re: Small pieces of your community that go away without much fanfare

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This might have been 15 years ago, but there was a grocery store in town that had been open for a long time.. Maybe since the 50s or early 60s and everyone knew the owner, he was a parish councilman... Half the town worked there at some point in their life.

People who shopped there on a regular basis, when they would become old enough where it was not as easy for them to get out and grocery shop, they would just call them, tell the person the list of items they need and they would deliver it to them.

It was just a corner grocery store. Other than the bag boys and a few people in the back, who were always younger guys (high school or college kids) everyone else had worked that forever. Everyone pretty much had a certain time they would shop. My mom would do grocery shopping every Thursday morning at 8:30AM. So pretty much everyone shopping at that time were people who shopped at that time every week, so everyone knew everyone.. If you wanted to know what was going on, you would go there or the barber shop, but when it closed.. as big of a part of the community as it was, when it closed... people went on as if it never existed. It was interesting because all of a sudden everyone just started shopping at one of the two other grocery stores in the area..

But its one of those places that when you pass by, its like "damn, I remember...."

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Great addition to the thread.

I miss all the people and places in my hometown especially from back in the '70s/'80s that I regularly would see and visit:

-A family-owned general store (to clarify, not my family)
-Western Auto
-T-Boy's grocery

My grandfather owned a restaurant called the Wheel Burger that was on Hwy 190 in Port Barre back in the '70s. Used to go to the jukebox and play Wasted Days and Wasted Nights.

Our old post office had those boxes for your mail where there was a little glass window where you could see if you had mail or not. Plus a combination with small a knob on the door to open your box. Like this:




ETA: Forgotten a few other things:

Beside T-Boy's, which was eventually Artigue's and then Burghdoff's, there was Robin's. They were located next to the bridge on Bayou Courtableau next to the boat landing. They built what is now Bourque's. Bourque's added on to it when they bought it. Bourque's had a small building across the bridge behind Robin's then they were located in the larger building across from the fire department as long as I can remember.

The fire department used to sound the fire horn at noon everyday but can't recall if they did on Sunday's.

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briarwood golf course is my answer.

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My uncle was a member there for decades. He and I played many a round there.

And age 80+, just had his first hole-in-one last year...At Santa Maria.

That's awesome-and I'm still 0-golf for Aces......

Jimbeaux, I used to go to Raimer's at least once or twice a week on my motorcycle and get a bbq beef poboy and a Barq's root beer. I'd drive to JT park and have lunch. Those were some damned good poboys.
This was back in the late 70's. There were always a bunch of friends from the neighborhood around back then. Hell, I even knew a guy named Jim that lived up the street from the park.

HIHO 2

K&B

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Its gone? I opened my first business there when I was 19.

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Yeah, around 07-08 I believe. Virtually an 80s nostalgia museum just ripped down for one of those bullshite open-air malls. Only Dillard's, Sears and maybe Rite-Aid are still standing from the original from what I can tell.

Huge blog post and comments on it

What business was it?

I grew up in New Orleans East. It all went away!

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George's Grill

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What?! When did George's close?

George's closed A few weeks ago. Everyone on Facebook was crying about it but the only people I ever saw in there were 80+ years old. I only went there once and I lived 5 minutes away since 2004.