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Posted on 8/27/18 at 8:02 am to TygerTyger
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I grew up in Central in Biltmore and my parents still live there.
I grew up in Tanglewood. My dad kept the house as rental property but doesn't live there anymore. That neighborhood isn't what it was. The trash has moved down Hooper Rd.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 8:07 am to fallguy_1978
Grew up in Riveroaks off of old hammond.... it's gone way down hill since I was a kid.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 8:21 am to Glock17
My neighborhood growing up has turned into Wakanda.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 8:21 am to fallguy_1978
East Mendenhall "In the Cello" - good times
Posted on 8/27/18 at 8:23 am to Parmen
Posted on 8/27/18 at 8:32 am to sec13rowBBseat28
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Did you go to Redemptorist?
No. But I grow up loosely Catholic and St Gerard was the church we went to (whenever we went...like 2-3 times a year). My best friend growing up went to St Gerard elementary school. Can remember when they had their St Gerard fair every year as well in the 80s.
Skillet(the poster) also grow up in NBR near my old neighborhood. If your grandparents lived on Dutton...then you likely remember that neighborhood store that was there up to the 80s that used to be on the corner of I think it was Dutton and Greenwell Street.
I mean...it was a rough neighborhood but as a kid in the 80s I never felt that unsafe tbh. We rode our bikes all over that neighborhood back then.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 8:37 am to Parmen
Yep.
In fact, the house I grew up in has gone to complete shite. I wasn't a large house by any means, but it was big enough for us and my parents (and to a lesser extent, the kids) worked hard to keep it looking nice. The yard was well manicured. Grass always cut. My mom meticulously kept the inside clean.
10 years ago my parents sold it to some people from New Orleans who were looking for a permanent home following 3 years of renting after Katrina. It took less than one year for them to turn the house into complete shite. Now, 10 years later I'm almost embarrassed to tell anyone I grew up there. The trees, bushes, flowerbeds haven't been touched in 10 years and are completely overgrown. The trashdicks that live there painted 2 of the 3 bedrooms black. they even set up some 3x3 square surrounded by a white picket fence in the middle of the yard. In addition to looking ridiculous, whatever they tried to grow there died long ago. So now it's just a large fenced in brown patch in the middle of a green overgrown lawn. Of course, it looks nice with the assorted array of crap strewn about in the front yard.
My mom refuses to even drive by the house any more because it makes her so upset to see what has become of it.
In fact, the house I grew up in has gone to complete shite. I wasn't a large house by any means, but it was big enough for us and my parents (and to a lesser extent, the kids) worked hard to keep it looking nice. The yard was well manicured. Grass always cut. My mom meticulously kept the inside clean.
10 years ago my parents sold it to some people from New Orleans who were looking for a permanent home following 3 years of renting after Katrina. It took less than one year for them to turn the house into complete shite. Now, 10 years later I'm almost embarrassed to tell anyone I grew up there. The trees, bushes, flowerbeds haven't been touched in 10 years and are completely overgrown. The trashdicks that live there painted 2 of the 3 bedrooms black. they even set up some 3x3 square surrounded by a white picket fence in the middle of the yard. In addition to looking ridiculous, whatever they tried to grow there died long ago. So now it's just a large fenced in brown patch in the middle of a green overgrown lawn. Of course, it looks nice with the assorted array of crap strewn about in the front yard.
My mom refuses to even drive by the house any more because it makes her so upset to see what has become of it.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 8:38 am to Glock17
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Grew up in Riveroaks off of old hammond.... it's gone way down hill since I was a kid
I grew up there, too. I don't drive by it anymore when I'm in town. It was never affluent or anything, but it makes me sad to see how shitty it is now.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 8:38 am to lsunurse
That area looks like Mogadishu now. My great aunt lived in 70805 off of Juban Ave near Howell Park until the day she died.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 8:39 am to Parmen
Grew up in Donaldsonville Mid 60s to late 80s, so yeah...
Posted on 8/27/18 at 8:40 am to AUCE05
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You probably didn't realize how poor trash you were unless you moved out and up the social ladder.
This is assuming a lot
Posted on 8/27/18 at 8:41 am to Parmen
Yes-for anybody who grew up anywhere in Baton Rouge in the 1900’s.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 8:46 am to lsunurse
I do remember that little grocery store. Really small and had a few steps going up to the door. I never felt unsafe either when we would go visit my grandparents. They lived on the corner of Dutton & Cannon.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 8:49 am to fallguy_1978
Well my old house doesn't even exist anymore. It's just an empty lot. House fire in 2008 did that. But...it was a massive blessing in disguise for my parents. Got them out of that neighborhood. Granted...8 years later they lost their second home to the flood..but at least they had 8 years of not living in NBR. I drove by there in 2009 cause I wanted to see the empty lot.
There were a lot of older white couples that lived in my neighborhood that lived there until they died. Then their families sold the houses. In the 80s..I would say 80% of my street was white families. But that didn't even matter...everyone that lived on my street(at least the part of Beechwood from Greenwell to Denham), black or white, were poor but hard working people just trying to raise their families and live their lives. My mom grow up on that street so she knew most of the families that still lived there back then very well.
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My great aunt lived in 70805 off of Juban Ave near Howell Park until the day she died.
There were a lot of older white couples that lived in my neighborhood that lived there until they died. Then their families sold the houses. In the 80s..I would say 80% of my street was white families. But that didn't even matter...everyone that lived on my street(at least the part of Beechwood from Greenwell to Denham), black or white, were poor but hard working people just trying to raise their families and live their lives. My mom grow up on that street so she knew most of the families that still lived there back then very well.
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Posted on 8/27/18 at 8:50 am to lsunurse
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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.
First job was at that YMCA
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Skillet(the poster) also grow up in NBR near my old neighborhood. If your grandparents lived on Dutton...then you likely remember that neighborhood store that was there up to the 80s that used to be on the corner of I think it was Dutton and Greenwell Street.
My grandparents lived on corner of Robertson/Greenwell St
This post was edited on 8/27/18 at 8:54 am
Posted on 8/27/18 at 8:54 am to skuter
I learned how to swim at that YMCA. It wasn't very big was it for being a YMCA? I can remember being sad when it closed and was turned into some center for juvenile delinquents because we no longer had a pool we could go to.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 8:57 am to Parmen
My neighborhood was the first real neighborhood in town. Started building it in the early 40's and continued adding on until the 80's. The older houses are being torn down with new ones built. All of the old families have moved out of town, with a few spattered still around. I bought a house back when I started dating my wife, still own it. Good rental property. After five of the six kids left the house we grew up in and my mom sold it and moved to an apartment. My father died when I was 13, I was second to the youngest. Our house was sold several times with a older retired army couple living there last. The last of the pair recently died and their son is remodeling it as I type. Its mostly transient military rentals now, with some section 8 sprinkled in. Still pretty safe, but don't see the kids riding bikes around like we did in the 60's/70's.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 8:58 am to lsunurse
I remember the trailer park right there at Dutton & Hollywood. That place was sketchy as hell.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 9:00 am to sec13rowBBseat28
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I remember the trailer park right there at Dutton & Hollywood. That place was sketchy as hell.
We weren't allowed to walk or bike through there. And yeah...that place was rough looking even in the 80s.
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