re: BR abandoned buildings that should be torn down

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It was mostly the department stores, though, like the Dillard's I'm talking about (although it was Godchaux's back then).

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Nope. Godchaux's was a sugar merchant and retail outlet in N.O. What you're looking for is Goudchaux - as in "the difference is you" like their commercials said. Spelled almost exactly the same but it was a different enterprise entirely.