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re: Did the quarter get worse in recent years or am I just older?
Posted on 12/21/20 at 12:01 am to The Boat
Posted on 12/21/20 at 12:01 am to The Boat
quote:
We were talking about the space between us all
And the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion
Never glimpse the truth
Then it's far too late
When they pass away
Sounds like someone is toking and posting.
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Posted on 12/21/20 at 4:48 am to cokebottleag
The quarter has always been bad, but as you get older and sober up, you can see it for the sleazy, dirty shithole it has always been.
Posted on 12/21/20 at 5:00 am to jbgleason
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Some jackass on a dirt bike riding up and down Decatur doing wheelies and dodging in and out of traffic.
I don't get to NOLA much lately, but that's a bit disturbing. "Urban" dirt-biking is a bellwether of the be-nice-to-black-people variety of societal decay of our time. Once you decide to accept that, you've basically surrendered and started down a reverse "broken window" theory slippery slope* leading to oblivion.
Urban dirt-biking started to happen where I live, and to their credit the Dekalb Police seem to have nipped it in the bud. But on Decatur Street? Quoth Biden, "Come on, man!"
* Not a logical "phallusy"
Posted on 12/21/20 at 5:37 am to cokebottleag
I pretty much work in the French Quarter and I'll tell you that I don't spend a damn penny in that city. I don't buy gas in the city limits, nor do I put a few quarters in a vending machine. New Orleans will get $0 from me and the more time that passes, the more of me there are. I don't want one single penny of my money to be used by New Orleans for anything there. I want it to burn because I'm out of here in 18 months anyway and the people that live there should be the ones saving it.
I also got a $75 camera ticket the other day for going 24 in a 20 at 4:37. Went straight in the trash - I park in a private lot that gets paid through my employer so they can eat a dick.
I also got a $75 camera ticket the other day for going 24 in a 20 at 4:37. Went straight in the trash - I park in a private lot that gets paid through my employer so they can eat a dick.
This post was edited on 12/21/20 at 5:43 am
Posted on 12/21/20 at 5:41 am to cokebottleag
The quarter was always on the seedy side, but lately its in your face. Homeless/crazies walking around trying every scam possible to get money. Bums sitting around. When I went in September damn near everything was boarded up. Canal Street was homeless central.
Me and the wife went to the Museum of Death. Walked a bit after and felt unsafe. This was at noon, I can't imagine how it is after dark. Its a damn shame
Me and the wife went to the Museum of Death. Walked a bit after and felt unsafe. This was at noon, I can't imagine how it is after dark. Its a damn shame
Posted on 12/21/20 at 6:03 am to cokebottleag
Frankly, pre-COVID, the Quarter was much cleaner and less trashy than back in pre-Katrina years.
Back in the day, you saw way fewer children in the Quarter. In recent years, the place is lousy with strollers, even on fricking Fat Tuesday.
Back in the day, there were weekends when you'd swear every trashy blond in Texas was partying on Bourbon St.... In the last few years, the crowds seem a lot more bland & suburban.
Back in the day, you saw way fewer children in the Quarter. In recent years, the place is lousy with strollers, even on fricking Fat Tuesday.
Back in the day, there were weekends when you'd swear every trashy blond in Texas was partying on Bourbon St.... In the last few years, the crowds seem a lot more bland & suburban.
Posted on 12/21/20 at 6:23 am to cokebottleag
It's like Mexico now. Not as in like more Mexicans. As in more like you can die for no good reason there at any time.
My quarter days are long over.
My quarter days are long over.
Posted on 12/21/20 at 8:09 am to Uptowner
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In recent years, the place is lousy with strollers, even on fricking Fat Tuesday.
Glad someone else noticed this. I saw an inordinate amount of strollers, toddlers, and young children in the FQ the 3 or 4 times I visited last year. Raise your kids as you see fit, but I can’t understand why you’d bring an infant or kid under 12 to the FQ. Just seems like a bad place for a really young child.
And pushing a stroller on those streets and they all the gross shite (homeless includes), can’t be fun or safe.
Posted on 12/21/20 at 8:13 am to The Boat
quote:
We were talking about the space between us all
And the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion
Never glimpse the truth
Then it's far too late
When they pass away
Posted on 12/21/20 at 8:25 am to cokebottleag
The violent crime has nudged back into the nightlife over the last few years (but that's really just comparing shades of grey). I haven't been during the day since Da Rona broke out but prior to that I hadn't noticed much difference.
Sometimes the wisdom of age changes your perspective on things.
Sometimes the wisdom of age changes your perspective on things.
Posted on 12/21/20 at 8:32 am to USMEagles
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Urban dirt-biking started to happen where I live, and to their credit the Dekalb Police seem to have nipped it in the bud. But on Decatur Street? Quoth Biden, "Come on, man!"
NOPD can’t do anything. Dirt bikes just run and NOPD can’t chase due to consent decree.
These Nola hate threads always crack me up. OP admits he hasn’t been here since 2019, says he has no plans to return, but felt the need to make this thread. Just a bunch of suburb dads beating the same dead horse about a city they don’t live in and don’t visit. Weird.
Posted on 12/21/20 at 8:54 am to cokebottleag
City seems just about finished.
Remember late 70's when city government became not so much anti-business as just don't give a crap about anything that was good for the city or business. Only motive was getting "greased". Father who did business in Gulf and around the world described it as like doing business in sub Saharan Africa. With an envelope of hundred dollar bills you could have whatever you wanted, but, you had to take care of everyone. Beyond that government was barely literate at best.
Oil industry eventually left for cities who if not more honest were at least more competent and wanted to help business.
New Orleans became just a tourist destination. Now Destroya is killing that as fast as she can.
Wife and I (no pics) went to Harrahs about a month ago during the week. Starbucks closed at noon (?) so we had to walk up Poydras about four blocks at around 3 p.m. My head on a swivel the whole time, beggars, one threatening, and not a tourist or business person in sight. No cops. A lot of people just hanging around. Have a cc permit but last thing I wanted was to get into it with some local thug and end up in Court as the out of towner.
New Orleans heading to becoming Detroit of the South, democrats in action.
Remember late 70's when city government became not so much anti-business as just don't give a crap about anything that was good for the city or business. Only motive was getting "greased". Father who did business in Gulf and around the world described it as like doing business in sub Saharan Africa. With an envelope of hundred dollar bills you could have whatever you wanted, but, you had to take care of everyone. Beyond that government was barely literate at best.
Oil industry eventually left for cities who if not more honest were at least more competent and wanted to help business.
New Orleans became just a tourist destination. Now Destroya is killing that as fast as she can.
Wife and I (no pics) went to Harrahs about a month ago during the week. Starbucks closed at noon (?) so we had to walk up Poydras about four blocks at around 3 p.m. My head on a swivel the whole time, beggars, one threatening, and not a tourist or business person in sight. No cops. A lot of people just hanging around. Have a cc permit but last thing I wanted was to get into it with some local thug and end up in Court as the out of towner.
New Orleans heading to becoming Detroit of the South, democrats in action.
Posted on 12/21/20 at 9:04 am to dietcoke7
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New Orleans became just a tourist destination. Now Destroya is killing that as fast as she can.
I mean, tourism isn’t exactly booming anywhere in 2020 dude.
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Wife and I (no pics) went to Harrahs about a month ago during the week. Starbucks closed at noon
This sentence makes my point. These are the people constantly starting/adding to NOLA bash threads.
Posted on 12/21/20 at 9:05 am to jordan21210
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These Nola hate threads always crack me up. OP admits he hasn’t been here since 2019, says he has no plans to return, but felt the need to make this thread. Just a bunch of suburb dads beating the same dead horse about a city they don’t live in and don’t visit. Weird.
I can see both sides of it. I absolutely loathed living on the Northshore. These people who think West St. Tammany is some paradise on Earth are just turds.
The other side of the argument, though, is that what's happened in Orleans Parish really sucks. I am old enough to remember when it was a functioning city. Nowadays the white people still there are wackjobs and fart-huffers who attach some special significance to being on the east side of the 17th Street Canal. Even they are in dwindling supply.
Posted on 12/21/20 at 9:11 am to USMEagles
With you there. City is far far far from perfect and run by a circus, but it’s nowhere near as bad as weekday Harrah’s visitors make it sound. At the end of the day, I’d rather be in NOLA than BR everyday and twice on Sunday...but I recognize that is a subjective opinion.
Posted on 12/21/20 at 9:25 am to jordan21210
Go back three decades and there used to be great shopping on Canal Street.
Major Department stores, and clean sidewalks. Lots of choices of where to eat, independent restaurants on and on blocks adjacent to Canal. Even the 'black' shopping street had stores doing well.
We even recognized the guys who'd be begging for a bag of red beans to cook for their kids towards the end of the month.
And the concierge at a small hotel and his lady friends and his wife. And the owner who lived on site and tolerated him because she didn't think she could find anyone better who wouldn't cheat her.
The property we had and sold is supposedly worth a lot more now but our life is more pleasant and safer with the decision we made to leave.
Major Department stores, and clean sidewalks. Lots of choices of where to eat, independent restaurants on and on blocks adjacent to Canal. Even the 'black' shopping street had stores doing well.
We even recognized the guys who'd be begging for a bag of red beans to cook for their kids towards the end of the month.
And the concierge at a small hotel and his lady friends and his wife. And the owner who lived on site and tolerated him because she didn't think she could find anyone better who wouldn't cheat her.
The property we had and sold is supposedly worth a lot more now but our life is more pleasant and safer with the decision we made to leave.
Posted on 12/21/20 at 10:00 am to cokebottleag
Love these threads. 
Went out for a Holiday dinner with friends at Galatoire’s last night and it was loud, fun and an all around great evening. Parked a few blocks away and had zero issue with anyone hassling us, including the walk back at 10:30 pm.
Bourbon St wasn’t rocking the way it would have been the weekend before Christmas and the day of a nationally televised Saints game, but there was still a good smattering of tourists and locals walking around. NOPD mounted patrol was out and visible.
Carry on with this thread though...I’m sure it will be full of truth.
Went out for a Holiday dinner with friends at Galatoire’s last night and it was loud, fun and an all around great evening. Parked a few blocks away and had zero issue with anyone hassling us, including the walk back at 10:30 pm.
Bourbon St wasn’t rocking the way it would have been the weekend before Christmas and the day of a nationally televised Saints game, but there was still a good smattering of tourists and locals walking around. NOPD mounted patrol was out and visible.
Carry on with this thread though...I’m sure it will be full of truth.
This post was edited on 12/21/20 at 10:01 am
Posted on 12/21/20 at 10:20 am to cokebottleag
Oh both..as someone who spent time there during the 60s & 70s..it is sad to see what the city has evolved into.There has always been an element of mysterious danger after dark, now it is out in the daytime.
Posted on 12/21/20 at 10:24 am to cokebottleag
It had begun to get worse about 15 years or so ago. You had to leave the area around 1am. That’s when the quality of people began to change drastically.
This post was edited on 12/21/20 at 10:26 am
Posted on 12/21/20 at 10:28 am to chillygentilly
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Bourbon St wasn’t rocking the way it would have been the weekend before Christmas and the day of a nationally televised Saints game, but there was still a good smattering of tourists and locals walking around. NOPD mounted patrol was out and visible.
I like going to the quarter, even when I lived in Nola, you kind of have to know what to expect before you go there, haven't been since the NC game last year, which was a good time, btw, only noticeable difference was it wasn't near as crowded as in the past, the quarter definitely has a different atmosphere post Katrina, at least to me
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