New Orleans-The Last Old-World City

I always found it interesting that when looking at New Orleans from Google Earth, the swamp lands have obvious signs of old roads and city infrastructure - even in older photos when you use the time machine feature.

I’m so grateful to be from New Orleans. It’s a city filled with mysteries and old world stories. So much more to uncover about this city that has been erased from our history. Thank you for being one of the first to dive deep into it!

As a 3rd generation riverboat pilot, the city fascinates me in every way..the alluvial deltas at the Mississippi headwaters, the bayous, the culture of the ppl..the city itself...captures the imagination

Finally, someone does an old world, New Orleans, my hometown. I grew up amidst the last worlds fair in the last old world city... much love...

Your witty and entertaining sarcasm is absolutely everything sir😂 LOL. Great job on accurately covering our beautiful and historic city. I really hope you do more here. I especially loved the lost buildings segment 💯. Great job. 💯

This narrator is so….confident. Can tell he’s curious to learn things but clearly just doesn’t want to believe what he can find out historically? He seems to really doubt that buildings catch fire? What? He seemed to doubt that French colonists were inspired by churches from France? Like…what why is that unbelievable? He try’s to cast doubts on ‘official’ histories the whole video but just comes across sounding nutty. ‘New Orleans French Catholic heritage - as we’re told’ He keeps saying things and implying that it’s not true without offering any alternative explanation? What is he getting at. The history is interesting but it just seems like he’s decided that it’s not cool enough, but there’s no real alternative narrative that he can point to? Very confusing video but an entertaining peak into somebody’s head I guess.

New Orleans is a city of my heart. My maternal family were some of the first families to settle in New Orleans and other surrounding areas

Love this! Re: the fires in 1788 and 1794. A building collapsed in 2014 allowing excavation of the lot and they found remnants of the fires. My theory on why the French knew that New Orleans would be a major city was because it already was. Bulbancha was an important place before the Europeans came.

My home, born and raised, still living there today. Jackson would've stood 0 chance in the war of 1812 had he not the help of Jean Lafitte and really Dominique You his half brother. Andrew Jackson reportedly said that he "would storm the gates of hell with Dominique You" whose gunmen were some of the most accurate and efficient at the time. Great exploration of the city, its true that the bulk of the old world buildings are gone, but the ones that remain do help carry on that old world vibe. I specifically loved the fact you had the Lakefront Airport in this video. I live in the marina thats literally right next to the airport and not only see the building daily also have been inside and all around the whole property on numerous occasions. I remember the first couple times going into it and was just kind of taking aback by its beauty and uniqueness. It still has the old self operated double cage door elevator which is something I make sure to use every chance I can when frequenting the building. I've looked for a few years now but can't seem to find any of he remnants of the old star fort walls but I'm sure there is something left and I've got a few spots still to check. Overall even with the tearing down of many of the old buildings in the city, it still has that aww inspiring vibe you get from being around old world architecture and its one of the things that has kept me here for all these years. I just keep coming back and will always have some of New Orleans within me and vice versa...

I’m 72 years old and I grew up in what was called the Uptown Housing projects on St Thomas 1952. I remember mom taking us to the Mardi Gras parades and later as a teenager experiencing the wilder side of the celebration. I joined the Marine Corps in 1970 and I didn’t get a chance to go home during my 30 year career. I’m retired now and I still love the food that can only be found in New Orleans. The fried oyster po’boy, gumbo, jambalaya, and of course red beans and rice!!!! I can cook all of this but just eating it in New Orleans is sublime!!!!!

I genuinely enjoy everything you do and look forward to new videos thank you so much

"And I'm sure we're given some story that I'm not gonna look up." Classic! 😂👍

Nola has a very interesting aurora. You can feel the history in the air, it’s palpable. You have to visit to understand. I love visiting

I can't stop laughing with the Christopher Lambert cameo, then it gets outdone by Dennis Franz!

Last Old World City - (Mobile,Alabama) Est.1702 Capital of the French Louisianas

New Orleans. I love it. Been 3 times. 2 superbowls and 1 Mardi Gras. Hit a 2500 bux slot on the Flamingo steamboat...saw Patriots win the 1st S.B 4 them...

I spent time in the French Quarter back in '98. I was dissapointed meeting only a handful of french speaker. I sure was impressed to see tall doors everywhere, even in the small wooden houses for common man.

I used to work in demolition. About 30 years ago the green belts around major UK cities made it very profitable to buy one big old house with a decent sized bit of land with it, pull it down, then build as many homes as could be squeezed onto the space. Whole neighbourhoods would go, one by one unique houses built from brick that was always laid in anything other than stretcher bond, would disappear to be replaced by square blocks of flats (Apartments) with square, flat roofs. People who had slogged their guts out their whole lives so they could live in a nice house in a nice area found themselves living next to multiple families on benefits which would make everyone else sell up. It can only take one bad family to ruin a street but once the decline starts and the area gets known, only the worst will want to move there. So in just 30 years beautiful, unique and very well built houses with hard working and honest owners have gone to be replaced by some who are just unfortunate, but mostly lay abouts, addicts and dealers, living in tiny homes that have no soul and no character. The worst thing is in the last few years I have come to realise that this was all probably by design. For one of the most desirable places to live in the entire world, with decent and respectful neighbours and virtually no crime to crime ridden, filthy and overpopulated by the dregs of society in less than 3 decades. Quite an achievement

Time stamp 14:00 seems to address that doors and staircase steps would accommondate a eight foot person with top hat and a shoe size around 16 .

I was born and raised in Pocatello Idaho. Pocatello high school is an amazing building “built in 1892”. A fire burnt it to the ground in the 1914 and rebuilt in the same footprint. A beautiful castle like building with a green glass dome at the center, where the library is. It also has a huge auditorium with balcony seating. It is a building well worth looking into