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re: Older Baton Rouge residents. What lead to the decline of NBR?
Posted on 6/24/17 at 5:56 pm to Tigeralum2008
Posted on 6/24/17 at 5:56 pm to Tigeralum2008
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Posted on 6/24/17 at 5:58 pm to AbitaFan08
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What lead to the decline of BR
FIFY
Posted on 6/24/17 at 6:02 pm to truth87
Bumped a post from a year ago to beat your chest about da raysis white man? 
This post was edited on 6/24/17 at 6:03 pm
Posted on 6/24/17 at 6:22 pm to Tigeralum2008
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judge parker
Posted on 6/24/17 at 6:32 pm to beerJeep
Holy crap. I read this whole thread and just now realized it's from 2016 
Posted on 6/24/17 at 6:36 pm to Tigeralum2008
Get a copy of The Homevoter Hypothesis by Econ Prof William Fishel. It will answer that question succinctly, and address related issues with clarity. It's an easy read, not cluttered with arcane terms and academic arrogance.
Posted on 6/24/17 at 6:40 pm to Tigeralum2008
Had to be the zoo
Oh snap
Oh snap
Posted on 6/24/17 at 6:48 pm to Pepe Lepew
I grew up in New Orleans. Spent a lot of time coming up to BR. This was over 50 years ago. Way back then, I found that BR was a rag tag cow town with everything so spread out. No city planning back in the day at the same time New Orleans was just starting to go down the shitter. 
City folks just don't get it. Really! To this day, one could not pay me to live in a city for the shite holes that they are.
City folks just don't get it. Really! To this day, one could not pay me to live in a city for the shite holes that they are.
Posted on 6/24/17 at 7:06 pm to PetroBabich
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Holy crap. I read this whole thread and just now realized it's from 2016
Almost exactly a year
Ole baw didn't like what he saw apparently
And it was his first and only post. Lmao alter check on Isle 5!
Tangie? That you?
This post was edited on 6/24/17 at 7:08 pm
Posted on 6/24/17 at 7:15 pm to Tigeralum2008
80's oil crunch resulted in a lot of the blue collar people losing their jobs and having to move elsewhere.
School desegregation order's mandatory bussing policy resulted in a wave of white flight out to Livingston and Ascension.
Late 80's/early 90's crack epidemic crime wave pushed most of the stragglers out by the late 90's.
The last few old people died or moved out in the last 5 years.
School desegregation order's mandatory bussing policy resulted in a wave of white flight out to Livingston and Ascension.
Late 80's/early 90's crack epidemic crime wave pushed most of the stragglers out by the late 90's.
The last few old people died or moved out in the last 5 years.
Posted on 6/24/17 at 7:46 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
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Low interest rates in the '80's allowed the blue collar plant workers to move out of the area, which was predominantly white until then.
I'm assuming you either were not around or didn't borrow any money in the 80's since the mortgage rate for a 30 year loan-what most people at that time used , was 16- 17%.
Think about that hard now. Everyone. All homeowners on this board-where would you be with that instead of a 3-4% home mortgage.
You would be in North Baton Rouge.
Probably renting.
Posted on 6/24/17 at 8:36 pm to Tigeralum2008
I went to Hollywood Elementary which use to be off Hollywood near Exxon.
What killed that area was when the first African American family moved in the area people started selling out.
A lot of the whites moved to the Red Oaks, Sherwood Forest, Central, and Baker area.
Mom and Dad was fixing to close the next day on a house in Baker.
The night before it rained bad and this house which was just built had water up to the Windows.
They moved to Red Oaks after that.
At one time people paid a premium to live across the street from Istrouma High.
Even in the early 70's Plank between Choctaw and Airline was growing.
I-110 North was being built and they use to have a guy in a van give you candy and ask what color was your underwear near where the construction workers would park to work on I-110. I pulled my pants down and said white you dummy now give me my candy.
BRPD motorcycle officers ended up catching the guy. One of the guys was suppose to be checking traffic on our street. He was banging my friends mom and heard about it and asked where we got the candy. He caught the guy.
You had Kroger, Howard Bros, K mart, mcclouds appliances, Robert E Lee theater, K&B, go go place (stripers gave me candy ever day), YMCA was growing, Delmont Village,and a few car dealers on Scenic Hwy. The area was bustling with business.
What did the area in was EBRPSS desegregation order by Judge John Parker!
What killed that area was when the first African American family moved in the area people started selling out.
A lot of the whites moved to the Red Oaks, Sherwood Forest, Central, and Baker area.
Mom and Dad was fixing to close the next day on a house in Baker.
The night before it rained bad and this house which was just built had water up to the Windows.
They moved to Red Oaks after that.
At one time people paid a premium to live across the street from Istrouma High.
Even in the early 70's Plank between Choctaw and Airline was growing.
I-110 North was being built and they use to have a guy in a van give you candy and ask what color was your underwear near where the construction workers would park to work on I-110. I pulled my pants down and said white you dummy now give me my candy.
BRPD motorcycle officers ended up catching the guy. One of the guys was suppose to be checking traffic on our street. He was banging my friends mom and heard about it and asked where we got the candy. He caught the guy.
You had Kroger, Howard Bros, K mart, mcclouds appliances, Robert E Lee theater, K&B, go go place (stripers gave me candy ever day), YMCA was growing, Delmont Village,and a few car dealers on Scenic Hwy. The area was bustling with business.
What did the area in was EBRPSS desegregation order by Judge John Parker!
Posted on 6/24/17 at 8:53 pm to Tigeralum2008
I'm going to guess I-10 had plenty to do with it. Before the interstate system came to BR the major highway through town was Airline, which as we know runs right up through NBR.
I-10 and 12 shifted economic development away from there.
Edit: just realized I posted a similar comment in this thread back before it was bumped.
I-10 and 12 shifted economic development away from there.
Edit: just realized I posted a similar comment in this thread back before it was bumped.
This post was edited on 6/24/17 at 8:56 pm
Posted on 6/24/17 at 9:19 pm to johnnyrocket
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I-110 North was being built and they use to have a guy in a van give you candy and ask what color was your underwear near where the construction workers would park to work on I-110. I pulled my pants down and said white you dummy now give me my candy.
BRPD motorcycle officers ended up catching the guy. One of the guys was suppose to be checking traffic on our street. He was banging my friends mom and heard about it and asked where we got the candy. He caught the guy.
wtf?Posted on 6/24/17 at 9:25 pm to Tigeralum2008
Judge John Parker
Posted on 6/24/17 at 10:07 pm to PetroBabich
Dad said he really did not know why they divorced.
Mom to this day says she was a whore and got knocked up by the BRPD motorcycle officer.
Dad said on weekends she would go to Gulfport, MS and bang some oriental shrimpers for money. Her husband would have the stripers over from the go go club when she was gone and he would party his butt off.
Mom said yes she knew about the guy in the van handing out candy to little kids. She was hoping they would have kidnapped me. As you see it did not work.
Mom to this day says she was a whore and got knocked up by the BRPD motorcycle officer.
Dad said on weekends she would go to Gulfport, MS and bang some oriental shrimpers for money. Her husband would have the stripers over from the go go club when she was gone and he would party his butt off.
Mom said yes she knew about the guy in the van handing out candy to little kids. She was hoping they would have kidnapped me. As you see it did not work.
Posted on 6/24/17 at 10:08 pm to Tigeralum2008
John Parker
Posted on 6/24/17 at 10:09 pm to Y.A. Tittle
That refinery has been there 110 years. That's not why.
Posted on 6/24/17 at 10:16 pm to udtiger
Mom and Dad said pre John Parker NBR was going down.
When the first black family moved across the street most of the neighbors put their homes up for sale. Hollywood Elementary use to be all white and when the first group of black kids moved into the district people moved out.
She said they did not sell until the black man who lived next door came home drunk and mistaked our house for his. He busted down our glass storm door and front door. My grandmother who stayed with us when my dad worked nights shot the guy in the butt with a shot gun and spit in his eyes with the snuff she chewed. She said I was out like a light snoring my 4 year old butt off while they havd 4 BRPD officers show up. The next day our house went up for sale.
She said NBR by the late 70's before the court order was slowly going South. As black families moved from Scotlandville into NBR the white people who could leave did. John Parker ordering the EBRPSS to desegregate sped it up.
When the first black family moved across the street most of the neighbors put their homes up for sale. Hollywood Elementary use to be all white and when the first group of black kids moved into the district people moved out.
She said they did not sell until the black man who lived next door came home drunk and mistaked our house for his. He busted down our glass storm door and front door. My grandmother who stayed with us when my dad worked nights shot the guy in the butt with a shot gun and spit in his eyes with the snuff she chewed. She said I was out like a light snoring my 4 year old butt off while they havd 4 BRPD officers show up. The next day our house went up for sale.
She said NBR by the late 70's before the court order was slowly going South. As black families moved from Scotlandville into NBR the white people who could leave did. John Parker ordering the EBRPSS to desegregate sped it up.
This post was edited on 6/24/17 at 10:19 pm
Posted on 6/24/17 at 10:20 pm to Tigeralum2008
This is not unique to Baton Rouge. Birmingham, Nola, Jackson, Memphis etc have pretty much experienced the same thing in the last 20-30 years. The middle class flee for the burbs and better schools. It's happened in Houston too.
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