Baton Rouge Photo of the Day

[cajun]

I wanted to put a picture of a house in a historic neighborhood or historic neighborhood sign on Wikipedia.

Tons of them in Zee-Zee Gardens and some in the Garden district that would look great.

Zeeland Street Market would look neat.

[richyb83]

Iberville Bldg; LaSalle Bldg.(background)

[richyb83]

View from just south of Government Street of the cranes....

(left)new Courthouse behind the RiverCenter parking garage;

(center, right) II City Plaza working on 10th floor, barely visible from this angle behind City Plaza and in front of State Capitol

It sure would be nice if the city could bury those power-lines

Edited April 16, 2008 by richyb83

[corey2250]

Nice picture Richy, you are right it would be nice if the city could bury those power lines. But being realistic, that will most likely never happen because of the HUGE cost. I know this because I am an engineer for AT&T and I do utility relocations for roadmoves...etc. One project we are currently designing is the relocation of our facilities at Essen and I-10 for widening the interstate. You'll probably see me more on this site since I am out of work for a while due to surgery I recently had, I'm just glad to be out of the hospital.

Corey

[twstdndmntd]

God how I wish we had all underground utilities. I find those power lines, phone lines, etc.. so ugly. Would be so much "cleaner" if we didn't see them. LOL

[richyb83]

Thanks Corey2250. Hope you have a speedy recovery from surgery

Looking up Fourth Street

II City Plaza going up to the right; Wonder how many feet per floor it is??

Hope they aren't following the nation-wide trend of decreasing floor heights to save $money$??

Some more mid-rises or high-rises sure would look nice on some of those surface parking lots to the left between there and One American Place.

[byrde]

[richyb83]

WOW!!! Look at how high the river is!! Bryde, was that shot taken from the pier?? Interesting variety in architecture in that pic.

[byrde]

WOW!!! Look at how high the river is!! Bryde, was that shot taken from the pier?? Interesting variety in architecture in that pic.

Yes I was on the pier.

[cajun]

Air Force One Lands in Baton Rouge

The Boeing 747- 800 JumboJet took most of the longest runway at Ryan Field. It's....uh.....slightly larger than most of the other planes. This particular plane has been in service since 1996 (Imagine all the places it has been!), and carries with it the presidential limo and up to 3 armored Suburbans as well as being a complete office on wings.

George Bush and some cabinet members were in town for a fundraiser in south Baton Rouge as well as a trade summit in New Orleans.

He was met at the Baton Rouge airport by Gov. Bobby Jindal and at the NO airport by Ray Nagin (not sure if Mayor Holden was there).

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7...-iqBA&hl=en

Does anyone have pictures of the motorcade?

Edited April 24, 2008 by cajun

[hagetaka]

old but still BR

[southeastBR]

Central CBD

[richyb83]

Great sunset photo LT, thanks for posting! Wonder what the Advocate site might look like if they had combined the 6-story adminstration bldg.(right) and Siegen's 70' foot tall building w/ printing press?? Could have been a nice complex along the riverfront if they had stayed downtown.

Speaking of riverfront....WOW southeast BR!!! Awesome shot! Sweet angle! Great clarity! Looks really 3-D layered with the USS KIDD; Planetarium, Shaw Center, new state bldgs. Black & white color contrast with the Hilton and One American Place is cool. Man is the river swollen or what?? Wonder what floor II City Plaza is now on??

Edited May 2, 2008 by richyb83

[cajun]

Southeast, you have plenty of wikipedia worthy pics. I think that one should go up in the culture section b/c of the shaw center and Pennington center being there.

That looks great because of the spring colors on the trees, and the fact that the USS kid isn't sitting in a mud hole like it does in the winter. If I knew how, I'd add this to the BR page and the USS Kidd page.

Edited May 2, 2008 by cajun

[dan326]

I love this picture. It makes downtown look so alive! But I don't think it would be a good picture to add to Wikipedia. I say this because as much as I want to show off B.R.,I don't want to saturate the page with downtown pics, but have a variety of picctures from diffrerent areas. I say this because there are few city pages with nothing but skyline and downtown pictures and it gets old fast.

Edited May 2, 2008 by dan326

[BRPJ]

wow thats a great shot of dwtn, looks unreal.. the colors are popping out, did u edit that?

[byrde]

Art Car Parade

Click Here for all the pics from the parade

[richyb83]

Here you go Southdowns

One American Place; BR's 2nd Tallest at 310'ft. BR needs a new 2nd Tallest

[hagetaka]

[richyb83]

That's a very nice sketch/drawing LT

[hagetaka]

That's a very nice sketch/drawing LT

I used a program to create that, my drawing skills are terrible

[twstdndmntd]

Yes LT that is a very nice sketch.

[buckett5425]

Incase you missed it, this picture was on the Advocate website. This is some scarey stuff..

[byrde]

Man that is an amazing picture.

[richyb83]

Thanks for posting that buckett; I just posted that same pic in the La. Weather Forum Awesome pic, scary looking too; no tornadoes reported, but that pic sure shows what looks like something that could become one at any moment!

With yesterday storms + this mornings I got 6" inches of rain on the gauge in the backyard.