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re: What Would You Consider the Worst Motel/Hotel in Baton Rouge?
Posted on 9/15/22 at 12:21 pm to MyRockstarComplex
Posted on 9/15/22 at 12:21 pm to MyRockstarComplex
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There used to be a motel on Airline near Highland where we bought cigarettes back in the mid 90’s. They just left all of the room doors open and it was sketchy as hell.
Not sure if it’s covered in overgrowth or ultimately demo’d.
Edit: The Watson Hotel
I really wanted to see where this place was. I can't even find a foundation or any trace of it on google earth. Must have been demo'd and then rebuilt into something else....or possibly it's completely under a tree canopy.
ETA: Looks like it might have been where the Frito Lay Distribution Center is now. This is a street view from a couple of years back.
This post was edited on 9/15/22 at 12:25 pm
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Posted on 9/15/22 at 12:27 pm to jamiegla1
I don’t believe it’s called the Alamo anymore. There hasn’t been a shooting death there in awhile, which is shocking considering it’s right next to the Turner Plaza housing projects on Florida.
Posted on 9/15/22 at 12:28 pm to goofball
I think it was where Casco is now if you’re looking at Google Earth. Thad Cain Ln would have been the Airline entrance.
Posted on 9/15/22 at 12:29 pm to goofball
Found an article on some of the older hotels along Airline.
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The Oak Court Manor was not quite the same mid century modern style as The Shades. It was demolished to build a Home Depot and a Wendy's.
I vaguely remember the abandoned Oak Court place before the Home Depot was built. I imagine it was probably one of the many hotels between Baton Rouge and New Orleans that were hubs for drugs and prostitution in the 1970s and 1980s.
Old post card of The Shades, which still exists. This one can probably be a cool, reworked historic place if the area around it really picks up from the Amazon business.
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The Oak Court Manor was not quite the same mid century modern style as The Shades. It was demolished to build a Home Depot and a Wendy's.
I vaguely remember the abandoned Oak Court place before the Home Depot was built. I imagine it was probably one of the many hotels between Baton Rouge and New Orleans that were hubs for drugs and prostitution in the 1970s and 1980s.
Old post card of The Shades, which still exists. This one can probably be a cool, reworked historic place if the area around it really picks up from the Amazon business.
This post was edited on 9/15/22 at 12:30 pm
Posted on 9/15/22 at 12:36 pm to goofball
We almost bought an old motel in Wisconsin a few years ago. I would love to redo one.
Posted on 9/15/22 at 12:38 pm to Shexter
My vote would be southside motel on Thomas Delpit
Posted on 9/15/22 at 12:40 pm to SuperSaint
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I once stayed the night at Staring
Used to live on Staring. That place was ghetto even back then
Posted on 9/15/22 at 12:43 pm to mikelbr
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The riff raff left his ole crazy arse alone
If my riff raff, you mean Serial Killers then lucky him. That's all I imagine floats around the parking lots of these joints.
Posted on 9/15/22 at 12:45 pm to goofball
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Edit: The Watson Hotel
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I really wanted to see where this place was. I can't even find a foundation or any trace of it on google earth.
I used the timeline on Google Earth, and could still see the galvanized roof in January 2015. It disappeared around March 2015.
It was next door to Gulf Coast Occupational Medicine and Russell Pools.
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Old post card of The Shades, which still exists. This one can probably be a cool, reworked historic place if the area around it really picks up from the Amazon business
The Shades has been kept remarkably clean. The Google reviews are mostly positive.
I remember how we'd always see people in the swimming pool when leaving Cortana.
This post was edited on 9/15/22 at 12:51 pm
Posted on 9/15/22 at 12:45 pm to Bmath
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The OYO on Airline at I-12 gives you a free needle stick with your stay
While visually it's not the worst their clientele is as trash as it gets
Posted on 9/15/22 at 12:47 pm to Shexter
Vel Rose motel and the Ten Flags Inn
Posted on 9/15/22 at 12:48 pm to MyRockstarComplex
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There used to be a motel on Airline near Highland where we bought cigarettes back in the mid 90’s. They just left all of the room doors open and it was sketchy as hell.
I got “quoted” in the article for Abandoned Baton Rouge, who knew? I stand by my previous quote, it was mysterious and eery. Riding by there at night on my bike after closing down McDonald’s was pretty scary. Starting to question my parents’ judgment.
Posted on 9/15/22 at 12:50 pm to Shexter
I remember once in the 90s I rode with some friends to a seedy location off Airline out toward Ascension Parish to buy alcohol. We walked through a wooded area and knocked. An old black guy answered a dutch door (opened the top), and sold us alcohol even though we were clearly teens. The Watson, maybe?
Posted on 9/15/22 at 12:52 pm to LSU Grad Alabama Fan
Posted on 9/15/22 at 12:57 pm to deltaland
Was one of those fine establishments spoken of in the documentary “ Murder in the Bayou”?
Posted on 9/15/22 at 12:59 pm to Rick9Plus
Posted on 9/15/22 at 12:59 pm to Shexter
Scenic Motel (61 by 964)
Staring Hotel
Vel Rose Hotel (Airline near 110)
Staring Hotel
Vel Rose Hotel (Airline near 110)
Posted on 9/15/22 at 1:00 pm to Shexter
This might technically be in Prairieville but the Royal motel that is behind the late Southern Kumfort strip clip on Airline.
Never been, but that place has to be what nightmares are made of.
Never been, but that place has to be what nightmares are made of.
Posted on 9/15/22 at 1:39 pm to Shexter
I submit for consideration the Royal Motel on Airline right across the parish line in Prairieville.
Southern Kumfort's may have died. But, the Royal Motel lives on.
Southern Kumfort's may have died. But, the Royal Motel lives on.
Posted on 9/15/22 at 1:42 pm to JABRO
The strippers were moonlighting at the hotel?
As maids or by the hour?
As maids or by the hour?
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