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re: Kenner is the best LA city to live in
Posted on 10/1/14 at 10:28 pm to inthemorning
Posted on 10/1/14 at 10:28 pm to inthemorning
Love the old haunted house that used to have at the Poncha train center, and all the baseball card shows at the Poncha train center and at the airport Holiday Inn.
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Posted on 10/1/14 at 10:30 pm to runningTiger
The Holidome
Posted on 10/1/14 at 10:32 pm to TigerWise
That spaceship looking house just north of the interstate the kind a looks like a golf ball
Posted on 10/1/14 at 10:32 pm to runningTiger
By the Projects ?
Posted on 10/1/14 at 11:53 pm to Thib-a-doe Tiger
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You know lots of airports are built in shitty areas where nobody wants to build anything else right?
the Airport was built back when Airports were cool and classy and Kenner was farmland.
The Moisant Stock Yards became the airport.
Posted on 10/1/14 at 11:54 pm to lsugolf1105
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Sunbasket
Closed in 1988 so that's a throwback for sure.
Posted on 10/1/14 at 11:55 pm to runningTiger
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Great American cookie Company up and down stairs
that hasn't changed..
Posted on 10/1/14 at 11:59 pm to runningTiger
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What about that teeny fake jewelry store right next to the food court? I remember when that food court was Poppin.
Mr. Goldman?
I hated Mervyn's too, as a kid the clothes you got made fun of for wearing came from there. You needed to go to Dillard's or Macy's for Girbaud and Polo.
I think Gadzooks was cool, but then switched to just clothing(If I'm thinking of the right place, It was more like Spencer's at first)
I used to ride my bike to the mall all the time and spend my allowance at Challenges.
Posted on 10/2/14 at 12:01 am to runningTiger
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That spaceship looking house just north of the interstate the kind a looks like a golf ball
The Holidome was the Crowne Plaza hotel. Now they turned the pool area into Conference rooms, but in the 80's and early 90s they had a pool and an arcade, and my friend's dad was a detail cop there, so we always went swimming.
The spaceship house in Lincoln Manor is owned by a well off family who moved away long ago. They had a story about it in the paper or online a few months back.
Posted on 10/2/14 at 2:00 am to Napoleon
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napoleon
Was waiting for you to get up in here. The day taco bell pulled out of esplanade is the day things went down hill.
Posted on 10/2/14 at 6:14 am to tigersownall
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When vintage didn't go through
This had a huge impact on me. I haven't check since before the storm but I bet my name is still written in the concrete over there.
Posted on 10/2/14 at 9:30 am to tigersownall
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The day taco bell pulled out of esplanade is the day things went down hill.
lol, I haven't been to the food court in ages. I usually come in from the entrance near foot action. I hit up Macy's and Foot Action then Foot Locker, then am back out.
Went to Spencer's last week, it's still there and had some cool stuff.
Have no idea what is on the food court.
Posted on 10/2/14 at 9:37 am to Napoleon
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Have no idea what is on the food court.
all i know is there is Chick-fil-a i frequent often
This post was edited on 10/2/14 at 9:38 am
Posted on 10/2/14 at 10:38 am to inthemorning
If this thread was written in say 1989, I would tend to agree. Kenner in the late 80s/early 90, especially North Kenner, was a pretty nice place to live. The Esplanade might have been the best mall in the state. Good mix of local and national restaurants. Great recreation opportunities. Chateau Estates was pretty high cotton. Nice movie theater. Commute into the city wasn't too bad.
What happened? Police dept went way south. Lakeside improved, taking away from Esplanade. 10-15 years of I-10 construction made commuting absolutely miserable - especially the commute from downtown back to NOLA. The adults that built and bought houses there in the 80s never left - but their kids did.
It's a pretty typical white flight story. As a suburb fills, the younger generation still wants new, so they move further out when it comes time for them to form households. As the older generations die off, they are replaced by poorer people, and over time, the entire place goes down.
What happened? Police dept went way south. Lakeside improved, taking away from Esplanade. 10-15 years of I-10 construction made commuting absolutely miserable - especially the commute from downtown back to NOLA. The adults that built and bought houses there in the 80s never left - but their kids did.
It's a pretty typical white flight story. As a suburb fills, the younger generation still wants new, so they move further out when it comes time for them to form households. As the older generations die off, they are replaced by poorer people, and over time, the entire place goes down.
Posted on 10/2/14 at 10:42 am to LSUFanHouston
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adults that built and bought houses there in the 80s never left - but their kids did.
For the most part but I know a lot peeps that ain't left the hood.
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s a pretty typical white flight story.
Reverse white flight brah. People like me wan to live in the city. Kennerbrah offers nothing to us these days.
They should have never changed the color of the police cars from green and white to black and white
Posted on 10/2/14 at 10:44 am to 4LSU2
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Mandeville and it is not a close debate in any form or fashion.
Snobs and traffic jams....no thanks.
Posted on 10/2/14 at 10:59 am to Napoleon
It's been years since I walked in there. I imagine they still have sbarro, subway and that shitty Chinese food. Wendy's moved out awhile ago. One thing about that mall that always stuck out to me as a kid was all the fountains. I don't know why they took those out.
Posted on 10/2/14 at 11:03 am to tigersownall
I haven't walked through the Esplande since before the storm. I hear they have a coffin store there now.
Posted on 10/2/14 at 11:11 am to inthemorning
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Have you ever wanted to be close to New Orleans and marginally closer to Baton Rouge?
No.
Posted on 10/2/14 at 11:15 am to TigerWise
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Reverse white flight brah. People like me wan to live in the city
People either want to live in the city, if they can afford it, or they want shiny and new on the northshore.
Kenna doesn't really appeal at all.
It's not just here. For anyone that is familar with Houston, people tell me back in the 80s and early 90s Alief was one of the best places in the country. But it got stale, and people wanted to live either in the loop or further out in Katy or the Woodlands or going down 45 south. Alief is hood now.
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