re: What were some of your favorite hangout places as a teenager?

Cucimano's or Chink's Bar in the Lower 9th Ward. Cusimano's was on St. Claude by Flood St. and Chink's was around Royal and Lamanche.

Lots of pool playing even though my cousin and I were well underage to be in bars.


Also Cow Town in Arabi by the river. An old time bar once owned by the Guilliot family with lots of bookmaking and other forms of illegal gambling going on daily back then. Been torn down for decades now.