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Baton Rouge pre-Katrina
Posted on 10/11/21 at 11:53 am
Posted on 10/11/21 at 11:53 am
Maybe it is because I was only a few years out of college with only a job to worry about, but BR seemed like a much better place to live before Katrina. Traffic was not nearly as bad, crime was nowhere near what it is now, and a lot of other things made this city a pretty good place to live. In the 15+ years since Katrina, it’s steadily losing its appeal. Outside of LSU sports, there isn’t a whole lot of positives to living here. Sucks being here sometimes knowing what it used to be.
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Posted on 10/11/21 at 11:55 am to Sandtrap
This will be a thread
Posted on 10/11/21 at 11:56 am to Sandtrap
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crime was nowhere near what it is now
Crime was worse by the numbers in the 90s and before Katrina. But it was localized and kept in the ghettos. Crime was easier to avoid before Katrina. What Katrina did was spread crime throughout EBR as that type of people moved into the southern and southeastern part of the parish thanks to the apartment boom.
Posted on 10/11/21 at 11:56 am to Sandtrap
BR started sliding in the 1990s and it really has everything to do with John Parker's forced busing. Katrina was a temporary issue. I think the entire metro gained like 10k permanent residents.
Posted on 10/11/21 at 11:58 am to The Boat
You’re right…more widespread now.
Posted on 10/11/21 at 11:58 am to The Boat
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the apartment boom
This shite right here. And our Zoning people, who have notoriously been paid under the table by people like Spinosa, didn't do a damn thing to stop it.
Posted on 10/11/21 at 12:00 pm to fallguy_1978
It's crazy to me that EBR parish voted consistently republican (outside of 1996) until Katrina. Bush won the parish by 10 points in 2004. He actually gained support for his re-election which I feel like is unheard of. I cannot imagine EBR voting for a republican by 10 points today.
Posted on 10/11/21 at 12:02 pm to jlovel7
White flight to the suburbs when there were no longer viable public school options. Go look at the demographic changes over time. BR was 70% white in 1970.
Posted on 10/11/21 at 12:05 pm to jlovel7
It’s not crazy if you think about it.
Posted on 10/11/21 at 12:06 pm to jimbeam
BR would be exactly where it is now if Katrina never happened.
Posted on 10/11/21 at 12:06 pm to Sandtrap
John Parker killed Baton Rouge. Katrina just bruised it.
Posted on 10/11/21 at 12:07 pm to The Boat
Pretty much.
It was the difference between having cancer in one extremity and having it metastasize throughout your body.
It was the difference between having cancer in one extremity and having it metastasize throughout your body.
Posted on 10/11/21 at 12:08 pm to RougeDawg
Yep Parker pulled an LBJ.
Posted on 10/11/21 at 12:09 pm to Sandtrap
Traffic was better and Cortana was still limping along, but it really wasn’t better. Downtown was a ghost town, and there were huge abandoned buildings seemingly everywhere. There was no town center or perkins rowe. The restaurant scene was a shadow of what it is now. The music scene was a little better, but not really that great either. Public schools were still shite. Crime wasn’t much better either.
Posted on 10/11/21 at 12:09 pm to fallguy_1978
Seems like all the momentum that 3rd street and downtown had from 2006-2013 is all but gone these days.
Posted on 10/11/21 at 12:11 pm to kingbob
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Public schools were still shite. Crime wasn’t much better either.
Public schools really went downhill in the 1990s as more people moved to the burbs or went to private. But I had friends who went to Lee, Woodlawn, Tara, even Belaire.
Posted on 10/11/21 at 12:12 pm to Paul Allen
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Seems like all the momentum that 3rd street and downtown had from 2006-2013 is all but gone these days.
Yeah it did seem to be trending up for quite some time.
Posted on 10/11/21 at 12:13 pm to Sandtrap
The downfall can be traced to building the Walmart on College.
Posted on 10/11/21 at 12:13 pm to Sandtrap
I grew up in north Baton Rouge in the mid 60s and through the 70s. We didn't have to lock our house doors, or car doors. As children we played all over our neighborhoods with out a worry in the world. Talk about different now!!
This post was edited on 10/11/21 at 12:14 pm
Posted on 10/11/21 at 12:17 pm to Sandtrap
100% correct
It accelerated the decline that we all knew was coming regardless.
It accelerated the decline that we all knew was coming regardless.
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