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Posted on 4/8/22 at 9:40 am to TheAstroTiger
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I had a guy say he was hungry yesterday and asked if I would buy him some food at Mcdonalds. I was in a hurry so I said here is $1.10, you should be able to get something off the dollar menu. Instead of walking in Mcdonalds, he walked right past it. Pissed me off.
You and your feelings are the problem.
Posted on 4/8/22 at 9:40 am to LSUZombie
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Baton Rouge is depressing
Posted on 4/8/22 at 9:42 am to Glock17
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I drive it to the midcity area daily. I grew up in that area and it’s definitely depressing seeing what it looks now vs the late 80’s and even into the 90’s.
I’m hoping the bug Amazon center will help improve some of that area
Government road diet is going to change everything
Posted on 4/8/22 at 9:43 am to TheAstroTiger
quote:imagine letting a bum get you in your feels
he walked right past it. Pissed me off.
Posted on 4/8/22 at 9:44 am to SuperSaint
Who gives a bum a dollar AND A DIME, though?
Posted on 4/8/22 at 9:45 am to SuperSaint
Don't you live in Oakland? That's like one giant Florida Blvd
Posted on 4/8/22 at 9:47 am to LSUZombie
The city and citizenry should do something about it. Expand the improvements from Government Street over to Florida.
It can’t get worse.
Got to invest in and incentive the outcomes we are seeking.
A thriving commercial and industrial light Florida Blvd is essential to the city.
It can’t get worse.
Got to invest in and incentive the outcomes we are seeking.
A thriving commercial and industrial light Florida Blvd is essential to the city.
Posted on 4/8/22 at 9:48 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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i kind of wish i could see what BR looked like 50 years ago. it really didn't have to be this way
BR was a lot nicer in the 80s. There were some hood areas but they were pretty isolated and easy to avoid.
Posted on 4/8/22 at 9:49 am to CorkRockingham
Broadmoor mall has a lot of nice new commercial buildings. So there is hope.
Posted on 4/8/22 at 9:49 am to OweO
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What is interesting is that going down government there are areas that has improved over the years, but Florida just continued to decline.
The Amazon thing should help the area around Cortana. But the area closer to downtown needs something else to fix it. IDK what.
Posted on 4/8/22 at 9:50 am to CorkRockingham
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Broadmoor mall has a lot of nice new commercial buildings. So there is hope.
Broadmoor as a neighborhood is hanging on very well. They did well with the redevelopment of the old Broadmoor theater and shopping center. But there's a lot on that stretch farther out towards O'Neal that's pure junk.
Posted on 4/8/22 at 9:50 am to LSUZombie
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Then you cross under the interstate and downtown looks like Disney World by comparison.
What, they're molesting children downtown now?
Posted on 4/8/22 at 9:52 am to TheAstroTiger
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I was in a hurry so I said here is $1.10, you should be able to get something off the dollar menu. Instead of walking in Mcdonalds, he walked right past it.
They probably won't let him in.
Posted on 4/8/22 at 9:53 am to LSUZombie
quote:FIFY
Driving anywhere in Baton Rouge is depressing
Posted on 4/8/22 at 9:59 am to doubleb
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I remember the nice places along that corridor. Catfish House, Sonny’s BQ(still there), that little Polynesian restaurant, Putt Putt, Cortana Mall (of course) Bon March’s’ and the two cinemas, Steak and Ale, the donut place on Florida @ Lobdell, and the nightclubs in the Wooddale and Melrose East areas.
I don’t live in Baton Rouge, what caused the change?
Posted on 4/8/22 at 9:59 am to LSUZombie
It’s sad I know I spend plenty of time and money at the old Godchaux’s right there you buy clothes, tires and lawnmowers with 90 days same as cash with their credit card.
Posted on 4/8/22 at 10:01 am to goofball
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The Amazon thing should help the area around Cortana. But the area closer to downtown needs something else to fix it.
What’s been more surprising to me is the area from Cortana east to O’Neal. It looks like a tornado went through there and the business owners just left everything as-is and abandoned the area.
Maybe my memory is rose-tinted, but it seems that area was the “nice part” of Florida Blvd. when I was in high school in the 80s.
Posted on 4/8/22 at 10:03 am to LSUtoBOOT
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I don’t live in Baton Rouge, what caused the change?
Forced busing for the schools caused a lot of white flight. It really took off in the late 80s and into the early 90s.
Posted on 4/8/22 at 10:04 am to LSUtoBOOT
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I don’t live in Baton Rouge, what caused the change?
Katrina and the mass migration afterward.
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