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re: Which historic NOLA housing projects featured the worst living conditions?
Posted on 6/22/21 at 3:12 pm to Hangover Haven
Posted on 6/22/21 at 3:12 pm to Hangover Haven
He's referring to Franklin in Gretna, which is adjacent to where Fischer was in Orleans.
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Posted on 6/22/21 at 3:17 pm to TimeAndTide
The crime section on that wiki sounds like it was written by a high schooler
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There were plenty of murders and robberies that took place in the forgotten wasteland and innocent people lost their lives to gangsters and drug dealers.
This post was edited on 6/22/21 at 3:18 pm
Posted on 6/22/21 at 3:17 pm to goofball
I’d say it was between Desire and Fischer. Fischer looked noticeably worse than the others if that’s possible. Desire was in the least desirable and least convenient part of the city.
I had to pick up a theft recovered car from the NOPD substation in Desire. That was enough experience.
I heard that families would cut holes in the walls to create multigenerational family compounds.
I had to pick up a theft recovered car from the NOPD substation in Desire. That was enough experience.
I heard that families would cut holes in the walls to create multigenerational family compounds.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 3:20 pm to pjab
I heard that families would cut holes in the walls to create multigenerational family compounds.
Yep, lol.
Had a few friends in the late 80s, early 90s that lived in the Lafitte, magnolia, and the desire. Being a dumb arse, I visited a few times.
Yep, lol.
Had a few friends in the late 80s, early 90s that lived in the Lafitte, magnolia, and the desire. Being a dumb arse, I visited a few times.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 3:21 pm to goofball
Looks like the Big Easy version of a WWII concentration camp minus the bob-wire, guard towers, and crematoriums
Posted on 6/22/21 at 3:21 pm to pjab
Back in the early 90's between the St Thomas and Magnolia projects, at Touro, we use to get a GSW a night...
Posted on 6/22/21 at 3:25 pm to WPBTiger
Fischer was bad but it was the newest of them. Desire was the worst for a long long time.
Almost all were terrible for crime and pretty much all at one time had an organized crime outfit running it. Not OC as in the mafia but OC as in local gangs that were truely organized.
Almost all were terrible for crime and pretty much all at one time had an organized crime outfit running it. Not OC as in the mafia but OC as in local gangs that were truely organized.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 3:33 pm to TimeAndTide
I witnessed when the Fischer high rise was imploded. People did not realize how much debris and dust comes from that type of demolition. We were on our bikes and were able to get out of there very quickly while everyone else was stuck in the dust.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 3:51 pm to goofball
Posted on 6/22/21 at 4:01 pm to MorbidTheClown
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Desire.. that shite hole was famous back in the day
It was massive. Had to have been one of the largest communist housing developments in the country.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 4:01 pm to danilo
The Fischer High Rise looks like an even shittier version of Kirby Smith.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 4:02 pm to goofball
I'd say Desire and Fischer were the worst.
At least most of the other projects produced some rappers.
At least most of the other projects produced some rappers.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 4:05 pm to LSUFanHouston
Desire produced Marshall Faulk and Perry McDonald.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 4:35 pm to glassman
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Desire produced Marshall Faulk and Perry McDonald.
But also Mark Essex.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 4:53 pm to goofball
30+ years ago i was working on poydras and lived in the westbank....took the bus home everyday.... well ..... was daydreaming and the bus pulled up...i got on...we are headed over the bridge and i look around...hmmm this is a different crowd than usual and i do not fit in...
in those days we were required to wear suits to work... the bus switches to far right lane...
i go yikes....i know where we are headed!!!!
i ring the bell...the driver looks up...shrugs...stops at the base of the bridge and lets me off on the side of the road...lucky i decided to park at the mall that day and not get the bus back at lapalco... i started walking fast and had to pass through an empty apartment complex lot to the mall... i was expecting a mike douglas moment....
was more careful from then on about which bus i got on...
in those days we were required to wear suits to work... the bus switches to far right lane...
i go yikes....i know where we are headed!!!!
i ring the bell...the driver looks up...shrugs...stops at the base of the bridge and lets me off on the side of the road...lucky i decided to park at the mall that day and not get the bus back at lapalco... i started walking fast and had to pass through an empty apartment complex lot to the mall... i was expecting a mike douglas moment....
was more careful from then on about which bus i got on...
Posted on 6/22/21 at 4:53 pm to member12
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But also Mark Essex.
Nope.
Mark Essex was from Emporia, Kansas. Grew up there, even went to college there for awhile, then joined the Navy.
He might have lived in Desire in the early 1970s; I'm not sure, but it sure as heck didn't "produce" him...
Posted on 6/22/21 at 4:56 pm to BRich
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Nope.
Mark Essex was from Emporia, Kansas. Grew up there, even went to college there for awhile, then joined the Navy.
He might have lived in Desire in the early 1970s; I'm not sure, but it sure as heck didn't "produce" him...
He never lived there. But supposedly he wanted to kill random white people because of something NOPD did at Desire.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 4:57 pm to goofball
Desire, Magnolia and Fischer have to be top 3.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 5:03 pm to TigerintheNO
Missing the Fischer, the Florida, and the Melpomene
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