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Posted on 8/29/19 at 10:32 am to VolsOut4Harambe
My first broken bone happened on the ice there. I was a pretty good roller skater, didn't really transfer the skill.
Parents used to drive a bunch of us 12-13 year olds there, drop us off, and pick us up later. Good Times.
Parents used to drive a bunch of us 12-13 year olds there, drop us off, and pick us up later. Good Times.
Posted on 8/29/19 at 10:34 am to KiwiHead
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here was a time out there( The East) wherein you can get whatever you wanted.
yep. grew up in the parish but, the plaza was a short drive away. during the late 70s that's where a lot of the rich folks moved. ahhh those Cabrini and Holy Angels girls !
Posted on 8/29/19 at 10:44 am to tgrbaitn08
Home Depot still open?
Posted on 8/29/19 at 10:46 am to Cosmo
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Home Depot still open?
Yes as far as I know.
Besides that
The East is full of Auto Part stores and Dollar stores.
Posted on 8/29/19 at 10:47 am to MorbidTheClown
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Space Port
Saw and played PacMan for the first time there.
Posted on 8/29/19 at 10:47 am to arseinclarse
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I would always belly up to Morrison's Cafeteria.
The fried shrimp and mac n cheese at Morrison's!!!
And yeah, my first chick fil a sandwich. butter on the bun, fried chicken, and pickles...was such a novelty back then.
And as teenagers we used to go to the Tinder Box to pick up some clove cigarettes.
Posted on 8/29/19 at 10:48 am to duckdude
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Space Port
Saw and played PacMan for the first time there.
buy movie tickets. spend hours in space port waiting for movie to start. was a weekend routine
Posted on 8/29/19 at 10:49 am to VolsOut4Harambe
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According to my dad who grew up in NOLA East, that was the place to be back in the 70's through 90's. First ever CFA outside of Georgia, ice skating, arcades, etc. I looked on Google Maps and it's nothing but a razed, empty lot with overgrown weeds now.
What happened?
What's up with all the recent thread interest in NOLA East?
Anyways, when built in the 70s, was one of the nicest malls in the country, easily. Ice rink, that CFA, good range of high end and mid-range stores.
It was set up with 4 "neighborhoods" kind of like spokes from the center of a wheel. Center was food court and ice rink. At the end of each neighborhood spoke was an anchor store.
It was big on natural light. Had trees growing inside it, with these massive skylights providing sunlight.
When the East went down, the mall went down with it.
It was truly a regional mall. Pulled in middle class shoppers from the east, St Bernard, and Slidell. At that time, the "rich" still mainly shopped downtown, and you had Lakeside in Jefferson Parish, but the Plaza had a huge draw.
Posted on 8/29/19 at 10:52 am to Cosmo
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Home Depot still open?
Yup.
Decent little pocket of businesses around I-10/Bullard.
Home Depot
WalMart
New Orleans Hamburger & Seafood
Several car dealerships between Bullard and 510
Few fast food places
Few hotels
By no means fancy, but at least some commerce that isn't shoe stores.
Posted on 8/29/19 at 10:55 am to MorbidTheClown
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he Nature Cente
I remember it as "Joe Brown Park" bigest black berry's you ever saw were picked in that swamp
Posted on 8/29/19 at 10:59 am to LSUFanHouston
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It was truly a regional mall. Pulled in middle class shoppers from the east, St Bernard, and Slidell. At that time, the "rich" still mainly shopped downtown, and you had Lakeside in Jefferson Parish, but the Plaza had a huge draw.
I grew up closer to Lakeside in the 70s/80s but always felt like a trip to The Plaza was something special. Even while in college in the 90s I had a holiday part-time retail job there.
Posted on 8/29/19 at 11:01 am to VolsOut4Harambe
I used to go there three times a month during the late 1970s and early 80s. Loved Flame n Burger, Orange Julius, The Space Port and Toys by Roy. Ate at the Chick-FIL-A and got a bad headache in the middle of my sandwich. I've only eaten Chick-fil-a three times since then.
Posted on 8/29/19 at 11:04 am to duckdude
and of course if we are discussing nola east. skate country and the all night skating thing. the catholic school girls seemed to love that place.
Posted on 8/29/19 at 11:06 am to VolsOut4Harambe
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What happened?
African American politicians who were moving Desire and Florida projects to the apartments and duplexes out there on Section 8 vouchers.
White flight coupled with the oil bust of the mid 80's and the yanking of major contracts from Martin Marietta at NASA which really emptied out the place...by 1991/92 it was all over.
Posted on 8/29/19 at 11:07 am to MorbidTheClown
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if we are discussing nola east
"We Never Close" IMHO were the best PoBoy's in town
Wilson's, I use to love that place for some reason, it was a top notch sporting goods store it even had guns and ammo at one time if I remember right.
Posted on 8/29/19 at 11:09 am to duckdude
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We Never Close" IMHO were the best PoBoy's in town
LOLOL was just coming to post that. that place near read/chef that used to be a mcd's i think? tried to fit 5 lbs of shrimp on a poboy.
Posted on 8/29/19 at 11:12 am to duckdude
quote:Damn right. That bbq poboy was the best poboy I've ever had.
"We Never Close" IMHO were the best PoBoy's in town
Posted on 8/29/19 at 11:15 am to VolsOut4Harambe
Just bicycle to Lakeside, what else did we need?
Posted on 8/29/19 at 11:18 am to MorbidTheClown
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grew up in the parish
Bruh!!! Went HC had numerous padnah's from Arabi and Off Palmisano and Buccaneer Villa. Cruised Judge Perez chuggin a 40 or some MD 20/20 more than once. You play at Rebel or Versailles or were you a Carolyn Park person?
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