Days Inn Slidell (Slidell, Louisiana)

I had to resort to using a (cropped) picture from the hotel's official website. It looked like this in 2024 and still does currently.
One of my original intentions of Numbered Exits was to catalog stuff I'd seen on my 2024 road trip to Tennessee, and the last "true" item of that respect, as of this writing, was Piccadilly back in May 2025. One of the things I wanted to cover from the same trip was the Days Inn I stayed at in Slidell.

My stay in Slidell wasn't great as this is where a piece of metal punctured my tire and the hotel wasn't so great either (the door couldn't close all the way and the AC wasn't working correctly as it had to also fight the humidity). From the sky it looks like one large building, it's really two separated by a covered walkway.

Because I don't have many resources afforded to me when it comes to Slidell, the only thing I do know is that this didn't start out as a Days Inn. The 2002 Days Inn hotel directory I have puts Days Inn's Slidell location as it existed circa 2001 was at 1645 Gause, which has since been demolished (around 2006-2007); meanwhile the motel here has been around in the late 1980s and became Days Inn in 2011 (previously "America's Best Inn & Suites), which also came with a minor variation (altering the facade). Beyond that, however, I know nothing about it. It has 57 rooms according to multiple online sources, and here's the current website. A large part of this is the fact that my subscription to Newspapers.com doesn't cover the New Orleans paper (or the Baton Rouge paper, for that matter) so I'm in the dark unless you want to help reach out and solve the mystery...