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re: A "Why isn't NOLA East bustling?" story that takes 35 paragraphs before mentioning "crime"
Posted on 4/23/21 at 9:08 am to NIH
Posted on 4/23/21 at 9:08 am to NIH
To be fair, the area has something like 1 grocery store. I can remember when I was a kid there were 4 grocery stores on Crowder between Morrison and Lake Forest. Ferrera Yeager, Bon Marche IGA, Winn Dixie and Canal Villere. On Read you had Phil's, up by Chef you had Winn Dixie. Later on Bullard there was a Winn Dixie, followed a few years later by a big Schwegmann's and there was an A&P at Kenilworth. So 9 grocery stores in the mid '80s. By the mid to late 90s most were gone.... oh yeah, I forgot the Delchamps at Read and the Service Rd.
I can remember a time when Lake Forest Blvd was bustling with businesses from Bundy to Read. There was good dining out there as well. Ro Je was out there. Croziers had their start on Lak Forest.Sclafanis on Hayne was very good. Spinellis started in a strip center and then moved to where Souther Oaks is today that used to be the LeBoeufs House. On Read you also had Jade East which was a very good Chinese Restaurant and in Deer Park at Read and Lake Forest there was a really good steak place. Not to mention Shakeys and Godfathers Pizza. Augies Tower of Pizza on Downman was excellent. They have been long gone.....way before Katrina.
Johnny Jackson became Councilman in the mid 80s after redrawing districts and then advocated moving Desire into the apartments out there along with others from the lower 9. It destroyed the area in under 5 years. The death blow really came in February of 91 when there was an execution style murder at the Thursday night parade before Mardi Gras....after that houses went up for sale FAST and the money left as well.
I can remember a time when Lake Forest Blvd was bustling with businesses from Bundy to Read. There was good dining out there as well. Ro Je was out there. Croziers had their start on Lak Forest.Sclafanis on Hayne was very good. Spinellis started in a strip center and then moved to where Souther Oaks is today that used to be the LeBoeufs House. On Read you also had Jade East which was a very good Chinese Restaurant and in Deer Park at Read and Lake Forest there was a really good steak place. Not to mention Shakeys and Godfathers Pizza. Augies Tower of Pizza on Downman was excellent. They have been long gone.....way before Katrina.
Johnny Jackson became Councilman in the mid 80s after redrawing districts and then advocated moving Desire into the apartments out there along with others from the lower 9. It destroyed the area in under 5 years. The death blow really came in February of 91 when there was an execution style murder at the Thursday night parade before Mardi Gras....after that houses went up for sale FAST and the money left as well.
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Posted on 4/23/21 at 9:14 am to KiwiHead
I strongly disagree with the premise of this article that New Orleans East doesn't have a flourishing economy.
It has several very successful automobile fulfillment fencing and shipping centers located in the area that employ hundreds of New Orleans residents as independent contractors.
Almonaster is the headquarters for all junk cars in New Orleans.
It has a thriving underground hip-hop music scene.
The area employs more crime scene clean-up specialists than any other location in the Gulf-South.
It has an IHOP off of I-10.
And it has the last vestiges of the Old South for the residents to celebrate their weddings at the Southern Oaks Plantation.
I think these people are still suffering from the loss of Shakeys Pizza and Bennie's Sporting Goods.
It has several very successful automobile fulfillment fencing and shipping centers located in the area that employ hundreds of New Orleans residents as independent contractors.
Almonaster is the headquarters for all junk cars in New Orleans.
It has a thriving underground hip-hop music scene.
The area employs more crime scene clean-up specialists than any other location in the Gulf-South.
It has an IHOP off of I-10.
And it has the last vestiges of the Old South for the residents to celebrate their weddings at the Southern Oaks Plantation.
I think these people are still suffering from the loss of Shakeys Pizza and Bennie's Sporting Goods.
This post was edited on 4/23/21 at 9:21 am
Posted on 4/23/21 at 9:36 am to KiwiHead
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Johnny Jackson became Councilman in the mid 80s after redrawing districts and then advocated moving Desire into the apartments out there along with others from the lower 9. It destroyed the area in under 5 years. The death blow really came in February of 91 when there was an execution style murder at the Thursday night parade before Mardi Gras....after that houses went up for sale FAST and the money left as well.
If only Wayne Babovich, hadn't beaten out Ron Faucheaux, in the runoff and then promptly ended up in federal pen for political corruption New Orleans East might have stood a chance. Instead he allowed Jackson in as the councilman and the place plunged into oblivion.
Posted on 4/23/21 at 10:23 am to KiwiHead
I worked in the East from 1987 to 1995. As you mentioned, there was federal money poured into section 8 housing subsidies starting in 1987. The area started to crumble within a year. Homes devalued quickly creating a cycle of short sells and cheap subsidized housing availability.
Does anyone recall the utter and complete corruption of NOPD, culminating in death sentences for officers Len Davis and Antoinette Frank in separate incidents that occurred in October '94 and March '95? The city was a freak show, and the 7th District covering the entire New Orleans East area, was as notoriously bad as any other.
I remember the East before then. It thrived from the 70's until the mid-80's.
Does anyone recall the utter and complete corruption of NOPD, culminating in death sentences for officers Len Davis and Antoinette Frank in separate incidents that occurred in October '94 and March '95? The city was a freak show, and the 7th District covering the entire New Orleans East area, was as notoriously bad as any other.
I remember the East before then. It thrived from the 70's until the mid-80's.
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