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re: Anyone else’s childhood neighborhood gone downhill?
Posted on 8/27/18 at 7:20 am to fallguy_1978
Posted on 8/27/18 at 7:20 am to fallguy_1978
Fall I lived on Beechwood Drive near Hollywood. I could walk from my house through that big field to the old YMCA right off Hollywood.
I left LA in 2005. I haven’t driven by that old neighborhood since 2009.
I left LA in 2005. I haven’t driven by that old neighborhood since 2009.
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Posted on 8/27/18 at 7:22 am to Parmen
I grew up in New Orleans East in the 60s and 70s. It was great. We rode our bikes everywhere with no cares except to be back home by the time the street lights came on. Until the late 70s when shitty apartments were being built down the street. It went downhill fast. By the time I moved out it was normal to hear gunfire at night.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 7:22 am to Powerman
Forest Glen Estates on Greenwell Springs Road. Neighborhood seems almost the same as 40 years ago when parents moved in. Thought flood would have ruined it but most stayed and rebuilt. Now back filing seems to have struggled the most which were way smaller homes then rest of subdivision. Parents may be selling at end of year. Mom wants to move now after flooding.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 7:23 am to Parmen
King Bradford wasn’t great when I was there but drop a bomb on it now.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 7:24 am to Parmen
Yeah.
I was able to go inside the house I lived at from age 2-14.Our assist. Pastor had bought it.
There was a piano in the same spot we had.And a Ping Pong Table in the same spot in the basement.
I thought that was a little odd.
It blew my mind how small my original bedroom was.
I was able to go inside the house I lived at from age 2-14.Our assist. Pastor had bought it.
There was a piano in the same spot we had.And a Ping Pong Table in the same spot in the basement.
I thought that was a little odd.
It blew my mind how small my original bedroom was.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 7:33 am to Parmen
I spent most of my youth in a huge subdivision that was mostly developed in the 1970s, so it's a big sprawl of dated ranch houses.
It hasn't aged well.
It hasn't aged well.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 7:33 am to tidalmouse
I grew up in Central in Biltmore and my parents still live there.
When the Walmart came in our neighborhood fought it but lost. I’m certain WM paid off city council because the case against building there was very strong. I thought for sure the WM would kill the neighborhood.
Although it DID attract Livingston Parish trash from across the river like moths to a flame, the neighborhood seems to be holding up so far.
That corner of Wax and Sullivan has some decent restaurants and businesses and in general it seems to be a thriving pocket of commerce.
Had a good friend who grew up in Monticello. Yeah man what the hell happened there?
When the Walmart came in our neighborhood fought it but lost. I’m certain WM paid off city council because the case against building there was very strong. I thought for sure the WM would kill the neighborhood.
Although it DID attract Livingston Parish trash from across the river like moths to a flame, the neighborhood seems to be holding up so far.
That corner of Wax and Sullivan has some decent restaurants and businesses and in general it seems to be a thriving pocket of commerce.
Had a good friend who grew up in Monticello. Yeah man what the hell happened there?
Posted on 8/27/18 at 7:34 am to Parmen
I grew up in the middle of rice fields, so unless the area's been ravaged by violent grain thieves, I doubt it.
There's always bad eggs, but life's too much like work in the country for a whole lot of riff-raff to push out the good people.
There's always bad eggs, but life's too much like work in the country for a whole lot of riff-raff to push out the good people.
This post was edited on 8/27/18 at 7:42 am
Posted on 8/27/18 at 7:38 am to Parmen
My parents live in the country outside of a small town. It was always quiet, clean, and safe when I was a kid. Now it's seemingly overrun by druggies and questionable characters. My parents were recently robbed in fact, thankfully while no one was home.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 7:41 am to lsunurse
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Beechwood Drive near Hollywood
Was bad in the 80s but I felt safe running around there as a teenager.
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If your are asking if black people moved into the neighborhood I grew up in, then yes
I remember when park forest had the neighborhood pool before it became dark forest. Good times.
This post was edited on 8/27/18 at 7:47 am
Posted on 8/27/18 at 7:42 am to Parmen
I grew up in a poorer section of my town, and it wasn't the greatest neighborhood growing up, but it was fine by me.
I don't live there anymore, but do have family in a local cemetary, and I go there a couple of times a year to put flowers, drive by my old neighborhood, and it's now a ton worse. Houses in disrepair, graffiti on some homes, houses that have burned down just sitting rotting. Looks like a drug dealers dream.
I don't live there anymore, but do have family in a local cemetary, and I go there a couple of times a year to put flowers, drive by my old neighborhood, and it's now a ton worse. Houses in disrepair, graffiti on some homes, houses that have burned down just sitting rotting. Looks like a drug dealers dream.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 7:43 am to fallguy_1978
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Man that was a great neighborhood. I had several friends that lived there. Best Christmas lights ever
Lived on the main BLVD. Christmas time there was amazing. Every night we would hop on the bikes and cruise around. Traffic used to back up from Cardigan Ave(street that every house had lights/decorations) to Greenwell Springs Rd. Many great memories as a kid.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 7:44 am to Parmen
Yes
Complete 180°
Complete 180°
Posted on 8/27/18 at 7:49 am to Parmen
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These Asians and Latinos think they are back home
I wouldn't be surprised if you typed that while eating at a Panda Garden restaurant in white suburbia.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 7:50 am to Parmen
I was partially raised in Slidell. You better believe that place is shite now.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 7:50 am to fallguy_1978
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We used to have a rope swing back by the Wickers place and rode 4 wheelers and go carts back there all of the time.
Our house wasn’t there yet. But my parents are directly in front of Mr Whittaker’s old house. He passed away a few years back.
Built our house in 1997.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 7:51 am to Parmen
mine went through gentrification and is now so much nicer than when i was a kid
Posted on 8/27/18 at 7:53 am to lsunurse
quote:Did you go to Redemptorist? My grandparents lived on Dutton. Spent some time in the parking lot of that YMCA "hanging out" before school events.
Fall I lived on Beechwood Drive near Hollywood. I could walk from my house through that big field to the old YMCA right off Hollywood.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 7:56 am to Parmen
my childhood neighborhood got destroyed by katrina. Last time i was there it looked pretty awful.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 7:58 am to Parmen
I grew up in the middle of the woods.
It's still woods.
There is probably a meth house or 2 located in those woods now though.
It's still woods.
There is probably a meth house or 2 located in those woods now though.
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