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!

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...

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

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

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!!!!!

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...

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

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.

There is nothing more beautiful, unique, and HAUNTING than New Orleans.. 😎 Fun Fact: Everyone thinks the first Italians/Sicilians went to New York (Ellis Island) but the truth is they went to New Orleans (Louisiana)! ...it was cheap, full of work, and all of the land itself reminded the (mainly) Southern Italians of back home...

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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. 💯

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

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

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 .

It's always fires.

the thing i found funny there is the people even considered fellow Americans as foreigners

The various forts around the city were built after the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. Designed by the Engineers of the US Army (West Point was primarily an engineering school), getting the logistics to build these was quite simple. The position of the city allowed easy supply by water, from either the Mississippi River or by ship from Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. Water transport is still the cheapest means of transporting bulk materials, so even if the bricks couldn't have been made locally (they were) getting them there was child's play as opposed to travel by wagon or early railroad. In fact, it was this position near the mouth of the Mississippi that made New Orleans so wealthy (and able to afford all that beautiful architecture). Shipping goods started with the beaver pelt trade and was the reason the French founded the city where they did. If you note, much of the Louisiana Purchase is land drained by rivers that lead to the Mississippi - the primary trade route through middle North America. This holds true today, New Orleans is the largest agricultural port in the US, where barges of grain head down the river and are transshipped onto ocean going ships.

Halifax nova Scotia also has a very similar complex of star forts, one in the city and satellites on the outskirts, smaller and all on the coast, or on islands in the harbor.

That Cotton expo building...Frigging wow! To explain its big really doesn't do it justice, so I compared its 33acre size, it could fit 18.7 professional soccer fields inside. Each field being 345' x 222'. New Orleans historical has great photos of this building for future reference, which makes Versailles palace look meh😊

I'm from Galvez, just south of Baton Rouge. I spend a lot of time in New Orleans. Beautiful city. Galves itself has hundreds of years of history. But nothing like Nola.

If you notice the first picture of New Orleans looks like a drawing. Who was the artist that drew painstaking details like that? amazing!

You should check out Charity hospital in New Orleans. Nu Awlins

The Nautical Star on the floor of the airport is not symmetrically oriented to the building.

Thanks

12:27 ... My husband says that according to the flags displayed, having no fringes, means they represent the republic. Since the current government no longer operates as a republic, they may not be allowed to use the old world buildings according to the building's Trust Documents. Also, notice all the new buildings are represented with fringed flags. We just found your page. So much info to take in. Thanks for your works. 💯🏆🏹🎯

NOLA is the old world city that i have spent the most time. I fell in love with the place during my first visit. People told me it was a stinky dirty place and i always said only if you are staring at the gutters and smelling the dumpsters. The infrastructure from Canal Street to Jackson Square, the first thing that i saw was the massive size and epic amount of details that was put into these buildings (and this was long before i see things the way i see them now). Back before Katrina it was a great party destination. The vibration of New Orleans isnt like anything i have experienced. I suppose San Francisco and LA are the two other old world cities i have frequented (pre-2020) that have similar but very different vibrations to NOLA. Much of the inherited infrastructure was spared in this city only because its one of the supposed oldest "found"ed cities in America. Im sure it has allot to do with the port at the mouth of the Mississippi which made it much harder to cover up any intentional destruction of these buildings. The trolley system is still fully operational and the cars are suprisingly huge. (off topic) i have seen 3 recent videos of antique-tech around the world (recently) firing off. One of the videos shows the way the spinning of silver mercury in a spere actually creates an electrical charge. So if these globes at the top of the antique-tech contained mercury, im pretty sure if the can produce a charge, they could also broadcast a charge as well. Another thing i found was the cymatics of these giant stained glass windows in these "cathedrals" are what we think they are, basically a cymatic signiature of the BELLS that were installed the bell towers, the demonstration of the cymatics compared to the design of the windows was so perfectly identical it left zero doubt in my mind . Its starting to all fall in line the more that i see. I'll post the links when i go back and find these clips. Thank you for your continued hard work in this community my brother from another mother. 💌✌🙏💣💥

Its really cool how you articulated about education and the role of the building to inspire those within it. Also deeply notable how being educated was about forming your own thoughts and not instead being taught what to think. That aside the colors they chose missed an opportunity to recapture the charm and character of the original building and architectural style. @15:00

I live in new orleans and this is one of the best videos ever, really enjoy your work...my cousin and I have done alot of research as well...I truly believe the st Louis cathedral is approximately 1k years old. And some of the buildings that were shown in your videos that don't exist anymore were pribly around the same time period...these old world buildings were there hundreds of years before photos, drawings, records etc...there are a few cool buildings still in the city that were not on video as well that deserve some recognition...this was really awesome...we have been to the star forts as well...they are very old probly at least 1k years old as well

Nothing gold can stay.

It should be noted that the 1890 census is, for the most part, missing. They say it was destroyed by flood or fire. I don't remember. Something happened to prevent the taking of the census would be more believable. I've seen 1885 state census info and then 1900, but 1890 is missing both state and federally.

Another great vid

im from nola glad to see this.been waiting for someone to cover it

I LOVE the nod to The Buccaneer...one of my favorite movies. Nice commentary.

Most of those buildings you showed with the towers were power plants. The columns had iron bars in them to conduct electricity from the magnets. They were some kind of great reset. I am not sure what happened, but all of a sudden, the people who built those buildings just disappeared. I was looking at the Custom House on Canal Street .How could they have built that in the 1800s with no machines, only horse and buggies, hammers, and chisels?

If that city hall had a dome it would look just like the pantheon. One similar still stands in downtown Mobile. I think it's part of the museum now. It was the city jail when i was young. Amazing building, so I looked it up and it had very unusual statuary all over the top originally. Supposedly all lost to hurricanes. Female status, all manor of craziness. Well worth a look

There is an abandoned “highway” tunnel under Harrahs Casino. Might be star fort remnant, similar to the I-10 tunnel in Mobile where the entrance goes through a star fort. Many other tunnel/fort connections. Great video thanks!

Don't get me wrong , I luv my roots but after leaving New Orleans in 1978, I have no regrets leaving it behind .

Much Love from Franconia. :)

new orleasn was the greatest city in america in the 1800s. more itialian and irish went through nola than nyc. hence the irish channel. st charles ave. has the largest homes ive ever seen. bigger than anywhere.

Just the fact that there are so many old Oak Trees that are arranged in rows along infrastructure says the city is way older than just a few hundred years. There are Oak Trees that are said to be over 900 years old, although a bigger majority of them are around 6 to 700 years old.

Dude have you ever ever worked in construction? You would understand how easy these things are to build with experience and sweat I live here and there's nothing unusual about the architecture you give a group of experienced workers a few yrs to build something you understand how gd highly skilled workers are and how easy it is to do go outside and start building something every day and in 5yrs you'll change your mind you'll learn how to use chain falls and pullies the 1st time you pick up 2500-3000 lbs by yourself with just a chain fall the light will go off in your head. Get outside and get your hands dirty

You might look at the hotel La Pavillion in the business district. Absolutely amazing 🤩

Came to New Orleans in '79 and am still here in '23. This was a fantastic video. Glad I watched it. In fact I plan on watching this again later in the week with my parents to get their thoughts. Thanks for the entertainment, make a great day.

Great builds I can get you in the building on Saturdays and Sundays

this is incredible

Thank you again for the great documentary.

Great video! I will definitely share this with my friend from New Orleans! You mentioned Huey Long in the video and I was wondering if you could cover "Jefferson Franklin Long" in Georgia Congress 1860s through 1870s!

Ahhhh I’ve been there during the 1890s as a character named Arthur Morgan … very beautiful city

Great work! I am from Louisiana lived in NO for years & I had no clue about most of this! Excellent research! Well done ❤

One of the most wild and untamed cities in the US. Gators in the canals, coyotes running around cemeteries, wild boar in City Park. Excellent city to be homeless in if you're good at fishing and identifying fruits and fungus.

Finally I found this video and watched it. Been stretching myself too thin on RU-vid lately. Apart from your videos, mostly watch health videos, I have some chronic health issues. But seriously, this video does not disappoint at all, with all those gorgeous buildings. I'm starting to become more aware how many have been torn down and out of those still standing, how hard it is to enter most of them and get nice pictures of the interior. So once again, thank you for your hard work.

1000 Years has been added to Our History. youtube research suggest this may hold true.. Great Video!

Love the sarcasm!! And indeed, would love to stay at that hotel, Why isn't there a pool? Anyway, there was a fire 🙂 Great content !!

What an excellent video! 👏👏💯 I live 3 hrs away from N.O. Need to check it out sometime. The old cemeteries have always fascinated me, since reading Anne Rice novels in Middle School. If you follow the Gulf down the coast you'll find several scatterings of GPFS's ... including Fort Pickens, which is right down the road from where I live and work. There's definitely a distinct feeling when exploring inside these structures. What was really going on along the Gulf of Mexico so long ago?

They are absolutely 100% positively without a doubt not trolleys they are Street Cars

Can you do Mephis Tennessee next , or Chicago or even at. Louis. Their is definitely a connection between popular “black” towns or cities, and the unknown history of certain places, like many towns in Georgia

What you are implying is, frankly, nonsense. It was indeed literally a swamp before the French and Spanish created its beautiful colonial buildings. The star-shaped fort around it was made of wood, which is why there are no traces of it now. And yes, the artists' renderings are often not accurate. New Orleans was once the richest city in the U.S. due to cotton, sugar, and steamships, so why is it hard to imagine that so many beautiful, old-world or European-style buildings were constructed, especially since there were so many Europeans still there? There are many historical records that prove all this, such as newspapers, public records, and diaries of all this construction, so it's hilarious to think otherwise.

Very nice👍🏼millions of bricks…millions

Haha that airport! Perfect place to exchange vows over the sounds of jet engines. The old airships were quiet.

Just looking at the drawings details it's pretty mind blowing

Last stronghold of the Moors. The last battles of the crusades were fought in Louisiana

That's a Major Metropolitan City

Really fun video. I'm new to your channel, and have only seen a couple videos. I enjoy your thorough dives into the subject matter. Your delivery, insights and sense of humor make it all that much better. Do you work from a prewritten text, or is this all just off the cuff using the photos to guide you?

I really enjoy ur presentation style und comments is just so true lol thanks :)

The Moresque Building looks like the bottom of the Twin Towers!

I love Lakefront Airport. It has a good restaurant and I enjoy having lunch there with friends now and then. As for its stunning appearance, remember that when it was built mass transportation was by rail. That’s how ordinary people traveled, then and for many years to come. Only rich people flew commercial, as it was an expensive luxury. Rich people like rich surroundings, and when they designed the airport they knew that, and gave the patrons what they wanted.

Napoleon was a bit distracted with events in Europe at the time, and the French treasury needed the funds.

good video

You know, in all of these giant beautiful cities, laid out in all of their perfection, I would bet you dimes to doughnuts that just about every square inch that was not bricked and or concrete for getting around, it would have been a great and beautiful garden. And yet, it looks like every blade of grass has been destroyed, completely. Did the " all powerful Mudd Flood " wipe these places clean ? You'd think that the big old growth trees would have survived. And yet it looks stripped, devoid of anything green. Some of the birds eye view pictures seem to show plenty of greenery. Just seems weird.

Concerning the Gazebo you pointed out as part of the world fair - they had very similar structures built here in Australia for the World Fairs that took place here in the same time period - I can only imagine how much technology and produce a less than 100 year old colony would have to display, a definite necessity 😂 The official narrative states they were displays built to represent/revere the local biscuit making companies... Makes tonnes of sense.

@7:39, yet more trees with no leaves. Almost looks like moss or very short grass on the ground, or that recycled tire stuff you sometimes see in playgrounds(?). I assume they painted the trees to see them easier at night. Trees are probably 80 years old at this point. Electricity everywhere--not sure what year this is. Tracks but I don't look like they are electrical-trolly, as those usually have a 3rd rail up top. @ --8:12-- not any kind of grass I'm familiar with. Looks a bit like moss or chewed up dirt. Not bladed grass that was cut. --8:32-- "Anaheim?" "Ahhnaio" on each side of the sign? @ --10:00-- looks like turntables (curved concrete in floor) in the fort. @ --22:25-- I would love to ask a gal to dance in a swanky place like this. @ --27:06-- world's fair has the look of something where people needed to be introduced to what was around in the newly acquired/discovered lands. Gazibo thing -- energy generator??? @33:00 - Mosque turned general store. @ 34:57 One living tree, rest appears dead.

How'd they even do those pictures of New Orleans from above? I assume there's not some MASSIVE mountain there an artist with AMAZING eyesight was sitting on?

In the 1851 view, it looks already fully constructed and built..how is that possible? In how long did it happen!

Love the video Love everything about nola but the narration is baffling and bewildering 😂

Can you do a video on Nachitoches, Louisiana? Nachitoches is the older French town of Louisiana. Love your videos 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🏆🏆🏆

Had to be at least 200,0000 people living in the Preamerika considering every city , state , and no name little city moreover , that all building structures have the same super architecture and newly placed people have no clue or expertise or mfg. resources except possibility the clothing , hats and shoes they found or inherited ?

The algorithm brought me to you. So glad. This is an excellent channel and great research. Tartaria was real! I believe the civil war was a successful insurrection against Tartaria. Not about slavery as we are taught.

You should check out the new Russian military cathedral recently built outside Moscow. It shows that people can still build massive and epic structures if there is a desire to do so.

The star fort would be under water.

i grew up in awe of all the school buildings. i had friends that went to McMain. it always amazed me how they NEVER ONCE washed that building. it seemed intentional as if everthing was clean but mcmain. shame.

When’s every Saturday in airport from New Orleans?

The domes are Moorish architecture and definitely are from the old world and older civilizations....I have been studying the old world Tartarians and they say that they are the one's that built these buildings way before European colonization

I’m going this weekend to New Orleans if u want me to check any places out in lmk…

32: 30 the building can be used for the airships docking station garage??!!!

Im from New Orleans, several generations back...Im a Corp Flight Attendant and that Airport--Lakefront is an FBO actually, and only for private/corporate jets. So, Ive worked out of it (flew) out of there many times.....They renovated it after Katrina and it was totally modernized and altered and for awhile there were trailers everywhere. I havent been there in about 5 years but, it was really only for Corporate jets and not super busy, so I think thats why it was also rented out.

The two hemi circular star forts that abut Lake Pontchartrain would have been outfitted with cannons to attack ships that were attempting to enter port during a siege. But of course their locations are not dissimilar to lighthouses or towers that would have abut similar port styling in older civilizations. Basically if you have a city that is on a lake or port or near a river that can be defended with a "gate" or defenses then it probably should be.

Orleans is pronounced ORLEENZ when used alone - as in ORLEENZ Parish or ORLEENZ Public Library. You will still hear plenty of multi-genrational locals call New Orleans - New Or - Lee - Uns. You will almost never hear anyone locally say New Or - Leens when referring to the city.

I looked up the info on the gazebo structure you showed inside the expo building. It was the J & P Coats' Exhibit. J & P Coats' made spools of thread. The giant structure was fashioned with 80,264 spools of thread. I really enjoyed you video. I have lived in the New Orleans area my whole life and haven't had the pleasure of being inside many of the beautiful buildings. I appreciate the hard work you put into finding these photos and telling of the history of the buildings and the city. Thank you

Hackney Library in Muskegon MICHIGAN. And what used to be Patlind Hotel in Grand Rapids.

Check out Fort St. Phillip further toward the coast, super interesting history

hello again another fantastic video thanks! my thoughts about the pediments on some buildings are just blank....I think the blank ones have had their sculptures removed possibly due to unexplainable content.....most pediments are filled with a bunch of sculpture and some totally blank....hmmm

Probably why it was flooded awhile back, to get rid of the old buildings. IMHO the fact that there are angels on some of the old buildings and the Star of Bethlehem was over Christ, the star forts mean something good. Hint, hint. Millennial Reign of Christ. His King-dome. 😊

all n all nice show of how orleans used to look 100 or so years ago but some of the commentary was a bit biased. I will say the creator still has an eye for art and detail