/30/19 at 4:51 pm to jlovel7
quote:I was born in the early 70s and also have only known a full interstate system. It's been around awhile. But, before the interstate, Louisiana didn't rank last in everything, so maybe we ought to tear it up.
I was born in the early 90s so I've only ever known an almost fully realized interstate system.
This post was edited on 10/30/19 at 5:15 pm
Posted on 10/30/19 at 5:09 pm to AlxTgr
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I still don't use the interstate after Ellic. 71 is a great drive now.
Dumb since it's 75 now and you can roll 80+. Who knows what you're going to run into on 71.
Posted on 10/30/19 at 5:17 pm to jlovel7
Posted on 10/30/19 at 5:23 pm to udtiger
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Here you go (takes a while to load)
Thanks for sharing that.
To the original OP, in New Orleans, the Pontchartrain Expressway was designed separately from and predated I-10. It WAS, however, built in conjunction with the new Mississippi River Bridge and the (old, ground level) West Bank Expressway.
The Pontchartrain Expressway stretched from just south of Veterans (where I-10 now turns west into Metairie) all the way in town to that Mississippi River Bridge. As mentioned in an earlier post most of the footprint for the Pontchartrain Expressway was the filled-in New Basin Canal, which ended right around where the Superdome is today. Between Claiborne and the river, property was acquired and buildings demolished to build the elevated portion of the Pontchartrain Expressway.
Different portions of the interstate were built at different times and not always in a sequential order. For example, the I-10 twin spans across Lake Pontchartrain and portions of I-10 in Slidell were completed several years before the in-town elevated Claiborne section of I-10 was in place. Folks would take Highway 90/Chef Highway west to US 11, then take that to around the Irish Bayou exit and get on the twin spans to head north to Slidell.
The I-610 bypass was the last major interstate segment completed in the area (in mid/late 1970s). Before that, ALL interstate through traffic went through the heart of New Orleans.
Posted on 10/30/19 at 5:30 pm to 777Tiger
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SHV-BTR was a nightmare, could take 5-6 hours some times
I could make it in 3.5 hours most the time. Once tried to break 3 hours but missed by 10 minutes. Usually not much traffic but it was a 2 lane road most of the way.
Posted on 10/30/19 at 5:38 pm to BRich
I remember going to LSU football games on the early 70s, and we woyld have to get off the interstate at Sorrento to get to La. 30, and then get back on if the driver wanted to go Highland Road to campus. Stopping point after an hour and a half was Lambert's on Airline Highway.
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