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re: NOLANOLA's Memory Lane... Weekend plans in NOLA 1988 Edition
Posted on 1/12/23 at 1:16 pm to LSUtoBOOT
Posted on 1/12/23 at 1:16 pm to LSUtoBOOT
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swamp burgers here in the eighties, and played pool into the wee hours of the morning. The first Pizza Inn in the greater Nola area was just across Vets, but it ain’t Dere No More.
Tulano's was right near the original Swamp Room, too. They had a spicy pizza sauce that was killer.
1983 commercial:
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Posted on 1/12/23 at 1:22 pm to MMauler
What a shame that beautiful building was demolished for the eyesore there now.
Posted on 1/12/23 at 1:53 pm to cdaniel76
For you and Y.A. Tittle, If you ate at the Hummingbird, I know why you remembered it.
It was like 3 eggs, bacon, sausage, grits, toast, and milk for < $3.00.
It was like 3 eggs, bacon, sausage, grits, toast, and milk for < $3.00.
Posted on 1/12/23 at 2:00 pm to nolanola
LSUTulane alter?
Posted on 1/12/23 at 2:23 pm to GeauxTigerTM
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Secondly, my pediatrician, Dr. Johnson, had offices in that lot...so maybe it was him that owned those. Literally the first I've ever heard that. ?
I lived across Belmont Pl from Dr Johnson until I was about 4-1/2 or 5. I went to him for everything until I was a freshman in college. His wife was one of my younger sister's godmother. I got stitches at his or our house more than once.
My mom's mother lived with us until she died. She was having some type of vague, but seemingly urgent, medical problem one evening, so my mom called Dr Johnson. (Dr Johnson went to Yale med school, so I assume he was at least above average intelligence.) My grandmother wanted a "real doctor", presumably because he was a pediatrician. Dr Johnson assured my grandmother that he WAS a real doctor and he could prove it. Not by his Yale degree, but by the Cadillac in his driveway.
Dr Johnson was a piece of work!
Posted on 1/12/23 at 2:36 pm to Geauxld Finger
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LSUTulane alter?
I will take that as a complement. I'm a big TulaneLSU fan. In fact when researching this post on Google a TulaneLSU post came up regarding the Putt-Putt course. Posted on 1/12/23 at 3:16 pm to White Roach
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Dr Johnson was a piece of work!
Yes, he was .
Add me to the list of posters in this thread who had Doc Johnson as my pediatrician .. Ive heard stories over the years about his shenanigans, but had no clue he owned Lakeside Freaking Theaters.. or that he went to Yale(!).. then again im in my 40s so it’s possible i just forgot.. One thing I do remember is that, years later, when i was at LSU- my then-GF and i attended a Mardi Gras ball and one of Dr Johnson’s nurses recognized me.. i stopped going to him around the time i was 7 yrs old, so this would have been over ten yrs later and id grown like a foot and a half, so that was kinda surprising to me .
Posted on 1/12/23 at 3:22 pm to Eightballjacket
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But it would f be a world of wheels without a special appearance by a C-list celeb.
My most vivid memory of going to the WOW was one time in the very late 1970s or very early 1980s, i was about 5 or 6 yrs old- and the celebrity they had that year was BOSS HOGG…. That show was the biggest thing in my life at the time, so it might as well have been The Fonz, Elvis Presley or The Pope to me.. I’ll never forget, he was dressed in the full white three-piece suit like he had just climbed out of the tv, and he was hamming it up for the kids, stuffing his face with popcorn and had it falling all over the floor as he stuffed it in his mouth.. That’s a true story, and man, was it glorious .
Posted on 1/12/23 at 3:26 pm to MrLSU
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remember all of the great restaurants and bars in West End and in Bucktown.
I grew up with Gary Young’s son. I remember going into his office up a flight of stairs in Bart’s. There were so many stacks of cash bundled on his desk, you couldn’t see the surface.
Plenty of other stories, but Bart’s was great. What a time.
Posted on 1/12/23 at 3:29 pm to White Roach
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I lived across Belmont Pl from Dr Johnson
As I recall, I thought he lived on one of the bird streets in Lake Vista. Maybe he moved there later in life when I met them?
He was super nice, had some great stores, and LOVED to talk.
Posted on 1/12/23 at 3:35 pm to nolanola
Way back during the Urban Cowboy craze of the early 80s, there was a bar in Elmwood called The Hired Hand Saloon.. it was owned i think by Harry Lee, or else he jsut spent a lot of time there.. my parents also spent a ton of time there .
Also, no one ive ever mentioned this to ever seems to remember it- but on that main drag in Elmwood, there was a burger place called “Wuv’s”.. they had a kids special for 29 cents i used to always get, and it would vary every week.. and this little place , Wuv’s, that’s been gone 40 yrs was the birthplace of the Popeye’s biscuit.. there was a Popeye’s exec who used to stop in to Wuv’s every morning for breakfast on his way to the Popeye’s HQ which is down the street on Clearview.. he loved their biscuits, got some Popeye’s people to start trying to approximate the recipe, then launched them at some point in the mid-80s.. the rest is history .
Also, no one ive ever mentioned this to ever seems to remember it- but on that main drag in Elmwood, there was a burger place called “Wuv’s”.. they had a kids special for 29 cents i used to always get, and it would vary every week.. and this little place , Wuv’s, that’s been gone 40 yrs was the birthplace of the Popeye’s biscuit.. there was a Popeye’s exec who used to stop in to Wuv’s every morning for breakfast on his way to the Popeye’s HQ which is down the street on Clearview.. he loved their biscuits, got some Popeye’s people to start trying to approximate the recipe, then launched them at some point in the mid-80s.. the rest is history .
Posted on 1/12/23 at 3:46 pm to BK Lounge
If I remember my Jefferson Parish lore, Harry Lee owned the Hired Hand. The Hog's Breath was in there somewhere, as well.
Posted on 1/12/23 at 3:48 pm to BK Lounge
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a bar in Elmwood called The Hired Hand Saloon.. it was owned i think by Harry Lee
My dad has mentioned this place many times and also said about Harry Lee owning it.
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Also, no one ive ever mentioned this to ever seems to remember it- but on that main drag in Elmwood, there was a burger place called “Wuv’s”.. they had a kids special for 29 cents i used to always get, and it would vary every week.. and this little place , Wuv’s, that’s been gone 40 yrs was the birthplace of the Popeye’s biscuit.. there was a Popeye’s exec who used to stop in to Wuv’s every morning for breakfast on his way to the Popeye’s HQ which is down the street on Clearview.. he loved their biscuits, got some Popeye’s people to start trying to approximate the recipe, then launched them at some point in the mid-80s.. the rest is history .
I just looked it up. Showed it being 1001 S. Clearview which is now home of Copeland's ironically. I had never heard of Wuv's.
Posted on 1/12/23 at 4:53 pm to BK Lounge
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i attended a Mardi Gras ball and one of Dr Johnson’s nurses recognized me.
Shirley Crocker was his head nurse in the 60s. She was not prone to taking any shite from the patients or parents, but I assume she ran a tight ship.
Posted on 1/12/23 at 5:00 pm to MMauler
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thought he lived on one of the bird streets in Lake Vista. Maybe he moved there later in life
We lived on Belmont in the early to mid-60s. I think he was still living there at least until the late 60s. Maybe his movie theater money afforded the move to Lake Vista!
Posted on 1/12/23 at 5:32 pm to BRgetthenet
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Bart’s
I remember going here as a kid and peeing in the urinal which was a large tile wall.
Posted on 1/12/23 at 5:54 pm to BK Lounge
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Wuv’s, that’s been gone 40 yrs was the birthplace of the Popeye’s biscuit.. there was a Popeye’s exec who used to stop in to Wuv’s every morning for breakfast on his way to the Popeye’s HQ which is down the street on Clearview.. he loved their biscuits, got some Popeye’s people to start trying to approximate the recipe, then launched them at some point in the mid-80s.. the rest is history
Warren LeRuth was the guy that came up with the Popeyes version of that biscuit. In addition to owning and running one of the best restaurants in the city (Gretna really) he was a professionally trained French pastry chef.
Posted on 1/12/23 at 6:29 pm to RedFoxx
I thought he came up with the recipe for the red beans.
Posted on 1/12/23 at 6:45 pm to MMauler
The Chalmette cinema was the dollar cinema. I saw Ghostbusters there with my aunts and uncles ( they were only 5 to 8 years older than me). Not until years later did I realize it was where movies go after the run ended in the bigger cinemas and before it went to video store.
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